What do you drink?
Other than just water. I have cut out carbonated drinks and have been drinking juices and sweet tea. Of coarse this all has too much sugar. I drink constantly throughout the day. I figured I would allow myself something to drink at meal time other than water but any healthier suggestions?
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I like water flavored with lemon slices or cucumber. I enjoy the zero calorie Kool Aid flavoring also.3
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A bunch of different hot teas with splenda, 0 calorie sweetened sparkling water, I like lemon juice and ginger powder in my water (or fresh ginger if I happen to have it), and Coke Zero or Diet Dr. Pepper. To get used to Splenda I would do a mixture of it and sugar gradually using less and less sugar until it was just splenda.2
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I just make herbal and green iced teas; I started using a little Stevia, but now I don't even use that. I haven't gotten tired of the teas because I use many varieties. (I used to love to drink Sweet Tea!) And, of course, hot tea with breakfast or if I am chilly!0
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Water
Flavored water
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On the regular, I drink water and diet pepsi. Every few months/weeks maybe I'll have a drink from Starbucks or a smoothie but I don't really consider those "drinks" more so as meals or snacks.0
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I don’t love sweet so I do a lot of unsweetened green iced tea! Club soda with lime or other sparkling water is good too! I’m picky because I dislike some sparkling waters and find them to be bland. I like the ice mountain brand and the kind at Woodmans!
I also like making fruit infused water (like strawberry infused). Not sure how to calculate calories in that but I love it!0 -
Crystal Light drink mixes are very low in calories and they make numerous flavors - easy to find something you like.
I usually mix it with double the recommended water - it's still fairly sweet at that concentration.
The Mio water enhancers are also good for flavoring water and it's easy to add to a tumbler or water bottle on the run. Some of the have added caffeine and B vitamins.1 -
I normally drink water - still or sparkling, rarely flavored (and it is flavored it's with elderberry syrup or raspberry syrup). I also drink tea and coffee fairly frequently. Most of the time I drink my coffee black when I'm in the US, but that's assuming it's really good coffee.0
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Other than just water. I have cut out carbonated drinks and have been drinking juices and sweet tea. Of coarse this all has too much sugar. I drink constantly throughout the day. I figured I would allow myself something to drink at meal time other than water but any healthier suggestions? What do you drink?
Primarily water (oftentimes unflavoured, sometimes with basil or cucumber) loaded with ice conscious of the high altitude + desert climes. Now that it's cold, at some point in my day, I'll enjoy herbal teas unsweetened - eg orange spiced chai or ginger or hibiscus or vanilla chai or hot cocoa ... My standby beverages always are - coconut water and cranberry even homemade lassi. Presently, I'm craving Martinelli's sparkling ciders.0 -
If I need something with flavor, Mio is my goto, or the aldi brand. Generally it's something with Sucralose or a standard Perrier carbonated water.0
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I usually drink regular green tea in the morning and then diet coke the rest of the day. Every once in a while I'll get a matcha latte.0
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Water (usually still, occasionally bubbly)
Coffee (black, hot or cold)
Tea (nothing added)
Homemade iced tea -- I make it and chill it, don't add sugar. I'm a northerner who never got the sweet tea thing.
On occasion, diet soda or the like (a flavored water or diet ginger ale).
I typically won't drink anything (other than an occasional breakfast smoothie) with meaningful calories.
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Tap water, diet soda, little packs of zero calorie flavors or mio, herbal tea0
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Coffee with milk and sugar, water, and diet dr pepper.0
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Over the last year, I’ve managed to completely cut out sugary fizzy drinks. I used to down energy drinks like there was no tomorrow. That and full fat coke. Now, it’s mainly water, the odd black coffee and Diet Coke (I love the Mango one). It’s evenings where it all goes wrong when I crave gin and wine. 🙈0
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mostly water, black coffee - hot or iced, semi sweet tea, whole milk, & sometimes a real coca cola - with calories0
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Water, tea (unsweetened or with splenda), coke zero, diet mt. Dew, coffee.0
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Other than just water. I have cut out carbonated drinks and have been drinking juices and sweet tea. Of coarse this all has too much sugar. I drink constantly throughout the day. I figured I would allow myself something to drink at meal time other than water but any healthier suggestions?
Water, tea (2/3 cup of sugar to 1 gallon) , Ensure lite (70 calorie) for snacks0 -
Water, tea (2/3 cup of sugar to 1 gallon) , Ensure lite (70 calorie) for snacks0
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Other than just water. I have cut out carbonated drinks and have been drinking juices and sweet tea. Of coarse this all has too much sugar. I drink constantly throughout the day. I figured I would allow myself something to drink at meal time other than water but any healthier suggestions?
Wine. Chianti to be exact. Very healthy IMHO.
My brother...
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Was there a reason you cut out carbonated drinks, or are you just equating carbonation with high-calorie drinks like soda?
I went on a flavored sparkling water kick for a while, Soleil, Bubly, La Croix, etc., and was never satisfied. I don't mind a little sugar if it means I can have a drink that doesn't taste like Alka Seltzer, which is what all those sparkling waters tasted like to me. Why can't they make a "low" calorie sparkling soda/juice alternative? Something with say half the calories of a typical soda, carbonated, and with no artificial sweeteners? Bai comes close, but the cost is, in my opinion, crazy stupid.
Maybe there is something else out there that matches that description and I just never found it. Anyway, I decided to make my own. I bought a SodaStream and fill a bottle with about 1/2-2/3 water and the rest with some Cran-<insert flavor here> juice of some type. I shoot some bubbles in it and I'm done. Way better than sparkling water and only 50 or so calories per serving. Of course you could do the same thing with just juice and water, but I like the carbonation.
Be aware that SodaStream states that you should only carbonate water in their machines and then add any flavoring after the fact, so I'm breaking the rules, but I haven't had any issues lightly carbonating my mixture in the SodaStream.0 -
Diet sodas/ and artificially sweetened drinks every single day! Lol. And pure water of course, but most of my intake is zero sugar beverages0
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Thanks for all the replies!0
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geekyfella wrote: »Other than just water. I have cut out carbonated drinks and have been drinking juices and sweet tea. Of coarse this all has too much sugar. I drink constantly throughout the day. I figured I would allow myself something to drink at meal time other than water but any healthier suggestions?
Wine. Chianti to be exact. Very healthy IMHO.
My brother...
My very long distance cousin...
I love but I can't drink red wines anymore -any kind; they give me tachycardia (probably the sulfites). Most of the wines give me GERD now due to a hiatal hernia so I am drinking less and less every time. To the point that I feel that just smelling the cork makes me dizzy... I had almost two glasses of wine with my Thanksgiving dinner and I had to reach for the Zantac after I was done eating. I was also tipsy. How sad is that
I drink water with lemon or club soda when I eat out, but sometimes I "share" a glass of wine with my husband. At home I drink filtered water and flavored sparkling water sometimes. I don't drink juices (with the exception of low sodium V8), beer, champagne, spirits, and I don't like ice tea. I drink black coffee with Splenda or hot green teas.1 -
geekyfella wrote: »
Yeah, I switched in high school and it wasn't long before I couldn't abide regular.1 -
I drink lots of ice water throughout the day, but I also drink coffee, Diet Pepsi, Wedge (Wegmans version of Fresca), and Diet Peach Snapple. Oh, and vodka.0
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I drink a lot of hot tea. I change up the flavors to keep it from getting boring. My favorites are green chia tea, vanilla caramel tea, and green tea with lemon. I used to add a ton of sugar or honey to them, but slowly cut back until I preferred them without.
I also make Koolaid a lot. I get the powder mix where you have to add your own sugar and add less than half of what the package says to. It's still really sweet and tastes yummy, but I feel less guilty that when I drink the pre-made stuff.
If I want some wine at the end of a hard week I measure out the oz in a serving of sweet red wine into a large glass and fill the glass with seltzer.0 -
Nothing wrong with diet soda, I really like diet root beer. It tastes just like “real” root beer to me! I also try to drink a glass of red wine once a week. Heard it was good for you, but you can get the same benefits of grape juice.
Also sometimes schnapps and sake 😋0 -
I really only drink water and black coffee, but sometimes drink the "sparkling ice" waters, Bai water, or put a flavor packet in my water. Ill also have a diet soda occationally or arnold palmer, but with mostly tea and I make my own lemonade with splenda. I also drink herbal unsweetened tea, especially in the winter as its cold, and I want a hot dring, and I dont really need more coffee, a full pot is probably enough coffee in a day0
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