This week newsletter focuses on calorie intake. 

Diet Tip Newsletter      November 28, 2000
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LIQUID CANDY

It's amazing how fast the calorie add up when you're drinking soda or juice.  A can of soda can have as much food calorie as a regular size candy.

You must control calorie intake to lose weight. Your body loses fat when you consume less calorie each day than you take in. Most women burn between 1700 and 2000 calories per day and men burn 300 to 400 more calories than women. A soda for lunch and dinner with 2 mid day trips to the vending machine equates to 700 calories. That's the equivalent of 2 slices of pumpkin pie, and for many, that's an every day habit.

The biggest culprit to your waistline is the super size soda or drink. These giant size servings contain giant size calories. Super size drinks contain more than 600 calories compare to 170 calories for a small size. Don't be fooled, size does matter. A can of soda is equivalent in sugar and calories to a regular size candy. Below are tips to help you manage your soda consumption.

• Limit yourself to 1 regular soda or 1 diet soda each day.
  
• Never super size. Always order the smallest size soda.
  
• If possible, eliminate soda and drink water.
  
  Water is the "real" resource your body craves. Drink a minimum of 8 cups per day. Soda is a bad replacement for water. Water (not carbonated, sugar water) is needed to maintain proper body function and it has no calories.
  
  
• Limit juice consumption to 10 ounces in a given day. Juice is much more nutritious but notoriously high in calories.
  

   

Thanksgiving is over and the reality of work has already set in. Now it's time to get down to business.

Millions make the mistake of indulging in all types of junk food for the rest of the year. Temptation is strong when fellow coworkers bring your favorite fudge brownies and invite you to sample a few pieces.

It's much easier to continue managing your food intake and avoid weight gain than to abandon all self control until New Years. If you can't control your eating habits now, nothing will change after the New Year, especially when you allow bad eating habits to creep back into your life. Losing weight is very difficult when you have to re-establish good eating habits, then further reduce your calorie intake to create weight loss.

You must mange daily calorie intake the same way you manage money. Allow a certain amount of calories to be spent each day and have days when you splurge, maybe one day a week.

The weight loss industry is drooling with dollar signs after New Years because they CAN'T WAIT to take advantage of the millions who fall prey to their WORTHLESS weight loss products. If you HAVEN'T discovered by now, you SOON will discover that weight loss comes by exercise and controlling calorie intake, not by pills or herbs. Don't be fooled by advertisements telling you that calorie counting is too hard or that calories don't matter.

This multi million dollar industry knows that most people are easily fooled by advertisements that claim their product can do everything from trapping fat to increasing your metabolism. Unfortunately, these products don't work and there are no QUICK FIX solutions to weight loss.

Below are a few common sense tips to help you get back on track.