{"id":638,"date":"2010-04-05T08:52:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-05T15:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hundredtenpounds.wordpress.com\/?p=638"},"modified":"2010-04-05T08:52:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-05T15:52:00","slug":"vitamin-water-fad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/?p=638","title":{"rendered":"Vitamin Water Fad"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I was 250 pounds, I drank a lot of soda. I’d have one at lunch, in the afternoon, with dinner…And of course, it was REAL soda. It doesn’t take too much to add up to a LOT of calories. And they were empty calories. I was probably drinking about 400-500 calories a day. Not only was I soda addict, I loved fruit juice. I’d have a huge glass of orange juice every morning with breakfast….another 200 calories at least. If you add that up, that’s about 700+ calories a day from liquid. Holy cow! Cow indeed….<\/p>\n

Of course, when I started watching what I eat and counting calories, I switched to diet soda immediately. Trying to stay under 2000 calories a day does NOT allow for real soda OR fruit juice!<\/p>\n

In the recent years the new fad has been flavored waters. I admit, I absolutely LOVED Vitamin Water when it first came out. I thought it was “healthy” so I guzzled it like there was no tomorrow. Then I looked at the back of the bottle. Ooops…looks like there’s almost as many CALORIES in Vitamin Water as a regular soda!<\/p>\n

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Vitamin Water<\/p><\/div>\n

Don’t be fooled by the 50 calories. Look careful at how many servings are in the bottle (this always screwed me up when I first started counting calories). There’s 2.5 servings in each Vitamin Water bottle. That’s 125 empty calories! Now check out the back of this regular Coke:<\/p>\n

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Regular Coke<\/p><\/div>\n

A regular coke has about 200 calories in it. A smaller sized Pepsi (in the can) is about 160 calories. Not much more than the Vitamin Water!<\/p>\n

The good news is that Vitamin Water is starting to make the 10 calorie drinks. Again, look at the servings because it’s really like 30 calories a bottle, not just 10.<\/p>\n

Well, it’s Monday morning. I hope everyone had a good weekend! This morning’s breakfast was scrambled eggs, 1 piece of toast, and 2 turkey sausage links. It’s also my Rest Day. Yuck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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