Best and Worst Drinks For Weight Loss - Health Stato
Don’t Let Your Drinks Trip You Up
If you’re counting calories, it’s important to watch what’s in your glass as well as what’s on your plate. Choosing the right beverage and keeping an eye on how much you pour can help curb your appetite and cut calories.
Best: Water
Replacing sweetened soft drinks with water will cut hundreds of calories from your diet each day. Drinking two glasses of water before a meal may also help you feel full faster, so you won’t eat as much. It can help speed your metabolism, too.
Best: Skim or Soy Milk
Beverages that are low in calories but high in nutrition are good options when you’re trying to lose weight. Skim and soy milk both fit that bill. Plant-based milk substitutes, like almond milk, typically have fewer calories than cow’s milk but less protein, so they’re not necessarily better for weight loss.
Best: Green Tea
It’s an excellent choice when you’re looking for a little boost. Not only is it calorie-free, but some research suggests green tea extract may help with weight loss. It's not clear exactly how, but caffeine and micronutrients called catechins may each play a role. The benefit appears to last only a few hours, so it may help to enjoy some green tea at least twice a day.
Best: Vegetable Juice
Vegetable juice is as nutritious as fruit juice, with fewer calories. One cup of tomato juice has 41 calories, compared to 122 for orange juice. Choosing juice with pulp gives you some fiber, too. That may help control your hunger.
Vegetable juice does have a lot of sodium. If you buy your vegetable juice from a store, go with a low-sodium variety if you can.
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