How much food do you take in without even realizing it? Most of us would be amazed and shocked to find out how many calories and how much fat are in a lot of our favorite drinks. When trying to lose weight, sometimes we focus so much on what we are eating that we forget about what we are drinking. Here are a few examples for you to keep in mind:
- Grape soda- 12 oz = 160 calories
- Orange cream soda- 12 oz = 189 calories
- Cola- 1 cup = 136 calories and 9 teaspoons of sugar
- Champagne- 1 cup = 200 calories
- Eggnog-1 cup = 343 calories
- Sweetened lemonade- 6oz = 395 calories
Your local Seattle-based coffee shop, to remain unnamed, has at least 10 drinks with over 500 calories and ranging from 17-29 grams of fat in each one. That is just crazy to use that many of your daily calories and fat on a drink!! They have several dozen other drinks that range from 200-500 calories also.
Dairy Queen's large chocolate milkshake has 1140 calories and 33 grams of fat or how about a large chocolate malt with 1320 calories and 35 grams of fat. The ONLY thing on their entire menu that has more calories is the large cookie dough blizzard. Even the small chocolate shake has 560 calories and 15 grams of fat. They do havea medium mister misty with 290 calories and no fat.
And for those of us looking forward to some nice weather, a barbeque and a little margarita keep in mind, a 6 oz margarita has 168 calories. But let's get real, ones you order in the restaurant are probably 3x as big. That means, you are "spending" a whopping 504 calories for one drink. Ummm, reality check, if you're on say a 1500 calorie diet....that was an entire meal!
