The 7-Day Belly Melt Diet by The Editors of Eat This Not That!

Author:The Editors of Eat This, Not That!
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Galvanized Media

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Stop Drinking Yourself Fat

The easiest way to cut calories is to stop drinking sugar.

The third-largest source of food calories in the typical American diet isn’t food at all: It’s soft drinks. In fact, Americans get more calories from soft drinks every day than from meat, dairy, or anything other than baked goods. In fact, one in four of us gets more than 200 calories a day from beverages, and one in every 20 gets more than 560 calories a day! Simply cutting those calories out could save you between 21 and 58 pounds of fat a year.

Soft drinks don’t just mess with our waistlines by adding lots of empty calories. The real damage lies in the way that they undermine our belly biome—creating the worst possible environment for our good gut bacteria while also providing comfort to the enemy: sugar. The sweet stuff is the preferred food of the unhealthy gut bugs that wreak havoc on our systems, causing inflammation, bloating, and weight gain. Address your drinking problem and you’ll make bold strides toward a lean, flat belly, a healthy gut, and a better life. In fact, if you drink just one or two sodas, sweetened iced teas, or flavored waters a day, consider how much you have to gain by switching to sparkling or plain water or homebrewed green tea:

• You’ll stop waistline creep. We don’t get fat all of a sudden. We get fat slowly. In a two-decade-long study of 200,000 people, the people who increased their intake of sugary beverages by just one a day were five pounds heavier than those who abstained.

• You’ll protect your kids. For each 12-ounce sweetened beverage a child consumes per day, his or her risk of becoming obese over the next 18 months increases by 60 percent, according to a study in the Lancet.

• You’ll slash your risk of diabetes. People who consume just one or two sugary drinks a day have a 26 percent greater risk of diabetes than those who don’t indulge in them, according to a study in the journal Diabetes Care.

• You’ll avoid that date with a heart attack. A study that followed 40,000 men for 20 years found that those who drank just one can of a sugary beverage a day had a 20 percent higher risk of dying from heart attack than those who drank none.

Drinks to avoid include sugar-added sodas, iced teas, and energy drinks; flavored coffee drinks; and fruit and vegetable juices as well as juice cocktails.

Adult drinks to avoid: all of them—wine, beer, cocktails. If your goal is to lose your belly as rapidly as possible, there can be no room for alcohol, a big source of empty calories that actually encourages fat storage. This doesn’t mean you can’t have a glass of wine ever again. Just wait until you’ve realized your goal weight and shape and embarked on your maintenance phase. Otherwise, your best chance of meeting your bikini deadline is to avoid alcohol.

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