Reading the article ‘Trying to lose weight? Watch what you drink’ by Caitlin Hagan is really an eye-opening.

Nowadays people are bombarded with wide range of options for one specific item. Fifty years ago, a coffee is a simple concoction of hot water, coffee powder, sugar and milk as an optional ingredient. These days when you walk into a coffee shop, there are endless selections to choose stretching from hot to iced coffee and from simple to complex coffee concoctions.

If we don’t pay enough attention to what we drink, we are definitely sabotaging our goal to lose weight.  Let’s say you want to have more flavor to your plain coffee so you added a tablespoon of whipping cream.  Unknowingly you already padded the calories in your plain coffee as the whipping cream contains approximately 50 calories with 5 grams of fat.

You are aware that supermarkets and restaurants are flooded with liquid calorie options. To defend yourself from sabotaging your weight loss goal, it is important to start reading the labels of your drinks. As mentioned in the ‘Trying to lose weight? Watch what you drink’,  consuming an extra 500 calories every day for seven days will make you gain at least one pound a week.

Just an extra attention to what you drink will make a big difference in your goal to stay fit and healthy!

Read the full article, ‘Trying to lose weight? Watch what you drink‘ from CNN.com - Health.