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Originally Posted by Hawkeyes
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Originally Posted by cpoole
A typical can/bottle of soft drink can contain over 200 calories. One bottle per day is the same as 20 pounds of weight per year (200 * 365 / 3500)
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That's assuming that you are hitting your daily caloric need on the nose every day, and that knocking off that one soda wil put you in a calorie defecit. Even then, it likely won't result in a 20 pound weight loss. when in a caloric defecit, the body turns to muscle for food first. I don't know the calorie density of muscle, but whatever spare you have is going first. Then we turn to fat for fuel.
That's an annoying way for me to say I hate these types of simplified calculations that have become so wide spread. I chew a pack of gum a day, at 5 calories per piece of gum, 14 sticks - that's 70 calories pe day! Why, if I stop chewing gum I'll lose over 7 lbs this year!
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I am sorry if I gave you the impression that you could simply loose all those pounds by switching to low cal sweetners. The simple fact is that people gain weight by exceeded their daily caloric need... If you are slowly gaining weight and you just need that coke every day, switching one or more foods to a low calory source will most likely help control the weight gain.
Indeed the best method to loose weight is a sensible diet and exercise. Over the past 5 months, I have lost 37 pounds. This was done by making good food choices, reducing calories and fat intake, burning about 600 calories of exercise a day and making sure that I get enough protein so that the weight loss is focused on the fat rather than the muscle mass.