While diet sodas do have about the same calories as water, I don’t feel that we have enough information to say that they are as good for you as water. If its diet coke it pretty much is 2 glasses of water. Best Answer. I don’t count it. Through fortification, it is also a good source of vitamin D. If you are working out hard for several hours and are sweating a lot drinking too much water can do more harm than good and it will flush out essential minerals that you need to function properly, instead you should drink an electrolyte drink to replace potassium and sodium and other essential minerals that are lost due to sweat. Despite its vital importance, water is often the most undervalued dietary component. So, yes, you can drink beverages other than water to meet your hydration needs, but there are a few things to consider before you start sipping. As an emotional eater, trying to balance water with what I eat may be the first step I need towards changing my habits! I do count hot tea and crystal light tea versions.
I count it, since it’s liquid. Read this thread. Soda is loaded with all kinds of things including sugars, food colorings, preservatives, calories, etc. Fruit juices should be listed under your food log as well for the same reason. If you are logging soda on your water intake log then you are not accurately logging your caloric intake. Water and tea should be logged on the water log as they do not contain calories, and any sugar or milk you add to your tea should be entered under your food log. I hope this helps. I personally would not count soda as part of your water intake. Yes water is used to make soda however soda has calories and is filled with sugars and syrups.
If you’re a coffee drinker, challenge yourself to drink a cup of water for every cup of coffee that you drink for the day. Progression Runner. This is the ideal choice and what SparkPeople also encourages! Whether drinking more sugar free sodas impairs the ability of humans to judge other food consumption has not been shown. This is well established. Got a story idea? Yes water is used to make soda however soda has calories and is filled with sugars and syrups. Roseman wrote: Apparently the original study recommending the volume of water for a healthy human to consume daily was conducted in the s when soda was not nearly as common as it is in our society today.
For someone eating 2, calories a day, that’s calories a day in the form of drinks! When you’re trying to lose weight, you have fewer calories in your “budget” each day, which means you need to make all of them count. Those “empty” calories from sugary beverages are an easy place to cut back.