Gaining

Anybody adding significant calories via soft drinks?

The UK (where I live) introduced a sugar tax on soft drinks last year, leading to manufacturers of sugar-seeetened drinks reformulating their recipes to reduce the sugar content (and therefore calorie content).

But, somewhat ironically, the sugar tax doesn’t apply to fruit juices and so they remain very high sugar, many of which contain up to 500 calories per litre.

I’ve been adding 2 litres of fruit juice to my daily intake as a pleasant and hydrating extra near-1000 calories. 🥤 🍊

The super obese (400 lbs) folks at my workplace get the majority of their calories from drinks. Soda all day long, beer/wine at home at night.

Not healthy by any means. But if you want to figure out how folks become 500lbs, they drink most of their calories which in turn makes them constantly hungry because their blood sugar levels are perpetually crashing.

heavy cream, iced coffees, soda, sweet tea
definitely....