Earlier on this year I did a food diary for a few weeks. I hated every minute of filling it in - counting and recording everything. The annoyance of looking up foods on the Internet. Throwing away wrappers and then having to fish them out of the bin again to record the statistics. Trying to cook simple meals so all the math wouldn’t take too long.

It wasn’t fun, it took a lot of time and effort and there’s no way I could do it for long.

It was, however, one of the most useful diet-related exercises I have ever done.

It blew me away.

You get set into a diet that is reasonably healthy and you stick to it. Slowly over time, if you’re not very careful, you start to stray from it. You add a little something here. Take away a little something there. And slowly over time it morphs into a slightly more “comfortable” version of what you started off with.

My food diary revealed that my eating habits weren’t too bad at all (though of course there’s always room for improvement!) but it was my drinking that was letting me down. Not alcoholic drinking (I barely touch the stuff) but rather the fruit juice, energy drinks, coffee and so on.

Do you have any idea how many calories are in fruit juice?!

I nearly died! I assumed in the past fruit juice was a pretty safe bet. No siree!

If it *weren’t* for my drinking, I would have been well within my desired calorie count but it was this drinking that was pushing me way, way over the limit (by hundreds of calories).

I had a very hard time changing. I now survive on average on plain water with the odd decaf coffee or skimmed milk to drink. That’s it. Gone are the sodas and energy drinks except once in a blue moon for a treat.

So consider what you drink on a regular basis - could you be drinking yourself fat, and what can you do to change that?

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