Fitzness Blog

The most common mission I often help people with is that of weight loss.  You’ll constantly hearing me preaching the values of basing your eating habits around produce, lean protein, lean dairy, whole grains and legumes. If 90% of the things you put in your mouth are legitimately healthy … the other 10% won’t hurt you so much. I’m also a huge proponent of not drinking your calories. Why? Caloric beverages are often loaded with sugar and empty calories. Calories from a glass are often very unsatisfying leaving you hungry to consume the chewable kind of calories as well.

I don’t imagine everyone will adhere to my guidelines perfectly of course, but when people come close … they usually get where they want to go.  With that in mind, I bend slightly with the caloric beverages rule. How so? Well, although I think it would be a bad idea (for your waistline) to drink five glasses a day, a glass of freshly squeezed pure fruit juice on occasion is something I can’t fight too hard about. I’d always prefer that you eat an orange, but pure orange juice is so full of beneficial vitamins and nutrients that I couldn’t say that it was techinically bad for you.  The difference? A navel orange will cost you 50 calories, is full of nutrition and includes fiber which will fill you up - thus detering you from eating more. A four ounce glass of freshly squeezed pure orange juice also costs 50 calories, an eight ounce glass 100, and is packed with nutrition. The juice does not contain fiber though, which will eventually cause you to consume more calories.

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