How to Drink Less (Soda, Tea, or Other Beverages)

It is a really hot day, your air-conditioner is broken, and you decide that your soda bottle is best right next to you while you are working. That is red flag number one. There are so many ways to cut down on drinking soda, tea, sugared beverages, and the first way that you cut down is by making the drink less accessible. Right after this comment and email box, I give you more helpful hints on how to cut that soda or tea out of your life or at least on how to cut it down to a more manageable amount each day.

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Things You’ll Need:

• Small glasses
• Smaller bottles of soda
• More exercise
• Need to cut down on drinking beverages
• Planning
• Determination

1. When you buy the drink, but the smaller bottles instead of the large economy sizes. Yes, by buying in bulk, you save money. But that money is not truly saved if it helps you to drink more than you normally might.
   
   Now that you have the smaller bottle, put it away from you. Put it in the refrigerator instead of keeping it by your desk or wherever you are working.
   
   Take steps to take a drink instead of just reaching out and grabbing that soda bottle.
2. Use smaller glasses. Replace your larger glasses with tiny ones. This helps you cut down because you have to keep getting up to refill your glass. If you use a glass that is 24 or 20 ounces, that is so much more soda that you will be drinking.
   
   On a hot day, use a glass that is 10 ounces or 6 ounces. Honest, by using the smaller glasses you will cut down on the beverages.
3. Savor each drink. That is correct. Savor each sip of the beverage. Do not just slug it down in a hurry. Pretend that you are a wine taster. You probably have seen these guys and gals on television. They take one small sip at a time and they really taste the drink. So, you do that with your soda or with your ice tea. Doing this will help you cut down on your drinking and it will also let you enjoy the taste of the drink more.
   
   These drinking tips come from experience. Once I did lose thirty pounds by using these techniques. Thirty pounds of soda and ice tea, now that is a healthy weight loss. You can do it too.
   
   Read the tips and warnings section for more helpful hints.
   Write your own helpful hints there in the notes section. Any advice or information is appreciated. Recommend this article to anyone that you know who is trying to cut down on food and drinks.

Tips & Warnings

• Take all of your large glasses and put them away --on high shelves, so that you can keep using the smaller glasses.
• Decide on how many bottles of ice tea that you want to buy each week. Then buy them. If you run out before the end of the week, then your ice tea quota is filled and you do not buy more until the following week.
• These helpful hints work with food also. Use smaller dishes, smaller portions and use your imagination to find new ways to eat less.
• Before changing any eating, drinking or dieting habits, it is best to consult with your alternative-health care doctor or nutritionist.
• The author is not a medical, financial or legal professional and therefore urges the reader to consult any professionals that they might need advice from. The reader is responsible for any of his or her actions regarding any of the advice, helpful hints or opinions in this or other articles published here.
• Only do what is safe, sane and healthy for you to do for your own particular life situation and circumstances.