No refill please! Drinks can add on the pounds

Nutritionist Joy Bauer reveals the hidden sugar in some popular beverages

Consider this: Trim 500 liquid calories from your daily diet and you’ll save 3,500 calories a week. That’s potentially ONE pound lost per week and more than FIFTY pounds lost at the end of the year!

1. Think before you drink

Be mindful of beverages loaded with caloric ingredients — sugar, corn syrup, fructose, milk, cream, syrup, special flavoring and even fruit juice

2. Calculate the “total calories” you’ll be drinking — not just one serving.

Many beverages list calories per serving, but pack 2 or more servings into each bottle

3. Healthy drinks can also pack on the pounds

For example, 100% fruit juice and fruit smoothies are filled with nutrition but also often high in calories

7/11 Big Gulp (32-oz) = 400 calories

Minute Maid lemonade (20-oz bottle) = 260 calories

Starbucks Mocha Frappuccino:
- Tall (12-oz) = 200 calories

Gatorade (20-oz bottle) = 125 calories