Bad Beverages

Some people who know me and have seen me heavy and now 40 lbs. lighter always want advice on how to lose a "few" pounds. They tell me they don't eat a lot, or they just eat a salad for lunch, or they give me a total run-down of what they eat in a whole day. And they're right, it doesn't sound like a whole lot of excess calories, but they never tell me about what they are drinking. A lot of people drink more calories than they eat. some beverages have enough calories for a whole day.
A bottle of Starbucks Frappucino has 290 calories
A 20 oz Sunkist Soda has 320 calories.
Tropicana Twister 20oz has 340 calories
23oz can of Arizona Rx Energy or the Kiwi Strwaberry has 345 calories
Starbucks White Chocolate, Venti has 660 calories
DQ Caramel Moolatte has 870 cals.
a Margarita at Red Lobster has 890 cals.
Baskin Robbins Ice Cream soda 960 cals.
McDonalds Triple thick Chocolate Shake 1160 cals.
& the winner is Cold Stone Creamery's PB&C 24 oz a whopping 2010 calories... that's more calories in one cup than I was eating in a full day while I was losing weight... and I was eating 5 or 6 times a day.
In the old days Soda was a treat, not something you drank all day, every day. Soda's, Juices, fancy coffee drinks, slurpees, etc... they all add lots of calories to your diet, not to mention the sugars and other "bad" ingredients they contain that will also harm you.
You can't go wrong with water, or if you prefer, green tea, or other unsweetened tea, black coffee, seltzer, but water is most important.