Coffee and hot tea can be a great help when you are trying to lose weight. They give you something to consume instead of food. Also, it takes a considerable amount of time to drink a cup of coffee or tea. This is time that you are not concentrating on food. Don't put anything in your coffee but nonfat skim milk (no more than three ounces). Do the same with hot tea, although some lemon juice is just fine. Use all you want. Sip your coffee and tea slowly. Never use any sweeteners, not even the diet versions.

However, too much of it is not good either, so try to hold your coffee and tea consumption down to three cups per day. No doctor would ever recommend it, but if you have to, go up to four or five cups per day. Never go over five. Remember that this is a very temporary luxury. Use these extra cups as a crutch only if you have to. A couple of months of this abuse and you should cut back to two or three cups per day. Try your best not to abuse either one. You may want to consider switching to decaffeinated since you're walking a tightrope here.

A couple of small glasses of pure fruit juice (no sweet­eners added), spaced out during the day, provide a healthy shot of quick energy. Avoid the huge glasses of juice if you are trying to lose weight. They are very healthy, but they do contain calories.

It is better to eat an orange instead of drinking a large glass of orange juice.
 

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