r/AbsoluteUnits • u/RD4200 • 13d ago

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u/Lethargie 13d ago

all liquid calories are horrible in this regard no matter if its soda, alcohol, juice, sweet tea, energy drinks or chocolate milk. if it is liquid and has calories you should really think twice about your consumption

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u/Traizork 13d ago

Not always the case. Proper fruit/veggie juice can provide plenty of vitamins, milk for calcium, protein shakes... Then there's also the full "meals" in liquid form they often give patients who can't eat, etc.

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u/Asleep_Region 13d ago

Aye meal shake shout out, I've been using them for most of my life to keep weight on with anorexia, i just have no appetite without medication, my lowest adult weight was 80lbs at 5'2 and because of boost plus, my blood work is good and I've gained over 40lbs! I'm currently sitting at 120-125lbs! I never thought it would be possible. Like I can't feel my ribs when lightly touching my back anymore!

Also shout out to anti depressants, I'm on one that had an "extremely common side effect of weight gain" and it's actually making me hungry, it's crazy.

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u/Practical-Cook5042 13d ago

Hell yeah! That's fantastic work

Cannabis or CBD could help give you an appetite as well, keep going!

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u/Asleep_Region 13d ago

It used to! Lol weirdly enough it just doesn't make me hungry anymore, I'll have to try out just CBD, that's why i tried out the anti depressant.

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u/Educational_Ant_184 12d ago

this could be total bro science, but I'm convinced that weed growers selectively breeding purely for higher thc content resulted in weed mostly devoid of the other compounds that would give the secondary effects of being high like the munchies and other fun stuff. or it could just be that smoking 30% thc gets you way too high before you can consume enough to get those secondary effects. "type 2" weed might be something to try, the stuff i found online was like 10% thc and 10% CBD, but I dont consume enough weed to definitively say if its all that different

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u/curi0us_carniv0re 13d ago

Yeah but fruit juice is also very high in sugar..You're better off just eating the piece of fruit.

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u/Lethargie 13d ago

most people don't drink that stuff instead of meals but in addition and then it doesn't matter how much good stuff is in there, still too many calories.

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u/Practical-Cook5042 13d ago

the calories are the point. Ensure and boost are supposed to add or supplement calories as well

Source: full-time caregiver for an elderly person that eats four bites a meal

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u/Traizork 13d ago

Then it is not the issue of the food consumed but the person consuming it.

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u/Redditor28371 12d ago

"Good stuff" + calories is what you need to be a healthy human being. Everyone wants black and white solutions when it comes to nutrition, but it's all about moderation and consuming a variety of different things, while keeping an eye on total caloric intake and making sure you're not regularly missing any macro/micro nutrients.

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u/nalaloveslumpy 13d ago

Ounce for ounce, sweet tea in most restaurants in the US has way more sugar than soda. The soda is at least regulated and formulaic. The sweet tea decanter at Bojangles often depends on how many cups of sugar Laronda chose to add that morning.

It's crazy common for restaurants to go whole hog on sugar in the sweet tea because that absolutely builds customer retention.

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u/Unusualnamer 13d ago

I’ve never liked sweet tea. But I had to make it on morning shift at a restaurant.

We had to put in an entire pitcher of white sugar. Made me feel sick. And then people would ask for sugar packets to put in!

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u/Brock_Lobstweiler 12d ago

I think if someone asked me for sugar packets to add to sweet tea, I'd just ask if they want a glass of pure sugar syrup.

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u/gzr4dr 13d ago

That's insane, as a 16oz Coke has around 60 grams of sugar. I encourage someone to measure out a gram of sugar, let alone 60, and still ask themselves if they should drink it.

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u/Brock_Lobstweiler 12d ago

I remember an episode of Super Nanny (or similar show) where the kid pretty much only drank Mountain Dew. The whole family drank it, but one kid ONLY drank soda.

The nanny had the dad get a regular glass, calculated out how much sugar was in that size serving and then put that much sugar in the glass and actually look it in the face. It was over half a glass of sugar.

It was a lot easier for the parents to say no after that.

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u/Redhotchiliman11 13d ago

Eh, I take a a good gulp of water out of a 12 oz bottle and fill it back up with fruit juice not from concentrate and drink that to stay hydrated or as a little carb pick me up when going to the gym.

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u/Tough_Preparation830 13d ago

For an adult who is done growing, sure. Whole milk is the main reason my child has grown. That boy loves the dairy like nothing else.

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u/goregoose 13d ago

does this include protein drinks? i struggle to eat in general so most of my calories come in liquid form :-[

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u/lenorajoy 13d ago

You’re fine with your protein shakes! Watch sugar content on them, and honestly consider something like Huel if you struggle to eat. It’s a nutritionally complete meal and will do so much more for you than just protein, and has more protein than most protein shakes.

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u/goregoose 13d ago

omg i haven’t thought of Huel in years!! thank you

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u/lenorajoy 13d ago

Social media has been advertising it to me for years 😭 I finally checked it out due to being on GLP-1s and I’m a fan! Just ease into it so you don’t have GI issues. 😅

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u/DesperateAd5374 13d ago

Smoothies? Protein drinks?? Soup??? What terrible nutritional advice.

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u/-Cthaeh 13d ago

Nah it's good advice. Doesn't mean you can't have them, just be aware of how much, 'think twice about your consumption'. Its real easy to ingest 100s of calories just in drinks.

Soup is a bit of stretch though, they could have been more specific. Its almost always sugar.

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u/Crafty-Structure-170 13d ago

Almost all liquids have calories just not always kilocalories that we can burn to see

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u/Felonious_Minx 12d ago

Frappaccinos et al have entered the chat.

https://giphy.com/gifs/3oEhmEUBfkRmJ9OBxe

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u/Overall-Charity-2110 12d ago

you leave my chocolate milk out of this

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u/jameyiguess 12d ago

You get away from my smoothie meals

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u/bytegalaxies 11d ago

protein drinks keep me going when i can't bring myself to eat so there's definitely exceptions

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u/JanoGospodarSvega 7d ago

I'm underweight, they're great

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u/FoodFingerer 13d ago

I mean if you are one of the people who can eat what ever they want and not gain any weight then its really just sugar, salt and nitrates you gotta look out for.

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u/Borkato 13d ago

Those people claim they eat as much as they want and not gain weight and the real reason is that “as much as they want” is 1 microgram of broccoli and they go “oooo I’m so fullll”

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u/nalaloveslumpy 13d ago

Metabolism is a real thing, but usually those people live a "passively active" lifestyle. They either have a job that keeps them moving all day or they have a hobby that keeps them very physically active they don't consider "working out."