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 image via evany We are all very aware of how bad artificial sweeteners are for us, by now, I hope. It's gotten me to cut down on my Diet Pepsi consumption--and yet, I'm still consuming it at a rate that is heading me down the on ramp, merging on to cancer highway. What are we supposed to drink a whole lot of, instead? Water! Of course. The problem with water is that--well, it's water. And I have trained my idiot tastebuds to require flavor and artificial sweetness in my thirst-quenchers. I'm working to retrain the little suckers, and I've found water with lemon in it goes a long way toward making me way less meh about the whole endeavor. And evany, wise inventor, has come up with a "why didn't I think of that, damnit," way to make lemoning up your water as easy as opening your freezer: slice up lemons in big batches, wrap them up and stick them in deep freeze for extraction as needed. I know from experience that I tend to only do things if they are easy--could this mean I'll become a water-drinking fool? Well, I'm already halfway there. 2 CommentsLeave a comment |
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Instead of soda, do fruit juice with seltzer? I'm not talking about the sweetened fizzy things that aren't marketed like diet soda but really are. Just straight-up Vintage brand seltzer (the stuff old eastern European men like to drink).
The seltzer by itself is actually kind of nice with the fizz and flavor... my favorite is the mandarine orange one. But it goes well with OJ.
(Also! If you haven't, check out Michael Pollan's book, The Omnivore's Dilemma. it's not about weight-loss-dieting, but it focuses on eating well. It's really good. Not preachy at all. Just informative. It is a little wordy and philosophical, but that's par for the course. He doesn't try to convert anyone to vegetarianism, and you get the feeling he has everyone's well-being at the heart of what he does. Definitely worth a read.)
I think I've commented about this before, but there's a product called True Lemon that I buy at my regular grocery store that I add to my water to give it a lemony kick. It comes in convenient packets (40 packets to a box) and because it's derived from real lemons it actually tastes like you've squeezed a lemon in your water. It helps me get in my 8 glasses a day.