Eleven popular summer beverages guaranteed to add pounds!
Lazy summer days make you want to lie in the hammock in your backyard sipping on a cool drink and daydream or read. What could be more enjoyable than an afternoon spent like that? Not too many things, right. But there is a potential problem hidden in this image. The problem with this picture isn’t the rest and relaxation, although I’m sure there are a thousand chores that could and should be attended too. It is the drink you are sipping on that could ruin your lazy afternoon.
You work hard all week and deserve some time to slow down and enjoy life. What you don’t need is something else to worry about, like excess calories and fat. Many of the popular drinks being offered as summer treats are laden with ridiculously high amounts of fat and calories that will make your clothes tighter and your bathing suit a little less flattering. So below is a list of ten of the worst summer drink culprits that is guaranteed to increase your short size after one or two sips.
1. The Jamba Juice Peanut Butter Moo’d Power Smoothie: Calories 1170, fat 30g, sugars 169g
2. Baskin Robbin’s Large Heath Bar Shake: Calories 2310, fat 108g, sugar 266g
3. Starbucks Venti Strawbetties and Crème Frappuccino Blended Crème: Calories 750, sugars 120g
4. Dunkin’ Donuts Coffee Coolata w/ cream: Calories 410, fat 22g ( go w/ skim milk and cut your calories and fat almost in half)
5. Dairy Queen Chocolate Malt drink: Calories 880, fat 22g
6. Dairy Queen Med Chocolate Shake: Calories 770, fat 20g
7. Starbucks Mocha Venti w/ whole milk: Calories 508, fat 27g
8. Rita’s Ritaccino: Calories 754, fat 211g
9. Chick-fil-A’s Cookies and Cream Milkshake: Calories 790, fat 33g, Sugars 100g
10. White Castle Chocolate milk shake: Calories 1230, fat 32g
11. Jack In the Box Strawberry Shake: Calories 1220
