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[pez]

People get fat because they eat food but don't spend all the energy generated by the food, so it gets stored as fat and stuff, right?

......so is Lucozade very fattening? o_o

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[ex-semishade366.livejournal.com]

Well, there was a report recently that had nasty things to say about sugary fizzy drinks and weight gain but...

http://www.ciao.co.uk/Lucozade_Original_Energy__Review_5366006/SortOrder/2

[chibify.livejournal.com]

Err, looking at the review they say Lucozade has sugar (glycose) in it (which they then claim is only in the vegetable extracts and thus isn't fattening o.O).

I say that anything that has sugar in it and isn't burnt off with some form of exercise will be converted to fat (glycogen, which is then converted back to glycose when your blood sugar levels drop while exercising, and are used up).

[yuki-scorpio.livejournal.com]

<---- recently getting more and more addicted to Lucozade Energy (orange flavour)

<--- worried

[chibify.livejournal.com]

Hmm.. Generally energy drinks also have electrolytes in them which put salts back into your body and encourages you to drink more (which is why they're good to drink when you have a hangover, encourages you to drink more water).

Maybe the Lucozade is encouraging you to drink more, so you are -- but you're drinking more Lucozade, which compounds the problem.

(Which funnily enough is what happens when you drink alcohol -- the alcohol makes your body think it has no water in it, so you're encouraged to drink more, and you drink more alcohol, which makes it worse, and then you get a hangover).

[yuki-scorpio.livejournal.com]

..... O_O!!!!

*runs to the water machine NOW*

[chibify.livejournal.com]

Meep !!

I didna mean to make you panic O_O

[yuki-scorpio.livejournal.com]

^^""" I dunno... I just think it's not good of me to want to have energy drinks when I don't use that much energy during the day and stuff >_< Drinking water is always good :)

A coupla months ago I pulled an all-nighter and got ill the next day, shivering and fainting and stuff. A nurse gave me a glucose drink, I got home and my mum got me to drink Lucozade, and since then, every now and then I just got "hmmm Lucozade YUM". It's not all the time, but uh... just weird x_x

[chibify.livejournal.com]

Welp sometimes your body gets urges to eat/drink things that contain things that're good for ya.

So mebe those occassional wants ta have Lucozade are your body's way of telling you you need more salts or something? I durno XD

Moderation is the key :D

[yuki-scorpio.livejournal.com]

*is getting more and more confused XD*

[ex-semishade366.livejournal.com]

At the end of the day the best thing is just to drink water, lots of it. And if you're feeling the need for energy boosts during the day, then maybe you need to review your overall sleeping patterns, and make sure you're having a balanced diet.

It might be that you're just having difficulty adjusting to a long working day, with travel. I think many people underestimate just how demanding that it. I know there are certain times of day when I just need caffeine in order to get my concentration levels back up, and I turn into a manic junk food fiend when I'm pushing myself to work late in the evenings.

[browneyedboy00.livejournal.com]

Well if its an energy drink then it must be fattening because unless youre using all that energy (which is unlikely), or vibrating as you sit, or generating extra heat then how are you gonna make use of the energy?