Eating breakfast helps you control your weight, gives you energy and helps you concentrate. A whole-grain cereal, such as Cheerios, served with milk can be part of a nutritious breakfast, especially if you also eat a serving of fruit.

Watermelon lives up to its name big time. This colorful, refreshing fruit, with its dramatic light-and-dark-green rind and its juicy pinkish-red interior, is actually over 91 percent water, which makes it super low in calories: 1 cup of diced watermelon contains a mere 46 calories.

Like all types of alcohol, vodka provides energy from calories but has no nutritional benefit. This means that it may lead to weight gain while offering none of the essential vitamins or minerals that come from whole foods. For this and other reasons, moderate consumption is key.

Powerade is a brand of electrolyte-based sports drinks that comes in a variety of fruit flavors. Powerade is a non-carbonated beverage that helps restore your body's balance of electrolytes, according to the manufacturer labeling.

A distilled spirit, Ketel One vodka contains significantly fewer calories per serving than most beers or sweet liqueurs. However, a serving of vodka is a single shot of just 1 to 1.5 ounces.

As far as beers go, Tecate is on the lighter side, as it has somewhat fewer calories than the average brew. Drinking too much of any beer, however, can put you on the fast track to weight gain, so consume in moderation to spare your figure.

Tea comes in a few different varieties, including black, green, oolong and white teas. All these types are prepared by steeping tea leaves in water, and all have the same amount of calories. While plain, freshly steeped tea is low in calories, adding milk or sugar can raise the calorie count significantly.

Splenda is a natural sugar substitute made from sucralose and maltodextrin. While it is touted as being a "no calorie" sweetener, this is only true when you use small amounts. When substituting for sugar in baking or other recipes, you must consider the calorie content per cup.

Maintaining weight comes down to how many calories are consumed versus how many calories burned, according to the American Academy of Family Physicians. To maintain weight, a person must figure out how many calories he burns daily and then consume that amount.

Lentil soup is hearty and filling, but it won't break the calorie bank if you stick to the suggested serving size. Its satisfying nature is mainly because of the high fiber content in lentils.

In addition to regular training, consuming the proper caloric intake every day helps to boost your athletic performance. Often this caloric intake depends upon a number of factors, including gender, body type and size, activities performed and performance goals.

Whether you visit a fancy steakhouse or a restaurant with a seafood buffet, you don't have to look hard to find a shrimp cocktail. Celebrated chef and food writer James Beard once called the shrimp cocktail the most popular appetizer in the country, according to an "Orlando Sentinel" article.