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Unless you have iron discipline or train like an iron CircO2 man tri-athlete, eating in restaurants more than once or twice a week is simply incompatible with good health and a healthy body weight. I call it the Starbucks effect. Our morning coffee has gone from a calorie-free pick-me-up, to a whip-creamed, chocolate-drizzled, fat and calorie extravaganza. Most people hold up the large (venti) Double Chocolate Chip Frappuccino Blended Crème as the example of coffee gone wild. It's true. This drink will set you back 670 calories and 22 grams of fat, or nearly a third of your daily intake.
But how many people drink these as their morning coffee drink? Even if you don't splurge on the Double Chocolate Chip Frappuccino, you're probably doing more damage than you realize. Even a medium Caffè Vanilla Frappuccino Light Blended Beverage clocks in at 170 calories. Nearly all of them are sugar. It's funny that the word "light" appears in the name of this drink. You may recall from last week's newsletter that drinking our calories creates a major disconnect between brain and body. Our bodies do not register liquid calories very effectively. This means that we don't eat less to compensate for those calories.
Just as with soda, if you take in extra calories in a fluffy coffee drink, your body doesn't even know it! A balanced breakfast is most certainly not an egg muffin in one hand, your "to go" coffee in the other. People often get hung up on what a balanced breakfast is. Heck people get hung up on breakfast in and of itself. I've heard every excuse from: I don't have time, I'm not sure what balanced is, I can't eat in the morning, I grabbed a coffee, to I'm just not hungry. And that's what they are, excuses.
