Starbucks Grande Mocha Calorie Fest

If you're dieting and the weight isn't coming off at the rate you expect then I would highly recommend taking a look at those "little extras" in your diet (like my grande Mocha) for their actual caloric value. I googled "Starbucks grande Mocha" and in five seconds I learned the awful truth about my daily indulgence.

My research indicated that my daily addiction to Starbucks grande Mocha - added over 600 extra calories to my daily intake. Let me repeat that - over 600 calories!!! I thought that at most it would contain about 250 calories. Coffee is calorieless, fat free milk should be well fat free ( I know it has some calories but at most it's 90 calories for eight ounces). Yes,I cop to adding the whipped cream but for all that's good it's only a tiny bit not like 300 calories worth of bad fat. Could it be the mocha? I don't know but my Starbuck runs are over.

Those 600 or so calories are possibly the culprit for my very slow weight loss. I anticipated losing about a 2LB a week based on my South Beach Diet and my consistent "8 Minutes in the Morning" workouts instead I've only been losing weight at the rate of one pound a week.

I can't be without my Cafe Mocha so I figured a way to have my daily indulgence without having to pay such a high caloric price. I went to my local grocery store, bought Starbucks Espresso coffee (0 Calories), some Hershey's dark chocolate syrup (110 calories for two tablespoons), Splenda and regular Half & Half and fat-free milk. I use 1/4 Half and Half, 3/4 fat free milk, 1 TEASPOON of the chocolaty stuff and voila for under 275 calories I have the same size drink and it's just as tasty. Oh, and I save almost $4.00 a day - not bad. I should be getting skinnier while my wallet will be getting fatter not a bad trade-off. I will put those savings aside for the purchase of my skinny clothes :)