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The Humble Morning Coffee

Earlier tonight I have been examining my food intakes in my current diet, and trying to figure out why for the last 12 months I haven’t been able to make a significant dent in the 8-10kg of midriff fat I have remaining.

At the end of it, something interesting emerged from crunching the approximate caloric numbers and may serve to explain the discrepancy - coffee.

The coffee machine I use in work actually outputs two serves per (massive) cup, at around 500ml. With the milk we use, standard milk, not full cream, it’s around 200 calories per shot which means per cup is around 400 calories simply in milk calories. If I have 2-3 of these cups every day, I’ve added around 2-3 standard meals to my diet simply by drinking these, or 800-1200 calories.

With other foods consumed throughout the day, 3 days out of 7, I consume a bit more than I am burning. It means I’m not losing, I’m very slowly gaining.

I guess the lesson is, if you’re trying to lose weight, the cardinal rule is to output more than you consume and create a nutritional track record. Hence, if you do let yourself go, without realizing, the maths can show you the holes.