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Is Your Favorite Coffee Drink Making You Gain Weight?

Learn how to cut calories at your local coffee house

by Meri Raffetto RD, LDN  |  1077 views  |  1 comment  |        Rate this now! 

Some lower calorie/sugar/fat alternatives and tips:

- Regular brewed coffee

- Caffe Americano (hot or iced)

- Unsweetened iced tea

- Tea (tea bags)

- Choose skim milk over regular milk with lattes and chai teas

- Ask for half the syrup or powder in flavored lattes and chai teas

- Skip the whipped cream

 

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Meri Raffetto is a Registered Dietitian, and a columnist for Work It, Mom! and the founder of Real Living Nutrition Services, an online weight loss program that empowers people to make small changes s

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  • *sigh* it is so true. I was drinking a grande skim orange mocha or caramel machiato or whatever about twice a day. i decided that was way to expensive and went down to 1 a week. lost 2 lbs in that week. INSANE! but hey, save money AND lose weight? what a deal! ha!

    Flag as inappropriate Posted by Kate on 30th October 2007

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