I have had the habit of putting about two teaspoons of hot chocolate mix and one teaspoon of raw sugar in my coffee every day.
That wouldn't be too terrible, but I average about four cups of coffee a day, and sometimes five.
I've known in my heart this is really an S for several months now.. Actually more like a year, but it was one of these small pleasures I seemed not to be able to cut out.
I ran out of hot chocolate mix the other day, and was too broke to afford it when I went to the store for groceries, so it got me thinking about making this the time to just break that habit cold turkey!
I think that 3 tablespoons of the mix equals somewhere between 120 and 150 calories, and I'd say that I was consuming about that much of it if not more, cos I didn't exactly use flat teaspoons either, every day. So by not having the hot chocolate (I'm still gonna put a teaspoon and a half of regular sugar in my coffee tho, I'm not cutting that out quite yet! LOL)
I will be reducing my sugar intake per week by an average of 1000 calories give or take a few hundred!
I was reading up on how to help to reduce water retention during pre-menopause, which I now think I'm finally entering into (probably have been for the past year now that I have actually read the symptoms involved, which I had all of them...)
and there is a three pronged approach to it:
Daily exercise
Reduce sodium
and,,,
ta da!
Reduce excess calories and *SUGAR*
So I'm sure my inner hot chocolate craving will be kicking and screaming as I try to kill it this month, since this is a pretty long term habit at this point already.. I'd say I've been having my coffee like this for the past two years.. but too bad.
This is war!
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It will be interesting to see how this impacts my weight loss.
I'm almost certain I will see improvement, as long as all else remains equal, and I don't seek revenge on myself by sneaking the sugar in some other way now.
Please wish me luck with this all!
Have a great weekend
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Love (and no Hot chocolate... ouch I am cringing as I write this! hahahh)
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