A Latte a day

xgtdec

Actually its a mocha a day....i have to admit it was while watching a transform vid on you tube that i heard him mention latte's and that they were a no no....its the vid where he goes through what to be eating in general.

I have a mocha Monday to friday...half chocolate and half coffee..i get one in cafe sol...its almost a habitual tradition in work, i have emailed cafe sol for the calorie count but aint got no reply......how bad are take a way coffees in a daily diet, take a typical day would be like this..with 2-3 litres of water and 4-5 cups of green tea, supplements are thermopure and CLA

7am, 2 weetabix with 2 spoons of seed mix and a spoon of whey with a sliced banana
10am, 1 rice cake with some almond butter and an apple
10.30...a mocha
1.00pm, salad with turkey/chicken/salmon and ballmaloe relish with some walnuts small amount of cottage cheese...and a muller light.
4.00pm, 1 rice cake with some almond butter and a apple/banana
7.oopm, dinner is usually turkey\salmon steaks with either beans or peas and some mixed greens...normally string beans or brocalli....

Is the mocha the weak link in here.....is it advised to cut down or cut them out completely, reason being is that i think i have playteued in my fat loss and th damn mocha may be the reason, but i gave them up for 2 weeks and saw no change...any advice re coffees/diet much appreciated.

Transform

list your current shape (height weight body fat etc), program and goals

lets give the mocha 200calories x 5 days a week = 1,000 calories x 4 weeks in a month = 4,000 x 12 months in a year = 48,000 calories

1lb body fat = 3,500 calories

48,000 divided by 3,500 = 13-14lbs of fat per year on a latte or mocha per day but hey that could be calories from anywhere (i.e. muffin with the latte, digging back into the bag of nuts too much, eating huge portions etc) so the whole diet needs to be looked at.

Will Heffernan

xgtdec wrote: »

Actually its a mocha a day....i have to admit it was while watching a transform vid on you tube that i heard him mention latte's and that they were a no no....its the vid where he goes through what to be eating in general.

I have a mocha Monday to friday...half chocolate and half coffee..i get one in cafe sol...its almost a habitual tradition in work, i have emailed cafe sol for the calorie count but aint got no reply......how bad are take a way coffees in a daily diet, take a typical day would be like this..with 2-3 litres of water and 4-5 cups of green tea, supplements are thermopure and CLA

7am, 2 weetabix with 2 spoons of seed mix and a spoon of whey with a sliced banana
10am, 1 rice cake with some almond butter and an apple
10.30...a mocha
1.00pm, salad with turkey/chicken/salmon and ballmaloe relish with some walnuts small amount of cottage cheese...and a muller light.
4.00pm, 1 rice cake with some almond butter and a apple/banana
7.oopm, dinner is usually turkey\salmon steaks with either beans or peas and some mixed greens...normally string beans or brocalli....

Is the mocha the weak link in here.....is it advised to cut down or cut them out completely, reason being is that i think i have playteued in my fat loss and th damn mocha may be the reason, but i gave them up for 2 weeks and saw no change...any advice re coffees/diet much appreciated.

Some perspective is needed here.

You are consuming very few calories and from the looks of it that latte may be the only thing sustaining your life.

If you really are only eating what you have listed here...your fat loss won't plateau for very long.

xgtdec

Gotcha,

Height: 5,9
Weight, Now is 14,6, before American holidays 13,12
Body Fat, apparently 28%, using a gym machine where you hold the machine and keep it level for 30 seconds, im not so sure on 28% but its the best ive got.
Goals: fat loss around the middle
Program
Monday: Spin 1 hour
Tuesday: upper body weights bench press biceps triceps back extensions shoulder raise\press, bench press PB at the moment is 65Kg x 12 after 55 x 12 and 60 x 12, im not sure on actual names of what im doing but the circuit is about an hour and arms and chest used to be numb after but are not anymore
Wednesday, Spin
Thursday, lwr body, all leg machine weights....tight tigh hamstrings so squats and deadlifts aint been attempted yet
Friday...upper body
Saturday...road bike, rounghly 100k...4 - 5 hours
Sunday rest

All body fat is in the middle, i have good legs and good arms and really improving the chest, so its all in the middle front(70%) and back (30%)

is this enough info:o

rubadub

I drink lattes 5 days a week up to 3-4 a day at times. The calories in the coffee is negligible, I want the milk for protein anyways and I probably am frothing up 100ml max which is 64kcal per 100ml. I must measure it out to see, it could be less. Of course these takeaway grande type ones might have loads more, but you have to account for the volume increase in milk when frothed up.

Caffeine has a strong appetite suppresant effect on me, so I actually think drinking my lattes has a weight loss effect, for a pretty much "free eater" like myself -i.e. if I did not have them I would be hungry for something else.

Found this on google scholar, seems smokers who drink coffee might have an even more pronounced appetite suppresant effect
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1463-1326.2004.00389.x/abstract

Also, like I firmly believe alcohol calories should not be counted the same as others the calories from milk may not have the same effect on the body. The calcium can supposedly aid fat loss.

http://www.nature.com/oby/journal/v12/n4/abs/oby200467a.html

Objective: Increasing 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D in response to low-calcium diets stimulates adipocyte Ca2+ influx and, as a consequence, stimulates lipogenesis, suppresses lipolysis, and increases lipid accumulation, whereas increasing dietary calcium inhibits these effects and markedly accelerates fat loss in mice subjected to caloric restriction. Our objective was to determine the effects of increasing dietary calcium in the face of caloric restriction in humans.

Research Methods and Procedures: We performed a randomized, placebo-controlled trial in 32 obese adults. Patients were maintained for 24 weeks on balanced deficit diets (500 kcal/d deficit) and randomized to a standard diet (400 to 500 mg of dietary calcium/d supplemented with placebo), a high-calcium diet (standard diet supplemented with 800 mg of calcium/d), or high-dairy diet (1200 to 1300 mg of dietary calcium/d supplemented with placebo).

Results: Patients assigned to the standard diet lost 6.4 plusminus 2.5% of their body weight, which was increased by 26% (to 8.6 plusminus 1.1%) on the high-calcium diet and 70% (to 10.9 plusminus 1.6% of body weight) on the high-dairy diet (p < 0.01). Fat loss was similarly augmented by the high-calcium and high-dairy diets, by 38% and 64%, respectively (p < 0.01). Moreover, fat loss from the trunk region represented 19.0 plusminus 7.9% of total fat loss on the low-calcium diet, and this fraction was increased to 50.1 plusminus 6.4% and 66.2 plusminus 3.0% on the high-calcium and high-dairy diets, respectively (p < 0.001).

Discussion: Increasing dietary calcium significantly augmented weight and fat loss secondary to caloric restriction and increased the percentage of fat lost from the trunk region, whereas dairy products exerted a substantially greater effect.