Dangerous Holiday Drink From Starbucks
“You better watch out, You better not let Starbucks make you cry, You better not pout, because ol’ CB is telling you why…avoid this … one drink … today!”
Hey, you wouldn’t eat 13 candy canes, so why would you drink something that contains the same amount of sugar?
Here’s an important Christmas Treat Warning for you.
Starbucks is being naughty again this holiday season and is trying to fill your stomach with too many calories and 54 grams of sugar in a new drink.
A Grande (16oz) version of the peppermint mocha coffee (made with 2% milk) contains 410 calories, 15 grams of fat and 63 grams of carbohydrates. Yikes. That’s almost 3 times as many calories as one of their chewy chocolate chunk flour-less cookies. If you want a treat, go with a mint tea and one of the cookies, or better yet, a mint tea and a BioTrust protein bar.
If you must have one of these high-calorie coffees, have it after your workout when your muscles will suck up the sugar, but again, you’re much better off using one of my fat-burning high-protein shakes.
You can also limit the damage by not adding any ‘pumps of added syrup’. Each one contains 20 calories of sugar (5 grams = nearly one teaspoon).
Another way is to eliminate the whipped cream (that cuts 80 calories and 7 grams of fat). Next, go with an 8oz version rather than the 16 oz version.
Using those tricks, you’ve now turned that 410 calorie coffee into a short (8oz) peppermint mocha coffee with just 160 calories and “only” 26 grams of sugar. That’s still too much sugar, but if you drink just one per week as a treat, that’s fine. Personally, I’d rather have the cookie.
Now if you want to lose fat over the holidays, find out how to use strategic cheat meals to lose fat in this article from my good friend, Shaun Hadsall. He was at our Toys for Tots event in Denver on the weekend, and he’s a BIG reason why we were able to buy over $110,000 worth of toys for needy kids.
The event was amazing, as are Shaun’s 5 fat burning secrets that he reveals at this link, showing you how to have your fastest fat loss ever (while still enjoying holiday treats).
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