Calories per day

Wow, I was watching a TV program last night about healthy eating and I was astounded by the following, but it makes perfect sense.

Designer continental coffees are very popular these days and they seem to be a regular treat for most people either on the way to or from work or even at lunch time. They seem to have become more of a habit to a lot of people and they are playing havoc with the nations health.

How many designer coffees do you have in a day? Take a look at the following just to make you realize how many calories are in these drinks.

A large (500ml/16floz) Cafe Latte made with full fat milk contains around 330 calories. That's before you have added any sugar. Add 2 teaspoons of sugar and you are increasing that to 370 calories and a whopping 20 grams of fat.

If you have one of these 5 days a week, that's a total of 1850 calories extra in a week. That equates to around 85,000 calories in one year. (Based on 46 working weeks a year)

There is approximately 3500 calories in 1lb of body fat. Now do the maths;

85000/3500 = 24lbs of body fat or 1.7 stones in weight.

Just imagine, if you are drinking one of these every day, then potentially you could increase your weight by this much each year. On a positive note, if you are drinking this many designer coffees then this is an ideal area to cut down. So potentially you have the ability to lose this much weight in a year provided you don't replace these calories with something equally as bad.

This just goes to prove that making small changes to the number of calories per day can have a huge impact on your overall body fat levels and ultimately your health.