How to order a mocha

June 22, 2:54 PMSeattle Healthy Trends ExaminerAnnette Herrick

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A double tall iced mocha with 2 pumps

Do you have a daily caffeine habit where the calories could be putting your attempts at weight loss on the sideburner?

Try a mocha, iced or hot, add a few of your own healthy twists, and don’t worry, enjoy the moment. Chocolate is very satisfying. This treat could fill a need and prevent you from diving into some other nasty snack attacks that are full of calories like giant cookies, doughnuts or boxes of chocolates that people bring into the office.

The chocolate in the mocha is very satisfying. Hundreds of studies have proven the health benefits including the antioxidants that protect the body from aging.

Here are some tips that will keep you from breaking your calorie bank.

1) Ask for light chocolate. Some shops go overboard on the chocolate so ask for one or two less pumps. Starbucks adds 4 pumps to a grande so ask for two or three instead. Each pump, as stated in their “Nutrition By The Cup” brochure, is 25 calories so you will save 50 calories if you ask for two less pumps.

2) Ask for a smaller cup. A tall instead of a grande will save you 60 calories. Add a shot of espresso to the tall so you get your usual amount of caffeine. At Starbucks, they’re tall comes with one shot of espresso. Add a shot so you’ll get your usual amount of espresso with less milk.

3) Add ice. Starbucks says in their nutrition brochure that adding ice saves you calories.

4) Ask for nonfat. You can save 50 calories if you get nonfat instead of 2- percent.

What’s most important is that you enjoy your drink or you may give it up. So make one or two lower calorie twists and over a week you could potentially save 1,000 calories.