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Sweet Surprise: The Sugar In Iced Coffee From Starbucks

I see the problem here though, I once ordered an Iced Coffee at a cafe close by and not only did they sweeten it but they added a lot of cream to it. As I'm lactose intolerant I had to take it back. When I asked them for another one the manager gave me a look and said, "That's how we make them, I thought you knew." I promptly replied with "Really? I've never been to a coffee joint where they didn't ask you before adding sugar and cream to your coffee." I find it incredibly odd when other people want to doctor my drinks for me, unless I'm ordering something fancy and more complicated than coffee or espresso.

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Mangoes, but we're not talking about those wussy ones I find here in California, no my friend, I mean the perfection that I find abundantly hanging on the trees during my trips to Miami. Now THAT is a mango. Incredibly sweet and with a depth of flavor that those who have never had a real tree-ripened mango can't understand. The best part? You can just pluck them off the tree in your backyard, everyone has mango trees in Miami. :)

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Ed Levine's Serious Diet, Week 70: The Diet Blues, or 'Can One Bad Day Screw Up 70 Weeks of Progress?'

Hello Ed! I've been reading your articles for some time now and I must say I am very impressed at your dedication. Good for you! That said, the human body's weight fluctuates from day to day. All that is based upon sodium intake, vitamin intake, water retention level and so on. Don't be too down on yourself if you seem to fluctuate a bit. It will balance out.

Haha, I recently took a trip to Miami (a food oriented city if there ever was one! Bring on the cubano sandwiches!) to visit my boyfriend. I knew that we were going to eat out for nearly every meal as he lives with his parents and didn't want me to have to cook (I told him I'd love to cook, but he insisted). When I left California I weighed 113-114 (I should probably mention I'm 22 and only 5'4"). When I came back I was 117-118. Just one week and I'd gained 4-5 pounds. I expected something like this, but of course it's frustrating. So my solution? Don't focus too much on how much you weigh in one day. The week after I came home my weight was all over the charts: anywhere from 115-119 which is a big fluctuation for someone my size.

Bottom line; you've done great so far. One day did not ruin it! Just go back to your routine and you'll get back in the groove. Don't stress about it. At this point in the diet you've come so very very far. Like Jbout said, one breather doesn't make you the old Ed. You're still doing great. Keep it up! :)

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Sweet Surprise: The Sugar In Iced Coffee From Starbucks

I see the problem here though, I once ordered an Iced Coffee at a cafe close by and not only did they sweeten it but they added a lot of cream to it. As I'm lactose intolerant I had to take it back. When I asked them for another one the manager gave me a look and said, "That's how we make them, I thought you knew." I promptly replied with "Really? I've never been to a coffee joint where they didn't ask you before adding sugar and cream to your coffee." I find it incredibly odd when other people want to doctor my drinks for me, unless I'm ordering something fancy and more complicated than coffee or espresso.

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Threadless T-Shirt Giveaway: Booty Fruit

Mangoes, but we're not talking about those wussy ones I find here in California, no my friend, I mean the perfection that I find abundantly hanging on the trees during my trips to Miami. Now THAT is a mango. Incredibly sweet and with a depth of flavor that those who have never had a real tree-ripened mango can't understand. The best part? You can just pluck them off the tree in your backyard, everyone has mango trees in Miami. :)

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Ed Levine's Serious Diet, Week 70: The Diet Blues, or 'Can One Bad Day Screw Up 70 Weeks of Progress?'

Hello Ed! I've been reading your articles for some time now and I must say I am very impressed at your dedication. Good for you! That said, the human body's weight fluctuates from day to day. All that is based upon sodium intake, vitamin intake, water retention level and so on. Don't be too down on yourself if you seem to fluctuate a bit. It will balance out.

Haha, I recently took a trip to Miami (a food oriented city if there ever was one! Bring on the cubano sandwiches!) to visit my boyfriend. I knew that we were going to eat out for nearly every meal as he lives with his parents and didn't want me to have to cook (I told him I'd love to cook, but he insisted). When I left California I weighed 113-114 (I should probably mention I'm 22 and only 5'4"). When I came back I was 117-118. Just one week and I'd gained 4-5 pounds. I expected something like this, but of course it's frustrating. So my solution? Don't focus too much on how much you weigh in one day. The week after I came home my weight was all over the charts: anywhere from 115-119 which is a big fluctuation for someone my size.

Bottom line; you've done great so far. One day did not ruin it! Just go back to your routine and you'll get back in the groove. Don't stress about it. At this point in the diet you've come so very very far. Like Jbout said, one breather doesn't make you the old Ed. You're still doing great. Keep it up! :)

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Sweet Surprise: The Sugar In Iced Coffee From Starbucks

I work a couple times a week at a Barnes and Noble cafe, and we serve mostly Starbucks products and use their recipes. However, I always ask if people want their teas or iced coffee sweetened. Automatically sweetening just seems like bad service to me. And I really should try an iced Americano. Never had one.

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Thanks to all who entered, and congrats to winner redhead! You have been sent an email on how to claim your shirt.

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Sweet Surprise: The Sugar In Iced Coffee From Starbucks

Hmm, Starbucks has always made it pretty clear that their iced coffee is usually sweetened unless you ask otherwise - I mean, on their menu the iced coffee is 60+ calories (in NYC anyway). How else could coffee be so high in cals? But I've always had a barista ask me if I wanted my drink sweetened or unsweetened - until yesterday, actually. Perhaps they've changed protocol? It's something to look out for in any case.

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i'm fairly certain there aren't any fruits i don't like, but i'm on a blueberry kick right now. well, i'm eating a lot of cherries and strawberries, too. and i have a banana every day. never mind, this question's too hard. :)

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Sweet Surprise: The Sugar In Iced Coffee From Starbucks

While the official Starbucks recipes are national, people's expectations of how coffee should come are highly regional. Here in PA, black coffee means without sugar, but just across the river in NJ (even in a border town like Phillipsburg) places that don't have separate condiment bars will add sugar to "black coffee" unless you say "no sugar." And they'll add milk too, if you just say "coffee." Over there people drink milk, so Starbucks baristas offer "room for milk," and here it's "room for cream" by which they meant what in Jersey is called Half-and-Half. (And never go against the flow - here the Half-and-Half pitchers constantly get emptied and replaced, while the whole milk sits out as long as allowed - 4 hours - or longer. In NJ the reverse is true.)

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I love this!
Blueberries are my favorite, but I love most all fruits :)

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I like virtually all fruit, so I can't pick.

But my favorite fruit-related thing is the signs in the grocery store this time of year advertising "Personal-sized watermelons." I always have to wonder . . . You hear those stories.

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Lemons. The culinary world would be so much blander without them!

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Sweet Surprise: The Sugar In Iced Coffee From Starbucks

4 in a venti? That's not right... it's 6. and 4 in a grande. I always ask for half as many, of sugar-free vanilla. Just enough to offset the bitterness of the coffee. It's my favorite drink because it's cold brewed, and I can never get that just right.

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Has to be bananas...by itself, in my cereal, in a smoothie, on my split, in bread, on pancakes...yum

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I love cherries!! I love mangoes!! I love raspberries!!

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