One of those unexpected discoveries

I've been using SparkPeople for almost a month and a half now to track eating and exercise. I'm glad I have - haven't seen huge payoffs yet, but I'm happy with slow progress in just making better choices, without feeling like I *can't* eat this or that, or overdoing exercise in a way that I'd never be able to keep up long-term.

At any rate, part of the program, if you will, is tracking calories (and fat, protein, etc.). Most of the time, you'll find what you're eating already in their database, but if not, you can enter it as well. This leads to some interesting discoveries sometimes.

In this case, I was having my first cup of coffee today, and used my non-fat powdered "cream"er. To get enough to lighten the coffee to my taste, I used 2 tbsp. -- 60 Calories (and a packet of artificial sweetener). In getting a second cup, I instead used 1/4 cup of whole milk and 1 tsp of real sugar. 52.5 Calories total, 2 g. of fat, and none of the sweetener aftertaste. I'd rather go ahead and take the 2 g of fat.

I've seen articles that warn of folks' reliance on non-fat/low-fat, and ignorance of the Calories they're consuming. I just didn't think it'd actually also show up in my coffee. Lesson learned.