good for you!
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thatās how I know Iāve overdone it, if my socks are too tight
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I have been trying to keep my portion size small, but these āfreeā breakfasts at the hotels are killing me! And I just found out that if I use the espresso machine to make a cappuccino I can add a shot of espresso on top and it fills the cup up to the very brim!! Cappuccino with a double shot of espresso on top! Woohoo!
So much for the small portionsā¦
Next breakfast I will hit the fruit station first!
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Looks delish. Youāre walking a lot on these trips. Enjoy the food!
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An extra shot of espresso is pretty much a necessity in any coffee and milk drink in the USA. It has been probably a decade or more, but my recollection of lattes at Starbucks is exactly what the Italians call a latte, just milk. I also remember a friend who managed a Four Seasons training staff how to make a cappuccino, equal parts espresso and milk with foam on top.
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I used to order a macchiato in Italy and Greece, loved the coffee forward taste cut with just a touch of frothed milk but when I got to the US it was less coffee and more milk. I had not idea that the drink I like was a caffe macchiato and the American version was a latte macchiato.
But it is usually much more milk and sugar for any American version of a coffee drink
Even my new favorite drink, a cortado, uses more frothed milk in the US than it does in Spain, even though the drink has a pretty clear definition.
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I hate people like you.
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Yāall need to try a Miami cafecito.
Youāll be able to thread a sewing machine while its running, but lordy I love those little thimbles of coffee.
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Just hearing the words āCuban cafecitoā gets my heart racing. Probably the best explanation of overdoing Cuban coffee is from Fluffy. I am trying to skip the first 4 minutes of his act and get right to the Cafecito part at 4:08. The dude is funny.
I lived in Miami for 366 days and had a similar experience when a couple friends taught me how to order coffee like a Cuban. Who needs a diet when you are living life like an LP played at 45 speed.
That is an old person joke, if you are not at least 40 the chances of it making sense are slimā¦
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Fluffy is awesome!
My Miami counterpart and I were at a meeting in Miami. We went to a Cuban hole-in-the-wall for lunch, and we each had a cafecito (gotta survive an afternoon of meetings somehow).
We took back one for our colleagues. Four of them split a single cup and declared it too much. Amateurs!
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My buddies at the Hyatt Regency Miami were helping me learn Spanish back in the day. When I asked how to order coffee they immediately thought, āAh, we can get some of this!ā
So they taught me to say āDeme un taso de Cafe Cubano, por favor!ā Which is asking for a large size (that place served it in a 10 ounce cup and single servings are around 1.5 ounces) for multiple people. So I walked down to the coffee guy on Brickell and ordered a taso of Cafe Cubano. The coffee guy gave me the 10 ounce cup and 6 little tiny thumbelina type paper cups.
Which I threw away.
And drank 9 ounces of Cafe Cubano.
Got back to the Hyatt and my friends asked me āWhere is the Cafe Cubano?ā I told them I drank it, and they all just flinched. A couple ran inside the hotel to disassociate themselves with the whole fiasco. I survived, but I was a twitchy, half nauseated mess for the rest of my shift.
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I loved the Cuban coffee and Cuban pastries in Miami.
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I had no idea that black cherry pop was more caloric and sweeter than regular Coke or Ginger Ale. LOL. I will order a coffee next time I go out for a corned beef sandwich. 
To help with losing weight, I go by: No drinking of calories.
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Thatās a good idea.
Sometimes, I really like a sweet drink with a salty main, when I dine out.
I did make a change in the fall of 2025, that I donāt drink pop at home, or buy pop for drinking at home. I save it for occasional treats at restaurants. This was my first pop in around 6 or 7 weeks.
I walked 10 km today (184 minutes of walking). I managed to burn off that black cherry pop.
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I am used to eating and drinking a lot of calories, but I have found three things that help.
First is multiple kinds of exercise. I have a Peloton at home and I love to walk and I used to lift weights regularly. When my gym closed the walking and the exercise machine was not enough. I really miss lifting weights.
The second thing I do is that I eat a healthy, high fiber breakfast (with good coffee!) and then delay eating lunch until 1pm or 2pm when possible.
The third thing I have found that helped me, and I really regret this, is Ozempic. It gets me down to a comfortable weight and then I can exercise to hold it for a couple months without Ozempic. But that is my regimen. I wish it was all me, but since August of 2024 I have used 5 Ozempic pens in 17 months. So at least I am not using it all the time. Still not good for my body in some ways, but it is good for my body in other ways. I will try to wean myself off it. Hopefully I will still be at my present bodyweight when I get home in March.
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I remember when Washington DC got 24" of snow (then another 6" a few days later) several years ago, they called it Smowmageddon. Traffic mayhem for 2 or 3 days but eventually, finally, nearly everyone learned the basics of driving in snow, no sudden acceleration, gentle cornering, give others room to driveā¦
It was amazing to see DC drivers driving intelligently in snow!
The next year? First snow storm everyone forgot every aspect of driving in snow. Wrecks galore.
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It seems Iāve plateaued with my Ozempic regimen, Iām still down 20+ lbs since August but Iām not losing or gaining any weight. My appetite is back and the nasty side effects have vanished 
iāve read that this kinda ānormalā for Ozempic users, but Iām seeing my endocrinologist next month and see what he has to say. I wouldnāt mind dropping another 5-10 lbs, but that initial 20lb loss was great.
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Thatās something you never forget. My husband did this by mistake too. Once.
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