Recipe | Pumpkin Spiced Latte (Skinny Fit Style)

Hi all,

Autumn is here, and with it comes the Starbucks Pumpkin Spice Latte, which I am a little bit obsessed with. At Starbucks, a Tall Skinny Pumpkin Spice Latte with no whipped cream is 200 calories. This isn't too, and I'll admit that when I'm near a Starbucks, I'll most likely go inside and grab myself one. However, my closest Starbucks is around twenty five minutes away by car and I don't drive. I, also, don't always have the money to splash out on a latte when I want one.

So I thought I'd try my hand at making my own latte. This recipe is one which I figured out simply by putting the ingredients I thought would work together, and mixing them in the best way I could think of, and I was pleased with the results. It doesn't taste exactly like the Starbucks drink, but it's really tasty, and less calories too!

If you track your food on MyFitnessPal, you can find this under Pumpkin Spice Latte (Skinny Fit).

It's quick and easy to make, and the perfect drink for autumn. So here's how to make one in your own kitchen.

Ingredients

Serves 1 | 139 Calories

150ml Skimmed Milk (You can use other milks, dairy free milks etc, but it may adjust the calories per serving)

2 tsp coffee granules

1 tbsp Pumpkin Puree (canned)

2 tsp Coconut Sugar (You can use other sugars if you prefer, however you may need to adjust calories)

1 tsp Cinnamon

1tsp Nutmeg

Method

Mix together the milk, pumpkin puree, coconut sugar, cinnamon and nutmeg. Blend together in either a blender or whisk it until all the ingredients are combined.

Put this mixture in the microwave to heat it for around 45 seconds.

While the milk mixture is heating, make up your coffee, you'll want to fill your mug about a third of the way with coffee. Mix it well to dissolve all the granules.

Once the milk mixture is heated, pour it into your coffee and stir.

If you want to add a little extra spice to your latte, then go ahead and sprinkle some nutmeg and cinnamon over the top.

Also, at this stage, if you want to add a little extra treat, and some extra calories! You can add whipped cream before dusting with the spices.

Enjoy!

Catching Up With Me

Hi all,

It's not been a great week, or at least, it hasn't been a great weigh in this morning. All of the pie, chocolate, and coming way off healthy eating, has caught up to me. I gained two pounds this week, and I was so unhappy.

It wasn't entirely unexpected. Towards the start of the week, I'd been overeating a lot, with all the wrong things. So even though towards the end, I was within calories, and tackling some pilates and cardio, I sort of knew it wasn't going to be enough.

Having said this, I was hoping to stay the same, and expecting to gain a pound. Gaining two has really disappointed me. I hate being bet back on my journey, especially when I'm so close to goal, and by now I should know better, than to eat pie and chocolate, and go over my calories.

The only positive out of gaining weight, is that it's refocused me, and given me the kick I need to realize, I cannot get away with bad eating for long.

I'm still unable to eat a lot of foods because of my tooth, so I'm sticking to ultraslim for now, but instead of then going over my calories with soft snacks and unhealthy dinners. I'm determined to keep things healthier this week, step up the exercise, and hopefully undo the damage I did this past week.

Shakes, Headaches, and Too Much Pie!

Hi all,

I'm still on my mostly liquid diet at the moment. I have a dentist appointment of the 24th, and I'm hoping soon after that, I'll be back onto solids.

As of right now, I can manage shakes, soups and soft foods. Which is where I've hit into a problem. One of the foods, soft enough for me to handle, is pie, and if you've read previous posts of mine, you'll know that pie is one of my biggest weaknesses. I can't say no.

I love pastry, and fruit pies are one of my favorite things to eat. However, following the diet plan I'm meant to be following, I'm not supposed to eat pie. So it's bad enough that I'm eating it, worse still that I'm eating so much of it. I have a slice of pie pretty much every day, some days more than one slice.

So far, last weigh in I lost another pound, leaving just ten to go. However, since then, I've spent the weekend going way over my calories, and yesterday eating an alarming three slices of pie! This is the major issue I need to deal with.

As far as other food goes. Mostly I've been having Tesco UltraSlim meal replacement shakes, which are tasty and actually do keep me feeling full. So that's a positive. I've been having these mostly for my breakfast and lunch, and then having a soup, mashed potato or some other soft food for my dinner.

Another negative, is that I've been getting a lot of really bad headaches recently. I don't know if this is because my diet is just a little weird at the moment, or because I'm coming down with something, but my usual everyday headaches, have been getting more painful, and while on my proper diet I had some days without headaches, now I'm not getting those days.

So a few ups and downs recently. I need to get my head more focussed, get rid of the pie, and lose those last ten pounds.

A Strange Diet

Hi all,

It's been a while since I last posted anything here, and this is in part due to the fact that despite my best intentions, I have not got back onto my diet properly.

In fact, for the past week or so, I've been on a very odd diet. One born out of necessity. The necessity being a really bad toothache. I haven't been able to eat solid food in a little over a week, and I'm still in the process of having multiple dentist appointments, and antibiotics to fix this problem.

As a result, my eating habits have been a little odd. I've mostly been sticking to soups, smoothies and very soft foods like scrambled eggs for the past week, and in terms of weight loss, it's been going good. This past week I lost two pounds, taking me to just eleven pounds left to go to reach my goal weight.

My course of antibiotics runs out tomorrow, so I'll need to head back to the dentist to get some x-rays done, and then finally get the treatment I need. So it's still going to be a while before I can eat solid food.

In light of this, I've decided to try out Tesco's Ultra Slim Shakes. I figured since I'm drinking most of my meals anyway, I may as well try out these shakes, and see if it'll help me shift the last eleven pounds.

The downside of this, is that although my weight loss has been ok, I haven't been able to exercise at all because the pills I'm taking for the infection, make me feel really unwell.

So, I'm hoping that by this time next week, I'll be back onto solid foods, and back on the treadmill.