Everyday without fail, I buy a coffee at Bar Bellos, a lovely cafe at Circular Quay. I was introduced to Bar Bellos by Sylvia Santoso, a friend who really knows her coffee (we both agree that Star Bucks suck).

We get on well with the guy who makes our coffee, whom we’ve secretly nick named Botak (Baldy). He’s not really bald, but shaves his head with a shaver setting of 2.

Anyway, Sylvia and I buy our coffees at different times of the day, and she always leaves cheeky messages for Botak to pass to me. Today, she instructed Botak not to serve me my regular soy hazelnut latte, but to use skim milk instead.

Botak claimed that since I was counting calories (as part of my workout plan), I should drink skim as it’s lower in calories and fat and higher in protein. I refused to believe it, as I was misled by the soy manufacturers that soy milk is better. Plus, I love the taste of soy coffee (if prepared right by experts such as Botak).

Then I realised that the soy manufacturers were always comparing soy milk to regular milk, not skim milk. The naughty buggers! Botak made me look at the nutritional information of both, and true enough, for the past few years I have been cheating myself of precious protein while taking in unneccessary calories.

I’m switching to low fat milk, while saving soy milk for special occasions.

And when I really want to reward myself, I’ll go full cream.