Over the course of a typical day of coffee drinking buyers

Most of us drink coffee or tea. What we put into our hot drinks can be surprisingly caloric. Starting tomorrow, if you want to help yourself take baby steps to lose weight, dial down the creamer in your coffee. Better yet, switch to milk. Ramp it down gradually and see if you can get to skim milk (stay away from the artificial fat-free creamer: too fake). You will find your taste buds adjusting, and with each cup, you’ll be taking in significantly fewer calories and animal fats. Over the course of a typical day of coffee drinking, you will be surprised how many fewer calories you have consumed. Read food label ingredients to find out which foods to stay way from for weight loss and general health. Many diets ask you to track your calorie, fat gram or carbohydrate intake. Find out which one you should be tracking for your particular diet, and follow through with it. When you know what you’re putting in your mouth, it becomes easier to not fall prey to a repetitive battle with weight gain.

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Lots of good choices on streaming video this week for action fans, including a remake of a beloved 1980s classic, a based-on-true-events story starring Mark Wahlberg, and the latest thriller featuring Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan. Then, we’ve also got the biggest animated movie of the year so far, another ’80s remake (this time a romantic comedy), a thriller with a creative premise, and an animated feature starring the Justice League. To cap things off, we’ve got a few new noteworthy films on Netflix, and Amazon Prime begins offering some of HBO’s most popular and acclaimed television series. Read on for details:In the same week when much of the online news buzz was about March Madness and missing Malaysians, movies mustered much attention as well. Included in this week’s Ketchup are news stories about upcoming sequels like Cars 3, The Fantastic Four 2, Ghostbusters 3, The Incredibles 2, Jurassic World, and The Wolverine 2.This November marks the 10th anniversary of the release of the Pixar animated adventure The Incredibles (which was followed by Cars in 2006). This week, Disney CEO Robert Iger announced plans for new sequels to both. The news of The Incredibles 2 doesn’t immediately come with confirmation that writer/director Brad Bird will returning for the sequel (though previous reports have suggested he’s worked on a sequel script). Bird is currently working on his live action science fiction adventure Tomorrowland (with George Clooney), which Walt Disney Pictures has scheduled for release on May 22, 2015.Every day, every week, and every month that goes by without George R.R. Martin finishing books 6 and 7 of the planned seven book series A Song of Fire and Ice means that the HBO series Game of Thrones is getting closer and closer to catching up with him. Well, you know what moves a lot slower than premium series production? Big screen movies, and that might end up being part of George R.R. Martin’s master plan, the author revealed this week. Specifically, Martin was quoted as saying, “Do we run for seven years? Do we run for eight? Do we run for 10? The books get bigger and bigger (in scope). It might need a feature to tie things up, something with a feature budget, like $100 million for two hours. Those dragons get real big, you know.” Martin also teased that his Westeros prequel novellas Tales of Dunk and Egg could also someday become movies. Of course, this is also a good point to note that nothing in the original story with Martin’s quotes actually says that anyone plans on making these hypothetical $100 million moviesEvery time a new cast member is announced for Jurassic World, commenters invariably talk about various cast members from the earlier films that they hope will be returning for movie #4. The one cast member who actually is returning is someone who you almost never see mentioned in such fancasting. B.D. Wong (who is also recognizable from OZ and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit) will be returning to play genetic scientist Dr. Henry Wu, who was actually the genius who figured out how to bring dinosaurs back to life, but ended up spending “two decades living in Hammond’s shadow.” Wong joins a growing cast for Jurassic World that includes Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Idris Elba, Vincent D’Onofrio, Jake Johnson, Irrfan Khan, Ty Simpkins, Nick Robinson, and the recently announced Omar Sy (AKA “Bishop” from X-Men: Days of Future Past). Universal Pictures has scheduled Jurassic World for June 12, 2015.