Coffee Calories Add Up!

jazzy550

iheartinsanity wrote: »

A lot of people don't like it, but try 1/4 cup of blue diamond almond milk (30 calorie one), it's about 8 calories for the 1/4 cup, plus the 2 calories for the cup of coffee. So I have a few 10 calorie cups a day. Keeps me from filling up. I love half and half, but when I know I have a big eating day, I stick with the almond milk.

A few others have said this as well. I treed it but it seems to sink to the bottom like you have to stirring it and I am not crazy about the taste. Almond milk is a strange product to me. How do they make stuff?

iheartinsanity

jazzy550 wrote: »

iheartinsanity wrote: »

A lot of people don't like it, but try 1/4 cup of blue diamond almond milk (30 calorie one), it's about 8 calories for the 1/4 cup, plus the 2 calories for the cup of coffee. So I have a few 10 calorie cups a day. Keeps me from filling up. I love half and half, but when I know I have a big eating day, I stick with the almond milk.

A few others have said this as well. I treed it but it seems to sink to the bottom like you have to stirring it and I am not crazy about the taste. Almond milk is a strange product to me. How do they make stuff?

Almonds and water as far as I know. I've made my own and it tastes really similar.

BigGuy47

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Foodiethinking

The only thing I order from Starbucks now is a small skinny mocha, at about 70cal a go, but not regularly. I can drink my coffee either zero sugar and black or milky and sweeter, though I do prefer the latter. I think it's a case of retraining your mind if you want to move away from your favourite concoction (i.e. Starbucks frapps) but if it fits in your day why not? I've been on tea for a while and mine comes in at 13cal a cup, all logged

lemurcat12

honkytonks85 wrote: »

Black coffee has hardly any calories.

You add milk & sugar that adds calories. So really you should say "Milk & sugar calories really add up"

+1 -- it's silly that this bugs me, but it does. It's not the coffee.

princess_six

Clearly y'all are having coffee wrong. Splash of low fat soy milk/skim milk in black coffee=10-20cals. Done.

restors

I drink copiuos amounts of coffee a day, infact it is joked that I need an intarvenous drip. However mine is black very little calories in black coffee you still get the caffeine that keeps everyone around you alive and you don't sabotage your weight loss efforts

lemurcat12

iheartinsanity wrote: »

jazzy550 wrote: »

iheartinsanity wrote: »

A lot of people don't like it, but try 1/4 cup of blue diamond almond milk (30 calorie one), it's about 8 calories for the 1/4 cup, plus the 2 calories for the cup of coffee. So I have a few 10 calorie cups a day. Keeps me from filling up. I love half and half, but when I know I have a big eating day, I stick with the almond milk.

A few others have said this as well. I treed it but it seems to sink to the bottom like you have to stirring it and I am not crazy about the taste. Almond milk is a strange product to me. How do they make stuff?

Almonds and water as far as I know. I've made my own and it tastes really similar.

You can make your own as you note; it's actually a food long in use in Europe (and probably other places too)--it was common in the Middle Ages (for the well-off) where it was considered a luxury item and was a cheat around prohibitions on dairy during Lent and other days of abstinence. I think it's pretty cool and tastes fine in the right uses, so I keep meaning to play around with making some nut milks even though I'm pro dairy and the calories from dairy are the last thing I worry about (especially since it can be such a great source of lean protein).

My soap box: If you think of them as separate products I think both have their uses, although I would not enjoy almond milk in coffee. But then I typically like coffee black, so who cares. (I also understand people being unable to drink milk, choosing not to for vegan reasons, and simply not liking it. I just wish people would stop claiming almond milk is "healthier" than dairy--they have different benefits; it's like comparing chicken and almonds, they are different.)

Store-bought almond milk has other things in it, though: sea salt, locust bean gum, sunflower lecithin, gellan gum and natural flavor, is one typically example, also commonly carrageenan. I'm not overly concerned about this, but people who are against milk or anything else due to "processing" or it being "unnatural" probably should make their own (and be able to tell us the details of their almond sourcing).

ruqayyahsmum

i have a coffee with semi skimmed milk and a couple sweeteners in the morning (have to closely watch all forms of sugars due to medical conditions)

dustyfall

I feel like such a boring person at times, it's predictable what i want when ever i go for coffee. Always plain black coffee, milk normally make it taste sickly with a weird after taste for a while. I really need to start being more adventurous i think.

sw33tp3a11

All my coffee calories comes from the creamer. People make fun of me they tell me I add coffee to my creamer lol. I can't drink it black. I should switch to black tea instead and save myself the calories.

riffraff2112

coffee is tough to give up. I can handle milk and a little sugar but black is just too gross for me. Probably 1/5 of my calories comes from coffee but I absolutely will not give it up!

JenniferInCt

I was seriously addicted to starbucks. You wouldnt believe how many chai lattes i drank a day. So i now buy one with no ice, and make it last 2-3days (hugeeee improvement for me). I am slowly switching to making coffee at home, with one sugar in the raw packet, and 3tbsp of sugar free hazelnut coffeemate. I know its not the best choice, but i fit it into my calories. I also find if im craving junk and not a full meal, one 8oz cup of hot coffee will fill me and get rid of the craving. I aim to slowly wean off starbucks all the way, then sugar in the raw. But one day at a time...

wizzybeth

I will never give up my coffee. I have cut back considerably - from a pot or more a day to about 4 cups. I enjoy it too much to cut it out - but I do not add anything to it at all...just pure, hot, strong, black coffee. mmmmm.

jazzy550

I heard a lady in front of me order her coffee and asked for 7 teaspoons of sugar and a mass amount of creamer! Then when I brought it up at work I found out that a lot of people put that much sugar in their coffee!

wizzybeth

That just makes me want to gag, lol

savvyfantastic

Find the right grind, you'll never need milk or sugar again!

Mmmm coffee.