Sugary drinks are my life

tschipilliti

How do I have coffee...without having coffee?

DeguelloTex

Chocolate-covered espresso beans.

soapsandropes

You have coffee, but without added sugar. Sounds trite but based on the subject what you are drinking now is not coffee, it is a sugary drink with coffee added to it.

mbaker566

black, drink it black. or use stevia

jemhh

Drink your coffee. Use sugar and count the calories. Or use a sugar free sweetener.

DemoraFairy

jemhh wrote: »

Drink your coffee. Use sugar and count the calories. Or use a sugar free sweetener.

This. If you want it, fit it into your calories.

1shauna1

Maybe try cutting down on your sugar? Or switch to a sugar-free option. I have one Splenda and two cream in my coffee (I won't give up my half and half! lol so I fit it in).

itsafatrose

Coconut milk, it's sweet and lower cal than milk + sugar

abatonfan

Find a sweeter coffee blend and drink it black? Some chocolate flavored coffees taste almost like a dessert.

kshama2001

You can gradually taper down the amount of sugar you put in your coffee. I have more than halved the sugar I put in tea and don't miss it. Also, I need less sugar for black tea than I did for coffee, and even less for green tea.

I brew coffee and chill it for my peanut butter banana smoothies and since the bananas (and PB) have sugar, don't need to add sugar. I actually use half coffee and half Teeccino, an herbal coffee substitute.

rhyolite_

I get what you're saying. Personally, I hate the taste of coffee on it's own. I do really love a sugary, syrup-flavored cup of milk with a little coffee/espresso thrown in. There are some skinny coffee recipes that I've found online that were pretty good. For the most part, it's just something I've cut out because it's no longer worth the calories (or effort to make a lower cal version). I like my tea in the mornings. Also, +1 to the poster who suggested chocolate-covered espresso beans.

mbaker566

abatonfan wrote: »

Find a sweeter coffee blend and drink it black? Some chocolate flavored coffees taste almost like a dessert.

yes they do *sips caramel brownie coffee*

ninerbuff

You can drink coffee. Just either reduce the amount of sugar you use. Like anything else TOO MUCH sugar is the problem.

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itsMcKay

Just use Splenda or Stevia or whatever alternative sweetener you like. Eventually, your palette will realize you don't have to douse things in high-fructose corn syrup to taste them.

My coffee is a homemade Americano with a packet of Splenda and tsp. of coconut oil. Good and pretty good for me.

bpetrosky

I like black coffee, but I tend to find most of Starbuck's roasts to be very bitter to drink that way (they have to be used in those sugary blends). I've found their blonde roast to be pretty good for drinking black or with just a little stevia or splenda.

kshama2001

moyer566 wrote: »

abatonfan wrote: »

Find a sweeter coffee blend and drink it black? Some chocolate flavored coffees taste almost like a dessert.

yes they do *sips caramel brownie coffee*

I'm currently making half Newman's Cafe Almond Biscotti and half Chocolate Teecchino, nom nom nom.

ValerieMartini2Olives

I drink coffee every day. Usually 3-5 cups with creamer. I make it fit.

Pinnacle_IAO

tschipilliti wrote: »

How do I have coffee...without having coffee?

I just drink coffee with nothing - BLACK! I learned to like it.
In time your tastes change. The same goes for food in general. Every recipe I had was loaded with salt, sugar and fat...JUST LIKE MOMMY MADE IT!
When I first tasted food unsaturated with garbage, it tasted funny, and then I realized what that funny taste was.

It was the food...lol

birdstudios

Almond milk + Stevia drops.

liv_namaste

I really would agree with the folks who say change nothing! Now if you're getting a sugary Starbucks or Dunkin' Donuts every morning and it is killing you because of the 600 calories extra every day that's different. Try sticking with iced or regular coffee, a touch of cream and sugar. I think you'd be surprised how many less calories you're drinking compared to those sugary powerhouses of evil (frapuccinos, mochas etc...) PLUS keeping a little sweet in your routine will feel less like depriving yourself and more like treating yourself. I think you'll be able to maintain it easier than cutting back to just black coffee.

mantium999

Black coffee is the only real way to drink it anyway.

auddii

jemhh wrote: »

Drink your coffee. Use sugar and count the calories. Or use a sugar free sweetener.

This. If you find that you need whatever starbucks drinks at 700 calories, you probably don't actually like coffee and you could just order milkshakes.

dubird

Sugar-free sweeteners are great! I don't drink coffee, but I switched from soda to unsweet tea with Equal and I'm perfectly happy with it. I don't like Sweet'n'Low or Stevia, but that's because they have a horrible after-taste to me. Others don't have an issue with it, so try that instead. Don't go get the Starbucks liquid sugar, that's such a huge calorie bomb that fitting it into your daily calories would be a nightmare for most people.

Kimberly_Harper

I stopped drinking sugar and cream in my coffee by having black coffee with a donut. After a while, I didn't need the donut, and the cream and sugar just made the coffee taste like I had dissolved the donut in the coffee which was gross. This being a fitness site, I don't recommend the donut method for very long, or without counting your calories (of which said donut could put a significant dent in your day's allotment)

SLLRunner

tschipilliti wrote: »

How do I have coffee...without having coffee?

Nothing wrong with sugar. Make your sugar coffee drink fit into your calorie goals if you want sugar.

SLLRunner

birdstudios wrote: »

Almond milk + Stevia drops.

I happen to love Stevia, but sometimes I'll use sugar or agave in my coffee. It just depends on what I want. Whatever it is, I make it fit.

rhawfax1986

drink zero sugar rock stars...i live off those...

Pinnacle_IAO

SLLRunner wrote: »

birdstudios wrote: »

Almond milk + Stevia drops.

I happen to love Stevia, but sometimes I'll use sugar or agave in my coffee. It just depends on what I want. Whatever it is, I make it fit.

This is the best way to view the issue.
Make it fit, and decide if you really want it that bad.
I know every gram of added sugar represents 4 empty calories that do nothing but take up space.
Sometimes it's just worth it, and most times my goals trump my desires of the moment.

A few empty calories here and there won't derail anybody, but at day's end, we all must choose each time this comes up. At some point the answer is no.

VintageFeline

I only have one coffee a day, I just add my teaspoon of sugar and bit of milk and make it fit. You can get sugar free syrups too but I'm just one of those "make it fit if I want it" people.

derekspiewak

I agree with m

DemoraFairy wrote: »

jemhh wrote: »

Drink your coffee. Use sugar and count the calories. Or use a sugar free sweetener.

This. If you want it, fit it into your calories.

I like this advice. Start with this. Over time, you may find that the calories are just not worth it at all, and your tastes will actually change away from sweet stuff if you reduce it for long enough. I've started to drink it black now.

marcelo_templario

Splenda? If you drink coffee with 2 pouches of sweetener you'll get more calories from the cholesterol of the coffee itself than from the sweetener.