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jamacianredhair
jamacianredhair Posts: 230 Member
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I'm pretty good about weighing and measuring everything I eat or drink. Well I was until I fell off the wagon, but that's another story...

Anyway, I have never weighed or measured my coffee until this morning. What I always thought was around 50 calories is actually over 100! Most days I have at least 2 cups...

Creamer is killing my coffee vibes right now. Does anyone use a low calorie creamer that tastes good? Currently I use International Delight sugar free hazelnut. (I just free pour it until I get a nice color.) ahhh this sucks...
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  • Joanna2012B
    Joanna2012B Posts: 1,448 Member
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    Have you tried using less creamer? I personally use milk in my coffee and have since reduced that. Or you can just fit it into your daily calories.
  • JeromeBarry1
    JeromeBarry1 Posts: 10,182 Member
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    Black coffee has zero calories. If you can get the individual tubs of creamer, try an office supply store, the hazelnut has 30 calories in an individual 11 ml tub.
  • jamacianredhair
    jamacianredhair Posts: 230 Member
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    I used to drink it black. I may switch back, or try milk. I got used to flavors but there is flavored coffee I could try.
  • jamacianredhair
    jamacianredhair Posts: 230 Member
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    Yea I had thought that maybe the individual cups would help with my heavy hand lol
  • snickerscharlie
    snickerscharlie Posts: 8,578 Member
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    jamacianredhair wrote: »
    I'm pretty good about weighing and measuring everything I eat or drink. Well I was until I fell off the wagon, but that's another story...

    Anyway, I have never weighed or measured my coffee until this morning. What I always thought was around 50 calories is actually over 100! Most days I have at least 2 cups...

    Creamer is killing my coffee vibes right now. Does anyone use a low calorie creamer that tastes good? Currently I use International Delight sugar free hazelnut. (I just free pour it until I get a nice color.) ahhh this sucks...

    First off, try reducing to only 1 cup a day. That way you can have that 1 cup exactly how you like it without it costing you an insane amount of calories by having 2 0r 3 of them in a day. I used to be triple-triple kinda gal, 3 cups a day. Reduced it to two, then to 1, and then *very gradually* started cutting back on what I put in that one, too.

    Today my morning coffee has stevia in it and a splash of light cream and it tastes good! :)
  • OliveGirl128
    OliveGirl128 Posts: 801 Member
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    A high quality coffee doesn't need a bunch of add-ins, and even though it costs more, you'll save money from not having to buy flavored creamers and such so it pretty much evens out.

    I went from dumping gobs of calories into my store brand generic coffee grinds, to grinding my own beans of a high quality (Haitian) coffee and the only thing I add to it is a bit of splenda.
  • tcunbeliever
    tcunbeliever Posts: 8,219 Member
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    International Delights is a non-dairy "cream" with flavor added...kind of like a substitute version of a latte or cafe au lait with syrup flavor...
  • fritch_gets_fit26
    fritch_gets_fit26 Posts: 40 Member
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    I used to use sugar and cream in my coffee, and it is startling to see how many calories there are. I just started using less and less...I would get the pre-measured cups (like what they have at restaurants and gas station coffee bars) and that was all the creamer I could have...now I drink it black with only 1 packet of splenda...it is much lower in calories (I think about 15 calories)...which is great because I tend to drink about a pot and a half a day.
  • YvetteK2015
    YvetteK2015 Posts: 653 Member
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    jamacianredhair wrote: »
    I used to drink it black. I may switch back, or try milk. I got used to flavors but there is flavored coffee I could try.

    I never used to be able to drink my coffee black, ever. But I bought my own coffee syrups, sugar free. One day I just decided to try black coffee with a sugar free syrup. I was actually surprised just how good it was. So now I can drink it both ways. On days I'm not hungry, I add milk. On days I'm a bit more hungry, I drink it black with syrup.
  • ijsantos2005
    ijsantos2005 Posts: 306 Member
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    I use half & half. 40 cals for 2 tablespoons
  • laurenebargar
    laurenebargar Posts: 3,081 Member
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    I've been slowly cutting down what I put in, I used to have three creams three sugars, now im down to one cream one sugar! I'd like to eventually drink it black, but who knows if I will ever get there.
  • lauracups
    lauracups Posts: 533 Member
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    I over loaded my coffee with cream and sugar and just decided one day to switch to black never went back. I love all the different notes and flavors naturally between sumatra and Italian dark roast and Fall Blend green mountain, etc. I equate it to the enjoyment between Pinot and Shiraz. Give it a go:)
  • savithny
    savithny Posts: 1,200 Member
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    robm1brown wrote: »
    Speaking as a Brit (or maybe just an ignoramus) what is creamer?

    For some reason Americans got into having cream (or half-and-half) in their coffee instead of milk. You can get little tubs that are a couple of tablespoons of cream, and restaurants tend to use thiose. There's also the abomination that is powdered creamer. It actually gets called "coffee whitener" because its often non-dairy. I call it "coffee paint."

    (I grew up putting milk in my coffee and that's what I prefer).
  • Loug1983
    Loug1983 Posts: 89 Member
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    savithny wrote: »
    robm1brown wrote: »
    Speaking as a Brit (or maybe just an ignoramus) what is creamer?

    For some reason Americans got into having cream (or half-and-half) in their coffee instead of milk. You can get little tubs that are a couple of tablespoons of cream, and restaurants tend to use thiose. There's also the abomination that is powdered creamer. It actually gets called "coffee whitener" because its often non-dairy. I call it "coffee paint."

    (I grew up putting milk in my coffee and that's what I prefer).

    Also a Brit, so 'creamer' is just cream? And half and half is half cream, half milk?

    To clarify, it is a thing to have cream in coffee here, though less common than milk, but we just call it cream.
  • __TMac__
    __TMac__ Posts: 1,665 Member
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    Let me clarify: Creamer is only the fake stuff. Powdered or liquid non-dairy.

    Cream is whole cream. Half-and-half is half cream, half milk.
  • Loug1983
    Loug1983 Posts: 89 Member
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    Thanks, we have powdered milk here, and 'coffee mate' which might be like your creamer, I have never been tempted to try it!
  • __TMac__
    __TMac__ Posts: 1,665 Member
    edited August 2017
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    Powdered milk, if it truly is just dried milk, is different. Creamer is almost always non-dairy.

    Yes, Coffee Mate is a creamer. You're not missing anything. :)
  • emcclure013
    emcclure013 Posts: 231 Member
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    I feel you there! I used to "free pour" my creamer too until I realized just how much I was adding in... EEK. Now I keep my measuring spoons next to my coffee pot. 1T on good days, 2T on days I need a pick me up or something sweet. :) I'm not a huge fan of black coffee by itself.

    At my work they don't have liquid creamer, so I've been using a bit of Splenda and powdered creamer. Not quite as tasty, but it gets the job done, and it's quite a few calories lower than the liquid creamer.

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