Is an iced coffee a few times a week while dropping a dress size counterintuitive
Racheldasilva174
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I need a small iced coffee at least once a week or I won’t function through uni. I’m trying to drop some weight before October 7 for a wedding to fit in my dress I ordered online will it affect me even if it fits in my calories and I work out four times a week for forty minutes ?
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If you're really within your calorie limit, then it doesn't matter what form the calories take. Think of your calories as currency - spend them how you wish, just don't over spend.24
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It shouldn't be a problem if you log it, unless it makes it harder for you to stay within calories.2
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ice = zero calories
coffee = five calories per cup or less
You have a problem working 5 calorie into your daily allotment once a week?9 -
What kind of iced coffee do you drink that you are so worried about calories?
Except for the ice a hot coffee and an iced one should be the same amount of calories, if you count the sweetener and/or the milk or cream.
I drink iced coffee in the summer, sometimes, and it is black coffee, Splenda and ice. Between 2 and 5 calories. No worries there.0 -
Plain black coffee over ice has zero nutritional value. Use some Splenda to sweeten it up.4
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I use cold brew coffee, jordans skinny syrups, 1 serving of half and half and plenty of ice- delightful!!!0
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Do you understand how weight loss works? It’s all about calories.
If the iced coffee fits in your calorie goal, how could it prevent you from reaching your weight loss goal? What would be the reason that you were concerned about?
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Racheldasilva174 wrote: »I need a small iced coffee at least once a week or I won’t function through uni. I’m trying to drop some weight before October 7 for a wedding to fit in my dress I ordered online will it affect me even if it fits in my calories and I work out four times a week for forty minutes ?
Bit dramatic?
Calories in vs calories out is what matters for weight loss. As others have mentioned ice coffee, if you don't put a bunch of crap in it has virtually no calories.8 -
1 a week? Jeez, I drink 4 energy drinks in a day.
Unless your iced coffee is a squirt of coffee and 2 cups of heavy cream, I don't see there being a concern with calories.12 -
I drink Starbucks bottled cold dark roast, ice and some 0 calorie chocolate syrup every morning. Hasn't bothered my weight loss yet.
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I also love the coffee! Depending on how you drink it may take a 0-5 calorie beverage and turn it into many more. I drink mine with skim milk or black and add splenda or stevia. My coffee used to be loaded with sugar and cream.0
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Even if it were - not that I think it is - 2 cups of heavy cream is 828 calories. Spread that over a week, it's 118 calories/day that OP would need to "save up."1 a week? Jeez, I drink 4 energy drinks in a day.
Unless your iced coffee is a squirt of coffee and 2 cups of heavy cream, I don't see there being a concern with calories.
A Starbucks 12-oz Iced Coffee With Milk, which is probably much closer to what OP is actually drinking, is only 80 Calories. Much easier to budget for (and much more palatable), and OP could easily drink one every day and still make her goal.
(Now I want an iced coffee...
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1 a week? Jeez, I drink 4 energy drinks in a day.
Unless your iced coffee is a squirt of coffee and 2 cups of heavy cream, I don't see there being a concern with calories.
good lord theres a reason they say on the label not to consume more than so many a day. I drink one a week. I was having 2 a day. no more than that though1 -
lynn_glenmont wrote: »ice = zero calories
coffee = five calories per cup or less
You have a problem working 5 calorie into your daily allotment once a week?
I'm not sure where OP lives - but I suspect this is a misunderstanding.
Where I live iced coffee tends to refer to milk and coffee flavoured concoctions, often with cream and/or icecream - not low calorie at all.
One can also buy cartons of coffee flavoured and sweetened milk called Iced coffee - they would have similar amount of calories as , say, chocolate milk.
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CharlieBeansmomTracey wrote: »1 a week? Jeez, I drink 4 energy drinks in a day.
Unless your iced coffee is a squirt of coffee and 2 cups of heavy cream, I don't see there being a concern with calories.
good lord theres a reason they say on the label not to consume more than so many a day. I drink one a week. I was having 2 a day. no more than that though
I'm completely addicted to caffeine but I don't see the same effect that others seem to. It's really strange. Without caffeine first thing in the morning, I'm a mess. And I need it through out the day too, or else I start to crash. Even drinking caffeine at night doesn't impact my sleep. I'll drink a Monster at 10pm and still be asleep at 11pm.1 -
Iced coffee can be quite low calorie even with sugar and cream. Most coffee places (including Starbucks) you can just tell them how many pumps of syrup you want and ask for 'light cream' or dairy alternative of your choice and it should be under 100 calories unless you're asking for hummingbird-food levels of syrup. Or just ask for it black and unsweetened and add what you want yourself.
I wish I was disciplined enough to stress over one coffee a week.3 -
I have a 16 oz. coffee every day, usually hot but sometimes iced. I have it with half and half (called half cream in the UK), and sweetened with stevia. 3 Tb of half and half is about 60 calories. It's worth the 60 calories to me. Iced coffee is served unsweetened at my local Starbucks unless you ask for syrup. I bring my own bottle of liquid stevia.
If by "iced coffee" you mean the drinks with all the syrup and whipped cream on top, you can learn to enjoy a real iced coffee, light on the ice, with zero cal sweetener and milk or half cream added. That's how I like mine. If you like flavored syrups, your coffee shop may have sugar-free syrups, or you can buy a bottle and take a container of it to your coffee shop.1 -
It depends on how you like your coffee. If you put too much sugar and cream, try to cut down. I don't like black iced coffee but will ask for just one pump of syrup at DD (instead of 2 or 3) and some skim milk.0
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WinoGelato wrote: »Do you understand how weight loss works? It’s all about calories.
If the iced coffee fits in your calorie goal, how could it prevent you from reaching your weight loss goal? What would be the reason that you were concerned about?
QFT. If it gets you through the week (or day), go for it.
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Coffee is like 5 calories per 8 oz...hot or iced wouldn't make a difference. I drink 3-4 cups of coffee per day...I live in the desert and it's hot here, so it's often iced.2
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I get iced coffee from starbucks sometimes, 16oz with soy & sugar free vanilla=35 calories0
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I find that not having a coffee from Dunks or refresher from Starbucks is counter-intuitive to my functioning as a normal human being.
(In all seriousness, if you can make it work into your daily/weekly calories, have at it!)4 -
Are you having iced coffee or a coffee flavored milk shake (Frappacino)?
Just coffee + ice is 5-10 calories. The creamy sweetened stuff can easily have 1000 calories or more.1 -
Since she’s trying to fit into a dress within a certain amount of time that would probably hint that she’s worried about the amount of calories in her coffee, and I doubt it’s the one with only 5 calories.
If your coffee is that important to you just fit it in your calorie limit2 -
cwolfman13 wrote: »Coffee is like 5 calories per 8 oz...hot or iced wouldn't make a difference. I drink 3-4 cups of coffee per day...I live in the desert and it's hot here, so it's often iced.
As has been mentioned already, that isn't what everyone means by iced coffee.
Seems obvious to me that OP means one of the higher calorie versions, like I mentioned in my last post.
Nobody where I live would think iced coffee meant black coffee with ice in it.
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OP must not have been that concerned about the issue since she hasn’t come back to respond to any of the subsequent posts asking her for clarifications...5
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paperpudding wrote: »cwolfman13 wrote: »Coffee is like 5 calories per 8 oz...hot or iced wouldn't make a difference. I drink 3-4 cups of coffee per day...I live in the desert and it's hot here, so it's often iced.
As has been mentioned already, that isn't what everyone means by iced coffee.
Seems obvious to me that OP means one of the higher calorie versions, like I mentioned in my last post.
Nobody where I live would think iced coffee meant black coffee with ice in it.
Where I live black coffee + ice is exactly what you get with an iced coffee. Also, iced tea = tea + ice, nothing else.2 -
Well to me iced coffee means, simply, ice and coffee. Even if I go somewhere and order an iced coffee I have to specify with milk and syrup, or I will get a cup of plain coffee and ice. Unless you go to McDonalds LOL
Anyway, no particular item in your diet is going to cause you to gain weight. If it fits into your calorie goal, then you will still lose weight.0
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