Milky coffee

LiveOnceBeHappy

When I started drinking coffee, it was a chocolate, caramel, whipped cream drink with, seriously, Snicker bar pieces in it. I very, very slowly started cutting the sugar in half. I drank those for like a year. Then I asked for just a mocha. Then I asked for a mocha with less "pumps". Then I switched to coffee with a lot of Vanilla creamer at home (and saved a bunch of money too). Then I started cutting the vanilla creamer I used. Then I used just sugar cubes. Then one sugar cube. Then......NO SUGAR or milk! It took a long time, and the motivation for me to change was the added sugar and the weight gain. It's also way easier when getting coffee out. No fussing with creamer or packets of sugar. Good luck in figuring out your balance!

susanalsaword

Thanks for your help 😃

Proelkcio

It’s the artificial sweetener that’s derailing you.

If you can get used to 1 cup of black coffee first, before you make your milky coffee, then use real sugar in your milky drink, you may be able to break the cycle.

springlering62

Proelkcio wrote: »

It’s the artificial sweetener that’s derailing you.

If you can get used to 1 cup of black coffee first, before you make your milky coffee, then use real sugar in your milky drink, you may be able to break the cycle.

Totally disagree.

Artificial sweeteners have been a godsend to me.

I didn’t like the taste at first and I worried about the “artificiality” and chemicals until I finally decided, Which is worse? Sweeteners that are using tested, safe ingredients, or the extra hundred pounds I’m toting around 24/7?

I use them in coffees, chai, add a dash to protein pancakes, nightly low cal homemade ice creams, baked goods. I’ve also learned to enjoy Coke Zero, after decades of swearing only the “Real Thing” would ever cross my lips.

Walden Farms zero cal syrups are very good. I love their chocolate and caramel, as well as most their zero cal salad dressings. My husband even recycled an empty spice jar to take salad dressing to his weekly club luncheons, and takes it with him if we go out to dinner.

Artificial sweeteners have been a key ingredient in both of our weight loss. I rarely use real sugar or syrups anymore. I haven’t refilled the sugar jar in two or three years.

I am the poster child that still enjoying sweetened products - of any kind - goes a long way towards taste satisfaction and being able maintain.

You’ve got to figure out what works for you. I’d rather have quantity versus spending calories on real sugars. Same reason I got a couple of great skillets I can brown meats and “stir fry” in without oils.

susanalsaword

Love your comments, always helpful thanks 😃😃