coffee crisis

higgins8283801

I gave up my 4-6 cans of mountain dew a day and drink water. What I cannot give up is my coffee, with a little sugar and creamer. Is it OK to have 1 cup of coffee with sugar and cream, or should I try to cut out the sugar and cream? which will be hard, because I think black coffee is disgusting.
I have been drinking a cup of coffee, but I feel so guilty when I do it.

knitapeace

If there is no medical reason for you to cut out sugar or cream, and if it fits into your daily calorie goal, I say drink and enjoy your coffee guilt-free. The stress from the guilt is worse for you than the drink.

msf74

Is it OK to have 1 cup of coffee with sugar and cream

Yes, you could even have...two.

I would also suggest trying out different quality beans / roasts if you don't like black coffee. It may make all the difference but this is by no means necessary from a weight loss perspective (as opposed to a taste perspective.)

erinrae2734

An alternative to cream/sugar is a small amount of coconut oil. Always should have some "good fat" right away in the morning. Little bit goes a long way. I can no longer drink coffee with creamer/sugar as I LOVE coffee with coconut oil. It will be different at first, but after the third day it is amazing!

heidispideymfp

I have mine with milk and sugar and I won't give that up for anyone

Patttience

Well done for quitting that mountain dew. Presumably it was full of something undesirable but i'm not sure what.

Coffee is fine. Milk is great. a little bit of Cream and sugar won't kill you. But coffee with full cream milk is good and delicious even without sugar.

What is creamer though? Is it real food or is it artificial food. If the latter, find something more nutritious.

These days they recommend not eating more than 6tsp of sugar a day and that includes in everything salad dressing, ketchup everything. As a recovering sugar addict who let sugar get my whole pattern of eating out of whack and made me fat, i'd quit putting sugar in your coffee but when you are ready and if you find your consumption getting out of control. It doesn't take long to adjust to going without. IN fact life without sugar in it is much better. I love my fruit and even can risk some dried fruit.

I can only drink black coffee if its go sugar in it but black coffee on its own is rough.

cattitude123

Try even a flavored coffee with some skim milk and splenda(if you like it), enjoy, you are doing yourself a favor by not stressing!

tremroy1

I put 2% or skimmed milk in my coffee........instead of cream.......no sugar......kills the taste of the coffee.

fitmek

I started drinking mine black so i wouldn't have anything else to compare it to. However, 10 years later, looking back---I will say that drinking coffee like Folgers is NASTY black. I drink Starbucks or Tully's, Hubbard and Cravens or sometimes Newman's own. You have to have a rich, full coffee to drink it black--IMO.

AmyRhubarb

I drink my morning coffee black, always have (Peet's is my favorite!), but have an afternoon cup of hot or iced coffee nearly every day, always with half & half and sugar. It fits in my goals, no reason to give it up.

kittenful

I have 2 cups every morning, with a tsp of sugar and a tbsp of creamer each.

When I began on MFP, I cut out the creamer and switched to milk, until pumpkin spiced creamer rolled around. I enjoy my flavored creamers too much to give them up, so I worked them into my day, instead.

My point? Have your coffee how you like it. You don't need to go to black coffee if that's not what you enjoy (I know I certainly don't)! Allot some room in your diary and enjoy.

GiveMeCoffee

Only coffee crisis is when you don't have any.

Fit it into your day and enjoy it!

caracrawford1

Why not? I discovered the joys of French press last year

Alluminati

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Alluminati

Only coffee crisis is when you don't have any.

Fit it into your day and enjoy it!

I came running in here cause I thought OP had no more coffees

shabaity

If I owned a keurig I would drink black coffee, hello vanilla or pumpkin spice mmmm, that being said I don't so bring on the sugar though you'll find yourself likely using less. I can't drink sweet tea now its got to be 1/2 sweet 1/2 unsweet I never thought I'd see the day.:embarassed:

GiveMeCoffee

Only coffee crisis is when you don't have any.

Fit it into your day and enjoy it!

I came running in here cause I thought OP had no more coffees

That's why I came in I was gonna send some STAT cause that's just evil

sloseph

i slowly started adding less milk to my coffee until it was practically black then just cut it out all together, now i can't stand coffee with milk in it

as for sugar, i've always been a 2 sugars guy, at the start of this year i decided i was wasting calories having it in my coffee and that i'd try to go without it, it took a couple of days to get used to it but now i really like it and don't even think about adding sugar

however having said all that, if you're only have one cup then don't worry about it, 1 coffee with a bit of sugar and some cream isn't going to do any harm

sparacka

I feel you. I started a LCHF WOE and one of the most difficult transitions for me was my coffee...I used to POUR liberal amounts of sweetened creamer (Coffeemate or Bailey's) into 3-4 cups of coffee daily. Now I use only HWC (heavy whipping cream) with no sugar. If you want to slowly wean yourself off of sugar, try using a non-calorie sweetener instead, or just slowly reduce the amount of sugar until you get used to the taste of (delicious) coffee!
Also: my FIL makes coffee so strong it can literally strip my insides out...I do not like extremely strong coffee and I brew it the way that I like it. Experiment with your coffee maker until it tastes best to you.

Meerataila

An alternative to cream/sugar is a small amount of coconut oil. Always should have some "good fat" right away in the morning. Little bit goes a long way. I can no longer drink coffee with creamer/sugar as I LOVE coffee with coconut oil. It will be different at first, but after the third day it is amazing!

Actually this is really amazing. A little unsweetened coco powder is nice with it, too. I got used to drinking coffee black, but it's definitely an acquired taste.

fitmek

Only coffee crisis is when you don't have any.

Fit it into your day and enjoy it!

This ^^ hehe

alfonsinarosinsky

I have a Keurig and drink at lease one cup of decaf coffee with Stevia and creamer. It comes out to about 30 calories for the 1 tablespn of creamer that I use which is liquid hazelnut creamer. I buy different brands.

AmyG1982

I drink 1-2 cups daily with cream and honey (cuz I don't do much in the way of processed stuffs) and I love it. I don't care that I'm drinking calories, those are some of my favourite calories of the day! I just make it fit into my allowance and move on

Lost_in_Transformation

Giving up the Mountain Dew makes room for a little cream and sugar... So enjoy your coffee:drinker:

UmmSqueaky

The key to long term success is not to diet, but rather to eat the way you are able to sustain for the rest of your life. Would the quality of your life be reduced without cream and sugar? Would you miss it a lot? If so, fit it into your day.

I personally haven't given up anything - if it's got a lot of calories, I simply eat less of it and less often. Sometimes I go for long periods where I crave chocolate, so I eat a serving of delicious, high quality chocolate chips every night after dinner. Sometimes I don't feel like chocolate so I don't eat any. But if I deprived myself of chocolate, cut it out of my diet, put it on the banned list, I know I would obsess about it, eat a whole chocolate bar in one sitting and then feel bad. So, I don't

eggomylegos

Only coffee crisis is when you don't have any.

Fit it into your day and enjoy it!

I came running in here cause I thought OP had no more coffees

Same. I was going to organize a donation event.

seltzermint555

There is nothing wrong w/ drinking your coffee however you prefer. But if you want to cut back on calories and whatever else...you could always try cutting back gradually, that is kind of what I have done. At some point in the past I used agave sweetener (which I now think is crap, JMHO) and flavored creamer. Then I switched over to just a bit of 1% milk and a packet of sweetener (various types) which seemed sad at first but in only a couple of weeks I was so accustomed to it, I came to prefer it and couldn't really stomach the strongly flavored non-dairy creamers. After a year of that I switched over to using a splash of unsweetened original almond milk and 1 packet of Stevia (as a more natural sweetening alternative) but I felt it did not sweeten my coffee at all! So after I ran out of Stevia, I just stopped adding sweetener all together. I seriously don't miss it. I still put in a splash of almond milk but I can now drink coffee "black" and a couple of years ago I thought that was disgusting.

brower47

I drink 2-6 cups a day and I use sugar free coffee mate. I weigh my creamer so that I know exactly how much is going in there so I don't accidentally consume 200 calories in creamer instead of just 90.

There's nothing wrong with coffee. Drink it if you like it.

Related note: There's nothing wrong with drinking Dt. Mt. Dew either. I drink both. If you have issues with it like aspartame sensitivity, then change your habits from there but if you don't have any issues, there's zero reason (outside of tin foil hat reasons) to give it up.

eturbo2

http://www.eatright.org/Public/content.aspx?id=6442477202

This article from the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics suggests that coconut oil may not have all the nutritional benefits to live up to its hype. I would check this out and may consider a different alternative for my coffee!

parkscs

I'm on cup #4 so far this morning... no guilt yet.

earlnabby

I never liked sugar in my coffee but I would use flavored creamer. I switched to coffee with 1/2 & 1/2 instead so I could cut a few of the calories and carbs (1 g carb per 2 Tbl vs 10 for the creamer I used).

Do whatever you like that also fits in with your calorie and macro goals.