I dont want to drink my calories!!!

november03

My weakness is high calorie coffee drinks!!! I am down to about 12oz of coffee a day, but they are usually 2/3 coffee- 1/3 cream. I really enjoy the peppermint mocha creamer. These are calories I don’t need!! I have tried the fat free creams and they are horrible to me. I do not like coffee black. My husband jokes that I should just heat up the cream and drink it straight… LOL. I have also tried a variety of teas. Any suggestions I would be grateful. I don’t want to drink my calories anymore…….but still want something warm and comforting. Please help!

Legalchica

sugar free lattes with fat free milk. you will get used to it....

YukonJoy

I don't make coffee at home but a small skinny vanilla latte at Starbucks is only 90 calories

dls06

low fat hot chocolate or a warm cup of tea.

RMinVA

While it's not ideal, look for sugar free syrups. A lot of flavor with no calories, add in a bit of skim or low fat milk for a bit of creaminess.

infamousmk

Just start using less creamer, then switch to real half and half, then you can make the leap to 2% milk. I love coffee too much to ruin it with a bunch of crap in it.

evil_rider

Boils down to which you want more, creamer or health. Today is yours to win. Get after it.

Leslietheriot

I stopped my Starbucks addiction and started making coffee at home. Theres so many different coffee flavors and creamers (in low fat and sugar-free) that you can make your coffee taste how you want.

P.S. Davinci sugar-free syrups are WONDERFUL!!!

thirtyandthriving

soy creamer has about half of the calories of half and half (15-20 vs 40 per T)

kmbrooks15

Try some of the herbal teas. There are tons of flavors, and maybe one will strike you as a good replacement. I love teas with vanilla in them. I'm not a coffee drinker, so I can't really suggest a particular one that might be a good replacement.

Can you try replacing your cream with skim milk? Even if you had to do it gradually to get accustomed to it.

Gigi_licious

Use less creamer?

thirtyandthriving

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tseecka

I don't know what your options are for where you live, but. I drink a lot of tea, myself, and one of the companies in Canada has a couple of teas you might be interested in. They have a mint chocolate black tea called Read My Lips which is *sinfully* delicious, and they also have a mint chocolate rooibos tea which is a good option if you want to cut caffeine. Both are amazing, and have, at most, something like 3-4 calories per cup, even with the chocolate!

Chocolate tea can take a little getting used to because at first you are expecting something thicker and sweeter...but if you stick with it, it's fantastic! They also have some teas that utilize just a liiiiittle bit of coffee, so if you don't want to totally sacrifice the coffee taste you can always mix two teas together, and still get that coffee-chocolate-mint taste!

drog2323

go cold turkey and go black coffee.

I did this in May....no cream, no sugar, no sweeteners....just black.

now I actually really like it this way.

I used to be a Splenda junkie...you could try that. but personally, I'm trying to go more natural now. Agave or Maple Syrup, but again higher in cals. Stevia is natural and pretty low I think

for milk..you could try unsweetened coconut milk, almond milk etc.

nifnerf

I used to drink a large coffee from Tim Hortons as a double double only to find out it had something like 230 calories in it! So I slowly cut down, one week would be 1 1/2 cream 1 1/2 sugar, then two weeks later, 1 cream, 1 sugar, etc and now I'm down to 1/2 a cream and 1/2 a sugar. I tried a sip of a double double the other day and i was so sweet I almost gagged so that is my advice: Start reducing slowly and yes you will get used to it! It just might take awhile.

rockeraxXx

Skinny lattes with fat free milk and NO WHIP cream, Sugar free Creamers not Fat free. Sugar free tastes better. Coconut milk instead of half n half. Instead of a 12 oz, drink ONE cup. If you make yourself one cup of coffee you only need one or two tablespoons of creamer. I neverrrr use those oversize coffee mugs anymore or any coffee mug. Why, because I really dont need all that caffeine and you need so much more cream and sugar when you have a huge serving. Hope it helps

SimplyShanRunning

low cal creamer

less creamer

soy creamer

willpower


all options

CrystalFlury

I like my creamer with my coffee as well. I don't drink coffee often and when I do it's from home. I have a 12 cup coffeemaker, but to be honest it's wasted on me. I never make THAT much coffee. I've learned to look at my calories/sugars on the creamer I buy. I suggest you *try* to go down to 8 ounces of coffee and add the suggested serving size of creamer (for mine it's 1 tablespoon). Think of it this way, the less coffee you drink, the less creamer you need, therefore the less calories you consume through your beverage.

decooper

Can you either lessen the creamer or drink half the amount that you drink? Or maybe don't drink it as frequently.

RMinVA

sugar free lattes with fat free milk. you will get used to it....

There is no such thing as a "sugar free" latte with milk...there is lactose in the milk. You can do no added sugar as in adding a sugar free syrup. Or you could use a milk alternative to cut back on the sugar, but even then, I think unsweetened almond or soy milk still have a tiny bit of sugar.

Ashbee1224

I had the same issue, I love my Starbucks Via's w/ almond joy creamer but honestly when I looked at the big picture all that sugar/calories in the creamer wasnt worth it. I love coffee so much though that I started using Coffee Mate sugar free hazelnut creamer and it really isnt too bad, you get used to it not being quite so sweet.

Fairysoul

Chai tea is great get one from the coffe shop to see if you like then get some oregon chia it is yummy!

Jade_Butterfly

Chai tea plain or w/ a spot of half and half

vanilla chai

sugar free hot cocoa

I personally don't go Fat-free because much agreed they are so gross and there are more chemicals and crap in them because they are fat-free. . either drink less of the real thing, or if you just wean yourself off of it and drink something else you will find that your tastes adjust.

Wishing you the best of luck.:flowerforyou:

Tiggerrick

Cut back on the creamer slowly, OR make smaller cups of coffee..

I just add Splenda to the coffee and keep my creamer amount to two tablespoons. Best compromise I can make.

DG_Allen

I went cold turkey and switched to green tea. My wife and I probably have 10 different types now. I did that for a long time and then started having coffee again once or twice on the weekends.

embersfallen

I used to TOTALLY be a creamer junkie! I still enjoy it now and then, but most of the time, I do this... I know it may sound wierd...but if you like the peppermint mocha, use 1/2 a serving of whey protein powder.. you could use 1/4 serving of both vanilla, and chocolate, and then either a lil pepermint extract (careful though that stuff is STRONG...) or if you are making a cold blended one, a sugarfree peppermint candy crushed... there are also stevia drops that come flavored you can get online...add some of that... there are still calories with the protein powder, but they are GOOD calories..and will get you more protein to help you fill up.

Otherwise, try to find some sugar free peppermint coffee syrup, and use unsweetened vanilla almond milk and some Stevia or splenda... unsweetened vanilla almond milk is 40 calories a CUP...so you could use even half a cup for only 20 calories

I am actually drinking right now a huge cup of coffee with a scoop of vanilla whey protein powder, cinnamon, and some sugarfree hazelnut syrup... it is NUMMY! no creamer, no sugar... just those ingredients... it's one of my mini meals.. so it's 140 calories, but like I said, you could use less protein powder etc...

bhawkins0711

I love my full fat half and half but I had to give it up on a daily basis. A cup every now and then is a treat. I now drink green tea.

NashvilleShelley

Maybe try vanilla or chocolate coconut milk for flavor?

LATeagno

If you like the Peppermint Mocha Coffeemate creamer, there is a sugar free version. It is about 1/3 of the calories of the full-sugar stuff. They carry it at my Walmart, so check around. That said, it's still junk, and it should still be limited.

mathen2

I am like you. I would give up a meal to drink Starbucks lattes. Soy stuff arent really good for your health in the long run although they have lower calories. The main focus is to make sure that the sugar in the serving size is low.
This is something I do to get to latte taste, but feel less guilty. I need this every morning to get started. I tried to switch to almond milk but it tastes terrible when heated up, so I use a 50:50 split of a 75:25 split between milk and almond milk

Latte:
1 tsp instant coffee powder
1/2 cup of low fat milk
1/2 cup of unsweetened almond milk ( use what ever ratio you like the taste of)
3/4 tsp of Stevia
1 tablespoon of vanilla caramel creamer ( just for taste): use what ever creamer you want.

Heat the milk up and just add the ingredients. After adding the calories to it, it ranges between 120-160 calories per cup ( depending on how much creamer you put in).

sgoldman328

Start using half of what you normally would have with creamer, and put milk in for the rest. You really just want a hint of the flavor anyway