Coffee coffee coffee! Is it packing on the pounds?
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Black coffee has less than 10 calories in it, if you can't drink it black then you are either drinking crap coffe or you're not addicted to coffee as much as you are addicted to all the crap you add to it, fact. :drinker:
More like absurdity! I like my coffee black, but that doesn't mean *everyone* should! How about an ounce of respect for someone else's taste buds?
If people wanted to respect their taste buds they would be buying good coffee to begin with so you wouldn't have to drown it in crap.If you truly liked coffee you wouldn't have to manipulate the flavor with cream and sugar
That's an interesting opinion. But please don't try to equate it with "truth." :laugh:0 -
Saying "If you can't drink it black, you don't like coffee" is like saying "If you can't eat it raw and unseasoned, you don't like chicken!" Not everyone likes it the same way.
I like black coffee, but if I didn't I wouldn't make myself drink it. If you're truly committed to your weight loss, 2 tablespoons of cream is not going to stand in your way. I do agree with learning to live without the sugar though, in everything, not just coffee.
Some people confuse their opinions with facts. :laugh:
So many people drink coffee and tea in so many ways. I recently discovered that some people put cream in their tea! :noway:
Live and let live is my motto.0 -
1 tbsp of half and half is only 20 calories. Thanks but I'm keeping it!0
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i drink 2-3 cups of timmy's coffee everyday day and it hasn't affected my weightloss, but i do drink it black. it wouldn't take long to get used to drinkin it black ya know, and you can sure tell who makes good coffee and who doesn't when you drink it black lol0
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Black coffee has less than 10 calories in it, if you can't drink it black then you are either drinking crap coffe or you're not addicted to coffee as much as you are addicted to all the crap you add to it, fact. :drinker:
More like absurdity! I like my coffee black, but that doesn't mean *everyone* should! How about an ounce of respect for someone else's taste buds?
If people wanted to respect their taste buds they would be buying good coffee to begin with so you wouldn't have to drown it in crap.If you truly liked coffee you wouldn't have to manipulate the flavor with cream and sugar
At one time I thought like this.
But there is a world of the coffee beverage that you have totally shut out because dammit yours is the best and most expensive.
I love awesome coffee black, freshly ground made with a french press. Does that mean its the only way to drink it? Nope. I also like coffee with a splash of liquor. Some Baileys, Kahlua, or Drambuie (obviously not on workdays). I have a soft spot though also for gas station coffee (a la QT, with all the various additives). Whether I buy cheaper beans and a little cream, or more expensive beans and drink it black, is actually quite neutral to my enjoyment. I enjoy it either way. I also find that coffee that is good black tends not to mix as well with additives. This isn't to say that there is a place for nasty coffee though. Coffee is an amazing beverage with a ton of possibilities.0 -
Confused as to why you are even asking this question then. You just said you are taking in about 800 cals per day....This question makes no sense taking this into consideration.
Actually...I didnt anywhere say Im taking in 800 cals a day...I said that was yesterday. Ive never counted calories before so Im just trying to teach myself how to eat like I should instead of ONLY when Im hungry. If quitting drinking coffee will show significant results then Im all for stopping drinkin it.
I think caffeine is an appetite suppressent, you could look into that? And this is only anecdotal, but if I'm peckish and have no time to eat, a hot drink like tea w/milk or a latte does ide me over till my next break, so maybe it;s the same for you?
And what's wrong with only eating when you're hungry? I mean, unless you're suffering with an ED in which case I'd suggest seeing your doctor and coming up with a treatment plan and a meal plan. And even if not, maybe try planning a weeks worth of nutritionally balanced meal, stick to that for just one week and celebrate by buying yourself a treat with the money you saved on coffee? (IDK about the states, but even if I went to a cheapy place here, it's be AT LEAST EUR2 a go just for black coffee at 3 or 4 a day, that'd be nearly 50 a week!)0 -
Black coffee has less than 10 calories in it, if you can't drink it black then you are either drinking crap coffe or you're not addicted to coffee as much as you are addicted to all the crap you add to it, fact. :drinker:
More like absurdity! I like my coffee black, but that doesn't mean *everyone* should! How about an ounce of respect for someone else's taste buds?
If people wanted to respect their taste buds they would be buying good coffee to begin with so you wouldn't have to drown it in crap.If you truly liked coffee you wouldn't have to manipulate the flavor with cream and sugar
That's an interesting opinion. But please don't try to equate it with "truth." :laugh:
LOL, this. I love whiskey and I'll buy the good stuff, but I don't *always* drink it straight and I wouldn't expect anyone else to!
It can be a regional thing as well, here everyone drinks their tea hot with milk, cold and sweetened tea is not appealing to me, but I'm not standing here claiming hot and milky is The One True Way to drink tea.0 -
http://www.timhortons.com/ca/en/menu/nutrition-calculator.html
According to Tim Hortons nutrition info an large coffee with cream (not doubled) is 90 calories.
I suggest that you order a medium or small from now on and add some food to your order.0 -
try flavored coffee with silk vanilla milk0
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The creamer is what's doing it. Black coffee is a natural diuretic. Thankfully, I can stomach black coffee and a half packet of Splenda. But the creamer is definitely not doing you any good.0
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I just went through this. I am the same way with my coffee..it HAS to be half/half with real sugar. Well...my weight loss stopped. I mean nothing in months even though i just finished my 2nd round of p90x and i have a good 30 pounds of baby weight to lose. I decided that it's not worth sabotaging all my hard work so i only have it occasionally now and I have dropped 2 pounds in the last week and a half.0
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vegan mocha recipe. Under 50 cals!!!!
french press coffee
2 teaspoon organic evaporated cane juice sugar
1/2 tablespoon coca powder
.25 cup vanilla unsweetened almond milk0 -
i LOVE coffee...and drink a lot of it everyday. BUT i only use a splash of 2% milk in each cup... and i account for all of it. i don't plan on cutting back anytime soon...we all have our vices.0
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Everyone has something that's a problem for them. It's relatively easy for me to skimp on coffee. Beer during football season is tough.Large double double please!! Im addicted to coffee. And I just cant drink it with milk or skim milk instead of cream..Just cant stand the taste! I try to make it at home instead of going to Tim Hortons but it doesnt help having the place across the street. How much is coffee effecting my weight loss? I drink about 2-4 a day0 -
Large double double please!! Im addicted to coffee. And I just cant drink it with milk or skim milk instead of cream..Just cant stand the taste! I try to make it at home instead of going to Tim Hortons but it doesnt help having the place across the street. How much is coffee effecting my weight loss? I drink about 2-4 a day
EEHHHOOOO
Thats the Timmies standard here in Canada
Im cutting out coffee switching to tea at least that i can count as water
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Large double double please!! Im addicted to coffee. And I just cant drink it with milk or skim milk instead of cream..Just cant stand the taste! I try to make it at home instead of going to Tim Hortons but it doesnt help having the place across the street. How much is coffee effecting my weight loss? I drink about 2-4 a day
EEHHHOOOO Thats the Timmies standard here in Canada
Im cutting out coffee switching to tea at least that i can count as water
Actually....I should of said Medium double double since they changed all the sizes!0 -
Hmm it has actually helped curb my sweet tooth I drink 1 cup every morning with skim milk and 1 teaspoon of granulated sugar.Then again the only olther beverage I drink is water .So far I've lost 70lbs since February ^u^ 0
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I have a coffee in hand right now. I usually drink it with skim or 2%, but some places only have half-n-half or at one of my jobs there is just the flavored coffee mate stuff. I use it, try to be accurate about how much I add, and log it. No big deal. There are things that are much more detrimental to a healthy lifestyle than coffee and some cream.0
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According to Google "Tim Horton" is a USA & Canadian coffee and doughnut chain - across the road, huh? Have you considered moving?0
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What do you have your goals set to? 1 lb a week, 2 lbs a week, sedentary, lightly active?
With four children, one a baby, you are at a minimum lightly active and quite possibly the next one up from that. 1200 calories is probably not enough for someone chasing after kids all day.
If you up your calories, you'd have plenty of room to drink those shakes you want to finish.0 -
Add a scoop of peanut butter protein powder! I put a scoop in 2 cups of black chilled coffee and drink that at breakfast, and it's delicious! It makes it so I don't need any creamer or sugar or anything, and gives me extra protein.0
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Large double double please!! Im addicted to coffee. And I just cant drink it with milk or skim milk instead of cream..Just cant stand the taste! I try to make it at home instead of going to Tim Hortons but it doesnt help having the place across the street. How much is coffee effecting my weight loss? I drink about 2-4 a day
EEHHHOOOO Thats the Timmies standard here in Canada
Im cutting out coffee switching to tea at least that i can count as water
Actually....I should of said Medium double double since they changed all the sizes!
i know i used to try to tough it out through the large lol but it was just far to much coffee so i too have gone down to a medium *smh* for shame0 -
I'm the kind of person (I know, real coffee drinkers scoff at me, hahaha) who likes coffee -- but only "foofy" coffee as I call it. It has to be loaded with a BUNCH of sugar and flavored creamer til it's gut rot tingly sweet (Kinda like the flavored starbucks! haha). For that reason, I don't drink it really anymore.
That being said, I was raised only LITERALLY only drinking pepsi from as young as I can remember. It left me with a major caffeine addiction, and a disdain for water. When I tried to break this 100% pepsi thing and add water, I got such horrible headaches that I would have for days on end no matter how much ibuprofen/tylenol/etc I took. But it would instantly go away within a few sips of pepsi....or mountain dew....or coke, etc. So what I did was -- I had found a water that is caffeinated, but with literally NOTHING else in it. It tastes like regular water, has no calories, etc. It just has caffeine. I started swapping out the caffeinated water for pepsi, over time, decreasing the pepsi and increasing the water more and more. And then I'd add in a glass of regular water a day. And as the pepsi intake went down, trading to the caffeinated water, and increasing the regular water, etc.
This way I wasn't battling both the taste issue along with the caffeine addiction.
By this point I'm actually CRAVING water. When I'm home I occasionally drink milk, but almost only plain, filtered tap water anymore. When I'm out for a meal, sometimes I'll get water, and sometimes I'll get Coke, Diet Coke or Mountain Dew -- but it's certainly no longer for the addiction.....just 'cause I like the taste every now and again (especially in combination with certain foods
If anyone is interested in the caffeinated water, it is Called Avitae (there may be others -- I'm not sure. This is just the one I found)
http://avitaeusa.com0 -
What do you have your goals set to? 1 lb a week, 2 lbs a week, sedentary, lightly active?
With four children, one a baby, you are at a minimum lightly active and quite possibly the next one up from that. 1200 calories is probably not enough for someone chasing after kids all day.
If you up your calories, you'd have plenty of room to drink those shakes you want to finish.
I have the activitey set as low as it can go until I set myself a regular routine.
I think I have it at 1.5 a week?0 -
According to Google "Tim Horton" is a USA & Canadian coffee and doughnut chain - across the road, huh? Have you considered moving?
Might i add that it was ours first and it is still better in Canada you guys have done something weird with it down in the US of A0 -
This post should be Cream cream cream! Is it packing on the pounds?
Coffee has very few calories. Would you have a bowl of ice cream every morning and expect to lose weight?
(Note: I know there are people out there who eat ice cream every day and still lose weight.)
Actually, even though coffee has few calories, the caffiene in it inhibits weight loss. But I am in agreeance here I think there is a little more going on. I am addicted to the sugar and the caffiene too, I HAVE to have on every morning from Tim Hortons. I suffer from fatigue aswell and I think that all of it goes hand in hand. You need to eat real food with more protien in it more times daily, you will see you energy go up and you pounds go down.. that hardest part is giving up the habit!0 -
Log it. It's affecting your weight loss where it affects your macros and calories. If you can stay within those (calories in particlar) while drinking that much coffee then I guess power to you. But really, if you are drinking cream and sugar, you should be anticipating about 70-100 cals or more per cup you buy at TH.0
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I'm suprised no one has mentioned! I am still learning and pretty new to MFP, but CINNAMON!!!
The best way with little calories is to make your coffee this way...
Coffee, lots of skim milk, one packet of slenda and as much CINNAMON as you want! Cinnamon boosts your metabolism and is amazing flavor with little calories. You gotta try!!!0 -
True but most people add WAY more than 1 tablespoon. I know i do. I like it to be a light caramel color.0
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Large double double please!! Im addicted to coffee. And I just cant drink it with milk or skim milk instead of cream..Just cant stand the taste! I try to make it at home instead of going to Tim Hortons but it doesnt help having the place across the street. How much is coffee effecting my weight loss? I drink about 2-4 a day
It's all about what you put in it!! I've been using coffeemate powdered creamer instead of half n half, that along with a 1/2 teaspoon of sugar and sometimes a wee bit of almond extract. It comes out to about 58 calories. I limit myself to 2 cups a day....so this doesn't cut into my calorie allowance over much.0
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