Coffee????

What a coincidence! Today is my first day of "going black." I have been slowing transitioning away from a huge cup of coffee with a ton of International Delight flavored creamer over to coffee w/ no cream but add 3 packages of sweet-n-low. I was reading recently how the artificial sweeteners still cause you to gain weight, so today is the first day of totally black. I'm sure I'll acquire the taste for it, much like I did for beer when I was younger.

I like my coffee with about 50 calories of Whole Foods Organic Instant hot chocolate - yummy and healthier than a lot of the other coffee mixers.

its one a day, and i am not gonna skip the cream and sugar either....,,lol i dont care, i cut bad food so i can fully enjoy this large tripple cream, with one sugar, and one hazelnut shot, every morning, at tim hortons, ..... and i am loving it.....lol ill skip on chips , cookies, andall that crap easely,,but do not F~~K with my coffee......

I did it, for same reasons, and same general experience. Now I enjoy coffee straight up. If you really like coffee, you'll probably adapt. As others have noted, if you can reduce/use fat free/sugar free, you can still enjoy it however you like it!

Strong and black - that is how I take my coffee.

2 tsp instant decaff coffee per 'mug' (approx 250ml).

I ditched the cream and sugar and now drink my coffee black, but...I do make flavored coffee now...like French Vanilla, Southern Pecan Cream...just no cream and sugar...surprisingly none of the flavored coffees dranken black don't have a huge number of calories. Good luck!

Oooo they sound good where do you get them from? Can you get them in the UK?

You can get flavoured coffe in the UK Douwe Egberts do caramel, hazlenut and vanilla ones that are really good and available in asda/morrisons/tesco etc. Whittards also do them but they aren't as nice..

I tried but I just can't go without my coffee!! I really enjoy having one, sometimes two in the morning. I usually just put a little bit of skim milk and half tsp of sugar. Works for me!

I've been considering ditching my cream (I use the 5% light). The past few weeks I've been putting less in my coffee and adjusting to the flavour so far. I will still use stevia though. Not sure I can drink coffee black. But then, I never thought I'd be doing a lot of things that I've done over the past few months! :happy:

I use splenda and non dairy creamer. It adds about 30 calories and 3 grams of fat (no trans fat). These are numbers I can easily work into my daily calorie goal. Sometimes I use real sugar, which only adds another 32 calories, I can also fit this in my goal. There is no need to give up something I don't have to.

Yes! I love black coffee after having taken up a job working for a major coffee company.

Try adding pure cocoa to it, or try adding extra/virgin coconut oil. The health benefit is great from the oil.

http://www.naturalnews.com/036156_Coconut_oil_superfood_healing.html

I like my coffee black, mostly.

That link is full of poor info.

article quote:
"The liver and gall bladder do not need to digest and emulsify MCFA, resulting in instant energy, increased metabolic rate and subsequently more heat production as well as increased circulation."

MCFAs are absorbed directly into the blood without lipid digestion, however they are then stored in the liver, adipose and muscle cells. There is no "instant energy" nor an increase metabolism - MCFA are just available to the mitochondria more directly without the carnitine transport system and demonstrate an increase in usability over long chain fatty acids. While MCFA do have a better utilization level versus LCFA they are not some super food that "revs up the metabolism". They are an energy (calorie) source.

article quote:
"Coconut oil has many health benefits which are attributed to the presence of lauric acid. When it is present in the body, lauric acid is converted into monolaurin, a compound that is highly toxic to viruses, bacteria, funguses and other microorganisms because of its ability to disrupt their lipid membranes and virtually destroy them.

Monolaurin is effective for treating candida albicans, fungal infections and athlete's foot. It also targets bacterial infections and viruses like measles, influenza, hepatitis C and even HIV. In fact, researchers from the Philippines are studying the effectiveness of lauric acid against HIV/AIDS due to its strong anti-viral properties. Moreover, lauric acid is non-toxic, making it a better alternative to modern drugs that are typically prescribed for viruses as well as fungal and bacterial infections."

Total bull****. To my knowledge, monolaurin has no clinically approved application in HIV/AIDS or viral infections. The makers of one product that has attempted to make such claims have recieves a serious warning letter from the FDA:

http://www.fda.gov/ICECI/EnforcementActions/WarningLetters/2011/ucm283508.htm

It is irresponsible to claim this as an effective treatment to a very serious disease and an "alternative to modern drugs".