Healthy Coffee

One trick to good tasting coffee is to make sure your coffee brewer is clean, The build up of stuff can make a good coffee get bitter. Also, try a flavored coffee. There are lots out there. I like hazelnut, but during the fall season I enjoy the pumpkin spice flavor. I use the little single serving coffee creamer pods. The few calories in them is just something I add in to my daily calories. Don't deprive yourself of everything you really enjoy. You will be less likely to stay on that kind of food plan. Portions can be adjusted, so just figure everything into your plan. Good luck!

I use to use a lot of creamer in my coffee too. I posted a "recipe" for the creamer I use now, which still has creamer in it - but it's nowhere near the sugar I used to drink in my coffee beforehand. I am so used to it this way now, that I cannot drink it with straight creamer now because it doesn't taste good.

http://healthfullygood.com/2013/10/coffee-creamer/

Thanks for this recipe! I will definitely be trying it soon!!!

You're welcome.

I put protein powder, vanilla syrup and almond milk in my coffee.

I would suggest you not to take espresso coffee for the time being. Try to concentrate on black coffee with little amount of milk on it. Though it may taste horrible but it won't help to gain calories or weight. But you can add some flavoring to make it taste better.

My current coffee addiction - a really strong Puerto Rican coffee with a nice healthy splash of chocolate muscle milk. Works out to 66 calories, 2 grams of fat, 7 grams of protein. And it's delicious!

It's not the coffee that's unhealthy--it's what you're putting in it. I drink mine with a splash of 1% milk. I used to use fat free half and half until I realized how much sugar was in it. There's so much junk in flavored creamers (palm oil, corn syrup, etc.) that I'm not sure they're a step in the right direction. Adding some cinnamon to your coffee (or even to the grounds before you brew) is a good natural way to add some flavor to your coffee.

If you have a Keurig, Cafe Escapes makes some flavored coffees. I like a mocha now and then, and they're only 60 calories. I'm pretty sure they make a carmel one, too. Those are about the only flavored coffees I ever drink, but I have colleagues who go nuts of over some of the flavored K-cups. I tried a Chocolate Donut one at work one day after my boss raved about it, and I thought it was pretty gross. But hey, to each their own.

Just swap whole milk for skimmed milk... problem solved.

Better still, drink it black.

When I want to simulate a creamy sweet coffee drink, I use a French vanilla or hazelnut coffee and add stevia and some milk. I sometimes steam the milk to get that whipped kind of mouth feel.

There are some pretty tasty flavored coffees available. Just get one that suits your taste.
If you must have creamer, you could try using fat free half and half - approx. 20cals for 2 tbsp.
ETA: use something like Truvia or Stevia for the sweet. Good luck!

I love my flavored coffee too although I am working on transitioning to less sweet.

My two faves are Green Mountain blueberry coffee with a little almond milk and Timothy's cinnamon pastry coffee with coconut milk.

Every so often, I get a craving for a skinny vanilla latte at Starbucks, but now they are getting to sweet for me...LOL. I found out that they use 4 pumps of vanilla so now I ask for it with 2 pumps...:drinker: :drinker:

I still drink coffee as well. I use Stevia, but I used the vanilla kind that comes in the packets like sweet-n-low. It is really good. I might also add a bit of half-and-half to it if we are eating out!