No More Starbucks???

FYI, the sugar in the skinny lattes are from the milk, not any added sugar.

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No way! I regularly enjoy Starbucks. I get the Sugar-Free Hazelnut Soy Latte. It's sooooo good :-) Plus it's only 140 calories There are ways to get great stuff at Starbucks that won't kill your calorie deficit or put you over on your sugar intake.

Not trying to be a downer, but this girl I work with started drinking a frappe-whatever every day, and gained 20 pounds in 6 months! She;s still drinking them, too. Just make sure you account for the calories!

I'm not understanding the topic? 'No Starbucks' does not make sense to me :drinker:

My white mochas are 350 cals and alot of sugars. So far, I lost 40 lbs without giving them up. You will have to pry them from my cold dead hands......Not gonna do it!!

I too an in confusion as to the beaming of that phrase.....LOL?
I ignore MFP sugar limit. I changed my sugar setting to sodium.
I have Startbucks 2-3 times a month. Never the 'skinny' (art sweetener headaches). I lost my weight.

All the high calorie Starbucks drinks are great tasting........but high calorie is followed by high fat reserves.

I continue to drink Starbucks coffee to this day.......just coffee......not all the additives that spike the calorie content.

Doesn't anybody drink coffee....just for the taste of the coffee? Do lots of people drink fancy coffee drinks so that they can spike their calorie intake? Unfortunately, calories usually taste really good, so we eat them.

I will get a cafe mocha maybe twice a year now. Funny. It doesn't taste as good as it used too.

Same thing happened with fast food. Quite eating it (for the most part), now it doesn't taste as good as it used to.

Same thing happened with cigarettes. Quite smoking them. Now they taste and smell terrible.

Pattern here.....addictive things (high calories (fat, sugar), high nicotine) taste good when your addicted. After addiction, no so much.

I guess.....if I quit drinking coffee (caffeine is addictive), it won't taste good after several years ....shudder.

Calories aren't the devil though, and if you enjoy coffee with extras then why not?

And just because something taste good to me doesn't mean I am addicted to it....now, if coming off of it for a long enough period changes the taste maybe it was an addiction. I dunno.

Hit your calorie goals and manage your macros...don't micro manage your micros unless you have some compelling reason to do so...i.e. medical issue, allergy, etc....even then, when you manage your macros (carbs/protein/fat) and try to get a balance macro ratio, things just tend to workout fine.

^^this.

why are you watching sugar? did your doctor tell you to? if not, just re-read what this person already wrote.

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I completely eliminated the sugar option from my food diary and replaced it with fiber (sometimes I go between fiber and iron). It stresses me out too much to have the number go negative and I don't have a medical illness that requires me to watch my sugar like my dad does (he's a type one diabetic and I'm not even pre-diabetic, I've gotten checked twice per year ever since I was a toddler).

I'm also really, really glad I never got into the Starbucks thing or I'd be having terrible cravings right about now! (Because this is the internet, I feel I need to add the disclaimer: I'm not dissing anyone with a Starbucks "thing" by expressing my joy at never getting into their drinks, mmkay?)

Oh please... if I couldn't have Starbucks I don't think I'd get thru the week. LOL I have a grande light frap mid week and then whichever drink I want on Sunday (my day off). It's a great part of my motivation to stay on track the entire week.

Meh. I was a hardcore Starbucks patron to the point where I had the whole staff "trained" on my drink. For years. Before that, it was the local coffee house that did it, before Starbucks' arrival in town killed them off.

When I turned 40, my body changed, Via trial and error - some seriously uncomfortable errors, too - I discovered that it wasn't the mocha mix causing my stomach to go haywire (they use the same syrup for hot cocoas and no problems), it was the process by which their beans are decaffeinated. I can drink decaf anywhere else, just not there.

Besides, I was just burned out on it, just as I was burned out on sodas. I quit both in the last couple of years without looking back.

I would say to the OP to follow the "everything in moderation" practice - an occasional treat is fine, but every day is ok depending on what you eat and do during the rest of the day. Guzzling fraps twice a day probably isn't going to help the weight loss journey much; skinny lattes is a whole 'nother story.

Now, for me, if regular black iced unsweetened tea becomes a problem, I'm up a creek. It's my 'can't stand straight water 15 times a day' drink.