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    Can I Have Coffee?

    Posts: 40 Member
    edited February 19 in Food and Nutrition
    I've cut coffees and sweets and stuff like that out of my diet. But I have a huge craving for an iced coffee. I wanted to know if its 'bad' or considered a 'cheat food' for a small iced coffee with skim milk.

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    • Posts: 165 Member
      It's fine. Just log the calories and enjoy it.
    • Posts: 1,173 Member
      Yes, I insist!
    • Posts: 1,267 Member
      Have all the coffee you want. Just remember, calories in vs. calories out. As long as you work it off, you'll be fine. Starbucks lists all calories for every drink so don't be afraid, just log it and enjoy!
    • Posts: 125 Member
      Coffee is actually pretty good for you. I don't see how one small iced coffee is much of a problem. I can't imagine it would blow your calories for the whole day, so have one and enjoy it! :)
    • Posts: 350 Member
      Coffee is fine, just watch the crap you put in it.... although you can really have ANYTHING you want... just remember.. caloric deficit.
    • Posts: 13,274 Member
      May you?


      Yes, you may.
    • Posts: 11,068 Member
      I would suggest you evaluate why you are eliminating foods you enjoy out of your diet.

      You can have an iced coffee if you can manage to fit it into your calorie and macronutrient goals.
    • Posts: 427 Member
      If it fits in my calories for the day, I eat it.
    • Posts: 3,927 Member
      whoever told you that you couldn't have coffee? you need to high five them. in the face. with a brick.

      I can understand cutting out the fru-fru coffees that have all the add-ons. but if I went without coffee? the world would be a dark, bloody place filled with sobbing and screams.
    • Posts: 50 Member
      Coffee is fine. Lets face it, if you make it strong enough you'll have no problem burning it off
    • Posts: 912 Member
      I drink coffee every morning.
    • Posts: 1,053 Member
      IMO, coffee in any form is required daily. Just log your calories and enjoy.
    • Posts: 6,800 Member
      I would suggest you evaluate why you are eliminating foods you enjoy out of your diet.

      You can have an iced coffee if you can manage to fit it into your calorie and macronutrient goals.
      I've missed you, you handsome man :flowerforyou:
    • Posts: 71 Member
      May you?


      Yes, you may.

      This is what I was thinking. Of course you CAN, unless something is physically preventing you from going to the shop.

      Honestly though, people are seriously disordered in the way they look at food (and this is coming from someone who's struggled with an eating disorder for over a decade..) Of course you can have a coffee if you want, why the hell not? Coffee is quite good for you!! Just don't add ten teaspoons of sugar with a cup of fatty cream haha
    • Posts: 71 Member
      I've cut coffees and sweets and stuff like that out of my diet. But I have a huge craving for an iced coffee. I wanted to know if its 'bad' or considered a 'cheat food' for a small iced coffee with skim milk.

      And in regards to whether it's BAD or a CHEAT FOOD, I'm fairly sure that only YOU can decide what constitutes a cheat food.. well, drink, unless you're munching on the grinds :P

      If you like coffee drink it. If not, drink it anyway. It has antioxidants and **** in it. Good stuff
    • Posts: 201 Member
      hahahaha Someone just try and take my morning coffee away from me!

      With that said I no longer put sugar in my coffee. Just a bit of lowfat milk, often whipped up so its nice and frothy. I used to drink my coffee with lots of cream and sugar, but it was a ton of calories and now I only do that on occasion.
    • Posts: 64 Member
      Coffee is fine and I've read a few studies about the benefits of caffeine on your metabolism. Just be careful with the sugar and creamer, those are my weaknesses.
    • Posts: 30
      Every morning I have my iced coffee and log it. I make it from scratch....full cup of ice, coffee and I measures 1/4 cup of French Vanilla non fat creamer. The first 3 or 4 sips make my day...it also doesn't set me into crazy sweets mode. Make it yourself, log it and enjoy it!
    • Posts: 137 Member
      I drink coffee every day (Fridays are my Starbucks day....iced coffee unsweetened with Skim milk and an add shot of espresso), just watch the sugar and things you add to it but really some coffee with skim milk there is nothing wrong with. Just log it and enjoy :flowerforyou:
    • Posts: 3,046 Member
      I loooooveee coffee
    • Posts: 9,487 Member
      What do you think will happen if you have coffee???!!

      Drink up. I have coffee daily. Had a very yummy skinny caramel machiatto from Starbucks this morning.
    • Posts: 106 Member
      IMO, coffee in any form is required daily. Just log your calories and enjoy.

      Absolutely !!! 2-3 cups/day for me. Every day, forever.

      Water when I'm not drinking coffee.
    • Posts: 40 Member
      Thank you all! I had my coffee and enjoyed it very much! You're all right. If I want it and it fits in my calorie log for the day, then I should enjoy it. :)
    • Posts: 2,833 Member
      No, you can't, so there is more for me. I drink at least 4 cups a day.
    • Posts: 1,268 Member
      I love coffee and don't know what I would do without it. Yes, have a coffee.. make your own. its cheaper. in fact now I want one too. I have three a day
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