coffee crisis

I drink 1-2 cups daily with cream and honey (cuz I don't do much in the way of processed stuffs) and I love it. I don't care that I'm drinking calories, those are some of my favourite calories of the day! I just make it fit into my allowance and move on

The key to long term success is not to diet, but rather to eat the way you are able to sustain for the rest of your life. Would the quality of your life be reduced without cream and sugar? Would you miss it a lot? If so, fit it into your day.

I personally haven't given up anything - if it's got a lot of calories, I simply eat less of it and less often. Sometimes I go for long periods where I crave chocolate, so I eat a serving of delicious, high quality chocolate chips every night after dinner. Sometimes I don't feel like chocolate so I don't eat any. But if I deprived myself of chocolate, cut it out of my diet, put it on the banned list, I know I would obsess about it, eat a whole chocolate bar in one sitting and then feel bad. So, I don't

There is nothing wrong w/ drinking your coffee however you prefer. But if you want to cut back on calories and whatever else...you could always try cutting back gradually, that is kind of what I have done. At some point in the past I used agave sweetener (which I now think is crap, JMHO) and flavored creamer. Then I switched over to just a bit of 1% milk and a packet of sweetener (various types) which seemed sad at first but in only a couple of weeks I was so accustomed to it, I came to prefer it and couldn't really stomach the strongly flavored non-dairy creamers. After a year of that I switched over to using a splash of unsweetened original almond milk and 1 packet of Stevia (as a more natural sweetening alternative) but I felt it did not sweeten my coffee at all! So after I ran out of Stevia, I just stopped adding sweetener all together. I seriously don't miss it. I still put in a splash of almond milk but I can now drink coffee "black" and a couple of years ago I thought that was disgusting.

http://www.eatright.org/Public/content.aspx?id=6442477202

This article from the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics suggests that coconut oil may not have all the nutritional benefits to live up to its hype. I would check this out and may consider a different alternative for my coffee!

I never liked sugar in my coffee but I would use flavored creamer. I switched to coffee with 1/2 & 1/2 instead so I could cut a few of the calories and carbs (1 g carb per 2 Tbl vs 10 for the creamer I used).

Do whatever you like that also fits in with your calorie and macro goals.

Coconut milk (you can find it in small cartons!) is a fun way to add flavor...

The moral of the story? Life is WAY worse without coffee!