I'm addicted and I need help...

fotofreak01
fotofreak01 Posts: 397 Member
edited November 9 in Food and Nutrition
To coffee. With cream and sugar. :) I honestly can give up/cut back on anything but my coffee with cream and sugar. I can use Truvia, if need be but I have yet to find an alternative to my coffee creamer. I typically just use the powder stuff. Any suggestions? TIA! =)
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  • gagnon9691
    gagnon9691 Posts: 75 Member
    I was just wondering how everyone else drinks their coffee as I was making mine this morning. I doubt I will give up on the cream and sugar but I have definitely cut way back on the sugar from where I was a few years ago. I use to put 4 spoons of sugar in and then I cut down to 2 spoons and just this morning I decided to go down to 1, it's not that bad. I don't use much cream so I'm not too worried about cutting back there.

    I guess I don't really have any suggestions besides just taking a little out at a time and getting used to the taste.
  • Azexas
    Azexas Posts: 4,334 Member
    Have you tried weening back slowly? I had to do this. Every week I just put a little less creamer in my coffee until I started drinking it black with 1 sugar. Surprisingly I really started to like the taste of coffee- I just have to remember to let it cool down a bit.
  • dudesears
    dudesears Posts: 8
    I had to go cold turkey. I was drinking way to much, and when I didn't have it I was a cranky old man lol. But if your just looking for a creamer try almond milk or soy creamer!
  • toofatnomore
    toofatnomore Posts: 206 Member
    Many will say as long as it fits in your macros, it's fine. I was addicted to international delight southern butter pecan. Each morning it added 140 calories and 24 carbs and lots of sugar. I stopped cold turkey and now drink it black with 1 stevia... Totally used to it now.
  • mymodernbabylon
    mymodernbabylon Posts: 1,038 Member
    Milk?
  • prattiger65
    prattiger65 Posts: 1,657 Member
    I drink coffee with sugar, real sugar, And half and half. I make it fit in with my calorie goals.
  • blktngldhrt
    blktngldhrt Posts: 1,053 Member
    I'm addicted, too..but just to coffee. It doesn't have to be prepared any particular way as long as it's good coffee. I'm currently drinking it with heavy cream to help with my macros. I have cut it before but always end up drinking it again.

    I would just cut back in other areas in order to meet your goals if that is the one thing you can't cut out. Enjoy your coffee!
  • lemurcat12
    lemurcat12 Posts: 30,886 Member
    How many calories are you calculating for it? If not too much and you really love it, I wouldn't worry. Otherwise, try just reducing gradually, as someone said above. It was pretty easy for me to go from milky coffee to black, but that was years ago.
  • Laurend224
    Laurend224 Posts: 1,748 Member
    I drink my coffee black. Good coffee doesn't need anything extra.
  • ndj1979
    ndj1979 Posts: 29,136 Member
    why is everything an addiction and not just a will power issue…sheesh….
  • neanderthin
    neanderthin Posts: 10,254 Member
    Yes, cream from Tim Hortons has crack in it, apparently......it could be a trend.
  • ndj1979
    ndj1979 Posts: 29,136 Member
    OP - if you did not get your coffee fix …would you pick up a gun and rob the nearest convenience store for money/coffee to fulfill your "caffeine" fix; or would you go rummage through a dumpster for coffee grounds? If not, then you are not addicted and just need to learn self control.
  • LAMCDylan
    LAMCDylan Posts: 1,218 Member
    If you're not after the caffeine try roasted dandelion root tea. It taste a lot like coffee and in fact many ex-coffee drinkers have switched to it. It has no caffeine and the benefit is that is it detoxifying/cleansing.
  • neanderthin
    neanderthin Posts: 10,254 Member
    Laurend224 wrote: »
    I drink my coffee black. Good coffee doesn't need anything extra.
    My cappuccino says otherwise.

  • neanderthin
    neanderthin Posts: 10,254 Member
    edited January 2015
    LAMCDylan wrote: »
    If you're not after the caffeine try roasted dandelion root tea. It taste a lot like coffee and in fact many ex-coffee drinkers have switched to it. It has no caffeine and the benefit is that is it detoxifying/cleansing.
    scram buster we're talking coffee here, not no damn tea.

  • caseym87
    caseym87 Posts: 26 Member
    I use Hood Country Creamer. It's totally unnatural, but it's 15 calories per tablespoon, and it makes coffee really creamy. https://www.hood.com/products/country-creamer/
  • melimomTARDIS
    melimomTARDIS Posts: 1,941 Member
    measure out what you want to use, and make it fit into your day. I like my coffee really milky/creamy so I use either almond milk when I am losing weight (30 cals per cup) or lowfat milk when I am in maintenance (100 cals per cup)
  • goddessofawesome
    goddessofawesome Posts: 563 Member
    edited January 2015
    Laurend224 wrote: »
    I drink my coffee black. Good coffee doesn't need anything extra.

    It's all a matter of taste.

    I don't take sugar in my coffee but I will take a splash of milk. I will only drink black coffee if I am some where and there is no milk and I honestly don't even drink the entire cup because I don't like the way it tastes. Also the milk cools it down a bit for me. I don't like eating or drinking extremely hot things.

  • emdeesea
    emdeesea Posts: 1,823 Member
    I'm not ever going to give up coffee with cream and sugar. That is completely out of the question. I just have one a day (sometimes two) - and I measure out the cream and sugar. I gave up a lot of things but my daily coffee is non-negotiable.
  • Tmdesir
    Tmdesir Posts: 68 Member
    I love my coffee as well. Lately cause I've really been trying to be "better" I've been drinking it black. When I want a treat I will use the sugar free flavored coffee creamers, they're pretty good and I don't need to add anything else with it.
  • quiksylver296
    quiksylver296 Posts: 28,439 Member
    Unsweetened vanilla almond milk, about a quarter cup and one tablespoon of creamer. I use International Delight fat-free, sugar-free Toasted Hazelnut.
  • mtorres024
    mtorres024 Posts: 1
    I agree with Troutsy. I used to put tons of sugar and creamer in my coffee. I just put a little less each week until now I put about 1/2 tsp truvia and about 1 tsp of creamer.
    Troutsy wrote: »
    Have you tried weening back slowly? I had to do this. Every week I just put a little less creamer in my coffee until I started drinking it black with 1 sugar. Surprisingly I really started to like the taste of coffee- I just have to remember to let it cool down a bit.

  • katya_be
    katya_be Posts: 227 Member
    I use full fat milk with some Torani sugar free caramel syrup..
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  • ackman2002
    ackman2002 Posts: 69 Member
    I used to load my coffee up with the usual, sugar, creamers, milk, flavored this or that whatever I could find. Now during the week (at work) I'm drinking black with one splenda. I think I'm going to try to back off to half a splenda in the near future though.
  • raisealittlehell
    raisealittlehell Posts: 341 Member
    edited January 2015
    ndj1979 wrote: »
    OP - if you did not get your coffee fix …would you pick up a gun and rob the nearest convenience store for money/coffee to fulfill your "caffeine" fix; or would you go rummage through a dumpster for coffee grounds? If not, then you are not addicted and just need to learn self control.

    How is addiction measured by the propensity to commit a crime? Addiction is defined as "the state of being enslaved to a habit or practice or to something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming."

    So yes, someone could have a caffeine addiction without it just being a lack of "self control". Without it they can have withdrawal symptoms "headaches, nausea, shakes, etc" as you would if you were addicted to a controlled/illegal substance. Does that mean they are going to go rob a convenience store? No. Just because someone is addicted to drugs doesn't mean that they go a hold up stores or panhandle for money. Do people do that? Absolutely, but not everyone with an addiction is a criminal.

    Perhaps instead of belittling someone and saying its just "self control" look at the actual facts. Caffeine is classified as being addictive just like drugs or alcohol. Someone people can cut it out cold turkey, others need a more gradual process. Everyone struggles with something, and we all have a lack of willpower at times. However, it is not for you or I to judge her or put her down. A little encouragement can go a long way.

    Furthermore I think she was using the word "addiction" in a very loose sense and not clinically speaking.

    OP- try doing one less spoonful then you normally do and see how that goes. If it fits into your calories for the day, and its something you enjoy then I wouldn't worry about it. We all have our vices. :)
  • Kalikel
    Kalikel Posts: 9,603 Member
    Cold turkey means withdrawal. The headaches are very rough and the Advil won't help much. If you can be outside a lot, that seems to help a lot with headaches. Activity does, too, to some extent.

    Tapering down until you're off the caffeine will get you off without the headaches, but it is very difficult for some people to actually kick a habit if they're still doing it habitually. Go figure.

    The choice is yours. Good luck! :)
  • jenn_ed
    jenn_ed Posts: 41 Member
    I always drank my coffee with cream and sugar (especially my Tim Hortons!) and never thought I would be able to drink it any other way. Just recently though I was given a milk frother - it turns my very boring skim milk into something very foamy and creamy. I now add that to my coffee, which I also now drink without sugar because I find the skim milk quite sweet.
  • ndj1979
    ndj1979 Posts: 29,136 Member
    raisealittlehell wrote: »
    ndj1979 wrote: »
    OP - if you did not get your coffee fix …would you pick up a gun and rob the nearest convenience store for money/coffee to fulfill your "caffeine" fix; or would you go rummage through a dumpster for coffee grounds? If not, then you are not addicted and just need to learn self control.

    How is addiction measured by the propensity to commit a crime? Addiction is defined as "the state of being enslaved to a habit or practice or to something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming."

    So yes, someone could have a caffeine addiction without it just being a lack of "self control". Without it they can have withdrawal symptoms "headaches, nausea, shakes, etc" as you would if you were addicted to a controlled/illegal substance. Does that mean they are going to go rob a convenience store? No. Just because someone is addicted to drugs doesn't mean that they go a hold up stores or panhandle for money. Do people do that? Absolutely, but not everyone with an addiction is a criminal.

    Perhaps instead of belittling someone and saying its just "self control" look at the actual facts. Caffeine is classified as being addictive just like drugs or alcohol. Someone people can cut it out cold turkey, others need a more gradual process. Everyone struggles with something, and we all have a lack of willpower at times. However, it is not for you or I to judge her or put her down. A little encouragement can go a long way.

    Furthermore I think she was using the word "addiction" in a very loose sense and not clinically speaking.

    OP- try doing one less spoonful then you normally do and see how that goes. If it fits into your calories for the day, and its something you enjoy then I wouldn't worry about it. We all have our vices. :)

    I am pointing out the fallacy of using the word "addiction" for self control issues...

    last time I checked, people were not checking themselves into rehab centers because they were addicted to caffeine...

    and do I really have to list every action that a potential addict would take to point out the idiocy of saying that one is addicted to coffee...I mean I can start listing them if you really want...I was just using two quick ones...

    OP - have you ever taken 500.00 out of the ATM at 4am in the morning to fulfill your coffee addiction? < is that better?
  • Kalikel
    Kalikel Posts: 9,603 Member
    raisealittlehell wrote: »
    ndj1979 wrote: »
    OP - if you did not get your coffee fix …would you pick up a gun and rob the nearest convenience store for money/coffee to fulfill your "caffeine" fix; or would you go rummage through a dumpster for coffee grounds? If not, then you are not addicted and just need to learn self control.

    How is addiction measured by the propensity to commit a crime?
    It isn't.

    Caffeine is absolutely addictive and will have withdrawal symptoms if you take in a lot on a regular basis and quit cold turkey. Headache is #1. Constipation and the general "I don't feel right without it" are also common.

    It's not as difficult a withdrawal process as the alcoholic or crack addict would go through, but it is unpleasant enough, that's for sure.
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