Starbucks is my downfall
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RespectTheKitty
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Seriously, I am like, addicted to Starbucks. I have to have a latte in the morning. I log it as part of my breakfast, and the milk in it does help keep me feeling full until lunch (I also have a Luna bar with it), and the caffeine helps me get through my workout. I go nonfat, which helps knock out a few calories. My morning grande nonfat latte is 130 calories, which isn't terrible I guess to fit into my current goal of 1700 calories/day.
I also love their hot chocolate... but a tall hot chocolate, even with nonfat milk, is 250 calories! Oh, the agony...
When I absolutely cannot afford any calories but still want a Starbucks fix, I'll get unsweetened iced tea.
Anyone else a Starbucks nut? What are your favorite low-cal drinks?
I also love their hot chocolate... but a tall hot chocolate, even with nonfat milk, is 250 calories! Oh, the agony...
When I absolutely cannot afford any calories but still want a Starbucks fix, I'll get unsweetened iced tea.
Anyone else a Starbucks nut? What are your favorite low-cal drinks?
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I enjoy a Starbucks drink.
No drama though.0 -
I don't go to starbucks often, but when I do I get the chai tea latte with coconut milk. Not sure if low calorie. Probably not very much.0
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It doesn't appeal to me at all other than an occasional cappuccino if I haven't been somewhere else I could get one.
I see a lot of people carrying Starbucks around more as a lifestyle and social status thing cuz seriously you can make most of it at home much cheaper. I know people who don't even like or drink coffee go there and get things just so they can join in a conversation about what they order at Starbucks (and then don't drink lol).0 -
You don't have to cut out things you love!
If you love it, and you are being smart about it, why stop it?
If you feel it's too many calories, can you push yourself to move more to burn it off? If you can fit it into your calories for the day, I don't see the problem.
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You don't have to cut out things you love!
If you love it, and you are being smart about it, why stop it?
If you feel it's too many calories, can you push yourself to move more to burn it off? If you can fit it into your calories for the day, I don't see the problem.
Very true! Right now it fits okay into my overall eating plan of 1700 calories. I just worry that, as I lose weight and my calorie needs go down, I will eventually not have room for it. I guess I'll cross that bridge when I come to it.0 -
I don't think 130 calorie latte and 180 calorie Luna bar counts as a "downfall." Don't beat yourself up over a harmless - maybe even healthy - breakfast routine. As a 4th generation Seattlite, I naturally have a coffee habit and consider it part of a nutritious breakfast. :P I mainly drink black coffee, and I have a cup every morning and every afternoon around 3 or 4. I love a double tall soy latte before the gym (or any major physical activity), but can't always afford it. Also, they have a frappuccino I love after a long hike - it involves soy milk, coffee, an extra shot, and no whip cream. The double tall soy has only 130 calories, and the frappuccino only 170.0
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Too dang expensive. Took my daughter there and I got a large coffee, she got a small vanilla frappucchino and we got my son a small hot chocolate. Three drinks came to 15 bucks! I realized right then why I never go to Starbucks.0
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RespectTheKitty wrote: »You don't have to cut out things you love!
If you love it, and you are being smart about it, why stop it?
If you feel it's too many calories, can you push yourself to move more to burn it off? If you can fit it into your calories for the day, I don't see the problem.
Very true! Right now it fits okay into my overall eating plan of 1700 calories. I just worry that, as I lose weight and my calorie needs go down, I will eventually not have room for it. I guess I'll cross that bridge when I come to it.
Yep, worry about the today's weight loss. You may find time to do more workouts to still create the deficit you need later.
I love my latte's. I take a smaller size with skim milk now compared to before. Sometimes you have to do what you have to do. lol
I don't eat chips or pop anymore. I don't eat chocolate bars anymore. I don't drink my calories other than one coffee type in the mornings. The rest of the day is water now.
You pick and choose what is right for you and what you want to change.
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Tall Skinny Mocha...110 calories.0
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Whenever I hear the cals in some of those coffee drinks, I'm really glad I hate coffee haha! That said, I do love hot chocolate and hot tea. I don't get starbucks hot chocolate because it's bitter to me but I usually get a peach tranquility hot tea, no milk/no sugar because it just doesn't need it.
I have tricked my brain into thinking I like the desserts and pastries starbucks offers because they're so pretty and look good but then when I actually taste them, they aren't that great and definitely not worth the cals. While I always leave room for dessert or whatever I want daily, I have learned not to eat something I don't really enjoy and that made a lot of difference.0 -
I am a sucker for a cup of coffee and I do love Starbucks, but I just can't afford it so I make my coffees at home. Strong brew with 4tbsp of half and half for 80 calories. Maybe round to 90 to include any error in measuring and to account for the minimal coffee calories.
I always have Starbucks when I have a babysitting gig after my normal work day. A small skinny latte and a spinach feta wrap and I'm all energized up for another round of kid wrangling
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I rarely visit Starbucks. The closest is about 90 min. drive away, but I live in a rural area and am in an area with a Starbucks almost weekly. If I get something at Starbucks, it will be Beast Mode Frappucino with no caramel and no whipped cream.0
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Love my Starbucks...but I only get a black coffee and add my own Stevia to it now. Boring but it sure is a far cry from what I use to order from there going through university. Cappuccinos, frappes, lattes...never 'just' black coffee! Plus one of the baked items to go with it. No wonder I weighed a lot back then!0
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I just get a black coffee and pick up some food if I want something. I've been meaning to try their cookie dough cake pop.0
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I almost never go to Starbucks. Too expensive and I'd rather eat solid food than drink my calories.0
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I liked the sugary drinks at first, but then I started drinking coffee every day.
Now I want that pure coffee taste, the milkshakes just taste like ice cream now, so I go for an Americano or a shot of espresso. I usually stir a packet of sugar and a teaspoon of cream into it but that's way less than their pre-made drinks have.0 -
I just do a Grande brewed coffee with sugar free caramel syrup from Starbucks. I think it's like 5 calories for the coffee? The syrup has 0 cals.
It's really good iced too.0 -
My regular order that I get about once a week is a grande skinny vanilla or skinny cinnamon dolce. On long run days, I sometimes get a treat drink like the new smoked butterscotch. Even with non-fat milk, a grande is almost 300 calories! But it is delicious.0
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Not saying I wouldn't rather have a Caramel Frappuchino with extra caramel sauce, but yikes... the calories.0
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