How many calories do you leave a day for drinks?
magicpickles
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I use a lot of milk for tea/coffee and it annoys me. Why must milk have calories :-(
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How many calories do you leave a day for drinks?
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I don't drink my calories.
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magicpickles wrote: »
I drink quite a lot of caffeine ... coffee, tea, Coke Zero ...1 -
magicpickles wrote: »
I drink quite a lot of caffeine ... coffee, tea, Coke Zero ...
I love soda and would drink it constantly if it didn't have dangerous chemicals in it. I still drink too much though.0 -
Just for milk. I drink two shot glasses a day. I favour calorie free drinks like diet soda, sparkling spring water and still water.0
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I drink water, black coffee, which I log since it does have calories, and very diluted crystal light. I save my drink calories for an occasional mixed drink.1
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I also prefer not to drink my calories. Its WAY too much of a pain to keep track of that along with tallying food in my head.
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A couple hundred if I decide to go to Starbucks (skinny Double Chocolatey Chip frappucino), which is a handful of times a year. Otherwise, I just drink water and diet soda.0
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Usually none. Sometimes I want cocoa and will use milk, or I'll have protein in the form of a shake, but for the most part, I like to drink just tea and water. Calories are indeed a part of the reason, but the biggest reason is preference. I started drinking just tea and water for the most part when I was around 16 years old at the advice of my pediatrician, and I've come to prefer this.0
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Usually none, although I've occasionally tried some drinks with calories and I have a smoothie in the morning.
Mostly I drink water, coffee (black), and LaCroix. Sometimes tea (also black), occasionally Diet Coke or diet ginger ale.0 -
magicpickles wrote: »
I drink quite a lot of caffeine ... coffee, tea, Coke Zero ...
BTW, I do know that everything but water has a few calories, but 2 or 3 calories per cup is practically nothing and not worth logging for me.
So I drink 3 or 4 cups of black coffee, 3 or 4 cups of water, 2 or 3 cups of tea (black, lemon-ginger, rooibos), and maybe in the neighbourhood of 4 cups of diet coke or coke zero.
There's maybe 20 or 25 calories in all of that which I can't be bothered logging.1 -
I drink 0 calories with the exception of about 6 ounces of milk two or three times a week. I use unsweetened Silk and sugar free coffee/fat free coffee creamers (2 tbls a day).
I love milk,, I think milk "does a body good", oh a chocolate milk, is yummy... But when dieting the calories I eat are more important than the ones I drink.
Just plan these calories.0 -
None, I drink black coffee and diet soda, which, incidentally, has no dangerous chemicals in it.7
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I typically drink up to 8 coffee's with milk and sugar a day. I pre log those in the morning since I usually have them same times every day. This way I know I will have calories for them.
Some days I may skip a coffee because I'm too busy and will have some bonus calories at end of the day. Unless I'm really hungry, I usually leave them as deficit bonus.1 -
I drink, water, coffee, and coke zero and 8 oz. of skim milk.0
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Usually 0 too.0
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330/440 as milk is one of my great friends and key protein sources.
Apart from that it's all diet soda.1 -
I drink anything from 2 to 10 cups of tea a day. I rarely just drink water, I'm not a huge fan. Just when I workout.0
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40 calories worth of half and half or milk, 30 calories for sugar. That's it. Often I try to only go with 15 calories from almond milk and my flavor drops to cut out sugar calories.0
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I drink over 500 calories a day in beverages, and I log them all; two teas, a French Vanilla, chocolate milk, and on the weekends VODKA! All but the vodka are daily, and included in my goal. If I know I'm going to consume more than usual, I make a point of doing some extra cardio the day of, or just go with it.....I've lost 80 lbs doing this, and haven't felt deprived yet..lol!3
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arditarose wrote: »40 calories worth of half and half or milk, 30 calories for sugar. That's it. Often I try to only go with 15 calories from almond milk and my flavor drops to cut out sugar calories.
I was going to use a milk alternative but it cost four as much and the container said it had to be used up in 3 days. Yikes!0 -
JustMissTracy wrote: »I drink over 500 calories a day in beverages, and I log them all; two teas, a French Vanilla, chocolate milk, and on the weekends VODKA! All but the vodka are daily, and included in my goal. If I know I'm going to consume more than usual, I make a point of doing some extra cardio the day of, or just go with it.....I've lost 80 lbs doing this, and haven't felt deprived yet..lol!
Dang! That's cool though. You don't feel hungry?2 -
Nope! But of course, I eat all day too..lol!! I'm in maintenance now, my calorie goal is 1560, so there's loads of room for them, and I do workout most days, so basically "earning" them..lol!0
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magicpickles wrote: »arditarose wrote: »40 calories worth of half and half or milk, 30 calories for sugar. That's it. Often I try to only go with 15 calories from almond milk and my flavor drops to cut out sugar calories.
I was going to use a milk alternative but it cost four as much and the container said it had to be used up in 3 days. Yikes!
What milk alternative?
When I first started this process I was using as much half and half as I wanted and 3 packets of sugar in a coffee. I just made the decision to cut it down to two packs, and measure two tablespoons of half and half. The first week sucked, but now I take my coffee this way and it feels like a sweet treat to me. I'll actually have a coffee with sugar if I am craving something sweet because it's an 70-80 calorie hit rather than 300 calories from candy.0 -
JustMissTracy wrote: »Nope! But of course, I eat all day too..lol!! I'm in maintenance now, my calorie goal is 1560, so there's loads of room for them, and I do workout most days, so basically "earning" them..lol!
Hmm...so 1000 calories from food? I wish I could get full on that. I eat around 1500 on the weekdays too and hate it.1 -
magicpickles wrote: »magicpickles wrote: »
I drink quite a lot of caffeine ... coffee, tea, Coke Zero ...
I love soda and would drink it constantly if it didn't have dangerous chemicals in it. I still drink too much though.
What dangerous chemicals are you referring to?6 -
No, I eat more than that, my diary is open if you'd like to see
(I eat most of my exercise calories back, almost every day) 0 -
arditarose wrote: »magicpickles wrote: »arditarose wrote: »40 calories worth of half and half or milk, 30 calories for sugar. That's it. Often I try to only go with 15 calories from almond milk and my flavor drops to cut out sugar calories.
I was going to use a milk alternative but it cost four as much and the container said it had to be used up in 3 days. Yikes!
What milk alternative?
When I first started this process I was using as much half and half as I wanted and 3 packets of sugar in a coffee. I just made the decision to cut it down to two packs, and measure two tablespoons of half and half. The first week sucked, but now I take my coffee this way and it feels like a sweet treat to me. I'll actually have a coffee with sugar if I am craving something sweet because it's an 70-80 calorie hit rather than 300 calories from candy.
Might have been coconut milk? I didn't like the taste. I might have had rice milk as well??? It costs heaps more because I'm in New Zealand.
I love sweetened tea so used stevia but I started getting lots of headaches. I stopped using it and now I can taste the sweetness in the milk lol.0 -
singingflutelady wrote: »magicpickles wrote: »magicpickles wrote: »
I drink quite a lot of caffeine ... coffee, tea, Coke Zero ...
I love soda and would drink it constantly if it didn't have dangerous chemicals in it. I still drink too much though.
What dangerous chemicals are you referring to?singingflutelady wrote: »magicpickles wrote: »magicpickles wrote: »
I drink quite a lot of caffeine ... coffee, tea, Coke Zero ...
I love soda and would drink it constantly if it didn't have dangerous chemicals in it. I still drink too much though.
What dangerous chemicals are you referring to?
I don't know, whatever causes tooth decay, cancer etc? Is it the artificial sugars? Someone else probably knows.0 -
Diet soda doesn't cause cancer.8
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