How do you take your coffee?

cinnag4225 · October 2016

I found weening was the easiest approach for coffee. I used to be a 20oz triple-triple drinker, but I gradually cut back to get used to a less sweet/creamy coffee. I now drink 12oz with 2 cream/1 sugar which works out to about 140 calories, so roughly the same as a can of pop, just without the crazy sugar cravings afterward. I have one maybe 2-3 times a week now.

divcara · October 2016

Black iced coffee. I think it's become an acquired taste. I used to take my coffee with skim milk and "extra sugar." Now I do plain black iced coffee and I actually really like it.

_dixiana_ · October 2016

Used to load it up with lots of flavored creamer and splenda. I.e. I liked a little coffee with my creamer and sweetener.

Last year I started mixing it with chocolate whey protein powder and a splash of almond milk (blended well in my nutribullet), which doubled as my breakfast. Someone told me to stop drinking my protein powder for breakfast, to save it for after workouts, so I did.

Now I take it with 2 TBS of the Silk Almondmilk creamer in either Hazelnut or Caramel and one Splenda. It's only 30 cals for one cup this way, which I try to stick to per day. But some days I need 2

_dixiana_ · October 2016

keakels wrote: »

I like all that stuff, too, but don't use anything processed any more. I love my new coffee, more - I use coconut milk (sweetened,) a dash of stevia, and I make this (this is a basic recipe that I tweak - also use the smoothie blender to mix it in with the coffee:) http://modernhippiehousewife.com/2015/11/08/coconut-oil-coffee-creamer/

Thank you for this. I think I'm gonna try and make a "chai" flavored creamer from this recipe.

KarenClineTardiff · October 2016

I love my coffee sweet and light, too. But it became more of a dessert drink than coffee! Try substituting vanilla almond milk for your creamer. And def just back down on the sugar. Even if you do it just one packet less per week. Give yourself some time to make adjustments then your tastebuds will adjust.

vingogly · October 2016

Half and half, and sweetened with stevia. That's how I like my English Breakfast tea, too. I've been drinking coffee for about 50 years, and have never liked it black. As someone above said, you have to decide where to spend your calories. Cream in my coffee is not something I'm going to compromise on.

jo_nz · October 2016

No sugar, just a splash of lite milk. I used to take sugar in my tea and my coffee, but I have dropped that. The milk is staying though.

Calibrate · October 2016

I use Cashew Milk. It's pretty creamy and only 25 calories per cup.

MARILYNENA · October 2016

I usually take my 10-16 ounce cups of coffee with an ounce of 2 % milk or 2 tbs of flavored creamer and a 2 packets of stevia. Each cup is about 15-30 calories this way.

powercycle · October 2016

With sugar or plain black. I've never liked coffee with dairy.

Asher_Ethan · October 2016

I like my coffee how I like my men; Strong and Irish.

robot_potato · October 2016

3-4 shots espresso in 3/4-1 cup of steamed whole milk. Sweet and fluffy with a bitter edge. I have 1-2 a day and i don't mind spending my calories there.

kalina1711 · October 2016

I always drink only black coffe but sometimes I really miss my mochiatto.

BLifts38 · October 2016

1/4 c unsweetened vanilla almond milk, 2 packets of low cal sweetener, and cinnamon.

Machka9 · October 2016

Black, black, black.
Black as night.

I've been drinking it that way since I was in my late teens.

The only time I add a sweetener of some sort (sugar or other), is if the coffee is really bad. Think US hotel "complimentary breakfast" coffee. <<shudder>>

Or if I'm not feeling well and just need something to tone the coffee down a bit. Although usually in those cases, I switch to tea.