Coffee or Diet Coke ?
Jolenerob
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Help what should I give up first coffee with cream and sugar coffee with nonfat milk and equal or Diet Coke ? I want to give up one and then slowly get rid of the other which would you give up first?
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Coffees can be calorie bombs if you add cream and sugar. If I wasn't able to drink black coffee I would give it up first because I would like to free up those calories. Diet coke is terrible but at least it doesn't have calories. I would advise you to drop the diet coke and learn to love your coffee black.26
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I drink both and don’t think either needs to be given up. Really track and measure how much cream and sugar you’re using for your coffee and see what it’s like. Mine comes out to like 20 calories a cup, which fits in my breakfast calories easily. You might decide to tinker with how you take it depending on your individual tastes.22
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You don't have to punish yourself to lose weight.
If you love coffee or Diet coke, drink them. They're barely any calories.
Just don't drink so much coffee your hands shake so much you can't log the calories on the app.31 -
Help what should I give up first coffee with cream and sugar coffee with nonfat milk and equal or Diet Coke ? I want to give up one and then slowly get rid of the other which would you give up first?
As others have said, you don't have to give them up to lose weight - just fit it into your calories.
If you want to though, you want to reduce them slowly to avoid withdrawal symptoms.3 -
I've drank coffee with cream (no sugar) and Diet Coke throughout my weight loss. No desire or need to give either one of them up. I mean, nothing wrong with it if you want to give them up - but there's no need to.
To answer the original question, if I was choosing one of the three I'd give up coffee with cream and sugar first because it has more calories than the other two and I'd rather eat my calories than drink them.13 -
I would say diet coke..it has less caffeine so if you're trying to give up caffeine it seems like it would be a good way to ease into cutting down. Plus the artificial sweeteners in diet coke, whether or not they're really all that harmful, if you drink them a lot it can start to desensitize you to sweet things. So maybe giving up the soda will help other stuff taste better too25
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Coffee with cream and sugar. Thst way you are cutting back on calories. If you are trying to cut down on caffeine, my suggestion is to take one less serving for two or three days, then cut out another serving until you are down to half a serving every couple days to prevent caffeine withdrawal headaches.Once you realize you are forgetting your drinks then you obviously don't need them anymore.4
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Can see why you would want to cut down / cut out cream and sugar to save calories but why diet coke or coffee with non fat milk?
A virtually zero calorie and a low calorie drink you enjoy seems really odd things to exclude - a punishment for no good reason.
Don't make weight loss harder than it has to be.
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What you should give up first, is the idea that you have to give up anything. Look at your diet as a whole. What makes you feel happy and energetic? What makes it easier to not eat too much? Which habits sets the scene for overeating the rest of the day?16
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Hell would freeze over before I gave up either.
Why do you feel like you need to?
Coffee is a great pre work out10 -
Which is your favourite? Can you give that up first and "reward" yourself with the second option instead? Or would you rather keep your favourite and ditch the other one first?
Personally I'd suggest giving up the coffee, since it is both higher in calories and caffeine than the Diet Coke.
Why do you drink coffee, other than for caffeine? Is it the warmth, taste, break from work to go and make one? You may be fine quitting completely without a replacement, but consider whether it might help to replace it with something else. You could try herbal teas (for warmth and flavour) or refilling your mug with cold water at the times you would usually get a coffee (so you still get a break from your desk)3 -
Depends on your motives. And don't be put off giving up the diet coke just because there are no calories, cutting it out has had longer lasting effects on my ability to lose weight than I would have ever believed possible. Because losing weight is NOT purely a maths game, it's a behavioural shift, and that is harder and slower to do.
I gave up diet coke along with all sweetened and artificially sweetened food for a month. And my taste buds profoundly changed. I can now taste 'Sweet' again. So now for the first time ever in my life, if I fancy something sweet I can eat a pear and feel like I had a treat! Now THAT is a victory! I didn't lose weight, nor did I gain, but I just picked up a valuable weapon in the weight loss battle. Previously, I wouldn't eat strawberries because they tasted sour to me...
I now drink my coffee with no sugar and with coconut milk (only took a few days to adapt, easier than I thought). And never went back to the diet coke, and I was a diet coke fiend! This meant I was drinking less caffeine, none in the afternoon, which then meant my sleep pattern started to sort itself out. Sleeping better meant I was less likely to have days where tiredness turned me into a sugar monster. I used to joke I was immune to caffeine, and just figured I was always active at night because I'm a natural night owl. Who knew...!
Sweeteners also mess with your brain's ability to judge when you've eaten enough. Before cutting out the sweet stuff, I could easily demolish a packet of jaffa cakes in one sitting, now I physically can't, I never thought I would be one of those people, but again, another victory that will help me fight the weight loss dragon. I don't have to use up my willpower wracked in inner turmoil when someone puts out sweet treats.
It might BEGIN with calories, but this journey is so much more nuanced than the calorie counters would have you believe. You might find none of these results occur to you, but you won't know until you give it a go, and you won't die from trying it for say a week, see how you feel. If you miss it too much and are getting no benefits then reintroduce.32 -
I drink Diet Coke...more than coffee...much more...I am a guzzler in fact. My husband always says that it's a good thing I don't drink beer! I could easily give up the coffee, but never my Diet Coke. Just for the record, I do get in my requirement of water each day.2
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You don’t need to give up either but the acidity of coke is super bad for your tooth enamel so I’d go for that ^^’4
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Coffee with cream may have loads of calories, diet coke hardly any. No brainer which to give up if you want to loose weight!4
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why would you give up either? diet coke has no calories. black coffee has minimal calories. there are low cal options for coffee creamers and such. if you dont use a ton, you dont even have to use low cal options. i use a vanilla caramel creamer from the store and its something alike 120 for the amount i use daily. if i gave up coffee, id be bitcher than i already am
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millicentwood wrote: »Coffees can be calorie bombs if you add cream and sugar. If I wasn't able to drink black coffee I would give it up first because I would like to free up those calories. Diet coke is terrible but at least it doesn't have calories. I would advise you to drop the diet coke and learn to love your coffee black.
I agree with this.
If you can't drink your coffee black, learn to like it dark with no sugar.1 -
I'd suggest starting with whichever you like the least.2
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It depends on the reasoning for giving them up. I would personally give up the pop because of the artificial stuff they put in it. I have given up diet pop completely and have substituted it with one v8 energy per day for a bit of caffeine. Not a coffee drinker. Good luck.6
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Another vote for neither. There is nothing wrong with either (although you should track the calories carefully in the cream and sugar if you add them to your coffee) and completely cutting out what you love in the name of health or weight loss or whatever can be difficult to sustain long term.2
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Nothing is wrong with either, but if you just want to give them up for fun, I’d suggest giving up diet coke first. Less caffeine, you can wean yourself off of it and then coffee.
I quit coffee cold turkey last month, from a ridiculously high caffeine intake. The withdrawals are no joke.0 -
If you're ultimate goal is to give up both it doesn't particularly matter which one you start with, you'll end up in the same place either way. It sounds like you're micromanaging details that don't ultimately matter. I'd save my brain power for something that actually helped like how I'm going to manage the headaches and grogginess of caffeine withdrawal. I'm not saying you shouldn't cut them, just that it will be tough.2
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I rarely drink coke (or any soft drinks) anymore. I have at least 2 cups of coffee pre day with light cream/sugar. By my estimates they are less than 100 calories each. I can trade that for some food because I can't give up my coffee!0
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Diet coke1
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Oh, give me a break. Half and half has 20 calories per tablespoon, sugar has 16 calories per teaspoon. Coffee with cream and sugar is not a "calorie bomb" at all and you can budget for it just like you can any other food. You don't have to "learn to like it dark". That's not what CICO is about at all.
Deprive yourself of something you love and you're asking for trouble when you start resenting the deprivation down the road.20 -
How many calories are in the coffee? How much do you enjoy the coffee -- is it worth the tradeoff (other things you could consume with the calories) to you? I love coffee black, more than with stuff in it, so it's easy for me to think the obvious choice is to drink coffee black, but if you really love it as is and don't enjoy it so much black, you have to figure out if the calories are worth it. You also might be able to reduce the calories without reducing your enjoyment.
Diet Coke, eh, I don't see a particular reason to give that up as part of a weightloss plan. It's unlikely to affect weight loss unless you find you want to eat more in general when consuming it (it's never affected me that way), which is something you can figure out by tracking and seeing if you can stay in calories. I don't think there's anything wrong with cutting out diet soda if you want to, but I think sometimes something like that can seem easier than just creating a sensible diet with a calorie deficit and ends up detracting from the changes you need to make to reach your weight loss goal. If you drink a whole lot, try substituting some other beverages, though (water, for example).1 -
I gave up
1 Diet Coke
2 Coffee with two creamers and artificial sweetener
3 Now I drink coffee with 1 Tbsp SF hazelnut creamer
HAPPY!2 -
You can pry my coffee and Coke Zero out of my cold, dead hands.
Well, actually, thanks to coffee, those will be comfortably warm, dead hands. I believe I'll go get another cup of coffee.9 -
hmmmm. none. add whiskey to your coffee.or baileys. irish cream?6
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Oh, give me a break. Half and half has 20 calories per tablespoon, sugar has 16 calories per teaspoon. Coffee with cream and sugar is not a "calorie bomb" at all and you can budget for it just like you can any other food. You don't have to "learn to like it dark". That's not what CICO is about at all.
Deprive yourself of something you love and you're asking for trouble when you start resenting the deprivation down the road.
It always stumps me when someone refers to a particular food as a calorie bomb.
I have an entire avocado several times a week for breakfast. It usually weights in at around 150-175 calories. With toast and coffee with whole milk my typical breakfast is in the 300 calorie range and keeps me going until midday.
What these comments need is context.5
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