Milky coffee

susanalsaword wrote: »

I cannot loss weight because I have 2 milky coffees a day, with 1 sugar and 3 sweeteners and milk in a mug size cup

Exactly how many calories is that? I have no problem fitting several coffees with milk and sugar into my daily calorie budget.

I consider the milk in my coffee to be reasonably nutrient-dense, very much worth its calories when I'm losing weight. No one moderate-calorie choice - which is what I'd consider a couple of coffees with milk and reasonable sugar to be - is going to doom weight management. If it's the easiest thing for you to cut out of your total diet, that's a choice you can make. If something else is easier to cut out, cut out the something else.

This is just a puzzle to be solved: Getting yourself to the right calorie level, and getting good overall nutrition from the totality of what you eat, while eating foods you personally find tasty and practical. Reduce or eliminate things that don't seem worth their calories to you, for their nutritional or tastiness value to you.

I'm curious, what made you think that your coffee was the main reason you aren't losing weight?

I love my half and half. In my coffee and tea. I was drinking WAY to much of it but decided that I want it in my evening tea since I gave up alcohol last year and replaced it with tea which I enjoy very much. Sooooo half and half in my coffee is gone and now a drop of 1% milk. It’s choices that are sustainable.

I love my milky coffee and drank it the whole
time I lost weight, at a low weight, and at a high weight. It’s a lifestyle decision I’m not going to change, those 300 calories are just going to go to that milk and sugar in my two cups of milky coffee each day. No regrets. You just have to make a decision on what’s worth the calories to you. I think of my calories like the money in the bank, I can save some for another day, spend just the amount I need, or overspend and cut back another day. If I overspend all the time I’m in debt which means I’ve gained weight.

I did switch to black coffee to have less dairy in my diet and also cut calories. For about a week ir so it tasted bitter. Then as time went by...delicious. Now I do not like the taste of coffee with milk or cream. I would suggest you try medium roast coffee, not dark roast and give it some time.

I love my lattes. I have swapped to unsweetened almond or coconut milk (30-60 cal per cup), a splash of vanilla, and sugar free syrup. For me, I don’t mind trying to find better options so I can still have them.

Silk makes an excellent plain almond-cashew milk that is 25 calories per cup. It’s very good in coffee.

Having said that, though, I changed over to fat-free half and half. Lidl’s is 20 calories per serving, most other brands are 20-25.

I use Skinny Syrups in my coffees and chai. There’s dozens of flavors. I tend to like chocolate ones in coffee. Right now I’m on a chocolate waffle cone coffee kick. I like SS much better than the Torani syrups. They taste bad to me.

I can make a great milky sweet chai with oodles of froth for 37 calories and a nice coffee for about 22. And my mug holds two cups.

If you like froth, check out Ninja’s hand pump frother. 1/8c skim milk pumped and heated in the microwave makes about 3/4 cup of long lasting foam. (I swear I’m not a shill for Ninja! I’ve just found several of their products to be so helpful during loss and maintenance!)

I've lost 70 pounds and I take my coffee Triple cream no sugar.