Coffee! :(

this is probably awful advice, but what i have done is allow a tablespoon of fat free creamer in the am with no sugar (i never drank my coffee with sugar anyways so no biggie)..then the rest of the day I DRINK IT BLACK! There, I said it!! BLACK with NOTHING IN IT!!! I'm going to learn to love it that way, just as I learned to love diet sodas in place of sugary ones. Its all about training your taste buds...it sucked at first, but its getting better. Try sucking it up, its better than blowing your diet. Remember I said it was awful advice???? lol...too hard core for ya?:noway:

Truvia sweetener and sugar free favored cremer or fat free creamer but try to measure it..

I don't understand coffeemate. They make organic vanilla 1/2 and 1/2 which would probably be more satisfying. Idk...drinking something so fake and full of sugar just seems wrong. Wrong like singing the American national anthem in a Canadian accent.

I love creamy coffee so put plenty of milk in it and sweetner. If i want a treat i put pouring cream in it instead of milk.

And if i really really really want a treat then i will buy a flavoured, creamed, very unhealthy latte from Costa

Then again the creamer I used was 240 calories of crap so black coffee it is.

*blinks* say what? If you're using THAT much creamer, I would suggest switching to coffee milk. You just buy a coffee syrup and make it like hot chocolate. You will get less fat, and more protein for the same or less calories. Just an idea.

Yeah, my girlfriend makes my coffee. She was trying to give me a healthy alternative to Starbucks, which this is. The 240 comes from 4 cups of coffee (well two of my mugs which = 4 actual cups). Each with 1 tablespoon of Nestle CoffeeMate Peppermint Mocha Creamer which is 60 calories per tablespoon. Then again, what people think a tablespoon is versus what they are really using varies. This is another great example of , I don't need to log this there can't be much in it. Then you scan the bar code and go OMG! Really!

She wonders why I stopped drinking coffee.

I love coffee too. I used to use the flavored creamers, but I don't anymore. I like 2% milk with my coffee, and I usually mix half milk with half coffee to get it to taste good. I still don't drink as many a day as I used to though. After about two cups of that, it's probably time to stop.

I also found a green tea that I really like. I drink it hot and unsweetened. It gives me some of the effects of coffee (heat and caffeine) but it doesn't get my stomach up in knots the same way. It also doesn't have the calories if you don't put anything in it.

When I go to Starbucks, I get the Cafe Misto, which has significantly less calories than your frou frou drinks. It is simply coffee and milk. There are no sugars or sweeteners. The first sip is bitter, but by the third sip or so, I find that the milk is creamy and it is wonderful.

I also like to get Passion Tea, unsweetened. It is a red drink that kind of tastes fruity and flowery. It is perfect on it's own without any stuff added to it.

Good morning everyone! I can fully admit that for the past 3 years I have drank so many unnecessary (and unwanted!) calories in my delicious/terribly fattening coffee. No I can't just do moderation- Drinking at least 6 cups of coffee a day loaded with vanilla creamer and sugar! Now that I am back on the wagon, I'm seriously finding this the hardest to deal with. Any former/current coffee enthusiasts have any advice? Now Ive moved on to cutting alot of the adders and well, its just disgusting. I want to be dramatic and say its ruining my life.

I bit the bullet and started drinking black coffee. Now, I love it!

Don't hate the coffee, hate the cream and sugar. :flowerforyou:

I've been mixing coffee with chocolate milk lately. No cream or sugar needed.

Please don't blame coffee for the issues you're having with creamers, syrups, and sugar. Coffee is a good friend of mine and doesn't deserve this kind of attack

If I get starbux I always get nonfat milk, cuts alot of calories....at home 16oz coffee plus 4tsp sugar and one tbs of vanilla creamer only 95 cals and taste great (I cant stand artifical sweeteners!) soI generally have that and some oatmeal etc for breakfast, I just make sure I measure it and log it

I have to have real sugar in my coffee too!! Artifical I just can't get used to! I tried!!!

Don't hate the coffee, hate the cream and sugar. :flowerforyou:

I've been mixing coffee with chocolate milk lately. No cream or sugar needed.

Hmmmmmmm, might have to try that! Thanks!!:bigsmile:

I buy flavored coffee now. I used to be a big creamer addict too - and I am now a coffee / 1 pk of Truvia kinda gal. I NEVER would have thought I could do it.

i too love the coffee..with the coffe- mate vanilla creamer. i used to just dump it in until it turned the color i wanted but now i measure 3 tbsp per my mug! it was only a slight adjustment in taste and like you not willing to give it up! i gave up doritos and icecream...but not the coffee! it has worked for me so far by working in those calories to my 6 meals. so instead of a huge breakfast i'll have my 2 mugs of coffee (6 creamers) and a special k bar. holds me over until i can snack!

Yep, I used to do the same thing, just dump it in until it was the "correct" color! Then I started measuring it & realized that I was using 8 TABLESPOONS of flavored creamer per cup! I justified it by saying that I didn't add sugar & used flavored creamer instead.

I started using less & less per cup. I cut out one Tablespoon a week so it wasn't such a shock to my taste-buds. Now I'm down to 2.5 tablespoons per cup. Happy with that!

Try adding skim milk to it

I too love my coffee, the first cup i have with 2 tsp of creamer, (coffeemate) and maybe like 2 tsp of sugar. I drink around 5 cups a day but i never add the additions to my coffee when i top it off, i just drink what is already in there. Even if it is a darker color, almost black.