Coffee crave..help!

Ignore it... or allow yourself a bit of indulgence, give yourself one day where you can have some, go light though, get fat free milk instead of full fat, no whip or any extra and if you do have some, get a small and share with a friend!

Starbucks now has skinny mocha drinks that I think come in around 100 cals or so for a tall. Having those here and there isn't too much of an indulgence.

Or try regular coffee with some of the fun creamers at the grocery store - I just bought the caramel macchiato and they have a white chocolate mocha too.

get some sugar free syrups and splenda and mix with non fat milk

I struggle with this too...my new attempt is I've written down my "order" on an index card to keep in my purse and read it off in the drive through. It stops me from getting the venti triple shot breve mocha MOST of the time.

if you have the cash, you can get an inexpensive cappuccino machine. Make your own espresso- skim milk foams the best & you can buy ALL kinds of sugar free syrups & stuff. You can make your own flavored cappuccino for less than 100 calories

cheers ~

I use fat free vanilla creamer or chocolate almond milk in my espresso.....yummy.

flavored keurig.

When does this happen? Where are you, and what time of day is it? What kind of mood are you in? What are you doing or what happened right before the craving? There should be some sort of common trigger but it might not be obvious, so make a note of all these things whenever it happens.

Once you've identified the trigger you need to associate it with a new habit, like going for a short walk. Once you do this enough times the old craving will fade away (and you'll crave walks instead).

Try a flavoured coffee like Irish creme or french vanilla and use skim milk and sweetener.

Might be a good swap out for those high cal fancy flavoured ones.

Coffee is something I cant let go of. I dont function without coffee I just reg. coffee with creamer (grochery store) I drink it first thing in the morning before I start my day. With 3 kids and my husband I need my coffee!!

Where do you get your soy white chocolate mocha from? Some coffee shops have a light option, its just less chocolate.. but it's just as good.

i agree with everyone who suggests you try some lower calorie coffee options.
A small amount of caffeine is good for boosting your metabolism.
I drink coffee in some form every day.

Since getting into roasting and grinding my own beans at home, which i must say is 100% better than anything else, i now drink an expresso shot in the morning. I'd never do that though with beans that weren't completely fresh.

So the rest of the time I just have skim milk cappuccinos which depending on the size of the cup are anywhere from 50-100 cals.

It just takes time to wean yourself off added sugar. Gradually cut back, until you eventually won't even like the taste of coffee with sugar in it.

But ultimately if you want the high calorie coffee drink, just make sure you workout a bit more, or eat less during the day as you would for any other special high calorie treat.

However i highly recommend putting in the time to learn to enjoy coffee in lower calorie forms. It is an acquired taste. And the other benefit of caffeine is that it is a hunger suppressant.

I was a Venti White Mocha girl! Then I saw they pack 600 calories! UGH. I now love to treat myself to a Skinny Caramel Latte and it hits the spot.
I am an avid coffee drinker. Everyday. I usually have regular coffee with a good flavored creamer and I am good to go.

for $15 you can buy an espresso maker at IKEA like the kind you had to go backpacking through Europe to get (I'm only halfway kidding, the only people I knew that had them had done that, lucky *kitten*). Anyway, it works on your stove. Buy GOOD coffee that is already ground to espresso ground fineness. (unless you have a bunch of money for a really good grinder, grinding it that fine will ruin your grinder and stop it up and generally make you angry before you've had your coffee and can deal with it, just don't buy more than a week or two's worth at a time) Then buy your favorite non-milk milk. Buy some chocolate chips or some white chocolate chips. Mini kind are the best. Make the espresso. Put some chocolate chips in a small amount of your milk and heat them in the microwave and then pull it out and mix it as well as you can. heat and mix until its pretty well combined and then add the appropriate amount of your milk and heat it again. By now your espresso is making that wonderful SHOO OOO SCHOOO sound that signifies happiness is near at hand. put your chocolated milk and your espress in a cup and enjoy.

Now. Here's the key. Slowly wean yourself to less chocolate and maybe even less milk. If you do this with nonfat milk (I know YOU can't, sorry), and you froth it enough with the little battery operated frother thing they sell right next to the espresso pot, you can get some of the mouth-feel of cream out of non-fat or 1% milk. Sometimes its a craving for the consistency of food. You can wean yourself and your treat away from 400 cals to much much less, plus you'll approach being a respectable coffee drinker.

Bonus: I you use whey protein, I've found that vanilla protein powder from body fortress in water or milk (depending on cals and protein needs for the day) NOT heated (protein powder can get icky and gloppy when heated) with espresso added directly and mixed quickly so it doesn't heat any portion of the protein too much, can be a passable approximation of a vanilla latte. It even makes a froth at the top.