How do you like your coffee?

Since joining calorie count, I truly realize how many calories are in just my ONE cup of coffee every morning! Over 200 !!!!!! It's insane.. I need to find a substitute for the milk, or maybe just low fat milk or half and half. And I also need to get around to buying some splenda, otherwise I'll just give up the coffee. What do you put in your coffee? Maybe it'll help me out hehe 

I have a cup daily, black with splenda.  I too used to drink mine with cream/milk and sugar.  It takes a little getting used to, but I enjoy it now just as much as before.

Unfortunately I can't really help you out much...cause I get mochas. Espresso, steamed (skim) milk, chocolate syrup...and sometimes a flavor shot (usually mint or raspberry). A small comes out to be around 225 calories.

Oopsie :P

I love my morning coffee. I used to have a little coffee with my cream and sugar but I've changed things since being on my low cal diet. So now I have either a 20 cal cup of coffee or a 10 cal cup of coffee.

The 20 cal cup consists of two Splenda sugar packets and a tablespoon of Sugar Free Coffeemate Flavored Creamer.

The 10 cal cup is 2 packets of Splenda Sugar, 1 tsp of Sugar Free Creamer, and 1 packet of Splenda Coffee Flavoring. (I like the Caramel better than the Hazelnut. Haven't tried the Cinnamon one yet.)

Sure they are not as sweet as what I used to drink but I have adapted and I can't make it through a day of work without at least two cups.

Good luck!

with splenda and semi skimmed milk.

For my morning pot of strong, black coffee--usually nothing.

If I do the inadvisable and make an early evening pot of coffee, I often put in the following:

• Using one of those infomercial hand mixers, I froth up skim milk and add some of that to the coffee--skim milk is only 80 calories per whole cup
• Great Value Extra Rich non-dairy creamer 10 calories per teaspoon
• Hershey's chocolate flavored sugar free syrup that does not taste good to me in anything but when I occasionally put it into my coffee
• On occasion I put some of the Hershey's into the skim milk and froth that up to make a coffee mocha
• I have also floated a couple of tablespoons of nonfat Cool Whip on top of a cup of coffee

Note: I do not advise that people drink two pots of coffee daily.  I do not do it regularly, but, yes, I do it on occasion.

When I realized how many calories were in my morning coffee, I weaned myself off cream and sugar, to milk and sugar, then skim milk and splenda, and now (since I don't like the taste of artificial sweeteners that much) it's just skim milk. I want to take it black someday but for now the skim works.

Starbucks has some good sugar free flavor syrups... Sometimes I treat myself to a coffee with the caramel one. It doesn't taste as artificial as plain splenda or sweet n low.

Strong, dark coffee with unsweetened vanilla almond or rice milk + stevia.

splenda tastes gross in coffee to me. And I use lots of half-and-half - milk just won't do.

So my cup is a teaspoon of sugar + 5 mini moos. 100 cals.

I usually just have one cup, now, instead of my usual 2.

Worth it!

Soy latte with 8 ounces of steamed soy milk and 2 shots of espresso. It's pretty caloric, but the soy keeps my hot flashes down.

my cup of coffee comes to 35 calories

teaspoon arabic coffee, 1/4 skim milk, no sugar and cup is around 160 ml

Wow thanks for all the replies! I'll definitely have to try some of these ideas, for now I think starting with penkwin's idea will be easier for me.. wean myself off slowly by switching to skim milk first, then splena. Because I use white sugar and cream, it makes the calories so outrageous that I refuse to have more than 1 cup, some mornings I only drink half because I just think too much about the amount of calories!  lol

Mocha with Jack Daniel's.  Standard for weekends and camping trips.

But obviously not lo-cal.

I drink mine black but you might try weaking it if you really just don't like the strong taste.  If you could just use less and less until you get used to it, that might work without having to give it up completely.

Original Post by cellophane_star:

Strong, dark coffee with unsweetened vanilla almond or rice milk + stevia.

 Yes!  That, or Coffee Mate Sugar Free Powdered French Vanilla, 1 tsp. is only 10 cals. And i like my coffee very strong with just 1-2 tsp of the creamer in a large mug.

I only have about a cup and a half a day:

1.5 cups coffee
.5 c Skim milk (40 cals)
1 tsp of NATURAL sugar (15 cals)

Artificial sweeteners always make my stomach growl & increase my appetite. It's better than a can of coke or a Starbucks Frap and the warmth keeps my appetite down.

I realized the same thing.  I like mine with a lot of cream.  I now just have a cup with Fat Free half and half and a small bit of flavored creamer on the weekends.  During the week I have a big cup of spice tea with no sugar. 

Original Post by gddrdld:

Original Post by cellophane_star:

Strong, dark coffee with unsweetened vanilla almond or rice milk + stevia.

 Yes!  That, or Coffee Mate Sugar Free Powdered French Vanilla, 1 tsp. is only 10 cals. And i like my coffee very strong with just 1-2 tsp of the creamer in a large mug.

 The ingredients in Coffee Mate scare me (not to mention the taste). I'd skip the coffee if it was my only option.

I like mine really strong with a bit of milk, and never sugar. The same with my tea! Though if I feel like a treat I might go for a skimmed vanilla latte. :)

skim milk and splenda

2 cups at home in the morning, black with splash of 2% evaporated milk. At work just black. It took me alot of years to love it this way. I used to use some type of liquid artificial sweetener in a drip glass bottle, and skim milk. YUK!