Coffee Calories

When you are watching your diet, eating healthy, losing weight, and practicing a healthy lifestyle... are there 1 or 2 things that the internet says that you should or shouldn't do that you are like 

"Nope, no way, never going to happen"

or 

"This borders on the line of unhappiness if I don't eat/drink this"?

Well for me it's coffee/tea. Being in veterinary school, I CANNOT live without coffee. Well, never say never. I could physically live without coffee, but I don't want to and it really helps me through my early mornings and long days.

HOW TO DRINK COFFEE WITHOUT THE ADDED CALORIES? Well, it's simple, drink it black. "YUCK" is most people's response (including mine), so let me share how I transferred myself to black coffee.

First of all, I calculated an added between 120 - 1,600 calories per day on coffee, depending on the kind of coffee you drink. If you go for the iced frappacinos, you're looking at adding up to 2,000 calories per day on coffee. If you drink plain coffee but add cream and sugar to it, your looking at an added 150-300 calories per day if you have a few cups. THIS can RUIN your healthy nutrition plan and stop you from getting the results you want.

The key is to the transformation slowly. How I did it:

1. Decrease the sugar 

2. Take out the sugar and only drink with creamer

3. Change from creamer to milk (this is a huge change! this takes time!)

4. Change from whole or 2% milk to skim milk (or lite soy or almond milk)

5. One day, just dive into only black coffee

I feel so much healthier after drinking black coffee compared to drinking coffee with cream and sugar. It's amazing the difference and allowed me to continue to get the caffeine I need! Hopefully when my schedule lightens I can transfer to tea.

Now, don't torture yourself on horrible black coffee. Take the money you used to spend on milk, creamer, and sugar and spend it on good quality coffee. Also, flavored coffee helps me not notice the missing creamer.

If you're still having trouble, pay attension to how you're making your coffee. Is it too strong? What kind of machine are you using? Kerig coffee and instant coffee is horrible tasting, I do not recommend starting with those.

Good luck on the transformation. Let me know how if I helped!

You can even mix it with your shakeology!