How can I drink coffee without a ton of calories (and a decent taste?)

[Anonymous]

At home you can add some full fat coconut milk. It has some sweetness to it.

[Anonymous]

I drink mine black.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
No, no, no. Americans do it all wrong

You order (or make yourself) an expresso. Tiny cup. Put in some sugar. Even if you make it very sweet, since the cup is tiny, it's not a lot of calories. Same for the cream. In a tiny cup, a drop goes a long way. Heavy jolt of caffeine, though, maybe more than those bladder-distending thick concoctions at Starbucks, and you have room for a healthy cleansing drink of water afterward!

And it's like this for food as well. Small portions, but flavorful.

This is how you keep the weight off in France.
Add lots of walking around (in Paris you take your life in your hands whenever you drive and the Metro stinks, literally), and you're suddenly skinny!

Italian here. You are doing it wrong.

Espresso (GAWD, not "expresso") is for after meals and you NEVER put sugar in it. Espresso has LESS caffeine than an average cup of American-style drip coffee.

Coffee with or in place of breakfast always has plenty of full-fat milk or cream in it (cappuccinos, lattes, etc). The secret is NO SUGAR. Sugar makes you fat, fat makes you feel satisfied.

And no coffee other than espresso after breakfast.

That's the real European style.

[Anonymous]

First start with the best coffee bean you can afford. Illy is our favorite.
We use an espresso machine at home. 1% milk steamed or not, and 1 tsp of sugar does it for me. This is way better than anything at Starbucks or a café. It is creamy because the machine brews the coffee in such a way that is has this crema froth even before the milk. I would guess it's about 30 calories, tops.

[TheNewGirl]

I use two tsp, about 30 cal, and half and half. 4-5 days a week I have bulletproof coffee with butter and coconut oil, so maybe 250 cal? but it's my breakfast. The key for me is that the sugar in my coffee is the ONLY sugar in my diet. So, I have room for it.

[Anonymous]

sugar free vanilla and skim, full fat means fat ass

[Anonymous]

Why not drink iced tea? Make it yourself with black tea. So many flavors. You can add fresh mint or lemon juice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:First start with the best coffee bean you can afford. Illy is our favorite.
We use an espresso machine at home. 1% milk steamed or not, and 1 tsp of sugar does it for me. This is way better than anything at Starbucks or a café. It is creamy because the machine brews the coffee in such a way that is has this crema froth even before the milk. I would guess it's about 30 calories, tops.

Illy is fantastic, but Lavazza is almost as good and goes on sale at Giant from time to time. We use an aeropress - perfect when you only want 1 cup.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:sugar free vanilla and skim, full fat means fat ass

So artificial sweeteners? No thanks. I use full fat half and half and a teaspoon of sugar. I weigh 115 and my ass isn't fat.

Really, OP, just drink coffee with half and half and a little sugar. It's delicious and satisfying, there's no Frankenfoods involved, and the calories are minimal.

[Anonymous]

Here's what works for me. This is make-at-home (you would not believe how much $$$ you lose by buying instead of brewing yourself.)

Hazelnut flavored coffee. Not the syrup, but the flavored coffee, in either whole bean or ground form.

I used nonfat dry milk instead of coffee creamers or regular milk/cream.

I get the milk/cream effect without diluting the taste by adding extra liquid. Also, I'm actually adding calcium rather than the very scary list of ingredients that goes with non-dairy creamers.

If you want to do iced for summer, make it more concentrated and add ice, or brew it the evening before, and put it in the fridge overnight.

[Anonymous]

Kind of a funny thread but it seems your best bet would be to find a coffee you can drink black. There are a gazillion coffees available now from barely roasted to burned black (my preference) and you should be able to get used to some version of black coffee. As noted above, espresso and dark roasted coffees often have less caffeine, not more, but it is often indiscernible as it is only a little bit less. Italians, however, do put sugar in espresso, not all of them obviously, but never a cappuccino after the morning. The French can do what they want.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Italian here. You are doing it wrong.

Espresso (GAWD, not "expresso") is for after meals and you NEVER put sugar in it. Espresso has LESS caffeine than an average cup of American-style drip coffee.

Coffee with or in place of breakfast always has plenty of full-fat milk or cream in it (cappuccinos, lattes, etc). The secret is NO SUGAR. Sugar makes you fat, fat makes you feel satisfied.

And no coffee other than espresso after breakfast.

That's the real European style.

Do this! Coffee with half and half and no sugar. Unless you're putting in an absurd amount of half and half, the amount you need to make it more palatable is not going to amount to much fat or calories.

[Anonymous]

Soy milk! Then you don't need sugar.

[Anonymous]

If you use cold brewed coffee (look for Toddy on amazon) the result is so smooth and acid-free you really won't need any sugar at all. Especially iced, you just need a splash of milk and it's delicious.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Soy milk! Then you don't need sugar.

Blech. I tried putting soy milk in my coffee and had to pour it out. Nasty, nasty, nasty.