Your Coffee and Tea
 

I was just wondering - about how many times a day ... how many cups of tea or coffee, do you drink a day?

I use skim milk in mine and I'm wondering if you drink too much tea a day, is that going to end up being too much skim milk that you're getting?

I drink about 4, sometimes 5 cups of tea a day.

I can't help wondering if that's too much ...

You are allowed 1 oz of skim milk a day so it depends how much you put in each cup.

Pat

Oh crap.

Thanks Pat. I knew it was too good to be true. I think I may be over doing it.

I'll have to cut back on either the # of cups I drink of properly acct for the amt of skim milk I use.

ugh! :mad:

I was just logging on to post about this.

Cut out the milk in your coffee.

I was on IP 100% for over a year. Lost 85 pounds. It was frustrating at times, long, and difficult, but rewarding.

The past couple months I went back on to re-lose what I put back on over the year I was in maintenance. This week, I tried something new, and unfortunately, I'm phasing off so I can't really take advantage of it.

I cut out the milk in my coffee. I was probably having too much before, it's true. Several cups a day, and I wasn't measuring that it all added up to one ounce. I was kind of stalled out, progress was very slow. But on Monday I started drinking my coffee without milk, and since then, I've been steadily losing 1/2 pound a day - in Phase 2.

Since I'm phasing off now, I can't really take advantage of this new discovery to its full advantage - but maybe other people out there can. Try it for a few days, especially if you're in a plateau.

Oh my word - Lisa - this is going to be a trial for me. I've always drank tea with milk and trying to do so without it, is like me trying to fly to the moon and back.

Tea without milk - I can't even conceive it. But I guess, I'll try - little by little I'll try. I guess I'll start with maybe: of the 4 cups of tea a day, try 1 w/out milk and 3 with. I'll try to phase it out. :(

I just got used to it black. I drink 3-4 cups a morning. It took a couple of days to get used to but it's no problem now.

If you have the IP drink boxes you could always substitute a squirt of that for milk.

Thorfinn - can you school me a little?

I'm a relative newbie to the program ... what are the drink boxes??

Thanks

Or you could always get some flavored tea... I've gotten a few different flavors to match what season we are in... But I don't really drink either... But if I do have coffee I put some of the torani syrups in it....

They are the ready to drink ones.... You can use it if you use alternatives as well...

Thanks Jelly!

I'll look into it come my next weigh in.

Will also google up the torani! :)

We all 'train' ourselves to eat or drink certain things. It's just getting used to it. Did anybody actually truly love the taste of alcohol when you first had it?! Nope, we did not! Beer tastes terrible......but we still love it! I was a 3 sugars and cream person.....went to sweetener and skim milk in coffee and nothing in tea when I joined ww a few years ago. Took awhile, but I preferred it that way. Now, if you put cream and sugar in my coffee.....I'll hurt you. Started green tea.....gross at first....now I love it! Started ideal protein and I use the vanilla drink in my coffee, not a fan the first week....now I quite enjoy it! We grow accustomed to a lot of different tastes. It's easy.

I've been having my coffee and tea with milk, but have had pitiful weight losses lately....so I will go without, and see if that helps.
Thanks for all the thoughts and encouragement, y'all!

Good luck dizzyjean. It sure as heck aint easy but at least it'll be worth it!:)

I couldn't do the coffee black and the 1oz of skim milk was too pitiful to even consider. I put 2 cups coffee in my breakfast smoothie with a chocolate RTD, spinach, and 1 stevia packet - and I LOVE IT. I never measured my coffee creamer before, and I'm pretty sure I was using anywhere from 6-8oz AT LEAST (I love the creamy coffee) over the course of my morning joe. Even if you "just use skim" you are still adding the same amount of sugar to your daily intake as if you would have used whole (not saying that's any better - since whole adds more fat & calories, which ar both IP no-nos). Just saying that the protocol avoids these simple sugars for a reason. It's really easy to add up all of these "little extras".

Stats for 8oz of Milk: Skim / 2% / Whole
Calories: 91 / 122 / 147
Calories from Fat: 6 / 43 / 71
Total Fat 0.6g / 4.8g / 7.9g
Sat. Fat 0.4g / 3.1g / 4.6g
Cholesterol 5mg / 20mg / 24mg
Total Carbs. 12.3g / 12.4g / 12.9g
Dietary Fiber 0g / 0g / 0g
Sugars 12.4g / 12.3g / 12.9g
Protein 8.7g / 8.1g / 7.9g

I have 1 coffee in the morning with my 1oz of milk and i have at least 2 cups of herbal teas a day (flavored).

When its warm out, i use the morning's left over coffee at night and make myself a nice ice coffee and use an extra 1oz of milk. I'm allowing myself to do this now as i'm about to start phase 3 but i never would've allowed it before goal.

I use the vanilla ready to drink in my coffee and I love it. As Cootermom said it is a matter of getting used to it but now it is what I drink.

Is skim milk our only option for cream? I really wish there was an alternative to cream on the IP other than skim milk...

Honestly, I put about 1oz or less of 1 or 2 percent milk in my coffee. I talked to my coach about it and decided that it was right for me. It is absolutely my only deviation from the plan though and I would not recommend it to everyone. My reasoning- I have only one cup a day. I am a vegetarian, so I get very little fat from my fake meat meal (way less than real meat). I was not going to buy another container of milk for the house- son drinks whole milk, husband drinks 1 or 2 %. I was buying coffee out and using skim for the first week and just hated drinking my coffee and also hated spending $ daily for coffee out. I tried using the vanilla shake and it made me want to puke. I hate any sweetness in my coffee.. never put sugar in it.. Again, this is a choice I made to purposefully alter the plan for myself with the approval of my coach.. not for everyone. And if I notice my weight loss lagging then I may switch back.

Yes....1 oz per day only...

Well I drink a cup a day black. I've never used or liked sugar but I loaded it up with cream. If you want to change your weight you need to change what you put in your mouth. Ditch the milk. Drink good tea and you will not need the milk as much. It will have a different taste but you will get used to it. You could also use cinnamon to change the flavor. Sometimes I drop an ice cube or two in my cup or add some water to cool it off.

I too love my coffee. I thought i would have a terrible time switching up the milk but i now use EAS vanilla as my substitue and i've come to adapt to it. One tetra pack does me about 3 days for coffee and i've been consistently losing.

I've also just bought, from the online Low carb Grocery Store, 'Dixie Diners' FF Dairy Free "Creme It"...it's a soy (tofu) fiber powder mix. Haven't tried yet but thought i might this weekend.
serving size is 1.5 tbsp mixed with 8-10 oz water (can add flavouring if you want)
Calories 29
Fat. 0.5
Chol. 0
Sodium. 1mg
Pottasium. 193mg
Carb. 2.5g
Dietary fiber. 1.6g
Sugar. 1g
Protein. 3.5

Ingredients. Dehulled soyabeans, calcium sulfate

Thought this might be an ok alternative to try, will post once i have tried it.

TGIF ....

GM IPeeps !!!

Wishing everyone big losses...

xoxoxoxo's

Keep it won'hunnid

I found that Green Mountain Flavored Coffee (I use K-cups) takes care of my "sweet~tooth" & has no need for any type of cream..... Also they are 0/0/0

Have a great day & weekend everyone!! :)

Check out Almond Milk. 1 carb + 1 fiber = 0 net carbs. Plus lower in calories, etc. than skim milk but has more calcium.