<p>Year round I have iced coffee. I start with a homemade coffee concentrate made from coffee with chickory that I order online from New Orleans. I add that to a glass filled with ice cubes, then filled to the brim with skim milk. Add a packet of Splenda and it is, to me, a fabulous coffee drink that costs far less than anything bought at a cafe.</p>
<p>My husband buys coffee from Starbucks everyday. He is bone thin.</p>
<p>silvestersmom, D’s BF who is from NOLA sent us a gift basket for Christmas (what a sweet kid, awwww!), and it had NOLA-made French-style coffee with chickory in it. Good stuff.</p>
<p>Wooow. Some of you are what my D calls “hard-core”. I can NEVER survive on a 200-calorie breakfast. I estimate that I eat close to 500-600 for breakfast. Omelet made from 2 eggs with tomatoes and a dash of cheese (ca. 250 cal), a slice of multi-grain bread (100 cal), a cup of yogurt with fresh fruit (150 cal) plus my gigantic mug of coffee with milk (50 cal, may be?). Did I mention that I love real food?</p>
<p>I just polished off my dinner: roasted potatoes with olive oil and rosemary, grilled asparagus and smoked salmon. I’m washing it down with a glass of Riesling, so please pardon the spelling and grammar in my upcoming posts :D</p>
<p>Some Stabucks drinks have surprisingly few calories in them!</p>
<p>BB, I beat you in eat the most fat content category. I roasted potatoes with goose fat(pure gold according to some chefs). :D</p>
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I have a 70 calorie breakfast - half of a South Beach cereal bar (and the diet Mt Dew). It’s enough to take the edge away but I’m never really very hungry in the morning. I think too many of end up wanting to feel ‘full’ after a meal and that can be the root of the problems for many.</p>
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Some do, but a lot of Starbucks drinks have an amazingly ‘large’ number of calories in them - many hundreds of them - enough to require most people to spend more than an hour of vigorous exercise to burn the equivalent calories. I guess they’re really coffee flavored desserts although people try to think of them (and justify them) as just coffee.
“Mint Chocolaty Chip Frappuccino blended creme with Chocolate Whipped Cream - whip - 530 calories”</p>
<p>H and I drink black coffee. We get whole beans from Sam’s club and alternate types (such as Hazelnut, Hawaiin Blend, Columbian Roast). I had a cup of ocfee with my next door neighbor yesterday and she had the Starbucks beans, which I thought were very good. Sam’s sells that brand too, so might add that to the rotation. We are too frugal to buy coffee out. H takes big travel cup with him to work and between the two of us we finish off a full 12-cup pot most days. If H is traveling, I usually don’t bother making a pot just for myself since it seems like a lot of work. I just have a cup of tea if in need of caffeine. I used to put artificial sweetener in my tea and have stopped that but will sometimes add fresh lemon.</p>
<p>I don’t think I could give up my diet Mountain Dew. I have one per day, usually in the afternoon. It’s my “treat”. I’ll admit there are mornings in the summer that I drink that instead of coffee. But come winter, two jumbo cups of coffee in the a.m. is a necessity.</p>
<p>Coffee with a little 1% milk. I can drink it black, but sugar in coffee turns my stomach.</p>
<p>My usual breakfast is a banana and either a portion of oatmeal with cinnamon or 2 scrambled eggs.</p>
<p>One or two cups of coffee with a splash of whole organic milk. Addicted. </p>
<p>Also, dear H makes a smoothie for us every morning. All fruit. Mango. Strawberries. Blueberries. Bananas. Sometimes raspberries. We are addicted. We look for blenders when we’re traveling! (I know…no protein…we gave up the soy milk years ago. I usually have a few almonds with it to take care of protein).</p>
<p>Exactly - coffee along or with a splash of milk, cream or sugar is not a problem. But anything that resembles a milk shake, has whipped cream, is french vanilla mocha…blah, blah, blah and THEN topped with whipped cream - No!</p>
<p>A cute little coffee shop/cafe opened in our neighborhood recently. I know the owner and she was telling me recently how she has noticed a specific trend - starting Fridays the majority of people come in, order their drinks and say “yes” to whole milk, whipped cream on the top - the works! This continues all weekend. Come Monday morning - almost ALL orders are requested to be made with “skim milk”, no whipped topping. She literally can do her product shopping based on this tread. Come the weekend, people are ready to treat themselves and relax their habits. Come Monday morning, they get back in their low-cal, low-fat mode.</p>
<p>I found that interesting.</p>
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<p>I’m guessing you eat 3 meals/day. I eat 6, each averaging 200 calories. I find I’m never hungry and it helps your metabolism and helps you not store fat.</p>
<p>Someone started a thread on the biggest loser. Most here would be horrified by what the contestants do food and exercise wise. They mean business. Those folks lose weight and gain muscle fast.</p>
<p>hmom5, got it. I totally agree with you - 6 small meals is better than 3 large ones for anyone trying to control weight. For me, it is logistically impossible to have 6 meals, so I eat a large breakfast at 6:30-7, stretch my lunch into 3 “meals” (eat my soup at noon, then around 1:30 eat the fruit, then around 3 eat the yogurt cup and have a cup of tea with honey), and eat dinner around 7:30 after our nightly run. H tries to do the same, but his daytime schedule can be very unpredictabe with meetings, conference calls, etc. popping out of the blue.</p>
<p>And speaking of Starbucks - here is their list of drinks with under 200 calories:</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.starbucks.com/retail/choices.pdf[/url]”>http://www.starbucks.com/retail/choices.pdf</a></p>
<p>“tall” 12-oz Coffee Frappuccino - 180 calories, slightly more than a cup of low-fat yogurt, and 15% of daily calcium. Of course, it has tons of sugar, but if you have to eat a dessert, eat something that has calcium in addition to sugar!</p>
<p>I could never survive on a 1200 calorie day-- heck, I often do bike rides that consume more than 1200 calories-- but we all have to balance our calories our own way.</p>
<p>Every morning I either drink a big cup of coffee with low-fat milk or a big cup of tea with lowfat milk. Even in the summer when it’s hot, I have to have a hot drink in the morning.</p>
<p>Interesting to look at the under-200 menu…quite alot of choices there. But as I said, what I see in the cups at work, are not on this menu! </p>
<p>I could go for a non-fat vanilla latte right now!</p>
<p>well, drats! I thought I was doing so well with the snacks I bought for our road trip today. Found some granola with no added sugar, ate almost a cup and a half, then read the package & saw it has 234 calories per 2/3 cup serving (but no sugar!). Will really have to watch what I eat the rest of the day.</p>
<p>I am totally laughing at the “belly” ads on the top and side of the page!!!</p>
<p>Eight O’Clock hazelnut (whole bean) with half and half. Oatmeal bread toast with peanut butter and a banana.</p>
<p>By the way, in low-fat half and half, the fat is replaced with sugar, so you have to decide: do I want sugar or fat?</p>
<p>I have to eat breakfast, but I don’t have to eat a huge amount - I usually have 1 egg, sometimes 1 slice of bacon, half a grapefruit or other fruit and a cup of coffee with 1% milk (about 1/4 cup). Once a week I have oatmeal with a tsp of brown sugar and lots of fruit. Saturdays I have waffles or pancakes and Sundays I have two poached eggs and an English muffin.</p>
<p>teriwtt - Just chalk it up to a good lesson. You will never make that mistake again! And now you know how important it is to read the label for serving size and other information that you might be intersted in.</p>
<p>Keep on keepin’ on.</p>