Ok all you post op closet coffee drinkers (myself included): you loved coffee as a pre op and you still love it as a post op. There is no shame in declaring your love of the bean. After a largely successful drink poll thread this last week ( still active), I think a 2nd slightly less controversial poll is in order.

What are your favorite ways to drink your daily or weekly coffee? How often do you like to have coffee?

I will go first.

At 10 months post op, there are a few ways I like to drink coffee:

Daily: 1 cup of standard coffee with a tbsp of coconut creamer and two Splenda or 1 Cappuccino with NF frothed milk and 2 Splenda. Made with my nifty SB verismo machine.

Weekly: 1 grande NF latte with SF hazelnut from Starbucks or 1 Grande NF Mocha with SF raspberry (not at Starbucks as they do not carry SF raspberry )

Hot day (today!!): 24 oz NF iced mocha with SF raspberry. Ice takes up space so it is really about 16 oz coffee.

I drink coffee because of the flavor and the "pick me up." I started drinking cappuccino size coffee at 2 months. It was really not until month 6 when I started to drink standard grande size.

What about you?

I love to start my day with chike ice coffee. It has only two grams of sugar and twenty grams if Protein. Yummy. I also like sugar free vanilla from McDonalds. Decaf ice coffee from Ducan donuts. I'm just saying to venture into stars bucks coffee.I love my coffee. Ever since I started drinking coffee Again I've been dropping pounds. Idk why.

What's chike from where?

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What's chike from where?

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I like mine hot, black, and strong, first thing in the morning. Right now I'm drinking a breakfast blend pod. I used to order my beans from a coffee roaster, grind just enough for a cup or two, and make my own pods for the Keurig. Again, hot, black, and strong. Ahhhh......love me some coffee. Sometimes I'll have some iced coffee, or chai latte tea, or other flavored coffee with a little bit of creamer later in the day, but I try to avoid that because it interferes with my full time job of taking vitamins.

I love to start my day with chike ice coffee. It has only two grams of sugar and twenty grams if Protein. Yummy. I also like sugar free vanilla from McDonalds. Decaf ice coffee from Ducan donuts. I'm just saying to venture into stars bucks coffee.I love my coffee. Ever since I started drinking coffee Again I've been dropping pounds. Idk why.

So do you think it is the caffeine or the extra protein that helped break your stall? Or have you removed any carbs by switching to the low carb chike? Answer not for me, but for others.

Ok all you post op closet coffee drinkers (myself included): you loved coffee as a pre op and you still love it as a post op. There is no shame in declaring your love of the bean. After a largely successful drink poll thread this last week ( still active)' date=' I think a 2nd slightly less controversial poll is in order.

What are your favorite ways to drink your daily or weekly coffee? How often do you like to have coffee?

I will go first.

At 10 months post op, there are a few ways I like to drink coffee:

Daily: 1 cup of standard coffee with a tbsp of coconut creamer and two Splenda or 1 Cappuccino with NF frothed milk and 2 Splenda. Made with my nifty SB verismo machine.

Weekly: 1 grande NF latte with SF hazelnut from Starbucks or 1 Grande NF Mocha with SF raspberry (not at Starbucks as they do not carry SF raspberry )

Hot day (today!!): 24 oz NF iced mocha with SF raspberry. Ice takes up space so it is really about 16 oz coffee.

I drink coffee because of the flavor and the "pick me up." I started drinking cappuccino size coffee at 2 months. It was really not until month 6 when I started to drink standard grande size.

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My favs are the Iced White Mocha Latte or Iced Vanilla Spice Latte, both with non-fat milk and no whip from SB. I have one 3-4 times a week.

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O!! Ok cool-- died it taste like Protein

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So do you think it is the caffeine or the extra Protein that helped break your stall? Or have you removed any carbs by switching to the low carb chike? Answer not for me' date=' but for others.[/quote']

The extra protein and the fact that I upped my liquid intake. I also think it could be the caffeine.I'm not sure, because I do caffeine oNce a day and then is decaf afterwards.

O!! Ok cool-- died it taste like Protein

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Nope. Taste like coffee. You wouldn't think there protein in it. And there is Vitamins as well.

I didn't drink coffee much pre-surgery (Mtn dew was my daily pick-me-up) but I LOVE Big Train fit frappe mocha and drink that almost every day. Now that it's warm, either over ice or as a homemade frappe'. 20 gs of protein too. I don't think it has as much caffeine as Starbucks. Here's the link, but I buy it at Sam's Club. https://www.bigtrain...inks-c-143.aspx

Now I thought everyone in the Seattle area like their latte this and their mocha that given the infusion of Starbucks stores and local baristas. Lol. Maybe that is more true of my generation (i am 36) and younger. Now I know better.

Haha. I do love fancy expensive coffee drinks, although I usually go to a local stand. But believe me, I can take my coffee black, sweet and black, with milk or with the whole shebang. It depend on my mood.

Right now my choice seems to be black with cinnamon and a little sweetener. If I indulge in a latte, it will be a caramel macchiato or a white coffee latte with peppermint (sugar and fat free, natch).

I was born and raised in the other side of the Sound, so not quite a native Seattleite...

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