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I love having several cups of coffee in the morning. I don't eat a lot in the day and I just realized that my coffee is sabotaging my efforts. I don't actually love the taste of coffee, but I do love it sweet and creamy with Creamer. Does anyone have any ways to make my coffee like I enjoy it but with less calories and sugar? My friend uses monkeys fruit as a sweetener. What about that? I love spends but I heard it can be bad for sugar substitute.

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Hi,

I love my coffee as well. I put evaporated not fat milk it makes it nice and creamy and adds Protein. I also put Premier Protein chocolate in it. (I buy it by the case at Costco). Another trick is land I lakes fat free creamer. It actually tastes really good.

I always get skinny sugar free drinks at Starbucks. I was really surprised when I looked at the nutrition. In my grande caramel machioto there was 18g of sugar and 28 carbs. This really surprised me since I was ordering a sugar free drink I thought!

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Turn your coffee into a Protein drink! Click offers 3 or 4 flavors of coffee Protein powders. The taste of coffee, the creaminess, the caffeine, and protein! I was amazed at how good this powder tastes. You can even add a scoop to your regular Protein Powder for blended flavors. I know they have regular coffee, vanilla and caramel. I think they have mocha, but not positive. I've gotten mine at Vitamin World and Amazon. You can also order directly from their website.

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Be careful with sweetners. My nutritionist told me that your body can trick itself into thinking that it is real sugar if used in abundance. Was anyone else told this?

I also love coffee but I have cut back from it some due to calories in my Creamers.< /p>

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I like your suggestion Razzswt39.

Have you every tried making a mocha with the premier Protein chocolate in it? I may give it a try...

I would typically use a quality chocolate 'sauce' but I may try it with chocolate Protein shake. Seems like it could work.

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Well I'm on an LCHF diet and I also work overnight shifts. I drink small coffees at a time and put 2 half and half packets and 2 sweet and lows..: haven't had any issues yet. I was never a fan of sugar in my coffee drinks because you can use a boatload and to me it's never sweet enough and it doesn't dissolve well. I prefer equal or Splenda but the hospital only carries sweet n low. Some people don't like artificial sweeteners but I do hear wonderful things about stevia extract which is non sugar, and not bad for you (supposedly). I figure a few sweeteners a day isn't as day as overdosing on sugar like I used to with soda and junk like that.

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Please check this out... I had my band in June 2013 and my main struggle was caffeine. It isn't that the "caffeine" itself if all that bad in small amounts but I also had to put the cream and sugar to even like it. And I had to have a tea later in the day to try and stay awake because my energy levels were soooo low. I have lost weight but I didn't "feel good" really until I found Thrive! All day energy no crashes... I haven't had coffee or any other caffeine drink in 10 weeks since being on Thrive! go to my website and check it out... or not... I want you all to know that the only reason I am putting this one here is because I am "one of you" and many struggle with the same issues an this is something that I have found that really helps me and has been a game changer for me and my husband! (he was a coffee in the morning and mountain dew in the afternoon guy until we found Thrive) http://angelastewart.le-vel.com

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