Coffee calories can add up

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chriskelly

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I realized that I was ingesting a good amount of calories from little things like putting half n half in my coffee. I always thought that just a splash of it wasn't so bad, but it adds up pretty quick. I actually would also drink a bunch of diet sodas in the afternoon because coffee wears on your stomach (and breath), but there is really not that much caffeine in soda so you need a bunch of them.

My company started offering a product called SmartBoost in our break room as a healthy energy product and I am a huge fan. It is a natural caffeine and vitamin powder that has no taste so it can be added to any drink. I mostly mix it in lemon water. I have found this a great way to cut out a decent amount of calories while still getting my much loved caffeine boost. I like Emergen-C too, but it does not have caffeine.
 
I drink my morning coffee straight black, no calories at all there, 16 oz of water for every coffee to keep my hydration up. Takes a little getting used to the flavor though.
 
SmartBoost, coffee

I really enjoy coffee in the morning and have tired to go to drinking it black. I can drink one cup of black coffee, but can't drink more than that before it starts to upset my stomach. I also don't like it black very much. The SmartBoost product let's you make any drink as strong as a cup of coffee without changing the drink's taste. I still drink coffee on the weekends, but have almost totally switched to SmartBoost at work. It is all-natural, calorie, and preservative free so it helps me cut calories and not drink diet soda all day which is loaded with sweeteners and preservatives.

Here is an article I found on SmartBoost in a California newspaper:
 
i found out about coffee calories the hard way, too. i used to add hot chocolate mix to it!!!!!!!!!!

they say that tapering off the sugar can help, especially if you drink a lot of coffee.
 
I add a quick splash of skim milk to my coffee and use artificial sweetener, so the caloric intake derived from these additions is, at most, 10 calories per tall cup of coffee. Negligible!

Coffee becomes a dieter's nightmare when it's consumed in the guise of frappuccinos, mochaccinos, double vanilla lattes, etc...
 
man the price of that smartboost is a rip off, bigtime. you can only buy it in little packets that are the equivelant of one cup of coffee with some vitamin C. save your money and just buy some vivarin (or generic equivelant). costs one tenth as much, is stronger, and is available anywhere.
 
Vivarin is synthetic caffeine and slow release

Smartboost is in fact a combonation of caffeine and vitamin c, but vivarin's caffeine is designed to slow release over a period of many hours. Plus SmartBoost's caffeine is all natural (comes from coffee beans) while over-the-counter pills use factory made synthetic caffeine (same with most soda). In its defense, coffee is of course natural caffeine as well. I use SmartBoost as a comperable (in terms of caffeine amount) and healthy replacement for coffee and diet soda...I don't want a slow release mega dose. Ultimately I am concerned about replacing beverages with high calories and Smartboost does this for me. A pill would not.
 
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