In the Morning: Coffee, Caffeinated Tea (green), or other?

[PlasmaCutter]

I tried cutting out coffee all together because I drink it with too much sugar and cream, so I went about 5 days without it and felt pretty crappy in the morning trying to get my work done. My head was foggy and I had a hard time concentrating, so I was thinking of switching to caffeinated Green Tea (I've drank it in the past and enjoy it, but always seemed to go back to getting coffees in the morning).

So my question is have any of you that were reliant on caffeine completely cut out coffee and switched to something better or gotten rid of it from your daily lives successfully?

Or should I just get used to drinking it black? If so, how many cups a day are preferably the max? Right now I drink about 2-6 cups (your average ceramic coffee cup size) a day.

I drink nothing else but water and occasionally I'll grab an Arizona Iced Tea or something like that from a store, never soda.

I want to make some sort of change because I know the sugar and cream is not good for me, cutting out soda months ago has been great, so I was hoping to eventually do the same for coffee. Thanks in advance.

[layarph]

Dude, use splenda or another type of sweetener lol.

And for soda, go for diet sodas.

You can have all the coffee and soda you want then with practically an irrelevant cal count.

And use milk instead of cream... but what's bad about cream? If you can fit it in your macros then use it.

[Lites10]

I recently switched to decaf, trying to cycle off of caffeine for a while to curb my dependency (I was drinking ~3 liters a day), but it wasn't as hard as I thought it would be. I just like the taste too much to give it up completely. I use stevia as a sweetener, and 2% milk, but if you can fit cream into your macro's there is nothing wrong with it.

[lee__d]

Pop a caffeine pill, problem solved.

[PlasmaCutter]

Dude, use splenda or another type of sweetener lol.

And for soda, go for diet sodas.

You can have all the coffee and soda you want then with practically an irrelevant cal count.

And use milk instead of cream... but what's bad about cream? If you can fit it in your macros then use it.

Thanks for the reply, but diet soda / artificial sweeteners / aspartame and what not, those just taste like total ass to me and I'd rather drink water or my coffee black, but I see what you're saying.

I recently switched to decaf, trying to cycle off of caffeine for a while to curb my dependency (I was drinking ~3 liters a day), but it wasn't as hard as I thought it would be. I just like the taste too much to give it up completely. I use stevia as a sweetener, and 2% milk, but if you can fit cream into your macro's there is nothing wrong with it.

I was thinking about mixing half decaf and half regular in the pot and slowly getting away until i don't feel the need for caffeine anymore, would much rather wake up and have a clear head naturally from a good sleep then immediately thinking about putting the coffee pot on.

[auriga]

if its not black its not coffee! Just get used to black. Its wonderous! I average 2-8 cups a day and usually have to talk myself out of more. My wife has been known to sneak vanilla protein powder into her coffee if she runs outta creamer. She claims its good. But who knows she married me so shes obviously insane.

[texicus]

black coffee has appetite-suppressing qualities with zero calories (if that's what you're going for) as well as health benefits.

[SoloX5]

black coffee has appetite-suppressing qualities with zero calories (if that's what you're going for) as well as health benefits.

Do you have a study? I've seen caffeine mentioned a lot of time as an appetite suppressant, but have yet to find any study.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21346100

[Pbmiyagi91]

I drink green tea ALLL day, pretty much with every meal. Caffeine content is good plus it is amazing for you

[applebob1997]

i mostly drink green tea, it has 0-2 calories per 100ml and its full of anti-oxidants