Andy Lien

The 1500 metformin hcl 1000 mg calorie diet is something to get used to…it’s not as prohibitive or punitive as it sounds.  There’s plenty of wiggle room in 1500 calories and I choose to wiggle right away with my first cup of coffee.  If you’ve been reading my adventures for a while, you probably know that I’m pretty attached to having half & half in my coffee.  And, on the 1500 calorie diet, it might seem that cutting calories and using half & half might be incompatible.  While the concept of counting calories is usually thought to bring about such agonizing revelations as our coffee drink has more fat than a Big Mac, the case of half & half is one that is more welcome than not.  One tablespoon of half & half is 20 calories.  That’s it.  In one of my big mugs of coffee, I’d use two tablespoons…which is 40 calories of yum  and happiness.  I’m not going to give up that slice of comfort that kickstarts my day…or the next two cups of similar comfort.

That said, I won’t sit and drink 40-calorie cups of coffee all day…I may be bad at math, but even I know how fast they can add up against a 1500 calorie balance.  Sure, it’s not a full-octane sugary Mountain Dew, but the same idea behind “empty calories” is there…and is to be avoided.

I first started drinking cream in my coffee when I first tried the 1500 calorie diet.  No kidding.  I added calories when I should’ve been subtracting.  But, the reason why I added half & half was because I am well aware that a good way to get the metabolism going in the morning is to give it something to metabolize.  To me, the perfect I-don’t-wanna-eat-much-but-need-to-start-my-metabolism solution was milk or cream…in my coffee.  Because I shouldn’t drink fluids for 1/2 hour before eating, while eating, or 1/2 hour after eating, I was NOT going to sacrifice my coffee for any stinking food.  So, I married the two and turned my coffee into fuel for my body.  Even better, it’s a fatty-ish food.  It’ll help put the sheen in my hair.

So, there you have it: Paragraphs rationalizing my decision to have cream in my coffee.

It’s a little piece of heaven. And, when my brother challenged my cream in front of my mother, she told him to pipe down as it’s how I get my calcium.

I’ll take that one, too.