Skipping breakfast question

[plasticserenity]

Hi everyone!

I'm currently 12 days into my pink sway lifestyle and feeling pretty good about it :) I've managed to do my 60 minutes of cardio for 11 out of those 12 days and it honestly hasn't been as difficult as I expected to fit it into my day!

Food-wise I've stopped eating meat and found that my protein and calorie intake has slotted into place quite nicely as a result of this, so all going okay there too. I've cut out snacking between meals, and I am having two meals a day. It's still early days, but I'm feeling cautiously optimistic!

My question comes regarding whats best for the breakfast skipping. I'm actually fine with this - I've always preferred having my evening meal about 8/9pm, then nothing until after 12pm the next day so it comes naturally to me anyway. However - until just now, I hadn't been taking into account my cups of coffee. I know coffee is good for a pink sway which is why I switched from tea, but I have mine with semi skimmed milk - maybe around 30ml per cup (no sugar but a sweetener), so about 15 to 20 calories per drink I reckon. And I probably have 1 or 2 cups spread out over the morning before my lunch at 12pm. I was wondering if this is enough to cause my blood sugar to rise, therefore ruining the efforts of skipping breakfast to keep blood sugar low?

Also, though I am no longer snacking, I am having coffee with milk pretty much whenever I feel like it. As I'm not restricting to just having them with meals, does it count as a snack in terms of blood sugar?

I could try to switch to black coffee, but it might be more of a struggle for me to stick to (it's kinda yuck :D). The alternative is just having water, but coffee definitely helps my day at work go a little easier :D

Thanks in advance for any advice :heart:

[foxtrotmama]

I believe that atomic says she had coffee with milk or sugar when she conceived her DD. :)

Personally, I worked myself to artificially sweetening but not putting milk in my morning coffee.

[Butterflies buttercups]

I had semi skimmed milk in my coffees all morning and all afternoon with sweetener
As can't stand black coffee- I'm yet to find out what I'm having


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

[Throwaway_panther]

I had coffee with almond milk and sugar free sweetener before my DD. I used to follow Intermittent Fasting, which says that anything under 50 calories in the morning doesn't count as breaking the fast, so I made sure to follow that with my coffee.

[kittendreams]

Oooh glad to read that Throwaway Panther I am having unsweetened almond milk in my morning coffees (3!) due to ds2 having a milk and soy allergy. I have 3 coffees with almond milk and equal and then to get through to lunch without eating I have a Pepsi max or diet coke.

[plasticserenity]

Almond milk is a good idea! It's about half the calories of semi skimmed milk I think, is that right? I haven’t actually tried it in coffee before but I like it in smoothies, so maybe I'll like it :)

[atomic sagebrush]

Coffee with milk or other whitener is fine.

Technically, it should be unsweetened or with artificial sweetener (low or no calorie) but yes s someone mentioned I did choose to cheat on this and have real sugar. I don't recommend it for you guys, but it was just something that I was willing to take a chance on.

[atomic sagebrush]

Oooh glad to read that Throwaway Panther I am having unsweetened almond milk in my morning coffees (3!) due to ds2 having a milk and soy allergy. I have 3 coffees with almond milk and equal and then to get through to lunch without eating I have a Pepsi max or diet coke.

I have some suspicions about almond milk swaying pink anyway (and I'm all but 100% certain skim milk does sway pink) so those two things are great choices for pink swayers.

BUT if you have PCO, insulin resistance, are over 38-ish, have more than 30 lbs to lose, or have any reason to believe you have trouble with insulin, full fat dairy only. Nothing carby if you can avoid it.