To use Hot Chocolate as my main drink instead of coffee?

Diabetes, calories, sugar etc aside, you're literally bathing your teeth in sugar multiple times a day for a prolonged period of time if you're enjoying it a sip or two at a time whilst chatting. It's a recipe for very quick tooth decay.

For teeth it's not the amount of sugar that matters as much as the frequency of exposure to it. So for example if you have four hot chocolates in a day it would be better for your teeth to have them all in one go rather than have one every couple of hours (I'm not saying do this!!!)

Couldn't you limit it to one a day and just get hot water or a herbal type tea the other times? Or just a cold drink.

Sounds like far too much sugar to make it worth the energy boost. Just make sure you are drinking enough water during the day. I think that’s probably the answer to a lot of things. Fatigue? Bloating? Dry skin? Heartburn? Constipation? Happens to me when I eat too much sugar and don’t drink enough water.

Why is it any of his business?

Why would you need lower sugar when breastfeeding?

Multiple hot chocolates a day? The sugar will peak you up but it’s a bad idea in terms of calories in. Have something else FGS.

Drink whatever the hell you want

That's sad.

There is a huge middle ground between hot water and 4+ hot chocolates.

I don’t like tea or coffee and have a hot chocolate pretty much every mid morning, mainly as I find it keeps my hunger at bay between breakfast and lunchtime. If I miss it, I’d graze on all sorts so I’m better off with it! I wouldn’t have more than one a day due to calories and sugar but I’d like to! If I go out for a cuppa in a coffee shop I’d choose a fruit tea but not really enjoy it.

Yes YABU you will get diabetes. Please stop for the good of your health.

I’m like you OP - hate tea and coffee and quite like hot chocolate, so will have that to “fit in” at Mum groups if everyone else is having a hot drink and it’s available. I don’t have it multiple times a day - but only because I’d still crave a choc bar or pudding each day even with several cups and I don’t want to gain anymore weight!

But if you aren’t overweight like me or breastfeeding (and so needing to watch your caffeine/sugar limit with multiple cups), then you do you! Hot chocolate isn’t much different to coffee if you load that with cream, syrups, sugar etc imo . I’m assuming your DH is the sophisticated “Black Coffee only” type (preferably of single origin beans, made fresh in a proper French press). We just aren’t sophisticated enough!🤣

Edit: If you are breastfeeding, then I’d suggest looking into lower sugar options or making your own with milk and cocoa powder or even a small amount of grated darker choc - as commercial hot chocolate can be very sweet. Also make sure you try to add up how much caffeine over the day you’re likely taking in too (I don’t blame you though, any form of choc definitely helps you keep going when sleep deprived !)

It seems like you'd be lucky if it didn't make you gain quite a lot of weight. That x 3 alongside three meals a day would be around an extra thousand calories. Try and have only one a day, and get used to plainer drinks like herbal tea? That seems a bit more reasonable.

Well I wouldn’t as it would double my daily calorie intake compared to coffee and I think the sugar would spike my blood sugar

I would think if you are drinking hot chocolate like people drink tea/coffee you will end up putting on a chunk of weight eventually as it’s full of calories and a shit ton of sugar.

I have a hot chocolate as a treat and give it to my kids as a treat but I wouldn’t have multiple cups a day.

Too many calories for several a day

I don’t understand why this is a discussion, honestly.

Hot chocolate will have more fat and sugar than most cups of coffee, but then coffees can be heavily laden as well. Nothing else is relevant.

So consider the nutrition content of what you’re drinking and how it fits into your overall diet, and tell your husband to fuck off. You don’t need him or anyone else managing your diet for you.

Chocolate does have some caffeine in so it would give you that, but as others have said its the calories and probobly the additives. I hate coffee too and had to look around for a drink I like - I've settled on peppermint or fruit teas. But these dont have caffeine in and I try to manage without caffeine entirely. If I'm desperate, eg if i have to drive and I'm tired, I take a caffein tablet. they are really cheap and effective.

I am not a big coffee drinker as dont like instant, WFH and too lazy to make one in our machine.

I do drink loads of instant horlicks with a drop of full fat milk (fresh from the farm down the road 🤤) to make it less like malty lava.

It much more nutritious than hot chocolate, loads of minerals and vitamins - not sure about sugar but believe there is no added?

I love it; tastes like a liquid version of the middle of a malteaser and has the ability to perk me up or put me to sleep depending on my mood

I limit how much hot chocolate we drink. The one's you add water to have a lot of sugar in. I wouldn't have more than one a day. At home I usually do it with cocoa powder and milk and add my own sugar. Usually 1/2-1tsp. But I still wouldn't have anymore. What about herbal teas if you don't like standard tea?

Has anyone else noticed there are three separate coffee threads in one night?

Go for it.

I think cacao powder is totally unprocessed ie it is just the powdered version of the cacao nibs so therefore better for you nutritionally, with nothing added/removed etc.

Hot chocolate instead coffee is fine. Having hot chocolate as your main drink is not.

It will be spiking your blood sugar and causing tiredness later, which will then make you want / need more to get another spike. Coffee doesn't do that.

How's your diet OP? Maybe you need a steadier energy flow from that.