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

Probably quite a lot of sugar like others have said. You could try wean yourself off needing it. Easier said than done I know but I weaned myself off coffee (just one a day now) and feel so much better for it, although it was hard initially. Your body will get used to not having the high amounts of sugar in it eventually and you may feel better for it. Drink lots of water and get some fresh air to feel awake if you can. If that fails maybe go see your GP about any deficiency if you're feeling as tired as you said you feel.

Cacao powder in the purest form is great. Quite nutritious has a lot of good minerals in. I use organic cacao powder and milk and it is delicious. Proper hot chocolate I'd say is this, not that processed crap full of sugar. Although it's possibly still quite high in carbs so not that great for you in that respect.

Baby adult doesn’t even make sense.

I hope there are no babies drinking hot chocolate anyway.
Maybe yours did.

As an adult you can drink and eat whatever you want and unless you’re drinking it out of a baby’s bottle, then it’s not babyish.

I wouldn’t drink hot chocolate all day because of the calories and it would make me feel sick but if I wanted to then I would.

Your attitude is the most childish thing on this thread.

I often have hot chocolate made with just cocoa powder, a dash of salt, and water topped up with milk.

The salt makes all the difference and means that you don't feel the need for sugar.

Once you take sugar out of the equation, cocoa is a great coffee alternative. Not otherwise.

And those stats are for a small/regular cost drink - the large ones are 500ml, so add another 30%

That's the point - a hot chocolate is the equivalent to one of those drinks and she's having multiple a day

Forgot to add this

Hot chocolate is as unhealthy as it gets. It's full of sugar and saturated fat, which is the worst kind. Your basically eating a bar of chocolate when you have a hot chocolate.

Three medium Costa hot chocolates take you to 150% of your recommended daily intake of sugar and 120% of your saturated fats RDA - without any other food or drink being consumed all day.

So yes, you need to find another pick me up if you don't want diabetes and high cholesterol leading to furred up arteries.

Sounds like a great way to get diabetes

It doesn't matter what you drink but multiple times.a day is not doing you any good, far too sugary.

Why worry about not liking coffee? You can have tea or a soft drink - even water.

One hot chocolate is more sugar than is advised for an adult to consume in a day.

It's going to be a bitch of a habit to give up unfortunately - multiple a day means your body is now reliant on the stuff.
Stock up on paracetamol for the headaches and start weaning yourself off.

How can you possibly be unreasonable?

Sugar rush does not exist, there is no mechanism in the body for that to happen.its like expecting a car with a full tank of petrol to go faster than a car with a quarter tank. If anything sugar makes you feel tired and sleepy.

It's got way more calories in it than standard tea or coffee so it wouldn't be for me. If you only drink a couple of hot drinks a day then it's fine.

Agree with this! (I know I’m BU)
It reminds me of when little kids drink ribena from a wine glass pretending it’s alcohol. Just have a tea or coffee like an adult or drink something cold. Drinking multiple hot chocolates a day isn’t normal.

For my mid morning hot drink I have cocoa, made with hot water and topped up with the same quantity of milk I'd put in tea. No sugar. So it has a little more fat that tea or coffee, but lots of flavonoids from the cocoa solids.

I do drink a lot of tea, but like you I dislike coffee.

Unless your hot chocolate is having any bad effects on your general health, drink what you enjoy.

Blood sugar dips?

34g of sugar in a 300ml cadbury's hot chocolate (more in a costa/starbucks)

30g in 300ml of red bull
33g in 300ml of coca cola
32g in 300ml of lemonade
12g in 300ml of ribena
14g in 300ml of irn bru

Kombucha?

I hate coffee. Don't like tea. Don't like coke.

Plenty of flavours to pick from.

Lidl had some cheap bottles on offer last week for their Japanese week which they will probably still have in stock. Two flavours.

Exactly

I think you’re probably guzzling hot chocolate because you’re addicted to the sugar in them. I could drink several a day too, because some are so tasty, but I don’t simply because of the amount of sugar (which I’d rather have in an actual chocolate bar!). I definitely don’t think you are being unreasonable though, just picked up a bad habit ☺️

It depends on the hot chocolate. I make hot chocolate with skimmed milk and a teaspoon of cacao powder. I make it in our induction milk heater/frother. No added sugar and I don't feel I need it, plus the skimmed milk means it's low in saturated fat. I like coffee too, but sometimes hot chocolate is nice.

Yeah if you want to gain a ton of weight?

And I think it probably a placebo anyway. I doubt hot chocolate actually keeps you alert or awake. If anything it's known as a bedtime drink.

That’s a lot of sugar in one day. I rarely drink hot chocolate as I don’t like sweetened drinks . I love a cup of tea with just a splash of milk.
Could you not have green tea instead? I also find drinking lots of water keeps me alert and awake