Coffee makes you fat, or does it?
So you have always wondered if all those cups of coffee you drink everyday effect your weight? The answer is of course! Here is a breakdown on the various ways to drink coffee and the effects it will have on your body.
Black Coffee – This is technically the most healthy coffee to drink, no sugar and no milk added, this caffeine enriched treat only contains nine calories a cup. You just burnt those calories by reading this article. Try different flavors, there are many different kinds of coffee in the world, some are bitter some are smooth or tangy, whatever the taste you won’t get fat on black coffee!
Black Coffee with two teaspoons of sugar – The added sugar suddenly sends the tiny nine calories of a cup of black coffee up to 41 calories, 16 per teaspoon of sugar. Think for a moment that on a regular day you have maybe four cups of sweetened black coffee. That’s 164 calories and you haven’t even eaten anything. Why not try a sugar substitute instead? Canderel sweetener only contains two calories. That’s an overall difference of 30 calories per cup.
Coffee with full cream milk, no sugar added – Milk is the big culprit when it comes to gaining weight from drinking coffee. 100ml’s of milk in your coffee adds another 67 calories to your cup. This cup is now 78 calories a cup, four cups a day is 312, and a week turns into 2184 calories on coffee alone. To put it into context that’s the equivalent of two pepperoni pizza’s.
Coffee with milk and sugar – We already know that without sugar the coffee is 78 calories. Add three teaspoons of sugar and it rockets to 126 calories.
There are ways to keep the calories lower, low fat or soy milk for instance, but it all comes back to the same thing. If you are serious about losing weight you might want to cut back on your coffee intake for awhile, or switch to black!


Fri, Dec 2, 2011
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