Annoyingly, I am sometimes forced to ingest extra calories due to my own stupidity. Today, my daily 3 cups of coffee ended up adding a whopping 96 calories because I made it too strong.
I usually use 4 scoops of coffee for a full pot. But only making 3 cups, I should only use about 2.5 scoops. But on autopilot, I added the full 4 (heaping!) scoops, which made my coffee more like a double espresso!
So to get it down my neck, I had to forgo my usual one teaspoon of sugar for THREE. As each teaspoon is 16 calories, that was an extra 32 calories per cup.
Of course, I’m sure I could have easily dumped the pot and started again, but I hate wasting things…
Still - starving children in Africa aren’t exactly suffering if I throw away my coffee, so perhaps I should have bit the bullet. With that extra 100ish calories, I could have had any number of treats!
Don’t believe me? Check out this from Web MD.
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