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Originally Posted by Jinn
Honestly my biggest empty calories are sodas, which is usually one a day. They're 27-40g sugar, which is roughly 100-200 calories. I'd cut them out, but there's simply no way to do 12 hour days consistently without caffeine. Caffeine from tea has no noticeable effect on my alertness, and I can't stomach black coffee. Sweetened coffee has more sugar than soda, so that's not really useful either.
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A teaspoon of sugar is about 12 to 15 calories. If you use one or two teaspoons in your coffee, that would be less than a soda, especially the ones with 40g of sugar. (The sodas on the upper end would have as much as 12 tsp of sugar in them, and on the lower end, you're probably looking at a minimum of 6 tsp. Put that in yer pipe and smoke it.)
Also consider this:
Coffee calories: Sabotaging your weight-loss plans? - MayoClinic.com
Try coffee with a teaspoon of sugar and a tablespoon of low-fat milk. You should still be under 30 calories. That's at least a net loss of 70 to 170 calories per day.
So, yeah, you could put as many as 4 tsp of sugar in your coffee (gross) and still come out on top.