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Myth or Fact that coffee could help your diet?
12 Jan 2023
Myth or Fact that coffee could help your diet?
12 Jan 2023

Is it true that drinking coffee can lose weight? Besides fruits and vegetables which are rich in fiber, coffee can also help you lose weight. Maybe not many people know that coffee can lose weight, but coffee can lose weight as long as you drink it the right way. How to drink the right coffee to lose weight?

Drinking coffee can reduce hunger, this research has been carried out by dietitian Nataly Komova, who confirmed that coffee can lose weight. If we look now, there are lots of contemporary coffees with added calories and the taste is so tempting.


Don't worry, you can still enjoy coffee without gaining weight, here are the tips:

1. Black Coffee Without Added Sweetener

One way to drink coffee for weight loss is to drink it without sugar. Drinking coffee without sugar is one way that making a coffee habit can help you lose weight or at least build a healthy habit. Since coffee without sugar contains less than 5 calories, eating too much-added sugar can not only lead to weight gain but can also increase the risk of diabetes and heart disease. So, with that said, it's best if you set aside contemporary coffees.

2. Not Taken To Start The Day

Coffee can also be used as breakfast, but it's better before drinking coffee, you better eat breakfast first and then drink coffee. Coffee can reduce hunger, but doesn't let you not eat. If you don't have breakfast, then you can overeat during the day or night. Your diet will be in vain.

3. Choose the Right Time

Drinking coffee after work time, like at 18.00 or 19.00, is very tempting. However, if you want to lose weight, this habit should be avoided, to maintain sleep quality and body hormones.

If you drink coffee too close to bedtime, it can disrupt sleep patterns and eliminate the opportunity to get quality sleep. Drinking coffee at night can make you sleep less and can increase hunger.

4. The choice of coffee-drinking friends is also important

If we have the desire to lose weight, make sure we avoid high-calorie snacks that will be consumed together with drinking coffee. Maybe we usually enjoy coffee with cookies, biscuits, or bread. It doesn't matter if you only do it occasionally, but often consuming high-calorie snacks with coffee can thwart your weight loss plan.

5. Add cinnamon powder

When drinking coffee, you can add cinnamon powder, the combination of coffee and cinnamon powder can promote weight loss. The trick is to prepare a cup of hot black coffee, then add a quarter teaspoon of cinnamon powder.

6. Coffee And Dark Chocolate

Have you ever tried Dark Chocolate? The taste of Dark Chocolate is sweet and bitter, you can add black coffee with Dark Chocolate, the combination of coffee and chocolate is indeed a deliciously unique blend. Not only a matter of taste, this combination of coffee and chocolate also has uses, especially for those of you who want to lose weight.

Source: CNN Indonesia