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How Black Coffee Saves Me 98,550 Calories Per Year

Gabe Johansson
2 min readDec 16, 2023

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Most people don’t know this about me, but I didn’t always drink black coffee despite putting it in my social media bio like it’s some kind of personality type.

And I didn’t really start drinking any kind of coffee until the tail end of high school, but when I finally got around to it…

I would get medium caramel iced coffees with extra cream and extra sugar.

Delicious and nutritious…

…if nutritious meant tons of sugar, caffeine, and a decent bit of dietary fat.

Either way, it was sitting around 270 calories and I would have one of these nearly every day.

And sometimes I would get a large which would be even more calories.

For the sake of example, let’s just say I averaged those 270 calories of liquid dessert every day:

270 x 365 days = 98,550 calories.

That’s not even considering any other calorie laden drinks like soda or alcohol either…

If my diet was on point and I was eating the exact amount of calories to maintain my weight, but added this so-called coffee in…

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Gabe Johansson
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