Tasting Coffee for Weight Loss

Coffee and Weight Loss: How Caffeine Helps Burn Fat

The caffeine in coffee promotes the breakdown of fat and releases it into the bloodstream, which is why drinking coffee can support weight loss. Generally, four cups a day without sugar or milk can produce the desired result. However, people with poor digestion, excess stomach acid or a tendency toward insomnia should avoid this approach.

Tips for Coffee Weight Loss

If You're Not Used to Coffee's Bitter Taste

If the bitterness of coffee puts you off, you can add a small amount of milk - but never sugar, since sugar works against fat breakdown.

Hot Coffee Is More Effective Than Iced Coffee

Hot coffee helps your body burn calories faster. Light-roast coffee is the most effective. Coffee roasted at high temperatures may be richer in flavor, but it contains less caffeine and is less helpful for weight loss, while a milder American-style coffee is more beneficial.

Weight Loss Through Coffee Aroma

The aroma of coffee helps steady your mood and sharpens your senses, so a cup at work can both improve your efficiency and strengthen your motivation to lose weight.

Post-Coffee Exercise Weight Loss Method

Blood fatty acid concentration rises 30-40 minutes after drinking coffee, which makes that window the perfect time to pair it with moderate exercise; the fatty acids can then be converted into heat and burned off effectively. Try a 10-15 minute brisk walk, take the stairs instead of the elevator back to the office or home, or do small exercises on the spot: twisting and stretching the upper body, stepping, or tightening the abdomen.

Coffee Grounds Massage Weight Loss Method

Massaging with used coffee grounds not only leaves skin smooth but also has a firming, beautifying effect. If you mix the grounds with brewed coffee and apply the paste to areas where fat tends to collect - the abdomen, thighs, waist and hips - moving along the direction of blood and lymph flow toward the heart, you can support fat breakdown. The effect is even better when massaging during a bath.

Coffee Leg Slimming Method

Materials: an appropriate amount of coffee powder, an appropriate amount of massage oil
Method: mix the coffee powder with the massage oil and massage in spiral motions over the thighs and any other areas you want to slim.

Effects: coffee powder promotes blood circulation in the skin, helps prevent cellulite from forming, and leaves the skin on the thighs and elsewhere firmer.

Optimal Office Coffee Weight Loss Times

1. Within 30 minutes to 1 hour after lunch, enjoy a cup of rich, unsweetened coffee with no creamer, which aids digestion after the meal and promotes fat burning.

2. Drink another cup before leaving work, and pair it with walking.

FrontStreet Coffee Recommendation

For this kind of drinking, a coffee you can have black every day matters more than a spectacular one. Medium roasts sit in the sweet spot: dark enough to keep the cup sweet and rounded, light enough to hold on to some acidity, so you can drink it without sugar or milk and still enjoy it. FrontStreet Coffee's Brazil Queen Estate is a good example - a yellow Bourbon from Brazil, the world's largest coffee producer, roasted medium to give cream peanut, chocolate, toast and sugarcane sweetness. It is mild and clean rather than sharp, and works as pour-over, moka pot or espresso.

If you prefer something sweeter and fruitier, FrontStreet Coffee's Strawberry Candy pairs a Costa Rican honey-processed coffee with a washed Panamanian Geisha and roasts it medium. The cup has the orange-blossom honey character and a round sweetness, and it holds up to cold brew, pour-over and espresso alike, which makes it an easy one to keep on hand.

For a lower-acid, tea-like cup, FrontStreet Coffee's 2013 Yunnan natural Typica is roasted medium and shows nut, brown sugar, black tea and dried apricot. It is gentle and balanced, and suits pour-over, cold brew or a drip machine.

And if you want the classic balanced profile, FrontStreet Coffee's Jamaica Blue Mountain No.1 is also roasted medium, blending chocolate, roasted nut, cream and caramel into the same sweet-sour-bitter-harmony that has made Blue Mountain famous. Drink it black within an hour or so of a meal and pair it with a short walk, following the routine above.