Coffee and weight gain...?
KKSW1981
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Hey friends! Your opinions on coffee/caffeine effecting fat loss??? I'm not talking about cream and sugar (that's obvious) but do you think coffee/caffeine effects metabolism negatively by messing with hormones, cortisol, etc????
Thanks in advance ❤
Thanks in advance ❤
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No. Coffee hasn't negatively affected my weight loss.9
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No. Caffeine hasn't affected my weight loss. In fact, it may slightly help me because I am much more likely to overeat when tired.5
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No. If anything, I would think plain black coffee would help since it is known as an appetite suppressant and the caffeine would provide more energy/more movement to burn (slightly) more calories.13
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Not at all. I drink black iced coffee every day, in significant quantities, and lose exactly as expected for the deficit from my TDEE.4
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I find coffee suppresses my appetite a bit, I lost weight as expected, and it protects the people I work with from experiencing me without caffeine.29
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Nope coffee has really helped me lose weight.. it surpresses my appetite, makes me feel energized and distracts me from eating.5
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No coffee suppresses my appetite a bit. Either that or it just distracts me enough to where I forget about eating lol2
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I have not had any negative effects from drinking coffee either while losing or maintaining nor have I seen any studies to show such effects. Unlike others, it does not suppress my appetite but it does give some zing to my workouts.2
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I'm a diabetic and I can tell when my cortisol levels are elevated because my glucose levels are higher than expected. I haven't noticed coffee having any effect at all, while a mild cold, or even an argument with my spouse, has a very noticeable effect.3
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Awesome. Thank you for all your comments.1
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Tacklewasher wrote: »
Had a coworker come to me with something before I was 3 sips into my coffee...I shoo’d him away for 20min4 -
Coffee may well help with your workout: https://www.physiology.org/doi/full/10.1152/japplphysiol.00570.20141
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Nope. If anything, it helps with weight loss, both because of the caffeine (energy) and the room it occupies in the stomach (less hunger).1
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I've been consuming an entire 64 oz pot of black coffee each day since my retirement. I've lost weight. The pot of coffee logs as 8 calories.3
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Nope. Everytime I drink black coffee, it helps me feel more energized for my workouts, keeps my stomach full, and helps with my weight loss.0
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Coffee helps me intermittent fast ... no hunger pain1
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id probably be thinner if i stopped drinking coffee, mainly because id be in prison for murdering people.
my creamer calories are written in stone and non negotiable.
coffee itself has few calories and no effect on anything.3 -
Y'know what's a key ingredient in many over-the-counter diet supplements? Caffeine.
(Do they work? Not much . . . or not better than coffee, anyway. Tiny energy boost, possible appetite supressant for some people.)1 -
Cassandraw3 wrote: »No. If anything, I would think plain black coffee would help since it is known as an appetite suppressant and the caffeine would provide more energy/more movement to burn (slightly) more calories.
unless you are like me and caffeine doesnt provide you energy or supresses appetite. I just drink it because I like it lol0 -
I drink 1-4 cups of coffee (usually plain, sometimes with zero calorie sweetener or cashew milk) a day, have since I started MFP in 2015. It doesn't seem to interfere with my loss/maintaining at all. In fact, I think it works as an appetite suppressant in my case.0
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Coffee helps me wake up in the morning ( although I have wondered how much of that is placebo effect)
And sometimes find it hard to sleep if I drink it in the evening.
Have not noticed any effect on weight loss - although, of course, I do log it.
In my case, only twenty calories per cup for the Small amount of skim milk, I do not add anything else.0 -
For me coffee is like a meal...it surpasses my appetite.. I enjoy it. it gives me pleasure and I'm sure distracts me from eating. love it.0
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As a type 1 diabetic, I notice black coffee results in a BG spike... this is likely from glycogenolysis, which would, in isolation, cause weight loss (mostly water weight).
The topic of BG spikes resulting from coffee comes up from time to time in diabetes forums. Interestingly enough, many diabetics commenting on this topic do not see similar BG spikes with caffeine from other sources. A few other ideas have been floated as to what, if not caffeine, causes a BG spike from black coffee consumption.2 -
No. Coffee hasn't negatively affected my weight loss.
It doesn't suppress my appetite ... if anything it makes me feel hungry because it can make me a little jittery which my body translates as hunger ... but I find if I drink a glass of water at the same time I drink my coffee, that helps.1 -
I gained a whole lot of weight in the first place by getting my caffeine fix through Coca Cola. Always hated coffee.
When I got serious and shed a bunch of weight I acquired a taste for black coffee (not all of it, but most of the type I drink now).
I drink about 5-7 cups per week, usually one per day, once in awhile 2, and sometimes none. Its appetite suppression effects are real. The caffeine effects are much stronger than Coke, and it generally leaves me alert for 4 hours plus.
I read more and more studies all the time about the real benefits of coffee with very little downside.1 -
midwesterner85 wrote: »As a type 1 diabetic, I notice black coffee results in a BG spike... this is likely from glycogenolysis, which would, in isolation, cause weight loss (mostly water weight).
The topic of BG spikes resulting from coffee comes up from time to time in diabetes forums. Interestingly enough, many diabetics commenting on this topic do not see similar BG spikes with caffeine from other sources. A few other ideas have been floated as to what, if not caffeine, causes a BG spike from black coffee consumption.
Yup. I have to bolus ~16 gm of carbs — so just about a unit — to avoid the coffee spike. I don’t get a similar spike with Diet Coke.
That unit is totally worth it.1 -
collectingblues wrote: »midwesterner85 wrote: »As a type 1 diabetic, I notice black coffee results in a BG spike... this is likely from glycogenolysis, which would, in isolation, cause weight loss (mostly water weight).
The topic of BG spikes resulting from coffee comes up from time to time in diabetes forums. Interestingly enough, many diabetics commenting on this topic do not see similar BG spikes with caffeine from other sources. A few other ideas have been floated as to what, if not caffeine, causes a BG spike from black coffee consumption.
Yup. I have to bolus ~16 gm of carbs — so just about a unit — to avoid the coffee spike. I don’t get a similar spike with Diet Coke.
That unit is totally worth it.
@collectingblues Are you type 1 or type 2? I'm type 2 but not on insulin and see no effects from coffee. Since type 1 which midwesterner has is not caused by insulin resistance, that suggests to me that maybe a cortisol spike is not what causes the coffee effect. Very interesting.0
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