Thoughts on coffee during weight loss

BobbyDaniel

I guess it helps me that I do drink my coffee black too; so the calorie intake is minimal at best.

calamitydown

it makes me poop! weight loss indeed..but not fat :-X tehe

Yeah, coffee and my stomach don't get along. I get the bubble guts right away. But if I take caffeine pills, my stomach is fine. It's weird.

This is because it's not the caffeine in the coffee that is stimulating the bowel, but an enzyme found in the coffee that is a natural irritant to the colon (not to mention the all the acid!). Even people that drink decaf can still have bowel problems with coffee!

kendrafallon

I have a cup of coffee every morning with (GASP!!!) real sugar

Me too!!!! :laugh: I try and limit my coffee to 3 or 4 a day in total, I used to drink in excess of 10 mugs of coffee a day (black with 2 sugars). Only the 1st coffee of the day has real sugar in it now, the rest (with milk) are without sweetner or sugar. I'm not giving up coffee for anybody!!

Pebble321

Drink it, enjoy it, count the calories in it (although if you drink it black, no sugar like me, I don't bother to log those 2 calories a day!).

Unless of course you are drinking those liquid candy drinks from Starbucks, I don't consider those coffee, and don't suggest you drink them. I also don't understand "creamer", I think it is yet another one of those odd american food-like-substances!