Giving up tea and caffine

decaf tea is full of toxins? first i've heard of that.

anytime you hear something like this, i would confirm it by looking at real, peer-reviewed studies. you can find the database of them here : http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed

there is a lot of unscientific woo out there.

as for giving up caffeine, i did so in 2010. it wasn't too bad; had a low grade headache for a week or so, but it didn't bother me much. i'm probably less tired now than when i was drinking a ton of regular coffee. i currently drink decaf coffee and tea.

It does not have toxins. Period.

The issue with caffeine is that if taken within a few hours before bed, it can affect the quality or length or your sleep. Adequate sleep in both time and quality is essential for weight loss.

Otherwise, a morning cup or two or three is not going to hurt.

I cut out caffeine months ago and it's amazing how much MORE energy I have now. It took about two weeks for my body to adjust to no caffeine but then my energy levels just shot up immensely. I even needed less sleep at night and started to wake up long before my alarm went off. Now I run on about 6 hours of sleep and that's all I need.

I now have ONE cup of coffee in the morning but not because I need the caffeine but because I enjoy it. For the rest of the day it's water.

I have heard from several sources that decaf is not really good for you. It's better than the caffeine but "better than" does not mean healthy.

My only real advise is to cut it out slowly in order to avoid the caffeine withdrawal headaches, they can get pretty bad if you're used to drinking a lot of the stuff.

The decaffeination process usually involves the use of solvents like benzene, dichloromethane or ethyl acetate. Some nutritionists are concerned residues of these solvents can remain with decaffeinated product. But when I researched it, I couldn't find any authoritative research labeling decaf tea/coffee as unsafe.

nonsense.

How can it negatively effect weight loss? Unless it is effecting your sleep I see no problem with it at all.

I am pretty fit and have quite a bit of caffeine everyday.

there are tons of studies documenting benefits of caffeine. Like anything, you can over do a good thing.

Are there toxins in decaf tea? It is possible that cheaper companies that use cheaper tea bags or lame processing plants MAY have some toxins but I imagine most anything processed or put on grocery shelves in a package can be described as having some sort of toxin in it. Good quality tea does not contain toxins itself. If it did, we would have heard that before.

I doubt I would follow this guys advice.

I was getting unbearable headaches and found through research that it was my caffeine consumption. I spent a year being obsessed with gaining knowledge about how caffeine affects people and found that schizophrenics consume way more caffeine than the general population, and most show major improvement once off and through withdrawal. Get the book 'Caffeine Blues'; it dissects everything you want to know about this subject. I am off my Dr. Pepper and coffee and am managing much better mentally and headachewise. Now if I spend a weekend consuming caffeine, I pay for it with half a week of depression and migraines.

It does not have toxins. Period.

Not necessarily true. Green teas in particular can have a large amount of flouride in them, which can cause crippling flurosis. The odds of that happening at 7 cups of tea is pretty slim.

Caffeine is beneficial to weight loss - it's a thermogenic and an appetite suppressant. I'm not sure who gave you this advice, OP, but it's pretty terrible.

Hi...! I gave up caffeine myself a month ago...it took that long! Terrible headaches and mood swings....still looking for a good tasting decaf...anyone know of one? Thanks!!

Hi guys,

I thought I would just see what you thought about some info that I was given at the health MOT I had at the gym last week.

The main thing that has come out of it from the Health Advisor is that I need to seriously cut cups of tea and caffine out of my diet. He said a couple a day is fine but I was drinking about 7 a day and he said this is really bad for weight loss. I asked if de-caf tea is ok and he said no because it's still full of toxins.

I've been on the herbal teas and water for a week now which has been really hard, but has anyoen else been told this? Most people I know seem to be quite surprised by it. I'm still in the early stages and I have defintely noticed some benefites such as being able to get up much easier and earlier in the morning but I haven't noticed much in the weight loss department.

You must be Irish as they drink more tea than any other country.
But to answer your question
A cup of black tea has 5 calories

Hi there 2 months ago I went from about 6 coffees + 1 sugar and 2 teas a day, to 2 cups of coffee with skim milk (no sugar) in the morning before 830, I sleep a hell of a lot better and I do appear to have more energy but this may be due to other healthy changes made.

Now i read a book the lean and clean diet and the author had a lot to say about caffeine, so I'll put a condensed write up :

Coffee can actually burn fat, give you antioxidents & improve performance in the gym. But when you have too much it becomes fattening because it places stress on the adrenal glands, disturbs sleep, dehydrates you and stops you drinking enough water. The author recommends 1 cup of organic coffee a day, why organic? Coffee uses a hell of a lot of pesticide, its a valuable crop and they want the most from it. quote James Duigan

Best of luck cutting back worked for me, as did the exercise and clean eating but im sure it helped

Look up "swiss water decaf". No toxins. There's something to be said about having SOME caffeine in your diet though; research shows that regular caffeine drinkers have a lower rate of occurrence of Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, liver cirrhosis, and gallstones.

You'll have to pry coffee from my cold dead hands.

Hi there 2 months ago I went from about 6 coffees + 1 sugar and 2 teas a day, to 2 cups of coffee with skim milk (no sugar) in the morning before 830, I sleep a hell of a lot better and I do appear to have more energy but this may be due to other healthy changes made.

Now i read a book the lean and clean diet and the author had a lot to say about caffeine, so I'll put a condensed write up :

Coffee can actually burn fat, give you antioxidents & improve performance in the gym. But when you have too much it becomes fattening because it places stress on the adrenal glands, disturbs sleep, dehydrates you and stops you drinking enough water. The author recommends 1 cup of organic coffee a day, why organic? Coffee uses a hell of a lot of pesticide, its a valuable crop and they want the most from it. quote James Duigan

Best of luck cutting back worked for me, as did the exercise and clean eating but im sure it helped

I find this information helpful. You seem to drink about the same amount of coffee as me, and around the same time of day, and I do find that I can easily relax and fall asleep at night.
And I know that many sports doctors will advise athletes to have a cup of coffee roughly and hour to a half hour before a competition because it increases performance... but I think it's something you have to really monitor and control to when and if it's right for you. I drank a cup of coffee on the weekend about 2 hours before my volleyball game, and i was a jittery mess. :P