Should I give up coffee?

I have been drinking coffee from the very begining and haven't had any problems.

I couldnt give up my one cup of coffee in the morning. I could drink it all day. In the sweltering heat. I love coffee. I hope it doesnt prevent me from losing weight because I can give up candy cakes cokes and chips but I have to draw a line with the coffee. Good luck!

I drink a big 24oz of real 8 O'clock coffee just about every morning. I grind the beans myself and make it in a french press, and I make it way too strong. It hasn't bothered me, and I wouldn't give it up for anything.

I used to drink a cup of coffee every morning as well because I wasn't getting very much sleep. I decided to just work on getting 7-8 hours of sleep every night, dropped the coffee, and started drinking a lot of water. The only time I get yawny and tired if is I couldn't get to sleep (like last night) or ate a lot of carbs the day before. I feel so much better without coffee, I'll never go back!!

Basically from what I get after reading that article is that it makes you stressed and makes you hungry. In turn causes you to eat. If it doesn't do that then it's not going to affect your weight loss. I would think it's only going to affect it if you are loading it up with calories.

I gave up coffee for other reasons. But drinking it never really had an effect on weight loss. To be honest, I know I'm better off without caffeine but I dont feel any different than I did. I'm still always tired!!!

every person is different. and i know your post is about coffee but my story is about diet soda(coke zero). march was a year that i gave it up. my trainer just knew i would lose about 10 lbs from stopping it in about 3 months tops. so i quit cold turkey did great like i said march was a year for me. i did not lose a pound not one stinkin pound(all i drank was water, thats it). i didn't feel healthier or clearer or any difference. and i actually gained about 5-6 lbs and have to work harder to keep it off bc, when i used to reach for a coke zero, i turned to reach for food. and even healthy food has calories.
i found out later that results on drinks like tht are different for everyone, some ppl do lose weight by quitting diet soda or coffee, the diet soda it depends on your normal sodium level and how your body holds it, since i don't add salt to anything, the sodium in the diet soda wasn't hurting me. i know it may not be the healthiest thing in the world. but i'm going back to it, i'd rather grab a calorie free drink i enjoy when i'm craving comfort than food.

A recent Cambridge study found that coffee drinkers are 33% less likely to have a stroke than non-coffee drinkers. It doesn't matter how much coffee you have a day, what type of coffee (brew, drip, press...), or even if it was decaf. I only read the abstract and not the article, so I have no explanation for why.

I drink a big 24oz of real 8 O'clock coffee just about every morning. I grind the beans myself and make it in a french press, and I make it way too strong. It hasn't bothered me, and I wouldn't give it up for anything.

My boss calls this kind of coffee "Big Girl Coffee" HAHA, since our office is full of women and she loves it this way....the stronger the better...even her husband has to weaken it to drink it! LOL

I gave it up for two weeks because I could have hot tea with Truvia and have no calories, versus all the flavored cream I put in my giant cup of coffee (about 100 cals!). After two weeks of total exhaustion and crankiness, I went back to my best friend, Mr. Coffee!! I just make the extra calories fit into my day. Its worth it to me!

I drink coffee with a teaspoon of fat free half and half, then I switch to unsweetened tea in the afternoon. I love it and it keeps me full. Coffee and tea keep me from snacking. I have never liked sweetener in coffee, try it without for a few days, you will love it.

I too drink about 24 oz. of coffee a day. I only put either milk or soy or whatever white beverage we've got in the fridge in the morning however.

And like other people said; They'd have to pry the cup from my cold dead fingers. The only way I'd give up coffee is if a doctor told me it was going to kill me. It is my one vice I suppose. Could I cut back? Yes. There are weeks that I drink much less, but mostly I drink a cup when I get ready in the morning then my travel mug full, which I think is like 16 or 20 oz.

To answer your Q though....I say if you are feeling good phycially and mentally and still losing weight then don't change what you are doing. It's when you start feeling crappy or aren't losing weight that you want to try different things to see if it helps.

I gave up the flavored creamer-which I tend to think I enjoyed more than the coffee itself-but still drink my travel mug of black coffee on the way to work. I allow myself one cup of coffee WITH my favorite creamer on the weekends. YUM! :drinker: :drinker:

Still not sure? Try going without for a week or two and just see how you feel. Maybe there will be a differance?

I really don't drink a lot of coffee but I did switch to Organic decaff, organic sugar and organic fat free milk. I figure if I'm going to try to eliminate something or try to switch to diet I might as well do it in a healthy way..GO ORGANIC!!