Green Coffee Bean Extract

I agree with you, if I wanted rudeness, I would argue with a 10 year old, bwahahaha!!

I am currently taking them. I've never been one to try fad's or diet pills, but I was in Whole Foods and I overheard some women talking about it, so on impulse I bought it. I am still exercising regularly and trying to eat a healthy diet, so any weight loss I may have I couldn't attribute solely to the pill.

The bottle says to wait 15/30 minutes before eating after you've taken the pill so it does act as a reminder for me to slow down and not just eat the 2nd I feel a hunger pain or am bored. For me, even if it's just the placebo effect then I'm cool with that. I won't be buying a 2nd bottle but it's helping give me a jump start on weight loss. I know there are other, cheaper, ways to remind myself of those things, but for right now this is what's working.

I was wondering the same thing. THANK GOD I didn't ask this question...sorry that people were/are so rude to you

I've reread this whole thread. I don't see any rudeness. I see some honest assessments that this is a worthless expense that does nothing to promote weight loss. And I know rudeness: I teach middle school.

the "rudeness" card is played here whenever somebody (usually new) doesn't get the response he/she wants when asking a question on these forums.

in reality, what they are objecting to are blunt answers or answers that tell them their assumptions are wrong.

Uh Oh! you mentioned Dr. Oz now half the people will immediately go on a rant about how evil he is - they don't care if he told you to exercise and cut calories - they don't want to hear his name. Dr. Oz does not promote any specific products and does not make money from selling products - he makes money from advertising slots based on number of viewers just like every other talk show. He continually talks about weight loss and labels too many products with hype inducing names like "miracle in a bottle". That does not negate the actual product but does tarnish his name/show as over promoting these products to gain larger viewership.

What you have to remember is never expect a “miracle in a bottle”! This can lead to disappointment, and disappointment is the killer of weight-loss! Green Coffee Bean Extract can be a "helper", but you should always keep expectations in check with a realistic outlook. The results will more than likely be minimal; a small percentage of fat loss over a long period of time.

Dr. Oz did perform an audience experiment with 100 women taking the pills for 2 weeks. Half took the GCBE and half took a placebo.

Total Weight Loss: 123lbs

Pounds lost on Placebo: 41.5lbs
Pounds Lost on Green Coffee Bean Extract: 81.5lbs

Average woman on the placebo lost 1lb.
Average woman on the actual Green Coffee Bean Extract lost 2lbs.


How Green Coffee Bean Extract is supposed to work:



Green Coffee Bean Extract Burns fat faster due to the Chlorogenic acid. Chlorogenic acid is a major polyphenol (antioxidant) in coffee that inhibits the enzyme G6P (glucose-6-phosphatase) that promotes the formation of glucose (sugar) in the liver after a meal. . If the enzyme is inhibited the body has to get its energy from fat cells instead of the release of glucose. Basically, Chlorogenic acid stabilizes blood sugar levels, reduces the absorption of fat from food, and boosts the metabolism; enhancing the burning of fat.

For people saying to just drink coffee:

However, you will not get the same results by drinking the roasted beans in coffee format. Roasting the beans significantly reduces the Chlorogenic Acid. This article published under the US National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19530715 stated “When green beans were roasted at 230 degrees C for 12 min and at 250 degrees C for 21 min, total chlorogenic acid content was reduced to nearly 50% and to almost trace levels, respectively. The results indicate that roasting conditions play an important role in chlorogenic acid content in roasted coffee beans. A general correlation between total caffeoylquinic acids and pH was observed.”

As for keeping you awake at night or giving you the "jitters" or it's all from caffeine:

It is nearly caffeine free about 23mg vs. 100-200mg for a regular cup of coffee (or 400+mg in a Venti-large coffee). No participants in the studies or the Doctor Oz experiment reporting getting the “jitters”, and in fact most participants had reduced heart beats by 2 beats per minute.


Normal disclaimer:

There are no indications of any harmful side effects. As a precaution: The supplement is new, and there is no research on its effects on children. Therefore young people under the age of 18 and pregnant or breast feeding women should not take this supplement. You also shouldn’t take this if you have an allergy to coffee or caffeine.



No! I do not sell anything myself, I just did my own research on it when I heard about it. Weight loss is 80% food and 20% exercise. Eating healthy will always have a greater impact than any supplement (except maybe crack cocaine or meth). Something like this or Raspberry Ketones (or what have you) may provide only fractions of a percentage towards weight loss - and sometimes those small percentages add up over time. You have to balance cost vs possible results vs possible disappointment if you expect too much from it.

yeah i took it for awhile worked to a point....but it isnt as wonderful as they said it was..

I say that if you are already using MyFitnessPal to HELP yourself be more healthy,then if you would like to experiment with supplements that may support you in your journey, GO AHEAD!!! We know that there is no magic easy pill, but I see nothing wrong with using supplements to assist you.

Good luck :flowerforyou:

Edited to remove "name-calling." Hey, at last they will scream at me now instead of you.

You need to add a disclaimer to your Original Post that says: "if you are a self-righteous, skinny person who is going to be total @ss, please do not reply to my question." People get off on being rude I swear!

I say that if you are already using MyFitnessPal to HELP yourself be more healthy,then if you would like to experiment with supplements that may support you in your journey, GO AHEAD!!! We know that there is no magic easy pill, but I see nothing wrong with using supplements to assist you.

Good luck :flowerforyou:

a) this post above was the rudest post on this thread
b) some "supplements" can kill you. once upon a time ephedrine was the latest and greatest weight loss gimmick, until people started to die from it.

You need to add a disclaimer to your Original Post that says: "if you are a self-righteous, skinny person who is going to be total @ss, please do not reply to my question." People get off on being rude I swear!

I say that if you are already using MyFitnessPal to HELP yourself be more healthy,then if you would like to experiment with supplements that may support you in your journey, GO AHEAD!!! We know that there is no magic easy pill, but I see nothing wrong with using supplements to assist you.

Good luck :flowerforyou:

a) this post above was the rudest post on this thread
b) some "supplements" can kill you. once upon a time ephedrine was the latest and greatest weight loss gimmick, until people started to die from it.

My apologies if you were offended, but I have seen over and over and over how frequent posters will CRUCIFY someone for asking a question!!! It is rude and unnecessary!!! And she was asking about coffee bean extract, not phentermine or crack.... most of it is decaffeinated.

You need to add a disclaimer to your Original Post that says: "if you are a self-righteous, skinny person who is going to be total @ss, please do not reply to my question." People get off on being rude I swear!

I say that if you are already using MyFitnessPal to HELP yourself be more healthy,then if you would like to experiment with supplements that may support you in your journey, GO AHEAD!!! We know that there is no magic easy pill, but I see nothing wrong with using supplements to assist you.

Good luck :flowerforyou:

a) this post above was the rudest post on this thread
b) some "supplements" can kill you. once upon a time ephedrine was the latest and greatest weight loss gimmick, until people started to die from it.

My apologies if you were offended, but I have seen over and over and over how frequent posters will CRUCIFY someone for asking a question!!! It is rude and unnecessary!!! And she was asking about coffee bean extract, not phentermine or crack.... most of it is decaffeinated.

Soooo if for the 2 people that felt this post was rude; she didn't mention anyones names and yet you felt that it applied to YOU? Does that mean you actually feel like what you've been saying was rude or people would take it as being rude? Because I didn't feel it applied to me... :laugh:

Most of these pills have the placebo effect. They say oh this pill will give you more energy and suppress your appetite. You start taking it and the first day you think you have more energy and start doing more activity than before. Next thing you know you've lost weight. They trick you into doing the things you can do without the pill to lose weight. If I had a dollar for every time I heard someone say oh I can't change the way I eat/ buys a diet pill and follows the pill diet plan and loses weight. Its not the pill, its the diet. We have to remember that weight loss is a big industry. There's a lot of money in it because people become desperate and will spend 1000's of dollars on anything that says it will make you lose weight.

You need to add a disclaimer to your Original Post that says: "if you are a self-righteous, skinny person who is going to be total @ss, please do not reply to my question." People get off on being rude I swear!

I say that if you are already using MyFitnessPal to HELP yourself be more healthy,then if you would like to experiment with supplements that may support you in your journey, GO AHEAD!!! We know that there is no magic easy pill, but I see nothing wrong with using supplements to assist you.

Good luck :flowerforyou:

a) this post above was the rudest post on this thread
b) some "supplements" can kill you. once upon a time ephedrine was the latest and greatest weight loss gimmick, until people started to die from it.

My apologies if you were offended, but I have seen over and over and over how frequent posters will CRUCIFY someone for asking a question!!! It is rude and unnecessary!!! And she was asking about coffee bean extract, not phentermine or crack.... most of it is decaffeinated.

i'm not offended at the self-righteous or skinny remark. i am neither.

i do get irritated at the repeated but unsupported claims of "rudeness" thrown around here so easily. please tell me exactly what was said on this thread that was rude. i want to know because i genuinely don't see it. i see bluntness. i see an unwillingness by some to cater to diet fad/pill/gimmick mentalities. i don't see rudeness. rudeness is a stranger walking up to you on the street telling you that you're fat and ugly. bluntness is a stranger walking up to you on the street telling you to get the hell out of the street or you're going to get hit by a car. do you see the difference? the latter is telling you something for your own benefit without sugar coating it. the former is just being awful to you for no apparent reason except for their own amusement.

BTW, i don't think you are fat or ugly. i was just using that as an example.

when it comes to weight loss pills/fads/gimmicks, the best you can say about them is:

a) they likely won't hurt you
b) they might possibly give you a tiny percentage increase over what you'd get by just eating less and moving more

so in general, my response to these threads is always "don't do it. it's a waste of money" or "this topic has come up many, many times before. just search through the forums and find the previous threads and you'll find all of your answers"

worst case scenario is that some of these things can truly damage you and/or lead to death. on top of that, many of the people hawking these scams are also a bit shady in their business dealings. e.g., i read an article about when you buy sensa, they automatically set up your credit card for recurring billing without your permission. you have to actively get them to stop charging you when you discover the product doesn't work and you don't want it anymore.

To WinnerVictorious:

The point I was making is that the OP was seeking opinions. Yes, she probably wanted to hear some good reviews, and I'm not suggesting that people should lie/ make up wonderful results only to pacify her.

I came to this thread because my Dad has been trying the green coffee bean extract and YES I've considered it as well. See, I've been trying to lose 30 pounds for over a year but haven't gotten a handle on my hypothyroidism yet and have only succeeded in losing 5.

So I know what it's like to wonder "maybe there is something out there that can help me" in my journey.

There are many posts on this thread as well as others where it's blatantly obvious that people are just posting only to be rude. It is very discouraging and very unnecessary! Maybe it's just because I'm from the South, but some of the responses are definitely rude.

You know what I like best about when people whine about all the rude posters? It's the part where they point the the rude, unsupportive people have 1000's of posts and are in shape. Somehow, in their brains, having used this site a lot and having successfully lost weight DISQUALIFIES a person from giving advice to new people. And telling them to stop wasting their time and money on the next magic pill is a bad thing.

I wish there was a magical logic enhancing pill instead of a magical fat burning pill. Because then all these complainers would put it together. The person telling me "NO" has been here, started out at my same weight, asked the same questions, wasted money on bull**** supplements, and then after wasting a bunch of time and money came to the conclusion that losing weight is about calories in/calories out, not about supplements, restrictive diets, or cleanses. Their first 300 posts were asking the same question I am asking now, but their last 2000 posts were telling people like me to save time and money.

Alas, no magic pills for logic or fat loss. So go ahead, buy Jack and the Magic Beanstalk Coffee Bean Extract, keep believing that sound advice is rude and unsupportive. I'll come back for your all caps "BEEN ON MFP FOR MONTHS BUT NOTHINGS WORKING" thread and perhaps you'll be ready to listen at that point.

I'll probably be over 5000 posts and at goal weight by then but I hope that doesn't disqualify me from helping you.

My doorman swears by it.

I am going to stick with calorie deficit and regular exercise.

We will compare where we both are 3 months from now.


If you could buy a pill with money and be thin, think what Oprah would look like.