How do you feel about coffee?

LadyZen
LadyZen Posts: 153 Member
edited September 18 in Food and Nutrition
I really like my morning coffee. I drink 3 cups a day, yes, with caffeine. It seems to make me less hungry in the morning. It also helps with being regular:smile: I do eat a healthy breakfast as well. I have read that coffee is good for you, and I have read that coffee is bad for you. Which is it? I am also addicted to the BBCA show called "You Are What You Eat." She's anti-coffee...period. I was just wondering what you all thought.
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  • LadyZen
    LadyZen Posts: 153 Member
    I really like my morning coffee. I drink 3 cups a day, yes, with caffeine. It seems to make me less hungry in the morning. It also helps with being regular:smile: I do eat a healthy breakfast as well. I have read that coffee is good for you, and I have read that coffee is bad for you. Which is it? I am also addicted to the BBCA show called "You Are What You Eat." She's anti-coffee...period. I was just wondering what you all thought.
  • BlazinEmerald
    BlazinEmerald Posts: 842
    I think , If I give up my coffee, they might be blood shed. That being said I love my coffee and dont find that it hinders my weight loss
  • LadyZen
    LadyZen Posts: 153 Member
    I had actually went off of coffee for about 2 months straight...cravings were bad:grumble: I was having facial breakouts and thought that that was causing it. However, after going to the dr. about it, he said that it probably wasn't the coffee:happy: At that same time, I was trying the Flat Belly Diet which also limits the amount of red meat you could eat. Long story short, I think that it was the red meat causing my breakouts...I haven't had red meat for quite some time and neither have I had breakouts. Just clean clear skin:happy: I have found that my body just can't digest red meat very much anymore.
  • SoupNazi
    SoupNazi Posts: 4,229 Member
    I'm with Blazin. I've drank coffee my entire life (since I was a wee tot:noway: ) and it has not had any negative affects on my weight loss. I have several cups in the morning and drink green tea the rest of the day. I've come to realize that I am a much better person with it than without it.

    me + coffee =:happy:
    me - coffee= :devil:
  • LadyZen
    LadyZen Posts: 153 Member
    On that show, she said that caffeine will deplete you of vitamin B which can cause tiredness and ridges on the sides of your tongue. I take a vitamin B complex vitamin to help with that. Hopefully, it will counteract anything the coffee is doing. I like it too much:smile: It helps me get my morning workout done, too.
  • timisw
    timisw Posts: 391 Member
    I think it all depends on quantity and what you put into it!

    The unleaded drinkers really have it good with just 5 to 10 calories a cup.

    The leaded drinkers have to be careful (ME)!!!

    My rule is to drink as much as I want before 1400 (2PM). After that, I stop!

    As for being bad? Did you know that the chemicals in coffee are psychotropic defense mechanisms to stop many creatures from eating them? It just so happens that we humans find the effect as something to be addicted to! while it is a laxitive, it is also a diuretic and you should make sure you drink water 1 for 1 with it! Especially if you are exercising!

    As for being good? Coffee increases the effectiveness of pain killers (for headaches especially). That is why you will find so many medication that have caffeine in them!
  • wanderinglight
    wanderinglight Posts: 1,519 Member
    I

    NEED

    COFFEE!!!!

    I haven't found that it hinders weight loss, although I've cut back on the amount that I drink. Now I usually do one cup in the morning, and try for green tea the rest of the day.

    I used to just drink coffee for breakfast and it was also my afternoon "snack." I think now that I'm eating more calories as well as a healthy breakfast I'm definitely feeling more energy than the days I would just do coffee.
  • LadyZen
    LadyZen Posts: 153 Member
    Speaking of addiction, it was harder to give up coffee than it was to give up chocolate!! That's what I call addiction!!
  • LML79
    LML79 Posts: 697
    I really like my morning coffee. I drink 3 cups a day, yes, with caffeine. It seems to make me less hungry in the morning. It also helps with being regular:smile: I do eat a healthy breakfast as well. I have read that coffee is good for you, and I have read that coffee is bad for you. Which is it? I am also addicted to the BBCA show called "You Are What You Eat." She's anti-coffee...period. I was just wondering what you all thought.

    can't live without it!!!!! :drinker:
  • peej76
    peej76 Posts: 1,250 Member
    I feel like the only coffee hater here. My husband thinks I'm an alien lol!!!
  • LadyZen
    LadyZen Posts: 153 Member
    That does make me feel soooooo much better:bigsmile: I really don't want to have to give that up.:noway: I try to drink 6-8 cups of water per day b/c it does make me "go" a lot:blushing:
  • PixieDust2828
    PixieDust2828 Posts: 30
    Coffee(black) is good for you it's been shown to lower your risk of diabetes, Parkinson's disease, and colon cancer.:drinker:
  • ssheldon318
    ssheldon318 Posts: 25
    I can't go a day without my cup of joe!

    I did find this out though (on the internet)...

    Coffee is usually one of the most heavily sprayed crops, and is often contaminated with pesticides, fertilizers and herbicides. Therefore if you do drink coffee, you would be well advised to drink organic coffee only.
  • LadyZen
    LadyZen Posts: 153 Member
    My husband would side with you. He enjoyed it when I went on my "no coffee" break. He has never liked coffee.
  • teetsel4
    teetsel4 Posts: 288 Member
    Ahhhhh... Let me ponder this over my morning cup of coffee, hehe.

    Although I love coffee I do hate the fact that I am addicted to something. I have cut way back since I've gotten older. I drink two cups of black coffee everyday. After that I will either drink decaf green tea or decaf coffee.

    I love going into my coffee shop down town and ordering a large black decaf coffee. They think I am nuts (they are 20 yrs old). I tell them I love the taste so much, I just don't want the buzz. I don't think they get it. :laugh:

    I do know that even tho I am drinking decaf, I have to drink more water. Anyhow, my personal feeling on coffee is that is it not good for you. But I have no intrest in giving it up.
    :drinker: :drinker: :drinker: :drinker: :drinker: :drinker: :drinker: :drinker: :drinker: :drinker: :drinker: :drinker:
  • BlazinEmerald
    BlazinEmerald Posts: 842
    I feel like the only coffee hater here. My husband thinks I'm an alien lol!!!

    YOU ARE AN ALIEN! You're Canadian woman, what's life without Timmy's! lol Heck I'm not even Canadian , I just live here , I will never go back NEVER cause they dont have timmy's :laugh: :laugh:
  • LadyZen
    LadyZen Posts: 153 Member
    I like mine to taste like capp. (not sure of spelling:smile: ) I put one packet of Sweet and Low, a dash of sugar-free vanilla flavoring, and a splash of skim milk. Sorry to all the "black only" drinkers. I know I just ruined a perfectly good cup of coffee.:laugh:
  • BlazinEmerald
    BlazinEmerald Posts: 842
    I like mine to taste like capp. (not sure of spelling:smile: ) I put one packet of Sweet and Low, a dash of sugar-free vanilla flavoring, and a splash of skim milk. Sorry to all the "black only" drinkers. I know I just ruined a perfectly good cup of coffee.:laugh:

    ahh I use milk and sweetner also :wink:
  • kerrilucko
    kerrilucko Posts: 3,852 Member
    I've never had a cup of coffee in my life, so I can't really comment. But I can say that as a non-drinker, 3 cups a day sounds like a LOT to me. Do you drink it black? I think that besides all the caffeine, its the additives that get ya... cream and sugar are a dieters worst enemy :angry: lol.
  • BlazinEmerald
    BlazinEmerald Posts: 842
    I've never had a cup of coffee in my life, so I can't really comment. But I can say that as a non-drinker, 3 cups a day sounds like a LOT to me. Do you drink it black? I think that besides all the caffeine, its the additives that get ya... cream and sugar are a dieters worst enemy :angry: lol.

    I wont tell you how many cup I drink then shhhhhhhh its a secret lol :blushing:
  • beep
    beep Posts: 1,242 Member
    I like coffee so much that I roast my own beans....
  • stschulz
    stschulz Posts: 340
    First of all, coffee IS addictive. Try staying away from it after drinking coffee for years. You'll get headaches, don't feel well, impacts your digestion.....

    I stopped drinking coffee years ago. Not really that I said "Now I am going to stop". Just started to like green tea and it works well for me.

    Now, I drink a cup of coffee every once in a while whem I really did not get enough sleep and have to work, or in those night's that have to study or work for school because I procrastinated everything until the last minute and have due dates. And for that, it works fine. One cup can keep me going all night.

    And, I still love the smell sooooooooooo much that I sometimes can not resist:embarassed:
  • Lavendersunday
    Lavendersunday Posts: 458 Member
    Great topic Zen. :smile:

    Coffee is like a little slice of heaven in a cup. :love:

    Like people...coffee comes in many shades and has different character.

    Never quite thought of what my world would be like without it!?! :sad:


    It is the simple things in life like a great cup of coffee that are simply underrated!

    ~Namaste :flowerforyou:
  • Mrsace13
    Mrsace13 Posts: 31 Member
    I have to at least have my one cup in the morning and sometimes around 3 to finish off my day. I can't give it up but I use splenda and fat free cream to help some.
  • thalli1
    thalli1 Posts: 332 Member
    Last night on our local news they did a segment showing a study about drinking coffee. It said that coffee drinkers (especially the women) were LESS likely to have heart problems in some study. I was kind of surprised. It said that the study showed that there really weren't any real negative side effects of drinking coffee. I've never been a coffee drinker (love the smell, don't really like the taste.) Of course I don't know who commissioned the study (could have been Starbucks!) Anyway, just thought I'd add this into the conversation.:drinker:
  • peej76
    peej76 Posts: 1,250 Member
    I feel like the only coffee hater here. My husband thinks I'm an alien lol!!!

    YOU ARE AN ALIEN! You're Canadian woman, what's life without Timmy's! lol Heck I'm not even Canadian , I just live here , I will never go back NEVER cause they dont have timmy's :laugh: :laugh:
    LOL, I get a hot chocolate, but only in the winter!!:smile:
  • LadyZen
    LadyZen Posts: 153 Member
    Just got back from working out...fueled by coffee and vitamin b:laugh: I also saw something about the benefits of coffee for women. It said that it helped with memory. Who knows? Maybe Starbucks is doing all these studies just to confuse us :laugh:
  • athomemommy
    athomemommy Posts: 136 Member
    Just an FYI, decaff coffee has caffine in it also. So just because you get decaff doesnt mean you arent still additted to the caffeine. I just learned that in my nutrition class:wink:
  • LadyZen
    LadyZen Posts: 153 Member
    Just an FYI, decaff coffee has caffine in it also. So just because you get decaff doesnt mean you arent still additted to the caffeine. I just learned that in my nutrition class:wink:

    Did they say anything about coffee in your class? Bad? Good?
  • emtink
    emtink Posts: 387 Member
    my doctor told me to try and limit myself to 2 cups a day. i fail every day, but i don't think 4-5 cups is too much. if you have high blood pressure, obviously caffeine is no good. also, women with osteoporosis, also not good. i don't think coffee is inherently bad, but people may have certain conditions where they should limit their caffeine intake. ask you doctor!
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