Coconut oil for fat loss

I like extra virgin olive oil. Bertolli is a good brand.

I use it. But basically any healthy food that satiates your appetite so that you don't feel the desire to eat more often can help in that way (there is a possible additional benefit, see below). I used butter and coconut oil in my coffee in the morning and then didn't eat anything else until at least 2pm. By that method, without counting calories, I lost... around 25 pounds in over a year. Not horrible but not great. I stuck with it because I felt great eating that way.

Then, I started tracking calories with a goal that kept me in deficit. I also bought a food scale, and lost over ten pounds in less than a quarter of the time. I still usually put coconut oil and butter in my coffee, but not nearly as much. As I start to lose I have to adjust my calorie goal down and that might mean giving it up altogether or alternating mornings or perhaps alternating the butter and the coconut oil. We'll see how the math works.

I do think my body may have needed the fat and that "gorging" on the butter and coconut oil (about an ounce of each every morning) was probably good for me. It might help your body adapt to using fat for energy and thus get it ready to burn your own (though you'll have to taper off the outside fat a bit, perhaps). And it supposedly is good for immediate energy due to the properties of medium chain triglycerides that are in it.

But I would just try it. I suspect this works better if you have a great deal of fat to lose. The best thing about MFP, I think, is the ability to track what is happening and figure out what works for you.

Coconut oil has calories like any other oil. Use it if you like but it won't make you lose more weight than if you used peanut oil or olive oil and stuck to your calorie goal.

There isn't a magic food or drink that makes you lose weight. It is all about the calories you consume vs. the calories you burn.

whmscll wrote: »

How is it supposed to assist fat loss? How can eating fat reduce fat?

It doesn't aid in fat loss...but dietary fat =/= body fat...you don't get fat from eating fat.

tincanonastring wrote: »

kshama2001 wrote: »

The Miraculous Benefits of Coconut Oil

You almost got flagged for spam...then I opened the link...

Now HE'S who I'm talking bout!

In my day, using magical as an adjective for food, usually indicated hallucinations after ingestion.

In my day, using magical as an adjective for food, usually indicated hallucinations after ingestion.

MommyL2015 wrote: »

kshama2001 wrote: »

The Miraculous Benefits of Coconut Oil

I would only disagree with his last line, about the breaking out. It does the opposite for me.

I use coconut oil for everything except food, I think. Hair, moisturizer, I use it for shaving, put it on my cat, mix it with gardenia essential oil and make candles, and, uh...other things. I do use it in stir fry and sometimes in baking when oil is called for because of its taste.

You're not the first person to mention the "other things" benefit. Will have to try this. It's certainly cheaper than what I'm using now.

daniwilford wrote: »

In my day, using magical as an adjective for food, usually indicated hallucinations after ingestion.

LOL! My, how times have changed!