3 month NO Coffee experiment results...

I do not understand how anyone can be "loving" this post. Sorry. But the coffee in question may have nothing to do with weight loss or body fat % what-so-ever seeing as how you drastically - VERY DRASTICALLY - changed your ENTIRE diet at the same time.

word.

:laugh: I'm laughing because the "word" is neither of you guys must have bothered to looked at my food diary (and exercising diary for that matter) before posting this untrue statement(s). If you guys did, you would clearly SEE that I have NOT and in no way have "drastically, let alone VERY drastically changed my diet at all. Not even a little bit:laugh: UNLESS you mean drastically and VERY DRASTICALLY changing my diet meaning how I've added coffee (and/or tea) drinking daily that is

Look at my food diary and you will see that my food and exercising have been VERY consistent for my entire journey here. The only thing I've changed was eating my exercise calories back and even then, it's VERY consistent--look at my food diary and you'll see that...but then again, maybe you won't because maybe you don't want to see that. In any case, thanks for posting

You cut out meat, sugar, what you deem to be "junk food", etc. at the time you cut out coffee to go from 47% to 31% body fat. That's your own statements.

Point is, this is not, as you agree, scientific evidence.

By all means, don't drink coffee if you don't want. But claiming that cutting coffee alone out of your diet reduced your body fat percentage over 15% in three months is not entirely true now is it?

Uhhhhh, I cut out all that stuff from the BEGINNING of my journey...not just a month ago--"word" :laugh: Also, it's obvious that you haven't read all of my posts here either (and understandably so...that could be quite the "boring read" :laugh: however, if you had indeed read my posts, you would not only NOT come to the "conclusion" you have, you wouldn't have posted so).
In either case, I have been discovering thanks to this thread such "entire truths" as you question. I still have so much more to learn, but suffice it to say I aint coming to NO conclusions...I'm in the process now in this thread of learning and will evermore be learning as well. This is a lifetime thing, a learning thing, no one (certainly not me) is closing the door nor reaching a final conclusion about anything, again...had you bothered to read my posts, you'd see that. :flowerforyou:

Caffeine makes my joints ache...which causes puffiness that my body puts out to protect my aching joints.

I'm a totally believer in this...as i've said BEFORE I cut it out cold turkey, I had achy constant joint pain in my hands. Once I stopped the coffee for 3 months, it completely went away. Once I took it back up last month...back came the joint pain. Coincidence? Maybe...I dunno, just reporting.

When I stoppped drinking coffee and started eating better, it went down in a few/2+ months from 47% to 30-31% body fat.

Maybe I am reading this wrong but, going from 47% bf to 30% bf in a few months is not possible. (unless you doing liposuction or something)

Bathroom scale "fat percentage calculators" are very innacurate and can vary from day to day based on a number of different variables.

That is so TRUE--however...my scale showed these numbers CONSISTENTLY--that's why I posted. It wasn't a mere fluke of bouncing back and forth when my body fat was 44-47% (before going on my new lifestyle change of thining, eating, drinking, and living--that blasted fat percentage WAS between 44-47 percent. As I started my weight-loss/lifestyle journey of eating, drinking, exercising and living. That funky number dropped consistently. My bodyfat percentage has stayed at 30-31 percent consistently until I started drinking the coffee/tea a month ago--now it's UP consistently 32-34%.

Also, important note: I weigh and weighed myself everyday as well, so when I say consistent...I mean it.

Thank you for posting (how brave!). I'm giving up my Yerba Mate with flavored creamer tomorrow for a month and we'll see what happens. I switched from Coffee to Mate about 6 months ago and it's definitely helped reduce incidents of morning indigestion, but I still feel like the caffeine and creamer need to go.

Everyone is different. Great job doing the detective work.

You are so welcomed and THANK YOU TOO for posting:flowerforyou: Everyone is different and what's good for some may not be for others. I do SO appreciate you saying "everyone is different" --This is so important for us ALL to know and believe on our weight-loss journey and in life in general. Be it coffee, meats, swimming, running, styles whatevah--everyone is different and there is no such thing as one size fits all--it just doesn't and I'm glad it doesn't either:drinker:

When I first felt "Led" to stop drinking coffee completely...I thought, nah...I'll look for something else"Healthy" instead. I went to the Health Food Store and found some "Yerba Mate" and thought, PERFECT solution!:drinker: When I got home, I googled Yerba Mate and found this SCARY info on it...FROM the Yerba Mate Website:sick:

Yerba Mate and Cancer
http://www.yerbamatecafe.com/yerbamateandcancer.html

Yerba Mates Healthy Drink or Health Risk (from the caring for cancer website)
https://www.caring4cancer.com/go/cancer/nutrition/questions

Reading this info scared the BLUE BLAZES out of me and I returned it, when they asked me why I was returning it, I told them I discovered it may be linked to cancer. She took it back and said 'that's why i'd never drink that stuff--drinking this is large quantities or with smoking will kill ya dead and fast"--I said Yikes and got my money back. Even though smoking or drinking it in large quantities was out of the question, still it scared me:noway: and just went cold turkey!