Coffee and Weight Loss

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I drink a lot of coffee. Can I drink coffee the whole seven days and still lose weight?

Although the improved cabbage soup diet plan and the convenient cabbage soup diet plan allow coffee we don’t really recommend it for best weight loss success.

Here is why: Something as typical to the American way of life as coffee we would never call a "drug," but we can for sure claim that this beverage has properties which are druglike:

• It stimulates.

• It changes mood.

• It's addictive.

And - unfortunately- it's bad for losing weight!
There exist two main reasons why coffee might be a problem for you trying to drop some pounds. The reason number one is physiological the reason number two is psychological.

Physiological
Coffee excites the glands (adrenals) which produce stress hormones. A steady attack on these glands, from sugar, coffee, daily life and stress, can cause "adrenal exhaustion".
Coffee destroys your optimal blood sugar balance. The body feels a coffee jolt as a "stress response" much like the adrenals shooting an adrenaline jolt into the body system. It’s a signal for the release of sugar and after some hours of jitteriness, your blood sugar is extremely down, and you're burning, crashing and reaching for ... guess what? Here is a tip: It's not cabbage soup or vegetables…

Psychological
Coffee matches perfectly into the receptors adenosine - a brain chemical, which is partly helping calming you down. With switching off adenosine, coffee makes you feel wired and awake. You may believe that's a great thing, but the added nervousness and stimulation from the coffee lets you feel jumpy at exactly the time that feeling calm would be an advantage. Together with the blood sugar fluctuations it causes enormous hunger cravings. Not the best precondition for a successful diet week.

Our recommendation: 2-3 cups of black coffee without sugar and milk per day might be ok when on cabbage soup diet, but the diet week works much easier without.

In your special case we don’t know much coffee you usually drink, but we think that a cabbage soup diet week with too much coffee might be very, very hard to stick to, as you’ll feel pangs of hunger.



RELATED QUESTIONS FROM OTHERS


On the version I found for the diet, it allowed black coffee, but it did not specify if it was allowed for all other days or just for some.


You may drink black coffee on every cabbage soup diet day - but we recommend not more than 2-3 cups per day.




Can i have decaff coffee with SEMI SKIMMED milk. Rather than tea and skimmed?



2-3 cups of decaff coffee with semi skimmed milk should be ok with the cabbage soup diet. All the best!