De-caff is actually the worst for you, it may not have caffiene, but the chemical process to rinse the caffiene out is harmful.. better off with out it completely.

HI Paula,


actually I heard of that before, a long time ago, but I kind of forgot about it. I already try cutting down on the coffee and the decaff, hopefully by next week I can do without the coffee and be without the headache.

I like water with a slash of juice, for flavor, cranberry, orange, whatever on hand.

i heard that coffee speeds up ur metabolism and decreases appetite mainly DUE to the caffine? is this bad? even just one a cup a day? or one cup every couple days? i take a multivitamin and still drink plenty of water throughout the day...

as mentioned earlier in this thread - one or two cups of coffee in a day won't hurt you, if you counter with water. It's when you drink buckets of coffee that it gets bad.

I used to drink a lot of coffee, and very strong coffee too, about 6-8 mugs per day. Then about 9 years ago I started cutting back - it wasn't easy. I tried to stop completely but was rewarded with major headaches, so I continued drinking coffee, but I lowered the caffeine gradually. I cut back to about 4 mugs per day, then mixing regular coffee with decaffeinated. I tried quitting again and still ended up with headaches...which annoyed me...I don't like being addicted to anything, so a few weeks back I started again with trying to quit. I slowly, over the course of a few weeks increased the amount of the decaffeinated coffee versus the caffeinated and then on a weekend 2-3 weeks ago, I tried not to drink any and I haven't had a drop since. I am so happy that I was finally able to kick that habit

but that's a different story alltogether....

From what I heard, a lot of the fat burner supplements contain caffeine, which would support the statement, that caffeine speeds up your metabolism. If you want to use it as that, then you should drink it black with no sugar.

I love coffee! I have lots of coffee every day, with Splenda.

I read somewhere, I think it was the Southbeach Diet book or somethin' like that - I read that coffee causes hunger, it causes you to want to eat more.

Does anybody know anything about that?

I have a big cup of coffee every morning (32 oz.) and one in the afternoon, almost every day.

Hhhmmm, the smell of coffee!

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i dont know about actually causing hunger, but i have heard this too about the hindered weight loss...part of the reason is because caffeine leads to an increase of insulin in your body that retards the burning of your stored fat. some doctors say that if heavy coffee drinkers stop drinking coffee and change nothing else in their diet, they will lose 15 pounds! dont know if this is really true, just what i have heard.

I've read a number of reports that state that caffine in general is an appetite stimulate. So pop and some teas have the same effect. I know I've noticed this personally because days when I succumb and drink pop instead of water leave me feeling famished only a couple hours after eating. So the coffee itself doesn't cause weight gain or hinder weight loss, but the effect it has on us makes it so much more likely to happen.

thats right beagle, this applies to ALL caffeinated beverages. i should have stated that in my post! also for the diet soda drinkers, see the diet soda thread a few threads down. pretty interesting about how even diet drinks can lead to stalled weight loss as well but for other reasons in addition to the caffeine. i love coffee too, but have cut down slowly over the past 2 years from a pot a day to only a cup or 2 a day. some days i dont have any! your just better off with water!

I didn't know this about coffee. I will try cutting down on the amount of coffee I drink and see what happens.

coffee makes me lose my appetite! lol

By now you may know I switched from coffee to energy drinks and it is true that I can sip on an energy drink all day and not feel the need to drink water. Maybe that is a caffine effect. I have to force myself to drink the water.

Just wanted to know if anyone has any good tips on what to do about missing the morning cup of java, I really miss having my coffee and the headaches are killer in the mid-morning, any suggestions?
Let me know please, thanks..

Headaches from lack of caffeine? My mom guzzles lipton black tea, in the tea bag packet things that you dip into hot water.

how about a cup of hot green tea? it has 35mg of caffeine i believe versus the 200 of a cup of coffee. that may help ease the pain a bit!