Coffee on Atkins Diet

jeremy54z said:

I think it is because caffeine slows down the weight loss. Also
dehydrates you...but you can drink de-caff...but milk is also a no
no...I do have a little in my tea first thing in the morning though

Unless it triggers an irresistable craving for donuts, I can't see
why caffeine is verboten, aside from some obscure theoretical reasons
Atkins cites in his book.

I skipped coffee for the first week of Induction and was utterly
miserable. Now I'm back on coffee, I'm much happier, and I've lost over
20 pounds since late April.

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jeremy54z said:

I think it is because caffeine slows down the weight loss. Also
dehydrates you...but you can drink de-caff...but milk is also a no
no...I do have a little in my tea first thing in the morning though

Unless it triggers an irresistable craving for donuts, I can't see
why caffeine is verboten, aside from some obscure theoretical reasons
Atkins cites in his book.

I skipped coffee for the first week of Induction and was utterly
miserable. Now I'm back on coffee, I'm much happier, and I've lost over
20 pounds since late April.

I've done LC for almost four years, and I roast my own. Ethiopian Sidamo
this morning....

--
Wayne Crannell
Sherman, TX
248/141 10/27/01

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jeremy54z said:

I think it is because caffeine slows down the weight loss. Also
dehydrates you...but you can drink de-caff...but milk is also a no
no...I do have a little in my tea first thing in the morning though

Caffeine does cause a loss of water, but only a fraction of what
you're adding by drinking the beverage. In people who don't regularly
consume caffeine, for example, researchers say that a cup of java
actually adds about two-thirds the amount of hydrating fluid that's in
a cup of water.

That is to say, one cup of coffee equals about two-thirds a cup of
water--if you're not a regular caffeine drinker.

Regular coffee and tea drinkers become accustomed to caffeine and lose
little, if any, fluid. In a study published in the October issue of
the Journal of the American College of Nutrition, researchers at the
Center for Human Nutrition in Omaha measured how different
combinations of water, coffee and caffeinated sodas affected the
hydration status of 18 healthy adults who drink caffeinated beverages
routinely.

"We found no significant differences at all," says nutritionist Ann
Grandjean, the study's lead author. "The purpose of the study was to
find out if caffeine is dehydrating in healthy people who are drinking
normal amounts of it. It is not."