Monday 25 February 2008

Everyone Loves a Quitter

Just over a week ago I gave up caffeine. I know this sounds drastic but I'm doing a little bit of an experiment.

A few years ago, a girl I worked with dropped between 70-100 lbs. When I asked her what she did to lose the weight, she said "I stopped drinking coffee". My first instinct was.. no more cream and sugar bang instant weight loss... but then the catch came... she's drinks black coffee. Pardon me?

She then went on to tell me about how caffeine can inhibit the bodies ability to process insulin making it impossible to lose weight. Cut out the caffeine, boasts the metabolism and boom... easy weight loss.

I started to roll back my caffeine a few weeks ago (trying to avoid that nasty withdrawal headache) and now I've been off the caffeine for over a week. I'm down 10lbs in total so far. There have been a few other changes in the overall variables so I am not calling it a scientific study at this point, but I'M DOWN 10 LBS!!

3 comments:

laurie said...

oh man there has GOT to be a better way. i can't do without my huge cup of coffee with 1/4 cup of cream every morning!

ok, not really 1/4 cup. but i like my coffee beige.

congrats on the 10 pounds. that's remarkable, if that's truly the only change you made.

DJSassafrass said...

That's amazing! I think coffee is a part of me...

Catheroo said...

What?! Giving up BLACK coffee helps you lose weight? Oh, maybe I need to try this...but...my coffee!!!