I don't often drink 'real' coffee but when I do it's black and strong, no sugar. I find this really helps if constipation strikes! I think I drink too little to affect weight loss.

Every morning I have about a half a pot of coffee and I did not give up coffee during Induction and I lost weight during Induction. I know that coffee has been blamed for stalls, but I think that stalls are just a very frustrating element of the losing weight process and perseverance is the only surefire way to break a stall. I just figure that if I hang in there, sooner or later something's gotta give. If I stall, I refuse to believe that it was that peanut I ate last week or the cup of coffee I had yesterday or the fact that my water intake was 2 ounces under the other day. Now I need to get off of my soap box and pour a hot top on my coffee.
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Anyone here takes the ECA stack or thermogenic fatburning stack, well here you have it, you got a lot of caffeine in there.

I have read many studies on this and i do take ECA stack once a day and when i am in ketosis 2 times to speed up fatloss, now it never stopped me from losing any fat and i sure didnt kick me out of ketosis., Exept the time i used sweetners.

They say that insuline will rise and that you will crave carbs, well for sure if you take your coffee with a donut and a mountain of sugar your asking for it.

Caffeine helps you focus when you train and acutally releases fat in the blood to be burned has energy.

Caffeine and I had to part ways quite some time ago as it really messed me up. I had aggravated PMS and fibrocystic breast disease, which all improved when I gave up caffeine. I am now diabetic and I know for a FACT coffee caffeine raises my blood sugar. (No, tea and sodas don't really affect it, but then, I don't drink much soda--although I drink tea most every day).
To those who feel the need to give up coffee caffeine may I recommend a brand? It's the very devil to find, though--"Luzianne Decaf with Chicory". It makes a VERY bold cup of coffee, in fact, per directions use 1/2 of what you'd use for regular coffee. When I first bought it I didn't read the directions, so when I stirred in 3 creamers and the color didn't change significantly, well that was my first clue I'd made it too strong! Then I read the directions. But even though I'd made it much too strong that first time, it was completely drinkable. No bitterness whatsoever, but lots of flavor. Give it a try--if you can find it!!

i still do take coffee but someitmes in the morn when i a m in the rush i will have only half a cup anf the other half i will have in my my office.

I just bought decaff recently and just add 1 tablespoon of full cream milk or sometimes just the non dairy creamer kind. Well over here in singapore there's 2-in 1 kind where they have the coffee and the creamer in ine sachet mionus the sugar so sometimes when i am lazy i will just have that.

I'm one of those that didn't alter my coffee consumption when starting Atkins. I still lose weight at a comfortable 1.65 pounds/week and have been since about three weeks into Induction. I lost a bit more the first few weeks. Anyway, a new Dutch study indicates that drinking severn or more cups of coffee per day halves your risk of getting diabetes. This is about what I do consume and it's not that excessive here in Sweden, but then we are probably the top consumer per capita in the world of coffee.

I guess that drinking that much coffee has other (deleterious) effects, but it seems that it's not all bad!

URL: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/...tory_10276.html

I count each cup as 1 carb, and it leaves me feeling a little carb-deprived after 3 - 4 cups/day with cream.

Do you all count coffee into the daily carb count? It looks as though everyone is losing just fine drinking mega coffee, so I wonder if it's a part of everyone's carb counts.

PS: I've been stuck at the same weight for about 2 months - lost most of my weight in the first two weeks - with coffee.

Well, I was very determined to make this WOE work for me, and when I started at the beginning of May, I did everything by the book. I stopped drinking my beloved Joe Beans coffee, and started on decaf. I'm not sure why, but I got no headaches or withdrawl at all, and I drank anywhere from 3 large mugs or more of Starbucks strength coffee every day.
I lost 12 lbs. during the first two weeks of induction.
Now I have no idea if the caffeine lack made any diff or not, and frankly my dear....I don't give a darn!! I'm losing weight consistently for the first time in my life...and I like it, I like it!!

I'm really addicted to my coffee, and would never give it up. Researching Atkins, it doesn't say you have to avoid it, but that it might cause a problem. That's good enough for me. I drink 2 very large mugs in the morning, a couple smaller (human sized) during the day, and another large mug at night. I've never had a problem, and I'm losing weight. I don't use any sugar, so I'm sure that is one of the reasons you might want to avoid it.

Are you all counting the carbs? By the time I have a small pot of coffee and cream it's easily over 5 carbs.

Well I am Type 2 Diabetic. I have tested the response to coffee on my blood sugar level and it is zilch, zero, nada.... This means zero insulin reaction. I am happily sipping my 2 cups each morning.

For the first month I was on Atkins I drank nothing except green tea and water, and I think it helped. Now I drink decaf coffee and even regular coffee and tea occasionally.

I haven't really noticed anything one way or the other, but I do thinking cutting caffeine is a good idea, especially on Induction.

I do highly recommend green tea, though.

My .02

JeffE

Hi Kristine,

I cut down on the amount of coffee I drink. I went from drinking it all morning to 2 cups only. After coffee I drink green tea. It is definitely not as tasty as coffee, but zero carbs. I lost 14 lbs on induction.

Chickadee

When I started Atkins I did not give caffeine up. I did cut down to two cups per day with full cream and splenda...and my weight loss seemed fine. I switched to decaf half the way through the first week and the weight loss slowed down...LOL! Is this weird or what? I think I am back on the real stuff asap!

I drink coffee almost everyday but mostly in the winter and it does not do anything to my induction. I still lose a lot of weight with drinking it. Some days I have 1-2 cups, other days more. But it does not hamper my weight lose.......oh I was on the LC before so this is why I said it does not make a difference to me....now back on after 2 years of being off and a lot of weight back on............