Can DECAF coffee stall?

[Buddyjay]

Is it possible that DECAF coffee can stall you? I have been at 185lbs for 5 weeks. Haven't lost any inches for three. The only thing I am doing different is drinking more Decaf coffee (about 32 ozs per day...sometimes 48ozs).
Before doing Atkins ( started 3/19/07), I rarely drank any coffee at all. Now, I am enjoying it tremendously and was wondering if this could "stall" you.
I started drinking more coffee about 5 weeks ago. The same time the "stall" started. Could it be the coffee? Or just coincidence?
I do not use cream, just Splenda.

[Laurenfra]

Re: Can DECAF coffee stall?

Yes this can be stalling you.
All coffee including decaf contains some carbs
32-48 oz is a lot of anything are you still drinking enough water in addition to this, water is water coffee is not.
I would guess you are going over your allowed 3 sweetner servings a day which can be a staller.
Try cutting it out and see what happens

[ValidRouge]

Re: Can DECAF coffee stall?

YES!! This is a recurrent problem for me. I have added it in my diet and taken it out and let me tell you that when I add it...I stall (even GAIN!) and when I remove it, I start to lose again.

Coffee, IMO, is EVIL stuff for some of us--*particularly* with cream and sweetner! There are many many many people here who will tell you "oh, coffee is fine. I've drank coffee the whole time." Yet they will go in other threads and complain that they are losing slow or stalled and won't take a look at their beloved coffee. Even, maybe ESPECIALLY decaf! Decaf gives people a false sense of security. Decaf does not mean "Freebie". It still has caffeine and it still has CARBS. A 12 ounce "cup" of decaf coffee with cream and sweetner can have 4-6 carbs in it depending how many sweetners and how much cream you use. It all adds up!

The other thing I've begun to suspect about coffee is that, since it is a diuretic, when you take it out of your diet and then try to add it back in again--it will FALSELY make you see a loss on the scale because it caused your body to release some water. Then, because of this your body gets dehydrated (even if you are drinking LOTS of water) and it starts RETAINING water...which means a gain on the scale. I think this is what's happening with me. I take it out of my diet, and start doing well again. I decide to add it back in one more time and I get an immediate loss on the scale. HOORAY, it's not the coffee...right??? WRONG! The next week, stall, the next week, gain.

[owl48]

Re: Can DECAF coffee stall?

I think the same thing is happening to me....the last 2 weeks I started back on coffee again (both reg. and decaf) and I've lost nothing during that time.

I don't want it to be true because my desire for coffee increases during the fall and winter!

[BLAZING IN FL]

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Coffee is evil for me, very evil, so is diet coke...argghhh, can't live with them, can't live without them.

[Discolemonade]

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ugh, this is probably my problem... booo hissss

[ValidRouge]

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Owl, I don't want it to be true either...but the reality is I've been "bargaining" with coffee (and cream/sweetner) for a year now. Trust me, the coffee isn't worth not getting where I want to be.

I know I made the goal I set, but i'd like to get a bit lower and the coffee monster keeps doing me in.

No, I don't want it to be true either....but *for me* it is true, and I'm the one paying the price by having coffee (excuse) and not getting the results I want because of it.

[owl48]

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But I want my coffee!!!!

[Discolemonade]

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lol Owl, me too bud, me too. I've got about 3 days worth left. when it's gone it is GONE. no more. gotta do what we gotta do.

and here's the hissyfit icon LOL

[ValidRouge]

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I poured all my cream down the drain night before last and poured all the coffee I'd just bought in the trash.

[Discolemonade]

Re: Can DECAF coffee stall?

awwww, the cream too ? BOOOOOO HIIIISSSSSSSSSSSS

[owl48]

Re: Can DECAF coffee stall?

Noooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!

[owl48]

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What if I walk an extra mile for each cup???

[ValidRouge]

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I RUN 3 miles a day 3 times a week and 5-7 miles one day a week and it doesn't make a difference....

But, you have to do your OWN experiments Owl. Your body could be very different than mine. The only thing that I would ask of you is to be completely HONEST with yourself when you are experimenting/testing this with your body. But, that goes with ANY food/beverage on this journey!

[Buddyjay]

Re: Can DECAF coffee stall?

Wow! I was really surprised by all the responses I got about the Decaf coffee. We all know that when we decided on Atkins we gave up a lot of "stuff".

I was OK with that...but then I really got into decaf coffee I thought how this would then be my dessert. I never enjoyed coffee until doing Atkins.

Now it looks that I will give it up until I reach my goal. Hopefully it will help me maintain when I reach that point. Since drinking it I haven't lost anything in five weeks so it stands to reason that when I reach my goal I can have it again, but not to excess.