Can DECAF coffee stall?

[owl48]

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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.

Don't give up hope!.....I woke up this morning and found I dropped 2 pounds thus breaking my mini stall (and yes I went out for coffee yesterday )

Perhaps we should take ValidRouges' advice and do some experimenting first with the coffee. I can see that as time goes by you really have to stay aware of what creeps back into your eating habits!

[des]

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Ug, this is depressing! I too started drinking decaf since starting Atkins, kinda as my little treat. (I don't drink coffee very often normally) I always count all the carbs and mark them in my diary. But since I've started having some, my weight loss has stopped too, and I'm still in the first two weeks! Well, I guess that's that.

I quite like decaf Earl Grey tea.... I wonder if that's as bad..... Hm.

[Tack Candy]

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Ok, so, I read this post yesterday. And I have thought and thought and thought about it. I have zeroed into that (and non-exercise) and intended to quit coffee cold turkey starting yesterday. I couldn't be true to myself and when I added it into fit day I had something like 8 carbs . WOW. I like my cream and splenda too, so it really adds the carbs up even not considering the evil things caffeine does to our fat burning system. Sooooo, today is the day I give it up, no coffee, no decaf. It stinks, but I need to realize that this diet allows me to eat the things I love. I am not deprived and haven't been at ALL since I started April 30th. I CAN be strong and stop the coffee. It might take work, but I am going to do it. Coffee is a habit, so hopefully I will not feel deprived for long.

Good Bye Sweet Coffee....I'll miss you.

[des]

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Ok, so, I read this post yesterday. And I have thought and thought and thought about it. I have zeroed into that (and non-exercise) and intended to quit coffee cold turkey starting yesterday. I couldn't be true to myself and when I added it into fit day I had something like 8 carbs . WOW. I like my cream and splenda too, so it really adds the carbs up even not considering the evil things caffeine does to our fat burning system. Sooooo, today is the day I give it up, no coffee, no decaf. It stinks, but I need to realize that this diet allows me to eat the things I love. I am not deprived and haven't been at ALL since I started April 30th. I CAN be strong and stop the coffee. It might take work, but I am going to do it. Coffee is a habit, so hopefully I will not feel deprived for long.

Good Bye Sweet Coffee....I'll miss you.

Good for you! When I quit regular coffee years ago, I found it very difficult for the first three days or so (bad, bad headache). But after that was much, much better. You can do it!!

[Tack Candy]

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I survived Day 1 w/ no coffee-no decaf. Sneaked a peek at the scale this am and was down a smidge....I'll let you know after one week how my progress goes.

[Tack Candy]

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GGGGGGGGGRRRRRrrrrrrrrrrr, one week no coffee/no decaf........no weightloss.

I am exercizing regularly too. I am going to give it another week.

[Discolemonade]

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I'm there tack, I quit the coffee too and haven't lost anything, so one more week and if no change then guess what? IT ISN'T THE COFFEE! YAY! lol, that just means you erase something else from your diet to see if it's the culprit. Mine is melon. I will be happy to give up my melon for my coffee and creamer. It's a little bit of sunshine for me! And if it's not the melon, then I try cutting out the pnut butter etc etc.

[ValidRouge]

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by any chance, are you still 'using' cream, just somewhere else in your diet? Did you replace the coffee/cream with something else besides water?

just in case...

[Discolemonade]

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nope not me, I got rid of the cream too.....along with the splenda, so I'm pretty much cutting 3 things out, lol.

[ValidRouge]

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Just checking. Give it another week to see what happens.

[FatTony]

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so I have to add decaff coffee and cream to the peanut butter and alcohol I just junked .. I have 2 mugs a day tops .. I thought Atkins was pro cream .. better than half fat milk I thought. So I stopped drinking tea (I hate it black) and started drinkng coffee.

[D14965]

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MAN AM I GLAD I GAVE UP COFFEE ! YEARS AGO!!!

[ValidRouge]

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so I have to add decaff coffee and cream to the peanut butter and alcohol I just junked .. I have 2 mugs a day tops .. I thought Atkins was pro cream .. better than half fat milk I thought. So I stopped drinking tea (I hate it black) and started drinkng coffee.

Not necessarily, Tony. Every person is different. For you, I'd recommend just cutting the peanut butter and the alcohol for a couple weeks and see if you start losing again. As you get further along, and if you stall again, THEN you might want to look at the coffee/cream. First we've got to get your diet clean before we start looking at the finer details.

[Tack Candy]

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Boooo, I occasionally have a "choc. mousse" made with cream, splenda and cocoa. I am going to move forward this week as I did last week. If I see no loss, I will cut out the cream the following week. Sure hope it isn't the cream.

Disco, I'm with you. Oddly enough I sorta hope I can find another reason so it ISN'T THE COFFEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! But, if it is the cream, I am still coffeeless.........I love my sweet (w/splenda) creamy dreamy coffee.

[TitianWasp]

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I figured my weightloss was slow enough to behoove cutting out some calories so I decided to ditch my decaf with heavy cream and substitute it for hot Crystal Light lemonade.

I do not recommend this.

(Did the research online, could find anecdotal but not solid, respectable evidence that the aspartame breaks down to dangerous methyl products)

First of all, it is delicious. Hot lemonade satisfies the hot/tangy/sweet craving. But the headaches I started getting...goodness.
I was able to find plenty of real research indicating the connection between aspartame and headaches.

So I am back at square one. I now have a cup of decaf in the morning with heavy cream, and then several cups of lemon-lift tea with splenda. I switched out my diet bevvies with citrusy seltzers and gee, my headache is gone. Not really happy about all the substitutions, but generally pain is your body's indicator that something is wrong. Sigh.