A coffee diet! I've heard the lot now. The next thing you know
we'll be having something like 'loose 10 pounds in 7 days with tea and
biscuits!' I mean, who comes up with these fat blasting ideas? Or more
importantly, who buys into them? You can just imagine it in the
staffroom at your workplace. Everyone fighting to get their Cornish
pasty in the microwave and there's you quietly preparing your lunch with
nothing but a kettle. Okay, ribbing aside, I guess we should look at
this diet in a little more detail and see what method is behind this
seeming madness.
The article, which was in a slimming magazine,
caught my eye for a couple of reasons. First, because I'm a lover of
java, and second, I could do with losing a few pounds myslef, so I
couldn't help but read it out of curiosity if nothing else. When I got
to thinking about this, I remember my mother always telling to drink a
cup of black coffee in the morning as it would curb my appetite until
lunch time. And she was right.
Anyway, moving on a tad, the
advocates of the coffee diet propose that anyone who wants to shed a bit
of weight should do the same as my mother's suggested, although they
made no reference to her personally you understand!
However, this
weird weight loss approach needs to be looked into a little deeper
before we all jump onto the coffee diet bandwagon mouth first. I mean,
there's such an abundance of get-thin-quick plans floating around these
days, it's best to take a couple of steps back and consider the
situation. This goes for any of the new found fads and not just the
coffee diet
Before embarking on any new weight loss program, it's
always wise to pay a visit to your local doctor first. A complete
physical never hurt anyone and your physician will have valuable insight
into the coffee diet approach, but somehow I can't see any responsible
doc giving the thumbs up to a drinks for food diet. Take the coffee
diet to an authorized nutritionist and I bet the response is the same. I
could be wrong though and you may find through these two visits that a
coffee diet is the probably the right thing for your weight loss needs.
You
know, we're always looking for the next lazy, or should I say easy, no,
perhaps effortless weight loss program, but despite it all, the old
fashion way still wins every time. Can you remember the original diet?
It's simply to put less in your mouth and get more exercise. That's
it! Okay, so there are a few whistles and bells to add like the right
types of food and a sensible exercise regime, but you get the idea.
Another
thing worth pointing out with the coffee diet is that it's supposedly a
quick fix and not a new way of eating (or starving), so perhaps if the
dieter uses it as a jump start to a more sensible eating plan, it's not
such a bad thing. It also went on to say in the article that the coffee
diet is not the foundation of the program. Now this probably doesn't
make a lot of sense, so I'll try to explain. Advocates of the coffee
diet strongly urge you to eat well throughout the day. By well, they
mean adopt a healthy food diet consuming small portions as part of the
regime.
The coffee diet simply allows the dieter a moderate intake
of coffee throughout the day time, but the coffee has to be pure.
Lattes and cappuccinos and all those other fandangled coffee cups are
out. Hmm! it's sounds ok, but at the end of the day, we're still not
eating properly because the coffee diet is removing our natural appetite
and I'm not totally convinced that's a good thing.
One final
point that may give you food for thought is your insulin. Caffeine can
make your blood sugar unstable. The insulin in your body will not be
able to process it properly and it winds up stored in the body as fat.
So, if you do decide to take on the coffee diet, make sure that you
don't drink too much.
