How Does Coffee Help U Lose Weight

Coffee is used by people all over the world as a key part of their weight loss strategy. Caffeine is present in almost every single dieting or weight loss product going. But why? Can caffeine really help you reach your weight loss goals? Can it really help you shed the pounds? Here are 10 ways to use our coffee on your weight loss journey:

DO AWAY WITH MILK & SUGAR Our coffees are infused with exciting flavours that complement our quality Arabica coffee. Because of its great taste and quality, this means you don’t need milk or sugar to make your coffee drinkable. By cutting out milk and sugar, you can save around 60 calories per cup! That’s 180 calories a day if you have three cups! High five! Drunk black, each cup of Little's contains 4 calories and should satisfy your sweet tooth.

One laboratory study, published in Food & Function in 2012, found that caffeine boosted thermogenesis (the process of your body producing heat). The more heat your body generates, the more calories you’ll burn away (and the faster you’ll reach your weight loss goals). That sounds like a win-win to us!

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Caffeine gives you a big energy boost and prompts the body to burn more fat stores instead of the limited stores of carbohydrate in our muscles. When drunk 30 minutes before exercise, coffee improves your performance and makes you feel like you can go harder for longer. This way you’ll burn more calories during your workout and lose weight quicker. Many people add our coffee to their pre-workout protein shakes, or they just drink it black. Drinking black coffee before any physical activity can achieve higher calories burned both during and after the workout, as well as improved use of fatty acids for aerobic energy.

Caffeine has been said to increase your metabolic rate by 3-11%. The higher your metabolic rate, the easier it is for you to burn fat. So this is basically gold if you’re trying to lose weight.

In weight-loss expert – Keri Glassman’s – book, The O2 Diet, she reveals the powerful benefits of eating foods packed with antioxidants on losing weight. Antioxidants protect the body from damage caused by harmful molecules called ‘free radicals’. Interestingly, the Western diet gets 79% of its antioxidants from beverages, rather than food. In studies carried out in Finland & Norway, coffee was proved to be the largest antioxidant source, providing around 64% of total antioxidant intake.

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Caffeine has been proven to send direct signals to the fat cells telling them to break down fat. Fat needs to be broken down before it can be utilised and expelled from the body through physical exertion. Coffee also increases the levels of adrenaline in our blood, which helps with this process of breaking down fats. This is the reason why caffeine is a staple ingredient in most weight loss supplements and diet pills.

Water retention (or edema) is swelling caused by your body holding onto fluids. Your body cannot store caffeine, which means that up to six hours after drinking coffee, caffeine is excreted through increased urine output. This increased output of fluids from the body helps alleviate water retention because of its diuretic effect. Fluid retention can hinder your weight loss progress because it often makes you feel bloated, sluggish and like you’re not getting anywhere.

Chlorogenic Acid stimulates your body to break down fats more efficiently, meaning you lose weight faster. Amazingly, caffeine increases lipase, an enzyme that helps break down fat during digestion. It is the synergetic combination of caffeine and chlorogenic acid working together that makes coffee a great fat burning technique.

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It has been said that Chlorogenic acids present in coffee suppress the appetite, making you want to eat less. This is pretty ideal for anyone who is trying to cut their calorie and food intake. Raw (green) coffee beans are the most abundant natural plant source of chlorogenic acid, however it is still present in roasted coffee. The lighter the roast profile of the coffee, the more chlorogenic acid is preserved. Our coffee is a medium/light roast (unlike some espresso-style instant coffees i.e. Azera, Carte Noir etc.), so our coffee would arguably suppress your appetite more than the darker roast instant coffees.

Our coffees have a natural sweetness which cures your sweet cravings. Many of our customers have explained that when they are feeling weak and likely to reach for chocolate, they make themselves a Swiss Chocolate coffee instead. As this is infused with real, natural Swiss Chocolate extract, it gives you that sweet taste you need, without the sugar or calories. We add absolutely no sugar to any of our coffees, so you can be confident that what you’re putting in your body is only the very best. Also, when drunk black, a cup of our coffee is just 4 calories a cup!

However you decide to tackle your weight loss goals, we know that it can be an absolute pain in the ass. We hope that our coffees will help you lose weight and give you a helping hand in curbing those sweet cravings! Good luck, folks! Stick at it!

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This website uses cookies to improve user experience. By visiting our website you consent to all cookies in accordance with our privacy policy.Valued for its ability to stimulate alertness, caffeine is the most popular (and most unregulated) psychoactive substance in the world, with consumption estimated at one caffeinated beverage serving per person per day. Given its stimulant qualities, it’s not surprising that people commonly believe caffeine promotes weight-loss. But, are these assumptions true?

Historical records for caffeine use have been found across many cultures and date back thousands of years. Caffeine is most commonly found in the beans of the coffee plant, leaves of the tea bush and in various products derived from the kola nut. In North America, approximately 90 percent of adults consume caffeine daily.

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Let’s start with what we do know about caffeine. Caffeine acts as a potent natural pesticide in the plants in which it is found, serving to promote species survival. It has been included on the FDA list of “Generally Recognized As Safe” (GRAS) substances since 1958 and is approved as an over-the-counter alertness aid.

Numerous studies in the last 20 years helped disprove the connection between caffeine and breast cancer, caffeine and osteoporosis, caffeine and digestive tract cancers, caffeine and coronary disease and stroke, and caffeine and negative pregnancy effects and outcomes. In its 1988 report on nutrition and health, the office of the Surgeon General reiterated its position that caffeine consumed in moderate daily amounts (equal to the amount of caffeine in one to two cups of coffee) creates no significant health risks for healthy adults.

Caffeine, however, does increase heart rate and insomnia and can have significant negative health effects, including death, if taken in too high of a dose. Also, because it is habit-forming, caffeine leads to unpleasant withdrawal symptoms such as headache, grogginess and irritability.

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Caffeine’s reputation as a weight-loss aid comes from its status as a stimulant and a substance that enhances physical performance. A 1979 study showed a 7 percent increase in distance cycled over two hours among subjects who consumed caffeine versus those who did not. In another study among trained runners, those who consumed caffeine showed a 44 percent increase in race-pace endurance compared to those who did not.

Some research has suggested that caffeine may stimulate thermogenesis – a scientific name for the way your body generates heat and energy from the calories in your food; but nutrition experts say that this effect probably isn’t enough to produce significant weight-loss. Caffeine may also reduce your desire to eat for a brief time, but again, there’s no good evidence over the long-term that this effect leads to weight-loss. To date, no conclusive clinical studies have been done to determine the long-term effect of caffeine on weight loss, and the smaller studies that have been done show a lot of variability in the outcomes.

At present, even though caffeine may have a small effect on energy and appetite that could lead to some positive short-term effects on your energy balance, there’s no evidence that it can actually cause you to lose weight. On the other side of the equation, excessive caffeine consumption clearly can be harmful.

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One must also consider the known risks represented by other performance-enhancing products, which may be combined with caffeine in dietary supplements promoted for weight-loss. Ephedra, for example, is an ergogenic whose side effects include heart attack, stroke and death. It was banned by the FDA in 2004. In November 2011, the FDA, after a year-long review, told the manufacturers of seven caffeinated alcohol drinks that their products pose a public health concern and cannot stay on the market in current form. Other dietary supplement weight-loss aids such as bitter orange, capsicum and ginger make claims about energy and/or weight-loss, but have not been reviewed or approved by the FDA.

When you start to look deeper, you will find other research that has shown that consuming