Coffee on Keto

#1

I’ve been following the keto diet since boxing day and am down 5kg, blood test of 0.5 ketones and am very strict with what I eat except Coffee. Is it very harmful to this way of eating? I am 4 years sober now and coffee has helped me through, no sugar but full cream milk. What are people’s thoughts? TIA

#2

Is it working for you? Some people prefer cream to milk - fewer carbs - but if you’re getting the results you want then have at it.

#3

Continuing the discussion from Coffee on Keto:

Yep, it seems to be, I’m happy with 5kg in 2 and a half weeks and I’m not getting any urges to drink alcohol again so happy about that

(Alex ) #4

Knocking the alcohol on the head will have a really big impact

(Carl Keller) #5

There are studies that suggest a correlation between coffee, improved weight loss and some disease prevention. Coffee apparently has some antioxidants but I wonder if the studies were funded by coffee corporations.

In regards to coffee and keto, I drink about 24 ounces per day with a bit of heavy cream, stevia and about 1 tablespoon (total) of coconut oil and it seems to have not slowed my weight loss.

Since you’re having good results, I see no need to change anything…

Congrats on your continued sobriety and dropping 5 kg so far. :wink:

(Allie) #6

No problem at all as long as you’re getting the results you want. Well done on the sobriety.

(Full Metal KETO AF) #7

Try it with HWC, you may love it. I went to cream straight off of an artificial creamer with tons of HFCS. A day or two later I preferred the HWC. Just use less than milk.

(Randy) #8

I use unsweetened almond milk in my coffee just to take the edge off the bitterness.

(Omar) #9

coffee increase cortisol and cholesterol

I could not stay in ketosis drinking three cups a day.

so I quit cold turkey

after quitting coffee I recived a significant improvement in my lipid panel, energy level and improved digestion

(Robert C) #10

A coach encouraged me to try black coffee, after two (admittedly difficult) weeks I was converted completely.

Now I have BPC once in a while but, only when I need the extra fat and MCTs. It is nice to be able to stick with black coffee on fasting days where I am shooting for autophagy.

It made me a bit of a coffee snob now that I can really taste the differences in good coffees. Grind myself just before using a pour over coffee maker.

(Banting & Yudkin & Atkins & Eadeses & Cordain & Taubes & Volek & Naiman & Bikman ) #11

I believe this tracks with what I’m seeing, both in my frustrations with lipid panels and my general results.

And yet, for some reason quitting this expensive habit seems beyond me.

(Omar) #12

I took it personal

If coffee were a man I would have probably killed him.

my health comes first

(Brian) #13

Maybe depends on how much cream / milk. Coffee isn’t really a problem for many of us but what gets put into it can be more so for some.

I’m one that liked a LOT of heavy cream in my coffee. And for most of the first year of keto, I lost about 60 pounds while consuming ridiculous amounts of heavy cream in my coffee. I was going through maybe 2 pints in 3 days when including the incidental stuff in addition to the coffee. That’s a lot of heavy cream. It did eventually cause a stall and an honest look at what I was consuming pointed that out as an item I really should not be consuming that much of.

I’ve since started adding just a little butter to my coffee and whipping it with an immersion blender. What was a quarter or a third of a cup of cream is not one or two teaspoons of butter. And I’m good with that. The weight is coming off again, too. Being in the last 20 pounds or so of what I want to lose makes it a little more difficult than when I had 80 pounds to lose, at least that’s kinda how it’s working out for me.

Just sharing my own experience. Some really do have issues with coffee. Then again, some have issues with all sorts of things… dairy, eggs, gluten, peanuts, strawberries… if we only consumed foods that no one ever had issues with, ever, I think we’d all be fasting. :wink:

Good luck!

#14

Have been drinking one cup per day with one tablespoon of HWC and a squirt of liquid Splenda. I count 3 total carbs as a matter of course though it’s probably not nearly that much. Has not slowed my weight loss at all.

However, this week I am going to straight black but will back off on the brew strength to hopefully reduce the bitterness. Going for autophagy on this week’s 72-hour fast.

By the way, is there any common blend out there that is less bitter? I normally drink Community, a popular blend in Louisiana.

(Allie) #15

Add a bit of salt to it, removes the bitterness.

(John) #16

Gotta have my coffee. Regular and decaf. I have always taken my coffee black.

When I do add a “lightener”, I usually only do a tablespoon or less. I’ve used heavy whipping cream, half-and-half, and a coconut cream/almond milk combo called “Better Half.” Of those three, if I were going to regularly add something, I’d do the Better Half (unsweetend) product. It is only 15 calories, all from fat, and zero carbs.

In general I’d rather just drink it black and not have the extra calories. The coffee itself has not seemed to hinder my weight loss.

(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #17

@Darryl I have learned two very important things about coffee on these forums: (1) Coffee is very bad for you and will kick you out of ketosis, and (2) Coffee is an excellent keto drink and enhances ketosis. :grin:

I suspect that there is an individual factor involved, but what it might be, I don’t know. It isn’t a reaction to caffeine, apparently, because no one ever posts anything about tea on these forums, and diet sodas have many issues that get discussed, but caffeine is never part of the discussion.

If you are getting what you want out of your keto way of eating while drinking coffee, mazel tov! As for me, they’ll have to pry my coffee mug out of my cold, dead hands, lol! :bacon:

(Ben ) #18

I use some baking soda to lower the PH of the brew water. It seems to enhance the flavor. And you get some salt!

(Ben ) #19

I guess I did not have my coffee yet so I meant use baking soda raise the PH

(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #20

Coffee or not, I can still never remember which is which, lol! :coffee::bacon: