How to Loose Fifty Pounds Doing Nothing
Three years ago, I weighed 210 pounds. I was miserable, fat, and clinically depressed. I had given up trying to loose weight, and decided to just let myself go.
Fast forward 9 months, and when I stepped on my scale to my shock I weighed 160 pounds! I stood there, mouth open, staring in surprise at my scale. I had lost 50 pounds?? How!?
I racked my brain, looking for how I could have possibly lost so much weight without trying, or even noticing. I hadn't been exercising at all, had not been eating healthy in the least, and hadn't even been paying attention to my weight.
Finally, after days of debating, I found my answer: coffee.
Yup. You heard me right. Coffee.
I had accidentally drank my way into loosing 50 pounds. You see, for about six months I had been going to my local coffee shop and getting a plain latte every single day instead of eating lunch or dinner. I did the calculations, everyday and for about half a year, I only ate at most a full meal a day, and the rest was coffee. All kinds of coffee, too. I drank flat whites, soy lattes, black with milk, or oat-milk cappuccinos. It turns out, coffee is really low in calories, and if your drink enough of it, and substitute a cup of coffee for a meal, your body starts to just shred pounds.
After discovering this, I did some digging online. And it turns out coffee is basically a magical weight loss cure. Why? To make a long story short, because coffee undergoes a chemical reaction in your brain that turns off your hunger-receptors. So when you drink it, the part of your brain that screams at you “I NEED FOOD” gets turned off. I had no idea, but coffee is an appetite suppressant.
So, is the coffee diet the one for you? Maybe. Maybe not. Here are some things you should take into consideration before undertaking this radical diet plan:
- It costs five dollars a day.
Unless you go out and buy yourself an espresso machine ( not a bad idea, or a bad investment ) then there is no way around it, you are going to spend on average $35 a week on coffee with this diet. Some people can afford that, especially considering the cost of healthy fruits and vegetables these days. Some people just cant, and thats okay. You can just make coffee at home and add milk to it instead. The point is to drink coffee, not go broke.
2. You probably wont consume enough vitamins and minerals.
The harsh truth is, to stay at your peak health your body needs lots of vitamins, nutrients and minerals to be healthy. If you only eat one meal a day, and drink coffee for the rest of it, then your body just wont get what it needs. But if you are in desperate need of loosing weight for medical reasons, or if your obesity is killing you, then skipping meals with coffee may be the ticket to getting to a healthier place. I did it, and hey, Im doing fine!
3. It could possibly lead to an eating disorder.
If you get comfortable skipping meals and only eating one meal a day, then whats to say you wont get comfortable not eating at all? The truth is that eating very few calories a day, or less than 800 calories a day, could classify as an eating disorder, and if you go for too long not getting enough calories you could slowly starve yourself and die. So if you do undertake this diet, you MUST make sure you are consuming more than 1,000 calories a day. If you don’t, your hair can fall out, your body can stop working, and you can slowly kill your yourself. To say you should proceed with caution is an understatement.
So, there you go folks. That is how I lost 50 pounds without even trying. The good news is, I kept the weight off. The bad news is this is an extreme, unhealthy and unsustainable diet plan. Even though this worked for me, I dont recommend it for anyone who is not responsible enough to handle this. Proceed at your own risk, and consider that you have been warned.
