Everyone dreads what happens after you’re done with a diet.
After all, if you’re on a diet, you don’t intend to eat like that forever. It’s just until you’ve lost the weight, right?
So what happens when you go back to normal?
A group of German researchers from Hannover Medical School tested out one solution to the post-diet weight gain: coffee.
Coffee has already been found to have several health benefits, which hopefully liberate it from its unhealthy reputation. It can combat liver disease and type 2 diabetes, and may even improve mortality.
But now, these researchers are saying that two cups a day could help dieters from going back to their old habits once they hit their goal weight.
They studied the eating habits of 494 women and men in a weight loss study. They odund that those who drank more coffee—two to four cups a day—lost more weight and kept it off more effectively than those who didn’t.
Combining coffee with exercise, said researchers, could help keep the weight off even more effectively.
Caffeine has already been linked to weight loss, as it’s a hunger suppressant. So now the researchers believe that it could also be helpful for weight maintenance.
It’s not just coffee. The researchers said other caffeinated beverages, like tea, had the same effect. So if you’re a caffeine addict, chances are you’re doing pretty well.
Of course, whenever there’s a study that boasts the health benefits of coffee or tea, it’s always important to note that it’s how you drink it that counts. If you’re drinking your coffee black every day, you’re on the right track. If you’re counting two mochas as your two coffees per day, you’re going to be putting on calories made of sugar and milk. Take your coffee and tea black, and you’re sure to keep those pounds off.
