Anyone try green coffee extract with the sleeve?

[NMJG 1,266]

Has anyone tried green coffee extract to boost loss for slow losers? I saw this article

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20064576

There does appear to be some success in studies with chlorogenic acid, found in green coffee, with weight loss. My resting BMR is only 1345 calories per my nut, the result of years of yoyo dieting. I would really like to to lose more than a pound or two a week. I do walk for exercise but with bad knees, arthritis, etc. it's not easy to burn more than a few hundred extra calories a day. I'm also off caffeine since presurgery.

[belloni45 21]

I have been taking this for months and it has helped me lose weight as well as keep my A1C in the perfect range. I have never told my doctors that I take this and why my diabetes is under control but I think it is the Green coffee extract. I will not be using it after I am sleeved, I started my pre-op diet yesterday and I am finding I am having sugar lows because of the coffee extract. My husband is going to take the ones I have already purchased, as not to waste them they are expensive.

[NMJG 1,266]

Thanks, Bell. Anyone who loses 15 or 20 lbs a month wouldn't need it with the sleeve. The effects on triglycerides and cholesterol, as well as A1C were very interesting.

[NMJG 1,266]

OK, last post and I'll leave this topic alone. After researching green coffee bean extract, it dawns on me that it works because it breaks up carbohydrate chains so that they don't become glucose. With little blood glucose, your body accesses fat stores for energy. Sounds great if you eat a lot of carbs, but we sleevers don't! We eat Protein, so it's not going to help for speeding up weight loss. I suppose it might still work for lowering cholesterol and blood pressure, but it's not going to any help for slow losers (unless you are eating carbs and not getting in your protein).