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Reducing caffeine during diets

I have found that many diets recommend the elimination of caffeine as one step. It seems that I have read that caffeine boosts your metabolism and therefore it seems counter intuitive, to me at least, that one should stop caffeine intake as part of a diet. Can anyone explain why stopping caffeine would help in a diet if stopping it removes something which was helping your body maintain a higher metabolism rate ? Seems like without the caffeine, your metabolism would slow and make it harder to loose weight.

Thanks

Sun, 2009-06-21 00:43 — Anonymous

I've heard something similar

I've heard something similar to this. Don't know about science behind that but in my weight loss club, i was told a few times to stop taking as part of diet. - Sandra

Tue, 2009-06-30 05:00 — Anonymous

It makes you fat

Caffeine causes weight gain not loss. It does this by increasing the body's stress response and initially elevating adrenaline (an appetite suppresant) and cortisol, which stays in the blood much longer, which tells the body to eat and store fat. So in other words, when you drink coffee, initially you will not be hungry. Later though, you will be hungry for carbs sugar and fat and likely overeat. This is the natural effect of cortisol, whose job it is to replenish energy stores that were used. To make it worse, caffeine effects length and quality of sleep, and less, poor sleep causes weight gain.

Unfortunately, it is very difficult to quit, as it is extremely addictive, with even people who have other serious caffeine related problems unable to do so. Most men women and children are drinking more caffeine then ever, and obesity and other diseases have never been higher. Most people who have successfully quit caffeine (over a year) will tell you it was the hardest thing they ever did, tougher then quitting cigarettes or amphetamines.

some urls:

http://diet.lovetoknow.com/wiki/Caffeine_and_Weight_Gain
http://www.naturalnews.com/001514.html
http://www.caffeinedependence.org/caffeine_dependence.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090609072707.htm