Dr. Ashley LucasPhD Nutritionist & Dietitian | Owner & Founder PHD Weight Loss & Dr. Ashley Wellness

Your morning coffee is making you hold onto belly fat

2 Jan 2026 · 1 min

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A short video by Dr. Ashley Lucas arguing that common morning drinks can raise blood glucose and insulin, promoting fat storage—particularly belly fat—and inhibiting fat burning. The speaker emphasizes focusing on specific morning beverages because they are easy triggers for switching the body into fat-storage mode when insulin is chronically elevated.

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Most people start their morning with drinks that quietly raise their insulin and their blood glucose, which really makes belly fat harder to lose. When you have chronically elevated levels of blood glucose and you have chronically elevated levels of insulin, you're going to be in a fat storage mode. Whenever insulin is chronically elevated, it's going to flip off the switch to burning fat for fuel. So that's why we want to focus on specific drinks in the morning, because these are the easiest triggers to either storing fat as fuel or burning it.