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When you are very overweight, just changing a few things in your daily routine can help you lose weight relatively quickly. However, after an initial burst of weight loss, many times you stop losing weight quickly or stop losing weight at all. After a few months of weight loss, many people find that they hit this weight loss plateau. One way to help avoid this weight loss plateau is by incorporating cinnamon into your daily diet.

To surpass your weight loss plateau, it usually helps to speed up your metabolism. Cinnamon, does just the trick. In some ways, cinnamon can be thought of as a natural weight loss supplement. By speeding up your metabolism, cinnamon will help you lose weight and avoid the weight loss plateau.

Eating a half teaspoon of cinnamon in the morning is perfect for speeding up the metabolism. You can eat this cinnamon in any way you want. You can eat it straight, or mix it with something else. I sometimes mix the half teaspoon of cinnamon into my glass of tea.

Update (Important):

I was informed by a reader that the cinnamon you buy at the market is actually not cinnamon at all! The true cinnamon spice is called Cinnamomum Zeylanicum, yet most cinnamon products come from a similar species called Cinnamomum Cassia. This may not seem very important, but if you want to use cinnamon as a weight loss supplement it is very important. This is because Cassia Cinnamon contains very high levels of coumarin which could pose health dangers (it has actually been banned in Germany!). Coumarin in too high doses can even damage the liver!

If you read the reader comments below, Pat has reccomended a source for true Ceylon cinnamon. One pound of Cinnamon sticks from the Ceylon Online website will cost you $26.00 . I thought this was a bit on the high side, so I did some research, and actually found another bulk spice supplier which is able to supply true Ceylon cinnamon at a tad lower price. Kalyx.com sells a one pound bag of, Cinnamon Sticks 5” Ceylon (Cinnamomum zeylanicum; Rou Gui Pi) for just under twenty bucks, $18.67 to be exact. Take a look if your interested,
Cinnamon Sticks 5” Ceylon (Cinnamomum zeylanicum; Rou Gui Pi) 1 lb: C, the site also talks a lot more about the health benefits of true Ceylon cinnamon, so thats an added benefit.

In the post I talked about taking a half teaspoon as a supplement… You obviously won’t be able to do this with the cinnamon sticks, so I recommend putting part of a stick in your morning coffee or tea. You can use a cinnamon stick multiple times in your tea or coffee because cinnamon sticks have an essential oil which is a natural anti-biotic. You should definitely be able to use one stick for at least three cups.