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    Green tea?

    Posts: 94 Member
    edited November 2024 in Food and Nutrition
    does green tea really help keep you full and lose weight? What's your thoughts?

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    • Posts: 2,493 Member
      It helps you lose weight as much as any other food or drink. No food or drink in isolation has mystical weight loss unicorn magic.
      Spoiler
      Apart from unicorn urine

      If drank within a calorie deficit you will lose weight.

      If drank within a calorie surplus you will gain weight.
    • Posts: 3,358 Member
      edited September 2015
      Green tea does not make you lose weight.

      If it did, there wouldn't be an obesity problem in the world.

      It's a marketing gimmick to make you buy more.

    • Posts: 15,317 Member
      There would be no overweight people if all it took was to drink green tea.
    • Posts: 327 Member
      Ladybug_1794 wrote: »
      does green tea really help keep you full and lose weight? What's your thoughts?
      It helps curb my appetite in the afternoon and not starve befor dinner time. It is good for you.
    • Posts: 28 Member
      I don't notice a difference in weight or appetite when I'm drinking green tea regularly.
    • Posts: 15,573 Member
      No. You got great advice in your other thread. Log your food, get a food scale, stay in a deficit, lose weight.
    • Posts: 4,696 Member
      Ladybug_1794 wrote: »
      does green tea really help keep you full and lose weight? What's your thoughts?

      No.
    • Posts: 194 Member
      I have heard that green tea has a slightly beneficial impact, but I read this before I posted and it seems like it is really not worth it. http://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/weight-loss/in-depth/weight-loss/art-20046409?pg=2
    • Posts: 8,159 Member
      I started drinking tea the same time I when LCHF which does both keep you full while you lose weight.

      At my age I like its reported disease prevention side effects. :)

      authoritynutrition.com/top-10-evidence-based-health-benefits-of-green-tea/
    • Posts: 7,088 Member
      Calorie deficit for weight loss

      If green tea really caused weight loss, why would we all be on here counting calories ?? Wouldn't we all just guzzle green tea all day and be thin?

      No replacement for hard work. No magic pills or drinks. Eat less then you burn, you'll lose weight
    • Posts: 94 Member
      Lol I didn't say green tea makes you lose weight. More as in does it keep you guys full so you don't have to take in so much calories in and eat less
    • Posts: 6,124 Member
      Ladybug_1794 wrote: »
      Lol I didn't say green tea makes you lose weight. More as in does it keep you guys full so you don't have to take in so much calories in and eat less

      No more so than water.
    • Posts: 1,351 Member
      I hope it works with Green Tea Latte's, because those are the bomb.

      On a more srs note, most studies on green tea and weightloss are all woo. correlation=/=causation
    • Posts: 163 Member
      I use Green Tea but not as a weight loss supplement. More of a something to full in the time lol, also I love dipping chocolate into it LOL. It's my everyday treat, green tea and some chocolate lol.
    • Posts: 478 Member
      It is a great antioxidant, cheap and the health benefits alone are worth it. Love green tea.
    • Posts: 383 Member
      kiittenforever wrote: »
      It is a great antioxidant, cheap and the health benefits alone are worth it. Love green tea.

      Any data to support those claims? I can't find any. To me, green tea is just crappy tasting hot water. I'd rather have coffee...
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    • Posts: 12,344 Member
      No. Tastes pretty good though.
    • Posts: 1,066 Member
      For me it is a hot drink that doesn't need sugar or milk added to it. I can't stomach black coffee. So as the colder weather sets in, hot tea of all varieties is my drink of choice.

      Having a hot beverage makes me feel like I have eaten something and it takes care of the "hand to mouth" problem I have. So in that sense, eh sort of? Tea isn't really all that different than water with the exception of black tea having caffeine. But I've also been know to have mugs of hot water so yeah...I don't like being cold.
    • Posts: 383 Member
      edited September 2015
      catscats222 wrote: »
      I 100% think so. It made me feel fuller longer than just drinking water (not sure why).
      - Thousands of articles on the net on how it contains ANTIOXIDANTS.

      I didn't dispute the existense of antioxidants.
      I am skeptical whether the antioxidants in green tea are beneficial in any way.

      I hope you appreciate the difference.
      Feel free to present evidence, I'm open to the science.
    • Posts: 81 Member
      I usually drink a cup or two during my work day. For me, it does seem to suppress my appetite some. I wouldn't say a lot though. If I'm craving something sweet and don't have fruit handy, I'll grab a cup of green tea with a packet of Splenda or Stevia and I'm good to go!
    • Posts: 86 Member
      I doesn't make you lose weight. I find it can be an appetite suppressant between meals (warm liquid in the belly, has no calories), but beyond that, nah man. It's not a magical weight loss supplement or anything. Just keep counting your calories :)
    • Posts: 28,055 Member
      brianpperkins wrote: »
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      No more so than water.

      This ^

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