Green Tea
BrittanyFarrell1
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Has anyone had any personal experience with Green Tea actually helping with weight loss? I added Green Tea to my daily drinks to change up the daily water and milk in the morning. Thanks in advance!
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No. I tried it. Nothing. CICO, plain and simple.0
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green tea nor any other "weight loss" food has any magical properties. drink it if you like it or it helps get your water intake up but other than that it wont help with weight loss. if it did I would buy stock in green tea
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If you're drinking it in place of milk, then you'll be consuming fewer calories, since it has none (assuming you're not adding milk/sugar/etc). It helps with feeling full like any other 0 calorie liquid, has antioxidants, and improves insulin sensitivity when you drink it with meals. Its definitely a healthy thing to add to your day as long as you don't have caffeine issues. But other than that, it won't affect your weight loss.0
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In the past, I used it as a habit replacement where I would make green tea instead of boredom eating. It worked in that sense, but I would have had the same results with any kind of tea, or even something like taking a nap. There's nothing magical about it,but it gave me something to do instead of eating when I wasn't actually hungry.0
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I have it to cut down on my coffee intake (I was on 5-6 lattes a day). I'm not a massive fan of the taste but I find when I drank 1 or 2 cups a day with diet and exercise I did lose weight consistently previously. Whether that was due to the tea or not is anyones guess.
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I like it because it has antioxidants. Good life habit. Nice to have water with taste. 2 teas a day.0
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There is no magic item to increase weight loss. If you like green tea, drink it, but it has no benefit such as increased weight loss.
The only magic formula is to consume less calories than your body burns to lose weight.0 -
It won't make you lose weight, but it is good for you! I've been switching out my morning coffee with creamer for green tea with honey and lemon a few days a week.0
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Think about those countries where people constantly drink green tea. Do they have weight issues? Yes they do, and it's getting worse (in general) compared to their own stats from 100 years ago. So green tea is a good choice of beverage (if you don't add sugar) when there's no underlying health issue, but no, green tea is not a magical weight-loss helper.0
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I drink all kinds of tea. Green tea, black tea, lemon ginger, and chamomile mostly. It can help curb appetite when cravings come. Increased fluid intake does help with weight loss as it makes you feel full and keeps you hydrated. Sipping on green tea is a lot healthier than sipping on soda if you don't use sugar.0
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I've been drinking a pitcher of iced green tea per day for years (brewed with stevia, not the store-bought kind) and nothing special has happened weight wise.0
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I drink all kinds of tea. Green tea, black tea, lemon ginger, and chamomile mostly. It can help curb appetite when cravings come. Increased fluid intake does help with weight loss as it makes you feel full and keeps you hydrated. Sipping on green tea is a lot healthier than sipping on soda if you don't use sugar.
You are correct but the question wasn't about increased fluid intake, it was about green tea. Green tea has no magical properties.
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Nothing is magic.
People are always SO disappointed when they ask how I lost weight, and I say diet and exercise. Really? Did they really think the weight loss fairy paid several visits to my house at night?0 -
I feel like green tea (without sugar) with a slice of fresh lemon boosts my metabolisam and gives me more energy. I also like the taste. I don't know if the green tea alone is helping with weight loss but in combination with balanced diet and exercise it could help. Depend on the person tho, we all react differently to different food.
If you like to drink it do it, if you can't stand it, don't.0 -
I feel like green tea (without sugar) with a slice of fresh lemon boosts my metabolisam and gives me more energy. I also like the taste. I don't know if the green tea alone is helping with weight loss but in combination with balanced diet and exercise it could help. Depend on the person tho, we all react differently to different food.
If you like to drink it do it, if you can't stand it, don't.
I feel like 3 slices of bacon with a side of eggs boosts my metabolism and gives me more energy. I also like the taste. I don't know if bacon and eggs alone are helping with weight loss, but in combination with a balanced diet caloric deficit and exercise, it could will help.
I made a few edits, but the gist is still the same.0 -
I drink 2-4 cups of green tea each morning at work because I like it and get bored with water. I don't drink coffee, so this is my morning hot drink. I have been doing this for a couple of years and it has zero effect on my weight.0
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Does anyone else drink green tea and not enjoy it? haha... I kid, but plain green tea is gross to me. I love flavored! It's refreshing in the morning, and feels lighter than drinking coffee to me, so I drink it. My mind thinks it's making me less hungry in the afternoon before dinner, so I won't tell myself different. The mind is a powerful thing As for weight loss, I'd say no. I drink quite a bit of it and have noticed zero change. 0
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I wasn't looking for magical weight loss. I was just wondering if the stories were true. I had already assumed they weren't. I know it's suppose to help with your metabolism. And no I use 1 packet of equal, Splenda, or stevie when I drink it.0
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Short answer is no.
It's good to change up boring old water, so if you like it, have at it. There's nothing out there that boosts metabolism though.0 -
If you're really curious about this, you can look for the studies and read up on it yourself. Most of them haven't shown much. There have been some studies that show it might maybe possibly cause a very, very slight increase in metabolism (the oft cited 4% from a 1999 study- or about 50-100 extra calories a day). But that's within the margin of error for most people who calorie count and it was a very small study and is very old in terms of scientific research. The effects have been blown way out of proportion by news articles and weight loss products.0
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yep, I like it and it works0
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KANGOOJUMPS wrote: »yep, I like it and it works
It works for what?0 -
tincanonastring wrote: »KANGOOJUMPS wrote: »yep, I like it and it works
It works for what?
Stimulating the placebo effect.0 -
tincanonastring wrote: »KANGOOJUMPS wrote: »yep, I like it and it works
It works for what?
Stimulating the placebo effect.
Mmmmm....I love having my placebo stimulated.0 -
tincanonastring wrote: »tincanonastring wrote: »KANGOOJUMPS wrote: »yep, I like it and it works
It works for what?
Stimulating the placebo effect.
Mmmmm....I love having my placebo stimulated.
TMI dude0 -
I've used it to replace diet soda. It's yummy enough on it's own that I don't need to add artificial sweeteners to it. It gives me a small caffeine boost, and it keeps me from hitting the vending machine at work during the afternoon slump. I can't say a word about my metabolism, but curbing that urge to snack while reducing artificial sweetener in my diet--WIN!0
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BrittanyFarrell1 wrote: »I know it's suppose to help with your metabolism.
It doesn't. Muscles help with your metabolism though.
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BrittanyFarrell1 wrote: »I know it's suppose to help with your metabolism.
It doesn't. Muscles help with your metabolism though.
Not as much as people think. A pound of fat burns about 2 calories per day, a pound of muscle burns around 6. So every pound of muscle you add burns about 4 extra calories per day, and adding significant amounts of muscle is time-consuming and requires a caloric surplus (eating more than you burn), which also adds fat along with the muscle.
As to the green tea - as others have said, nothing magical about it. It has some caffeine which is mildly thermogenic, but a cup of coffee has more caffeine than a cup of green tea. It's a zero calorie drink and many people drink it because they like the taste, but green tea in and of itself has no magical weight loss properties.0 -
BrittanyFarrell1 wrote: »I know it's suppose to help with your metabolism.
It doesn't. Muscles help with your metabolism though.
Not as much as people think. A pound of fat burns about 2 calories per day, a pound of muscle burns around 6. So every pound of muscle you add burns about 4 extra calories per day, and adding significant amounts of muscle is time-consuming and requires a caloric surplus (eating more than you burn), which also adds fat along with the muscle.
As to the green tea - as others have said, nothing magical about it. It has some caffeine which is mildly thermogenic, but a cup of coffee has more caffeine than a cup of green tea. It's a zero calorie drink and many people drink it because they like the taste, but green tea in and of itself has no magical weight loss properties.
I was under the impression that the increased calorie burn from higher lean muscle mass was experienced mostly during recovery, not so much as a bump in normal metabolic rate.0
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