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FaithGonzalesss wrote: »diannethegeek wrote: »FaithGonzalesss wrote: »diannethegeek wrote: »FaithGonzalesss wrote: »Ive read about how good it is to drink 3-4 cups of green tea a day for weight loss. i was planning to try it for a month or 2. i failed, i forgot to bring it with me. Although i did try it for 2-3 days and my weight did actually go down quickly. but for those 2-3 days i also wasnt eating very much at all, besides alot of watermelon. whats your views of this diet type thing?
Isn't watermelon a natural diuretic? I'd guess you lost weight due to the water weight fluctuations from undereating combined with a diuretic rather than the tea.
I don't know which studies you've read. Those I've come across have a small sample size and never show more than a 4% increase to metabolism. That's well within the margin of error for calorie counters.
Green tea is nice if you like it, but personally, I wouldn't base my weight loss on the tea alone.
im not basing my weight loss solely on it once i restart the green tea. ive been consistently loosing weight every week so im just doing it to see what itll do.
I'm curious why you asked if you're only interested in your personal experience?
i just find it interesting. things said to make you lose weight or alter your body. It may not be legit but i still find it interesting.
Which do you enjoy more? Wasting your time, or wasting other people's time?23 -
Well, you asked for people's views. You got them. You don't seem to give a rat's about them, so I wonder what the point was, but you do you.14
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It's interesting that people will join this website which is based on controlling calories, and then use other diets to try and lose weight.
Believe me, from my own personal experience, MFP works. No need to do anything else.
There is no trick to weight loss. Just eat less calories than your body burns in a day and stay the course.
well thats not all accurate. Ive lost about 30 lbs and it wasn't just by eating less calories than my body burns a day.i changed my diet.21 -
Why do you think it wasn't from eating fewer calories than your body burns?5
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FaithGonzalesss wrote: »
Are you going to post the research you've done or just brush people off? Here, I'll go first: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/105840497 -
FaithGonzalesss wrote: »It's interesting that people will join this website which is based on controlling calories, and then use other diets to try and lose weight.
Believe me, from my own personal experience, MFP works. No need to do anything else.
There is no trick to weight loss. Just eat less calories than your body burns in a day and stay the course.
well thats not all accurate. Ive lost about 30 lbs and it wasn't just by eating less calories than my body burns a day.i changed my diet.
Changing your diet resulted in consuming less calories, which is all that matters for weight loss. Nutritious food for health, calories for weight loss. You could lose weight eating nothing but Twinkies if you ate less calories than you burned. You'd be unhealthy and feel like crap, but you'd lose weight.14 -
FaithGonzalesss wrote: »It's interesting that people will join this website which is based on controlling calories, and then use other diets to try and lose weight.
Believe me, from my own personal experience, MFP works. No need to do anything else.
There is no trick to weight loss. Just eat less calories than your body burns in a day and stay the course.
well thats not all accurate. Ive lost about 30 lbs and it wasn't just by eating less calories than my body burns a day.i changed my diet.
How do you think weight loss works?13 -
diannethegeek wrote: »FaithGonzalesss wrote: »It's interesting that people will join this website which is based on controlling calories, and then use other diets to try and lose weight.
Believe me, from my own personal experience, MFP works. No need to do anything else.
There is no trick to weight loss. Just eat less calories than your body burns in a day and stay the course.
well thats not all accurate. Ive lost about 30 lbs and it wasn't just by eating less calories than my body burns a day.i changed my diet.
How do you think weight loss works?
There seems to be a bit of strain or tension on this discussion. I apologize if I've offended or upset you.9 -
FaithGonzalesss wrote: »diannethegeek wrote: »FaithGonzalesss wrote: »It's interesting that people will join this website which is based on controlling calories, and then use other diets to try and lose weight.
Believe me, from my own personal experience, MFP works. No need to do anything else.
There is no trick to weight loss. Just eat less calories than your body burns in a day and stay the course.
well thats not all accurate. Ive lost about 30 lbs and it wasn't just by eating less calories than my body burns a day.i changed my diet.
How do you think weight loss works?
There seems to be a bit of strain or tension on this discussion. I apologize if I've offended or upset you.
It's just very frustrating when someone starts a discussion by asking for people's views, then responds on the basis that they don't really care what anyone says, they're going to do their own thing anyway.
Plus, you seem to have some inaccurate ideas about weight loss and people are trying to clarify for you, but you don't seem to be interested in learning anything.14 -
Alatariel75 wrote: »FaithGonzalesss wrote: »diannethegeek wrote: »FaithGonzalesss wrote: »It's interesting that people will join this website which is based on controlling calories, and then use other diets to try and lose weight.
Believe me, from my own personal experience, MFP works. No need to do anything else.
There is no trick to weight loss. Just eat less calories than your body burns in a day and stay the course.
well thats not all accurate. Ive lost about 30 lbs and it wasn't just by eating less calories than my body burns a day.i changed my diet.
How do you think weight loss works?
There seems to be a bit of strain or tension on this discussion. I apologize if I've offended or upset you.
It's just very frustrating when someone starts a discussion by asking for people's views, then responds on the basis that they don't really care what anyone says, they're going to do their own thing anyway.
Plus, you seem to have some inaccurate ideas about weight loss and people are trying to clarify for you, but you don't seem to be interested in learning anything.
I think by some of the stuff ive been saying it does sound like i don't understand the process of weight loss. But i do, i just wanted to TRY this random, false, fad diet. I dont have any expectations of weight loss from this. i expect weight loss from healthy eating, lower calories sometimes and working out.8 -
FaithGonzalesss wrote: »Alatariel75 wrote: »FaithGonzalesss wrote: »diannethegeek wrote: »FaithGonzalesss wrote: »It's interesting that people will join this website which is based on controlling calories, and then use other diets to try and lose weight.
Believe me, from my own personal experience, MFP works. No need to do anything else.
There is no trick to weight loss. Just eat less calories than your body burns in a day and stay the course.
well thats not all accurate. Ive lost about 30 lbs and it wasn't just by eating less calories than my body burns a day.i changed my diet.
How do you think weight loss works?
There seems to be a bit of strain or tension on this discussion. I apologize if I've offended or upset you.
It's just very frustrating when someone starts a discussion by asking for people's views, then responds on the basis that they don't really care what anyone says, they're going to do their own thing anyway.
Plus, you seem to have some inaccurate ideas about weight loss and people are trying to clarify for you, but you don't seem to be interested in learning anything.
I think by some of the stuff ive been saying it does sound like i don't understand the process of weight loss. But i do, i just wanted to TRY this random, false, fad diet. I dont have any expectations of weight loss from this. i expect weight loss from healthy eating, lower calories sometimes and working out.
OK, but go back and read your first post. You never said you were going to try it anyway, you said you'd heard it was good for weight loss and asked people's views. Then you brushed off everyone's views and said you were going to do it anyway.
Can you see how it's frustrating that people took the time to try to answer your question, when you didn't care about the answers anyway?11 -
Alatariel75 wrote: »FaithGonzalesss wrote: »Alatariel75 wrote: »FaithGonzalesss wrote: »diannethegeek wrote: »FaithGonzalesss wrote: »It's interesting that people will join this website which is based on controlling calories, and then use other diets to try and lose weight.
Believe me, from my own personal experience, MFP works. No need to do anything else.
There is no trick to weight loss. Just eat less calories than your body burns in a day and stay the course.
well thats not all accurate. Ive lost about 30 lbs and it wasn't just by eating less calories than my body burns a day.i changed my diet.
How do you think weight loss works?
There seems to be a bit of strain or tension on this discussion. I apologize if I've offended or upset you.
It's just very frustrating when someone starts a discussion by asking for people's views, then responds on the basis that they don't really care what anyone says, they're going to do their own thing anyway.
Plus, you seem to have some inaccurate ideas about weight loss and people are trying to clarify for you, but you don't seem to be interested in learning anything.
I think by some of the stuff ive been saying it does sound like i don't understand the process of weight loss. But i do, i just wanted to TRY this random, false, fad diet. I dont have any expectations of weight loss from this. i expect weight loss from healthy eating, lower calories sometimes and working out.
OK, but go back and read your first post. You never said you were going to try it anyway, you said you'd heard it was good for weight loss and asked people's views. Then you brushed off everyone's views and said you were going to do it anyway.
Can you see how it's frustrating that people took the time to try to answer your question, when you didn't care about the answers anyway?
yes, i can see how its frustrating and i apologize4 -
FaithGonzalesss wrote: »Alatariel75 wrote: »FaithGonzalesss wrote: »diannethegeek wrote: »FaithGonzalesss wrote: »It's interesting that people will join this website which is based on controlling calories, and then use other diets to try and lose weight.
Believe me, from my own personal experience, MFP works. No need to do anything else.
There is no trick to weight loss. Just eat less calories than your body burns in a day and stay the course.
well thats not all accurate. Ive lost about 30 lbs and it wasn't just by eating less calories than my body burns a day.i changed my diet.
How do you think weight loss works?
There seems to be a bit of strain or tension on this discussion. I apologize if I've offended or upset you.
It's just very frustrating when someone starts a discussion by asking for people's views, then responds on the basis that they don't really care what anyone says, they're going to do their own thing anyway.
Plus, you seem to have some inaccurate ideas about weight loss and people are trying to clarify for you, but you don't seem to be interested in learning anything.
I think by some of the stuff ive been saying it does sound like i don't understand the process of weight loss. But i do, i just wanted to TRY this random, false, fad diet. I dont have any expectations of weight loss from this. i expect weight loss from healthy eating, lower calories sometimes and working out.
It's not lower calories sometimes it is all the time. You can gain weight eating "healthy". Easy examples - avocado, olive oil, peanuts - could be classified as healthy, all calorie dense. Eat too much - boom - you've gained.5 -
Why, if you know it's a fad that doesn't work, are you going to try it? Isn't that just a waste of your own time and money?
I think this trumps the threads where OP thinks it does something.7 -
FaithGonzalesss wrote: »diannethegeek wrote: »FaithGonzalesss wrote: »diannethegeek wrote: »FaithGonzalesss wrote: »Ive read about how good it is to drink 3-4 cups of green tea a day for weight loss. i was planning to try it for a month or 2. i failed, i forgot to bring it with me. Although i did try it for 2-3 days and my weight did actually go down quickly. but for those 2-3 days i also wasnt eating very much at all, besides alot of watermelon. whats your views of this diet type thing?
Isn't watermelon a natural diuretic? I'd guess you lost weight due to the water weight fluctuations from undereating combined with a diuretic rather than the tea.
I don't know which studies you've read. Those I've come across have a small sample size and never show more than a 4% increase to metabolism. That's well within the margin of error for calorie counters.
Green tea is nice if you like it, but personally, I wouldn't base my weight loss on the tea alone.
im not basing my weight loss solely on it once i restart the green tea. ive been consistently loosing weight every week so im just doing it to see what itll do.
I'm curious why you asked if you're only interested in your personal experience?
i just find it interesting. things said to make you lose weight or alter your body. It may not be legit but i still find it interesting.
I find this kind of stuff interesting, too. Which is why I can pull up studies quickly to post here. When I find something like this interesting, I want to dig into the why of it all. How does it work (or not work in this case)? What causes it? What kind of factors affect it? It's why I learned how to find and read studies. I learned how to dig up opposition pieces. I learned which sources I can trust and which I can't. I learned how weight loss works at its simplest so I can see how things like green tea affect it or don't. What I don't usually do is try it blindly and wonder whether it's working or not. I don't see the fun in that when you have so many other variables affecting your weight fluctuations. You can't get a good feel for what it does or doesn't do by trying things willy-nilly and judging them based on your feels. Dig into the science sometime. It's pretty interesting if you like this kind of stuff.14 -
FaithGonzalesss wrote: »but for those 2-3 days i also wasnt eating very much at all, besides alot of watermelon.
I wonder if this had anything to do with the weight loss.
Hint: It's not the green tea.
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I drink green tea vs. black tea (or coffee) only because I desire to minimize the enamel erosion and staining of my teeth. That's it. If I want caffeine, I consume it in OTC tablet form with 11-16 oz of water.3
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I try to drink two glasses of diet green tea a day. Not in place of my regular diet. If you drink it in the morning it’s supposed to boost your metabolism. I’m not sure, it does make me fuller.10
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EEAngelina wrote: »I try to drink two glasses of diet green tea a day. Not in place of my regular diet. If you drink it in the morning it’s supposed to boost your metabolism. I’m not sure, it does make me fuller.
It doesn't do anything to your metabolism.6 -
Why drink it if you hate it? That makes sad.7
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