Green Tea Are the advantages of drinking real

I think it's way overhyped as a weight loss tool. I suppose that if you replace some sugary drink with unsweetened green tea, that would benefit weight loss, but otherwise it's all hype.

Don't force yourself to consume things you hate. You won't be able to sustain it. Plenty of other choices available!

in terms of weight loss?

Yes they are real, but very very minimal.

Hi

I've decided to try drinking green tea to help detox and hopefully my weight loss. Does anyone know if the advantages of drinking it are real because I need them to be to make up for the taste.

Green tea has caffeine. Caffeine is a stimulant (raises metabolism a little bit) and like all stimulants an appetite suppressant. Other than that, there are really no PROVEN advantages to green tea over other unsweetened very-low-calorie caffeinated beverages like black coffee.

If you are not currently using a caffeinated beverage, one might help you, but keep in mind that getting the caffeine monkey off your back (if you ever choose to give it up - personally I'm perfectly happy drinking coffee every morning) can be unpleasant.

There's more to tea than what you usually find in the stores, and usually its rather...boring and bland. The way to go is loose leaf tea and there are many different flavors. Teavana is very good but expensive. They have all sorts of different teas and they will explain which tea is good for what. For instance, they have weightloss tea. I haven't tried the weightloss tea myself but their flavored green tea and herbal tea are my favorites.

If you want tea that is not expensive yet still tasty, check out local tea places. If not, this is the tea expert I turn to The Pleasure of Tea aka TPOT (http://www.pleasuresoftea.com/). Her tea is a lot more affordable yet still delicious. She travels all around Long Island at street fairs selling tea and also sells on her website. She as well as Teavana both have decaffeinated tea.

I only drink tea, water and almond milk..and the almond milk is really only for my cereal. I do not consume soda or drinks with hefty calories. So the tea is great for the fruity flavor you may be craving and its very good for you.

If you don't like it, don't drink it. It's not some miracle weight loss tool. There's plenty of other ways to get the beneficial antioxidants in.

When the green tea craze first started a few years ago my best friend at the time told me "Drink this and you will lose weight" and she became obsessed with everything green tea. Will it make you lose weight? No, but I do try to add a cup in a day and count it towards my water intake. But I like it - dont drink it if you don't like it.

I'm using the green tea capsules to help curb appetite. So far so good, but I have also increased my daily water consumption. I also take Guarana to give me an extra boost of the mornings and before workouts.

There are supposedly antioxidant benefits of green tea. I drink a lot of it, as I'm trying to cut my artificial sweetener intake, of which I had a lot of in regular tea and coffee; I've simply replaced most of my regular coffee and teas with green tea. At the moment I'm drinking green tea flavoured with orange which is pretty good. I'm not sure if it's made a difference to my weight loss, probably not. But I do like the taste; I lived in Japan for a year during high school and I think it's quite an acquired taste, so if you drink more, you'll probably get used to it and start to like it. There is a little bit of caffeine in green tea, but definitely not as much as is in black tea or coffee, so if you drink a lot of tea and coffee and then make the switch, you might go into a bit of caffeine withdrawal...