Green Tea and water

Personally I class any herbal or green tea as water. If it is made with water and has no calories to me it is just flavoured water.

I drink alot of generic black iced tea and I add it under water....I don't know if that is correct or not, but thats how I roll...:drinker:

i add all my unsweetend green tea, white tea, black tea, herbal teas etc.. as water.

I think the main issue at hand is hydration; drinks that contain a lot of caffeine can act as diuretics, such as coffee, which in large doses tends to dehydrate you.

green tea, black tea, oolong, etc... all contain small amounts of caffeine (approx. 26mg per 8 oz) but not nearly as much as coffee (approx. 95mg per 8oz). I think tea is, for the most part, safe enough to count as water as it probably wont dehydrate you due to it's caffeine content alone.

Unless perhaps you're drinking 6-9+ cups of tea in a sitting, in which case that might near 300mg of caffeine and, "Single servings of caffeine at doses exceeding 300mg may have a diuretic effect" (http://www.teaadvisorypanel.com/myths).

If I counted water, I would count my tea, my coffee, my soda, my milk, my juice, my watermelon and my water. If they have calories, I would just make sure to add it to my food diary too. Anything that adds to your hydration for the day can be counted.