GREEN TEA

11Adams11wife11
11Adams11wife11 Posts: 66 Member
edited November 19 in Health and Weight Loss
When drank with a healthy balanced diet does anyone find green tea helps them lose weight?
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  • elphie754
    elphie754 Posts: 7,574 Member
    Nope.

    And I find it disgusting.
  • zezelryck
    zezelryck Posts: 251 Member
    Nope
  • jennifer_417
    jennifer_417 Posts: 12,344 Member
    No. How could it?
  • 11Adams11wife11
    11Adams11wife11 Posts: 66 Member
    jennifer_417 wrote: »
    No. How could it?

    I have no idea... That's why I was asking. A few people I know swear by it. I tried it yesterday and today but I don't want to put myself through it again haha :-D

    Thanks for all the replies :-)
  • NoIdea101NoIdea
    NoIdea101NoIdea Posts: 659 Member
    Essentially, it is just flavoured water. Tea is good for helping 'fill you up', in the same way that drinking water always does which can help with weight loss, but as far as the green tea itself burning fat....nope!
  • kxbrown27
    kxbrown27 Posts: 769 Member
    So much green tea hate on these boards. No, it won't help you burn belly fat like some websites claim, but it tastes delicious.
  • jennifer_417
    jennifer_417 Posts: 12,344 Member
    11Adams11wife11 wrote: »
    jennifer_417 wrote: »
    No. How could it?

    I have no idea... That's why I was asking. A few people I know swear by it. I tried it yesterday and today but I don't want to put myself through it again haha :-D

    Thanks for all the replies :-)

    Haha, as far as I know, it's useless for weight loss, and you should especially avoid it if you don't like it!

    One thing I decided at the very beginning of my weight loss journey was that I wasn't going to eat anything I didn't like, and I wasn't going to give up anything I did!

  • AlciaMode
    AlciaMode Posts: 421 Member
    If you don't like it don't drink it. It is good for you but it does not make you loose weight. I love it. Some extra strong gunpowder green tea. Mmmmmmmm
  • 11Adams11wife11
    11Adams11wife11 Posts: 66 Member
    jennifer_417 wrote: »
    11Adams11wife11 wrote: »
    jennifer_417 wrote: »
    No. How could it?

    I have no idea... That's why I was asking. A few people I know swear by it. I tried it yesterday and today but I don't want to put myself through it again haha :-D

    Thanks for all the replies :-)

    Haha, as far as I know, it's useless for weight loss, and you should especially avoid it if you don't like it!

    One thing I decided at the very beginning of my weight loss journey was that I wasn't going to eat anything I didn't like, and I wasn't going to give up anything I did!

    That's a really good way to look at it. Thank you :-)
  • zoe894
    zoe894 Posts: 17 Member
    I've seen some articles say that drinking green tea can have a positive impact on your metabolism, but I don't know that the sources are reputable. I drink green tea for the antioxidants and anti inflammatory properties.
  • taentea
    taentea Posts: 91 Member
    Green, white, oolong, pu-erh tears help me to lose weight because they make me busy and fill me with liquid. Some of those teas also help mental clarity and increase my energy levels in a way somewhat similar to coffee's but milder and more prolonged. This doesn't harm weight loss either.

    I have no idea if it affects WL in a more direct manner but I know I would not drink it for this reason alone. I happen to love it. If you don't, I'd say stay away as it wouldn't make that much of a difference anyway.
  • karenrich77
    karenrich77 Posts: 292 Member
    Man so much green tea hate lol. I drink about 4 cups a day. Besides that I only drink water. But no, it doesn't do anything for weight loss. Just tastes great!
  • Justygirl77
    Justygirl77 Posts: 385 Member
    11Adams11wife11 wrote: »
    When drank with a healthy balanced diet does anyone find green tea helps them lose weight?
    I just bought some Matcha tea, and there is research that says it helps burn peripheral fat!
    http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/70/6/1040.full

    Plus it tastes awesome and is good for stress(theanine), presuming the caffeine is not an issue for you.
  • 11Adams11wife11
    11Adams11wife11 Posts: 66 Member
    This app is so brilliant!! I'm so glad I can interact with others and get advice because I'm clueless!!

    Thank you everyone :-)
  • Justthisgirl1994
    Justthisgirl1994 Posts: 226 Member
    I love green tea! I've been drinking a few cups every other day for years. However, other than filling me up I haven't noticed it do anything. Like someone else said, it's essentially flavored water.
  • stevencloser
    stevencloser Posts: 8,911 Member
    Justygirl77 wrote: »
    11Adams11wife11 wrote: »
    When drank with a healthy balanced diet does anyone find green tea helps them lose weight?
    I just bought some Matcha tea, and there is research that says it helps burn peripheral fat!
    http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/70/6/1040.full

    Plus it tastes awesome and is good for stress(theanine), presuming the caffeine is not an issue for you.

    It's less than 100 calories.
  • Whitezombiegirl
    Whitezombiegirl Posts: 1,042 Member
    taentea wrote: »
    Some of those teas also help mental clarity and increase my energy levels in a way somewhat similar to coffee's but milder and more prolonged. /quote]

    Green tea can be high in caffine- so tea/coffee- whatever. It's the caffine.
  • ltkasmala
    ltkasmala Posts: 109 Member
    I don't like green tea as a drink. I used the supplement variety and don't think it really made any difference what so ever. On a side note, I like to use matcha powder (an extract from green tea). It is high in anti-oxidants and has other heart health benefits. Prepared properly it can be low in calories and tastes much better than the actual tea (my personal opinion).
  • PeachyCarol
    PeachyCarol Posts: 8,029 Member
    I don't get why people don't understand some people just not liking something.

    If someone posted a thread titled: BEETS!

    And people posted whether or not they loved or hated them, would anyone be surprised? Of course not.

    Palates vary.

    Green tea isn't magic, and you either like the flavor or don't.

    I hate it. Hooray for those who don't. You have another source of caffeine available to you.
  • fleabag155
    fleabag155 Posts: 1 Member
    Does Green tea count towards your water intake for the day? It is mainly water and has virtually no calories......
    Just wondering as I much prefer green tea to water!!!!!!!
  • faithyang
    faithyang Posts: 297 Member
    edited June 2015
    I drink at least 3 big cups of green tea every single day.
    It's really good for you. Asians believe that black and green tea with (especially fattening) foods is good for your digestion, skin, and for losing weight. They believe that it burns / melts fat. It basically comes from the thinking that cold drinks with food tends to coagulate fats and make it 'tough' and hard, and hot drinks, especially tea, melts fat. Its one reason why you see many Asians 'washing' cutlery using tea in many cheap Chinese food joints because the cutlery tends to be oily from a lack of proper washing of the utensils (this is a massive stereotype of course but it does happen.)

    Green tea has actually been proven to aid with weight loss: http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/diet-and-fitness/green-tea-inhibits-weight-gain-study-20111007-1lcs4.html

    But its really important to buy GOOD QUALITY GREEN TEA. I've tried being cheap with my green tea because I drink so much and bought some cheap tea bags from a supermarket a long time back. It was NASTY. Horrible, tinny, bland, very dull, VERY disgustingly and offensively grassy and almost cloying. Good green tea is crisp, clear, has a mild, well-rounded taste that isn't grassy at all, but a slight pleasant floral scent which is much more prominent if its green tea scented with jasmine. The water you use is equally important. Clean, cold filtered water brought to 80 degrees (not boiling or you will burn the tea), before steeping for at least 3 min.

    I find that I lose weight much faster WITH green tea than without. Case in point, when I was overseas for a month I did not have access to green tea because of many factors, but had access to a gym. My weight loss was slow and I had stubborn stomach fat which just wouldn't go away but actually built up. I had constant bloating as well - which sucked. When I came back, it was back to green tea, and 3 weeks later I noticed my stomach paunch had reduced significantly, bloating all but disappeared, and I lost 3kg.

    Green tea is great, but if you can't take it you can always go for black tea, and gradually work your way down milder black teas, Oolong, then green tea.
  • taentea
    taentea Posts: 91 Member
    Whitezombiegirl wrote: »
    taentea wrote: »
    Some of those teas also help mental clarity and increase my energy levels in a way somewhat similar to coffee's but milder and more prolonged.

    Green tea can be high in caffine- so tea/coffee- whatever. It's the caffine.
    Caffeine may be caffeine everywhere but amounts of it are different, also stuff that accompanies caffeine in the drink is different. I will not pretend to know the exact science behind all of this, but I know these two drinks affect me differently.

    I drink coffee because I enjoy the smell and taste but it's always a bit of a lottery for me. I have anxiety issues caused by blood vessels issues and occasionally blood pressure spikes. Coffee sometimes gives me major headaches, sends my heart racing and makes me excited in the bad uncomfortable way ( still worth it =) ). Its boost also doesn't last very long. The effect is instant and I would sometimes drink a cup to get me through an hour of extra work at night but it never carried me through the whole night. It actually makes me sleepy after an hour or two.

    Tea makes me feel more focused but does not overstimulate. I actually feel surprisingly calm while drinking it and sleep fine afterwards. There also doesn't seem to be an abrupt drop of energy related to it (maybe because the effect is not as strong and I can sip it for hours). Maybe its the lower amounts of caffeine, maybe other elements that make the release of caffeine to the blood system slower somehow, maybe it's blood vessel widening quality – I honestly don't know. But I know for a fact that these drinks do not feel the same.

    To be fair, there are many kinds of teas and many ways to brew them. Obviously they do not all feel the same. I prefer oolongs personally and brew my greens lightly. A big mug of a 10min+ brew of green tea would most likely have a much stronger effect.
  • sherry_80
    sherry_80 Posts: 86 Member
    I work at a physical therapy clinic and 90% patients are Asian. They are elderly and bring there own tea. They tell me they drink tea every day. These patients are 70-80 years old & dont look there age. There active, work out every day- Tia chi is the exercise of choice. I believe them when they recommend a tea for me. The only thing I have to get a friend to translate because I don't understand them.
  • NoIdea101NoIdea
    NoIdea101NoIdea Posts: 659 Member
    faithyang wrote: »
    I drink at least 3 big cups of green tea every single day.
    It's really good for you. Asians believe that black and green tea with (especially fattening) foods is good for your digestion, skin, and for losing weight. They believe that it burns / melts fat. It basically comes from the thinking that cold drinks with food tends to coagulate fats and make it 'tough' and hard, and hot drinks, especially tea, melts fat. Its one reason why you see many Asians 'washing' cutlery using tea in many cheap Chinese food joints because the cutlery tends to be oily from a lack of proper washing of the utensils (this is a massive stereotype of course but it does happen.)

    Green tea has actually been proven to aid with weight loss: http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/diet-and-fitness/green-tea-inhibits-weight-gain-study-20111007-1lcs4.html

    But its really important to buy GOOD QUALITY GREEN TEA. I've tried being cheap with my green tea because I drink so much and bought some cheap tea bags from a supermarket a long time back. It was NASTY. Horrible, tinny, bland, very dull, VERY disgustingly and offensively grassy and almost cloying. Good green tea is crisp, clear, has a mild, well-rounded taste that isn't grassy at all, but a slight pleasant floral scent which is much more prominent if its green tea scented with jasmine. The water you use is equally important. Clean, cold filtered water brought to 80 degrees (not boiling or you will burn the tea), before steeping for at least 3 min.

    I find that I lose weight much faster WITH green tea than without. Case in point, when I was overseas for a month I did not have access to green tea because of many factors, but had access to a gym. My weight loss was slow and I had stubborn stomach fat which just wouldn't go away but actually built up. I had constant bloating as well - which sucked. When I came back, it was back to green tea, and 3 weeks later I noticed my stomach paunch had reduced significantly, bloating all but disappeared, and I lost 3kg.

    Green tea is great, but if you can't take it you can always go for black tea, and gradually work your way down milder black teas, Oolong, then green tea.

    A couple of quotes from the article which stuck out at me-I'm not a scientific kinda gal, so if anyone could clarify for me, that would be great as I do find these sorts of things interesting:

    "Extrapolating from the mice study, Lambert says a human being would have to drink 10 cups of green tea per day to ingest a dose of EGCG equivalent to that given to the mice, but further research is required to establish a more effective dose, and what the magnitude of the effect actually is."

    So are they saying that you would have to drink at least 10 cups of tea a day? But they aren't actually sure, and they aren't actually sure of the effects of drinking green tea in regards to weight loss when it comes to humans (as in, how much you would have to drink for it to have an effect, IF it has an effect)? Which kinda discredits this 'study' right there if I have understood that correctly? They then go on to say:

    "Studies suggest that approximately 150mgs of green tea is needed to gain a therapeutic effect, which is approximately three-to-four cups daily," she says. "Dosage must be kept to three-to-four cups per day due to the caffeine content of green tea, [and] there is no data regarding toxicity of long term use."

    So now are they saying that you would have to drink at least 10 cups of the stuff, but due to the caffeine in green tea it is only recommended to drink 3-4 cups anyway? So you would have the choice of drinking too much and over caffeinating yourself and *maybe* it may have *some* effect although they don't actually KNOW yet if it will have an effect on humans, or just having the recommended 3-4 cups daily which they say is 'therapeutic' but won't assist in weight loss?

    Sorry, I flunked Science as you can probably tell, but this article has really confused me seeing as it has been posted to 'prove' that green tea can aid in weight loss.



  • zoeysasha37
    zoeysasha37 Posts: 7,088 Member
    No green tea does nothing for weight loss. It's about cico, not magical teas. If you don't like it, don't drink it. I think it tastes awful so I don't drink it.
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  • Jaxxie1181
    Jaxxie1181 Posts: 138 Member
    kxbrown27 wrote: »
    So much green tea hate on these boards. No, it won't help you burn belly fat like some websites claim, but it tastes delicious.

    ^This. I love a berry infused green tea. Just enough caffeine to keep my going and it tastes amazing.

  • arctic_al
    arctic_al Posts: 1 Member
    Green tea has actually been proven to help aid weight loss when drank with a healthy balanced diet. It can speed up your metabolism if you drink 4-5 cups a day. I've done this for the past few months and have lost 10lbs.

  • 11Adams11wife11
    11Adams11wife11 Posts: 66 Member
    Seems like my original question has spiked a lot of interest.
    I didn't like the green tea so I'll be sticking to bottled or tap water.
    Thanks for all your comments :-)
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