I started drinking green tea in the AM and lost 4.5lbs in a week!!!

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  • Lourdesong
    Lourdesong Posts: 1,492 Member
    :p Too funny.
    Several years ago I tried green tea, bought a box on a whim, I had heard things, magical things...
    The tea bags ended up tossed in drawers and used as sachets. I love tea but I did not like green tea at all! :s
  • HomeschoolDad
    HomeschoolDad Posts: 3 Member
    faithyang wrote: »
    You know you can do better. If you drank cold green tea you'd lose more weight, because you'd burn more calories drinking the cold water. Or you could have it with peeps...

    What about the typically contrasting advice that cold water burns calories cuz your body works harder to warm up, and hot water melts fats because it prevents cogulation of fatty deposits and aids detox in oily foods in digestion?

    TOO MUCH ADVICE!

    Does that mean we should drink water that's just below tepid, so we can get a median of both effects? Or does that mean they're both negated? Do the antioxidants in the green tea change the freezing temp of the water, and if so will that mean we have to adjust the temperature of the water further? Decisions decisions!

    All good questions that need to be worked into your book so you have something to talk about while doing the talk show circuit. If you can't dazzle them with brilliance baffle them with BS. A fool and his money is soon parted so you might as well gather it. :smiley:
  • mangrothian
    mangrothian Posts: 1,351 Member
    faithyang wrote: »
    You know you can do better. If you drank cold green tea you'd lose more weight, because you'd burn more calories drinking the cold water. Or you could have it with peeps...

    What about the typically contrasting advice that cold water burns calories cuz your body works harder to warm up, and hot water melts fats because it prevents cogulation of fatty deposits and aids detox in oily foods in digestion?

    TOO MUCH ADVICE!

    Does that mean we should drink water that's just below tepid, so we can get a median of both effects? Or does that mean they're both negated? Do the antioxidants in the green tea change the freezing temp of the water, and if so will that mean we have to adjust the temperature of the water further? Decisions decisions!

    All good questions that need to be worked into your book so you have something to talk about while doing the talk show circuit. If you can't dazzle them with brilliance baffle them with BS. A fool and his money is soon parted so you might as well gather it. :smiley:

    Good idea... all we need then is to throw in some stuff about anti-oxidants and anti-radicals and dihydrogen oxide being an excellent product for the body to help expel dem toxins that make you hold on to your belly fat.

    @Alatariel75 I think a book idea is in order. Then all we need is a desperate celeb with too many debts to be a spokesperson.
  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,131 Member
    faithyang wrote: »
    You know you can do better. If you drank cold green tea you'd lose more weight, because you'd burn more calories drinking the cold water. Or you could have it with peeps...

    What about the typically contrasting advice that cold water burns calories cuz your body works harder to warm up, and hot water melts fats because it prevents cogulation of fatty deposits and aids detox in oily foods in digestion?

    TOO MUCH ADVICE!

    Does that mean we should drink water that's just below tepid, so we can get a median of both effects? Or does that mean they're both negated? Do the antioxidants in the green tea change the freezing temp of the water, and if so will that mean we have to adjust the temperature of the water further? Decisions decisions!

    All good questions that need to be worked into your book so you have something to talk about while doing the talk show circuit. If you can't dazzle them with brilliance baffle them with BS. A fool and his money is soon parted so you might as well gather it. :smiley:

    Good idea... all we need then is to throw in some stuff about anti-oxidants and anti-radicals and dihydrogen oxide being an excellent product for the body to help expel dem toxins that make you hold on to your belly fat.

    @Alatariel75 I think a book idea is in order. Then all we need is a desperate celeb with too many debts to be a spokesperson.

    I like it, I like it a lot. I hear Amanda Bynes is free?
  • mangrothian
    mangrothian Posts: 1,351 Member
    faithyang wrote: »
    You know you can do better. If you drank cold green tea you'd lose more weight, because you'd burn more calories drinking the cold water. Or you could have it with peeps...

    What about the typically contrasting advice that cold water burns calories cuz your body works harder to warm up, and hot water melts fats because it prevents cogulation of fatty deposits and aids detox in oily foods in digestion?

    TOO MUCH ADVICE!

    Does that mean we should drink water that's just below tepid, so we can get a median of both effects? Or does that mean they're both negated? Do the antioxidants in the green tea change the freezing temp of the water, and if so will that mean we have to adjust the temperature of the water further? Decisions decisions!

    All good questions that need to be worked into your book so you have something to talk about while doing the talk show circuit. If you can't dazzle them with brilliance baffle them with BS. A fool and his money is soon parted so you might as well gather it. :smiley:

    Good idea... all we need then is to throw in some stuff about anti-oxidants and anti-radicals and dihydrogen oxide being an excellent product for the body to help expel dem toxins that make you hold on to your belly fat.

    @Alatariel75 I think a book idea is in order. Then all we need is a desperate celeb with too many debts to be a spokesperson.

    I like it, I like it a lot. I hear Amanda Bynes is free?

    Not a bad idea, although I hear she only takes her green tea with vodka. Maybe Alicia Silverstone? She only did like 3 movies, so she's gotta be available and she's all about dem ebil toxins.
  • NobodyPutsAmyInTheCorner
    NobodyPutsAmyInTheCorner Posts: 1,018 Member
    You know if you'd have drunk it under a full moon that your whole body would have been detoxed and cleansed too right?
  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,131 Member
    faithyang wrote: »
    You know you can do better. If you drank cold green tea you'd lose more weight, because you'd burn more calories drinking the cold water. Or you could have it with peeps...

    What about the typically contrasting advice that cold water burns calories cuz your body works harder to warm up, and hot water melts fats because it prevents cogulation of fatty deposits and aids detox in oily foods in digestion?

    TOO MUCH ADVICE!

    Does that mean we should drink water that's just below tepid, so we can get a median of both effects? Or does that mean they're both negated? Do the antioxidants in the green tea change the freezing temp of the water, and if so will that mean we have to adjust the temperature of the water further? Decisions decisions!

    All good questions that need to be worked into your book so you have something to talk about while doing the talk show circuit. If you can't dazzle them with brilliance baffle them with BS. A fool and his money is soon parted so you might as well gather it. :smiley:

    Good idea... all we need then is to throw in some stuff about anti-oxidants and anti-radicals and dihydrogen oxide being an excellent product for the body to help expel dem toxins that make you hold on to your belly fat.

    @Alatariel75 I think a book idea is in order. Then all we need is a desperate celeb with too many debts to be a spokesperson.

    I like it, I like it a lot. I hear Amanda Bynes is free?

    Not a bad idea, although I hear she only takes her green tea with vodka. Maybe Alicia Silverstone? She only did like 3 movies, so she's gotta be available and she's all about dem ebil toxins.

    Ohhh, I like it! Given a few years we might get Gwenneth, but right now she still has market share...
  • mangrothian
    mangrothian Posts: 1,351 Member
    faithyang wrote: »
    You know you can do better. If you drank cold green tea you'd lose more weight, because you'd burn more calories drinking the cold water. Or you could have it with peeps...

    What about the typically contrasting advice that cold water burns calories cuz your body works harder to warm up, and hot water melts fats because it prevents cogulation of fatty deposits and aids detox in oily foods in digestion?

    TOO MUCH ADVICE!

    Does that mean we should drink water that's just below tepid, so we can get a median of both effects? Or does that mean they're both negated? Do the antioxidants in the green tea change the freezing temp of the water, and if so will that mean we have to adjust the temperature of the water further? Decisions decisions!

    All good questions that need to be worked into your book so you have something to talk about while doing the talk show circuit. If you can't dazzle them with brilliance baffle them with BS. A fool and his money is soon parted so you might as well gather it. :smiley:

    Good idea... all we need then is to throw in some stuff about anti-oxidants and anti-radicals and dihydrogen oxide being an excellent product for the body to help expel dem toxins that make you hold on to your belly fat.

    @Alatariel75 I think a book idea is in order. Then all we need is a desperate celeb with too many debts to be a spokesperson.

    I like it, I like it a lot. I hear Amanda Bynes is free?

    Not a bad idea, although I hear she only takes her green tea with vodka. Maybe Alicia Silverstone? She only did like 3 movies, so she's gotta be available and she's all about dem ebil toxins.

    Ohhh, I like it! Given a few years we might get Gwenneth, but right now she still has market share...

    The other thing we'll need is the before and after pics kindly donated from people on the site. Or those newspaper pictures like they use for the fatblaster ads.
  • Sued0nim
    Sued0nim Posts: 17,456 Member
    A lesson in correlation =/= causation.

    For the record, there are now 3 people drinking green tea in my immediate vicinity. I have a latte.

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    :heart:
  • Orphia
    Orphia Posts: 7,097 Member
    A lesson in correlation =/= causation.

    You rock!

    Have a pic.

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    :)
  • galprincess
    galprincess Posts: 683 Member
    I find if I eat cake and chocolate after green tea I go back to zero calories its truly miraculous.
  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,131 Member
    Orphia wrote: »
    A lesson in correlation =/= causation.

    You rock!

    Have a pic.

    autism-organic_zpsfzaoa9sw.png

    :)

    Love it!

    See, margarise is not only bad for your arteries:

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  • KhalanAmnell
    KhalanAmnell Posts: 29 Member
    I noticed when I tell people that I exercise every day and then I eat less or I eat better things like 2 cups of spinach instead of 2 cups of sesame chicken there are shocked or their disappointed or they say oh you'll never keep the weight off that way... But if I make something funny up everybody wants to try it. Lately I've been losing weight again and people have been remarking about it to shut them up I told him that chasing down the animals to sacrifice to Satan is a lot of calories burned! Obviously they know I'm joking but it's not funny they get upset and they don't bother me about my diet again
  • mangrothian
    mangrothian Posts: 1,351 Member
    I love correlation =/= causation graphs!

    Inverse though it may be, my favourite is always going to be that the decrease of piRRRRates on the open seas correlates to the increase in the average global temperature

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  • snickerscharlie
    snickerscharlie Posts: 8,578 Member
    The new green tea/vodka diet:

    Doesn't do diddley but no one gives a feck.
  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,131 Member
    The new green tea/vodka diet:

    Doesn't do diddley but no one gives a feck.

    I did the vodka diet once! Don't know about weight, but i lost 3 days!
  • FitForL1fe
    FitForL1fe Posts: 1,872 Member
    I approve of 110% of the graphs in this thread
  • psych101
    psych101 Posts: 1,842 Member
    ha! I love this post!

    Back in the day, someone told me to drink 9 (!!!!!) cups of green tea a day to lose weight....urgh!
  • FitForL1fe
    FitForL1fe Posts: 1,872 Member
    psych101 wrote: »
    ha! I love this post!

    Back in the day, someone told me to drink 9 (!!!!!) cups of green tea a day to lose weight....urgh!

    by vomiting I assume?
  • Asher_Ethan
    Asher_Ethan Posts: 2,430 Member
    My favorite responses I've gotten when I tell people I count calories to lose weight:
    "I count calories."
    "Oh I tried that... but i would eat 1200 calories a day and not lose anything."

    and my recent favorite:

    "How do you count calories?"
    "Well I weigh every single thing I eat."
    "Oh... that's too much... I would rather be fat."
  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,131 Member
    edited June 2015
    psych101 wrote: »
    ha! I love this post!

    Back in the day, someone told me to drink 9 (!!!!!) cups of green tea a day to lose weight....urgh!

    The caffeine alone would make me ill!
  • shadowfax_c11
    shadowfax_c11 Posts: 1,942 Member
    Haven't you heard about the Lose Lard Latte?

    Green tea is so yesterday...

    :)

    Wait.... isn't that the same thing as Bulletproof Coffee?



  • mangrothian
    mangrothian Posts: 1,351 Member
    The new green tea/vodka diet:

    Doesn't do diddley but no one gives a feck.

    I did the vodka diet once! Don't know about weight, but i lost 3 days!

    Only 3 days? I'm pretty sure I lost most of my 2nd year of uni....
  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,131 Member
    The new green tea/vodka diet:

    Doesn't do diddley but no one gives a feck.

    I did the vodka diet once! Don't know about weight, but i lost 3 days!

    Only 3 days? I'm pretty sure I lost most of my 2nd year of uni....

    Aw man, when I was at Uni, Wednesdays I had a tute that finished at 1, then a philosophy class that started at 5. The Uni bar happened to have a deal on Wednesdays where you got 2 shots of Vodka and a can of Red Bull for $6. I think you were supposed to share it with a friend or something - we used to just put the lot into a pint glass. Nary a sober philosophy class occurred.
  • crazyjerseygirl
    crazyjerseygirl Posts: 1,252 Member
    I love you so hard right now...
  • missiontofitness
    missiontofitness Posts: 4,059 Member
    The new green tea/vodka diet:

    Doesn't do diddley but no one gives a feck.

    I did the vodka diet once! Don't know about weight, but i lost 3 days!


    Haaaaa!
  • mangrothian
    mangrothian Posts: 1,351 Member
    The new green tea/vodka diet:

    Doesn't do diddley but no one gives a feck.

    I did the vodka diet once! Don't know about weight, but i lost 3 days!

    Only 3 days? I'm pretty sure I lost most of my 2nd year of uni....

    Aw man, when I was at Uni, Wednesdays I had a tute that finished at 1, then a philosophy class that started at 5. The Uni bar happened to have a deal on Wednesdays where you got 2 shots of Vodka and a can of Red Bull for $6. I think you were supposed to share it with a friend or something - we used to just put the lot into a pint glass. Nary a sober philosophy class occurred.

    Sisters from another mister! Same thing here, but Mondays. Had lectures until 12pm, then an evening tute that started at 7pm (all other times clashed with my practical labs). Archaeology tutes were always interesting through a beer goggle gaze.

    Does this count as hijacking the thread? I'm sure we were talking about tea.... Is there tea flavoured vodka? Could we market that instead?
  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,131 Member
    The new green tea/vodka diet:

    Doesn't do diddley but no one gives a feck.

    I did the vodka diet once! Don't know about weight, but i lost 3 days!

    Only 3 days? I'm pretty sure I lost most of my 2nd year of uni....

    Aw man, when I was at Uni, Wednesdays I had a tute that finished at 1, then a philosophy class that started at 5. The Uni bar happened to have a deal on Wednesdays where you got 2 shots of Vodka and a can of Red Bull for $6. I think you were supposed to share it with a friend or something - we used to just put the lot into a pint glass. Nary a sober philosophy class occurred.

    Sisters from another mister! Same thing here, but Mondays. Had lectures until 12pm, then an evening tute that started at 7pm (all other times clashed with my practical labs). Archaeology tutes were always interesting through a beer goggle gaze.

    Does this count as hijacking the thread? I'm sure we were talking about tea.... Is there tea flavoured vodka? Could we market that instead?

    Of there totally is! Jerimiah Weed, Sweet Tea Vodka -
    img-the-bar-collection_0070_jeremiah-weed-tea-short.png
  • holly55555
    holly55555 Posts: 306 Member
    This was hilarious. Congrats on your weight loss.

    I think we should all start saying that wine is our secret and make the office a little bit more fun.
  • mangrothian
    mangrothian Posts: 1,351 Member
    holly55555 wrote: »
    This was hilarious. Congrats on your weight loss.

    I think we should all start saying that wine is our secret and make the office a little bit more fun.

    I lost all my weight by drinking wine (or sweet tea vodka) as soon as I get up in the morning! I like the sound of that.