Green tea

candygibbons26
candygibbons26 Posts: 138 Member
edited November 24 in Health and Weight Loss
Anyone drink
Green tea? Does it help
With weight loss ?
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  • DeguelloTex
    DeguelloTex Posts: 6,652 Member
    Doesn't help.
  • candygibbons26
    candygibbons26 Posts: 138 Member
    Okay what about black coffee
  • tincanonastring
    tincanonastring Posts: 3,944 Member
    edited September 2015
    The only thing that helps with weight loss is burning more calories than you eat on a consistent basis. Teas will not help your body burn calories faster.

    ETA: If you usually hydrate with drink high-calorie drinks and replace them with low-calorie drinks like tea and black coffee, it could help you achieve the calorie deficit needed for weight loss.
  • DeguelloTex
    DeguelloTex Posts: 6,652 Member
    candygibbons26 wrote: »
    Okay what about black coffee
    Apart from a minuscule, non-scaleable caffeine effect, no.

  • janejellyroll
    janejellyroll Posts: 25,763 Member
    candygibbons26 wrote: »
    Okay what about black coffee

    Black coffee has very few calories, so it won't hurt your weight loss. But you lose weight by consuming fewer calories than you burn. There are no liquid shortcuts to this process.
  • juggernaut1974
    juggernaut1974 Posts: 6,212 Member
    No effect on weight loss. At best, they may fill your stomach with liquid such that your appetite is slightly suppressed.
  • soapsandropes
    soapsandropes Posts: 269 Member
    You have to consume a huge amount of caffeine for it to do anything. Tea and coffee are delicious and can replace higher calories drinks but that is it.
  • Celtic_Wanderer
    Celtic_Wanderer Posts: 24 Member
    I drink mint green tea every day and no, I wouldn't say it specifically helps with weight loss, but that's just me. We are all different.

    It is claimed it has health benefits but what these are exactly I never found out.
  • candygibbons26
    candygibbons26 Posts: 138 Member
    Aw okay Thankyou for the reply guess I'll
    Have too
    Try it for myself
  • janejellyroll
    janejellyroll Posts: 25,763 Member
    Celtic_Wanderer wrote: »
    I drink mint green tea every day and no, I wouldn't say it specifically helps with weight loss, but that's just me. We are all different.

    It is claimed it has health benefits but what these are exactly I never found out.

    But when it comes to claims of fact ("green tea will cause you to lose weight") it really isn't accurate to say we're all different. Either it is a fact that can be documented or it isn't.
  • candygibbons26
    candygibbons26 Posts: 138 Member
    How much weight have you lost so far ?
  • sarahdayski
    sarahdayski Posts: 125 Member
    The substances in green tea increase levels of hormones that tell fat cells to break down fat. This releases fat into the bloodstream and makes it available as energy - that is what ive just read.
  • tincanonastring
    tincanonastring Posts: 3,944 Member
    candygibbons26 wrote: »
    How much weight have you lost so far ?

    Who?
  • juggernaut1974
    juggernaut1974 Posts: 6,212 Member
    sarahdayski wrote: »
    The substances in green tea increase levels of hormones that tell fat cells to break down fat. This releases fat into the bloodstream and makes it available as energy - that is what ive just read.

    Where did you read this? Green tea advertisements perchance?
  • janejellyroll
    janejellyroll Posts: 25,763 Member
    ceoverturf wrote: »
    sarahdayski wrote: »
    The substances in green tea increase levels of hormones that tell fat cells to break down fat. This releases fat into the bloodstream and makes it available as energy - that is what ive just read.

    Where did you read this? Green tea advertisements perchance?

    Look, if we can't trust green tea advertisements to give us the most accurate information about how green tea is the most important thing we can buy, who can we trust?
  • kshama2001
    kshama2001 Posts: 28,052 Member
    @candygibbons26 I drink green tea, black tea, and coffee because I like it. Does nothing for weight loss except possibly if I have an extra 24 ounces I will skip a snack. See:
    tincanonastring wrote: »
    The only thing that helps with weight loss is burning more calories than you eat on a consistent basis. Teas will not help your body burn calories faster.

    ETA: If you usually hydrate with drink high-calorie drinks and replace them with low-calorie drinks like tea and black coffee, it could help you achieve the calorie deficit needed for weight loss.

  • maidentl
    maidentl Posts: 3,203 Member
    ceoverturf wrote: »
    sarahdayski wrote: »
    The substances in green tea increase levels of hormones that tell fat cells to break down fat. This releases fat into the bloodstream and makes it available as energy - that is what ive just read.

    Where did you read this? Green tea advertisements perchance?

    No no, silly. Dr. Oz said it!
  • kshama2001
    kshama2001 Posts: 28,052 Member
    sarahdayski wrote: »
    The substances in green tea increase levels of hormones that tell fat cells to break down fat. This releases fat into the bloodstream and makes it available as energy - that is what ive just read.

    Would you please give a link to where you read this?

  • candygibbons26
    candygibbons26 Posts: 138 Member
    Thankyou for that I will have a read up on it appreciate it
  • DeguelloTex
    DeguelloTex Posts: 6,652 Member
    candygibbons26 wrote: »
    How much weight have you lost so far ?
    I've lost 122 pounds. It wasn't the green tea or the black coffee. It was a calorie deficit.

    They don't work. Why would you have to try it yourself to understand that bit?

  • candygibbons26
    candygibbons26 Posts: 138 Member
    Erm no !! I was just seeing wat people had to say about it and make my own choice I'll
    Try it if it works or not
  • janejellyroll
    janejellyroll Posts: 25,763 Member
    candygibbons26 wrote: »
    Erm no !! I was just seeing wat people had to say about it and make my own choice I'll
    Try it if it works or not

    What evidence do you have that it WOULD work? Do you try everything under the sun to see if it works?

    And how would you determine if it works? Are you going to leave your diet and activity the same and only add green tea? Or will you be making other adjustments at the same time?
  • candygibbons26
    candygibbons26 Posts: 138 Member
    122 pounds in how long ?
  • Alluminati
    Alluminati Posts: 6,208 Member
    OP of this thread
    green tea does not work to lose
    check my haiku skillz
  • juggernaut1974
    juggernaut1974 Posts: 6,212 Member
    If 20 people told you that lighting 6 cherry-scented candles placed in a circle in a counterclockwise direction while singing "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" in Mandarin Chinese didn't have a direct effect on weight loss, would you believe them, or would you need to "try it for yourself"?
  • maidentl
    maidentl Posts: 3,203 Member
    Alluminati wrote: »
    OP of this thread
    green tea does not work to lose
    check my haiku skillz

    Impressive.
  • candygibbons26
    candygibbons26 Posts: 138 Member
    People must be having hunger pangs on here hence there cocky remarks
  • janejellyroll
    janejellyroll Posts: 25,763 Member
    candygibbons26 wrote: »
    People must be having hunger pangs on here hence there cocky remarks

    We just see lots of posts from people refusing to believe that there are no shortcuts to weight loss.
  • candygibbons26
    candygibbons26 Posts: 138 Member
    Well obviously I'm not just going too drink green tea and that's it just adding it too my diet too see if helps in anyway
  • diannethegeek
    diannethegeek Posts: 14,776 Member
    You need to stop looking for a quick fix and start figuring out how you're going to manage your calorie deficit if you want to lose weight. I've mentioned the "must read" stickied posts in your other threads. That's seriously a good place to start. Read them. Track your food. Stop trying to kickstart your body. You are not a motorcycle.
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