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    Did green tea help you lose weight?

    Posts: 62 Member
    edited December 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
    Any success stories?

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    • Posts: 17,890 Member
      No, only scam stories.
    • Posts: 9,487 Member
      Nothing magic about tea. Drink it if you like it but it's not going to make you lose weight.
    • Posts: 2,254 Member
      No, but it helps me reach my water intake for the day.
    • Posts: 1,900 Member
      There are no shortcuts or magical substances. Stick to your calorie goals.
    • Posts: 571 Member
      I like it for my afternoon caffeine, make it cold brew style the day before... but no... its just a drink.
    • Posts: 7,490 Member
      Nope.


      tastes good though.
    • Posts: 28,055 Member
      I drink green tea because I like it. It has no effect on my weight loss.
    • Posts: 24 Member
      Ok it has been like 4 months since I am drinking green tea everyday morning before any thing else and there is no change
    • Posts: 4,647 Member
      Yeah. It doesnt do anything, except maybe replace beverages that have calories.
    • Posts: 171 Member
      The only way a certain food - in and of itself - can help you to lose weight is if it helps you to remain satisfied, while not causing you to go over your daily calories. There are no magic bullets when it comes to WL. I LOVE the stuff, but my WL success wasn't a product of it. Eating good tasty filling food that I liked in sensible and measured portions did that for me.
    • Posts: 35,754 Member
      It's a tasty beverage: I especially like it cold (unsweetened), and drink it most every day.

      But other than being a good-tasting non-caloric beverage, no, I don't think it helped me lose weight.

      Eating at a reasonable calorie level, while getting enough protein, some healthy fats, and plenty of fruits/veg (for fiber, micronutrients, and tastiness) - that helped me lose weight.

      YMMV.
    • Posts: 2,991 Member
      Only if you swap tea for calorie filled beverages (i.e. coffee with creamer and sugar, soda Frappuccinos). Just creates a calorie deficit but no magical weight loss potion to green tea.
    • Posts: 33,711 Member
      No, there is no magic bullet for weight lose. Unless you count reducing your calories.
    • Posts: 18,878 Member
      I drink green tea every day. I ran out recently and haven't been to the shop. I can 100% tell you it didn't make any difference whatsoever.
    • Posts: 30 Member
      There are health benefits to drinking green tea but ive never heard of it helping to lose weight.
    • Posts: 154 Member
      you guys and gals are talking about green tea that you drink, , has any one used Green Tea Extract Powder, i use a combo of green tea extract powder, caffeine powder l- theanine powder, synphrine powder, thats what works for me to give me a boost
    • Posts: 16,049 Member
      Green tea tastes like dirty grass. Even though i hate the stuff, if there was an inkling of truth to green tea = weight loss, I'd be chugging it down all day long. But alas, green tea is just... tea, nothing more.
    • Posts: 154 Member
      different things work for different people, that not so special combo that i listed has got me down to 6% body fat at 190 lbs i think its kind of special, thats what works for me
    • Posts: 4,796 Member
      What do you do with all those powders - snort them?
    • Posts: 18,878 Member
      rollerjog wrote: »
      different things work for different people, that not so special combo that i listed has got me down to 6% body fat at 190 lbs i think its kind of special, thats what works for me

      Different things working for different people, but that doesn't change science, and green tea does not = weight loss.
    • Posts: 15,573 Member
      Drinking tea helps me stay in a deficit because it gives my mouth something to do and the liquid keeps me full.
    • Posts: 154 Member
      im not talking about green that you drink im talking about green tea extract powder
    • Posts: 18,878 Member
      edited August 2016
      rollerjog wrote: »
      im not talking about green that you drink im talking about green tea extract powder

      It still doesn't = weight loss directly. It has caffeine and gives you pep, and its got antioxidants and all, but there is nothing in green tea extract or powder which directly causes weight loss.

      I don't understand why people insist on believing in these supplements. Isn't it a GOOD thing to know that YOU achieved what you've achieved, and it wasn't some supplement doing the work?
    • Posts: 154 Member
      so what dose science have to say about green tea extract do you have any article on hand i would like to know what they have to say about it
    • Posts: 15,317 Member
      rollerjog wrote: »
      so what dose science have to say about green tea extract do you have any article on hand i would like to know what they have to say about it

      If this worked, there would be no obesity. Right?
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