Green tea diet
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FaithGonzalesss wrote: »Alatariel75 wrote: »FaithGonzalesss wrote: »diannethegeek wrote: »FaithGonzalesss wrote: »It's interesting that people will join this website which is based on controlling calories, and then use other diets to try and lose weight.
Believe me, from my own personal experience, MFP works. No need to do anything else.
There is no trick to weight loss. Just eat less calories than your body burns in a day and stay the course.
well thats not all accurate. Ive lost about 30 lbs and it wasn't just by eating less calories than my body burns a day.i changed my diet.
How do you think weight loss works?
There seems to be a bit of strain or tension on this discussion. I apologize if I've offended or upset you.
It's just very frustrating when someone starts a discussion by asking for people's views, then responds on the basis that they don't really care what anyone says, they're going to do their own thing anyway.
Plus, you seem to have some inaccurate ideas about weight loss and people are trying to clarify for you, but you don't seem to be interested in learning anything.
I think by some of the stuff ive been saying it does sound like i don't understand the process of weight loss. But i do, i just wanted to TRY this random, false, fad diet. I dont have any expectations of weight loss from this. i expect weight loss from healthy eating, lower calories sometimes and working out.
OK, but go back and read your first post. You never said you were going to try it anyway, you said you'd heard it was good for weight loss and asked people's views. Then you brushed off everyone's views and said you were going to do it anyway.
Can you see how it's frustrating that people took the time to try to answer your question, when you didn't care about the answers anyway?11 -
Alatariel75 wrote: »FaithGonzalesss wrote: »Alatariel75 wrote: »FaithGonzalesss wrote: »diannethegeek wrote: »FaithGonzalesss wrote: »It's interesting that people will join this website which is based on controlling calories, and then use other diets to try and lose weight.
Believe me, from my own personal experience, MFP works. No need to do anything else.
There is no trick to weight loss. Just eat less calories than your body burns in a day and stay the course.
well thats not all accurate. Ive lost about 30 lbs and it wasn't just by eating less calories than my body burns a day.i changed my diet.
How do you think weight loss works?
There seems to be a bit of strain or tension on this discussion. I apologize if I've offended or upset you.
It's just very frustrating when someone starts a discussion by asking for people's views, then responds on the basis that they don't really care what anyone says, they're going to do their own thing anyway.
Plus, you seem to have some inaccurate ideas about weight loss and people are trying to clarify for you, but you don't seem to be interested in learning anything.
I think by some of the stuff ive been saying it does sound like i don't understand the process of weight loss. But i do, i just wanted to TRY this random, false, fad diet. I dont have any expectations of weight loss from this. i expect weight loss from healthy eating, lower calories sometimes and working out.
OK, but go back and read your first post. You never said you were going to try it anyway, you said you'd heard it was good for weight loss and asked people's views. Then you brushed off everyone's views and said you were going to do it anyway.
Can you see how it's frustrating that people took the time to try to answer your question, when you didn't care about the answers anyway?
yes, i can see how its frustrating and i apologize4 -
FaithGonzalesss wrote: »Alatariel75 wrote: »FaithGonzalesss wrote: »diannethegeek wrote: »FaithGonzalesss wrote: »It's interesting that people will join this website which is based on controlling calories, and then use other diets to try and lose weight.
Believe me, from my own personal experience, MFP works. No need to do anything else.
There is no trick to weight loss. Just eat less calories than your body burns in a day and stay the course.
well thats not all accurate. Ive lost about 30 lbs and it wasn't just by eating less calories than my body burns a day.i changed my diet.
How do you think weight loss works?
There seems to be a bit of strain or tension on this discussion. I apologize if I've offended or upset you.
It's just very frustrating when someone starts a discussion by asking for people's views, then responds on the basis that they don't really care what anyone says, they're going to do their own thing anyway.
Plus, you seem to have some inaccurate ideas about weight loss and people are trying to clarify for you, but you don't seem to be interested in learning anything.
I think by some of the stuff ive been saying it does sound like i don't understand the process of weight loss. But i do, i just wanted to TRY this random, false, fad diet. I dont have any expectations of weight loss from this. i expect weight loss from healthy eating, lower calories sometimes and working out.
It's not lower calories sometimes it is all the time. You can gain weight eating "healthy". Easy examples - avocado, olive oil, peanuts - could be classified as healthy, all calorie dense. Eat too much - boom - you've gained.5 -
Why, if you know it's a fad that doesn't work, are you going to try it? Isn't that just a waste of your own time and money?
I think this trumps the threads where OP thinks it does something.7 -
FaithGonzalesss wrote: »diannethegeek wrote: »FaithGonzalesss wrote: »diannethegeek wrote: »FaithGonzalesss wrote: »Ive read about how good it is to drink 3-4 cups of green tea a day for weight loss. i was planning to try it for a month or 2. i failed, i forgot to bring it with me. Although i did try it for 2-3 days and my weight did actually go down quickly. but for those 2-3 days i also wasnt eating very much at all, besides alot of watermelon. whats your views of this diet type thing?
Isn't watermelon a natural diuretic? I'd guess you lost weight due to the water weight fluctuations from undereating combined with a diuretic rather than the tea.
I don't know which studies you've read. Those I've come across have a small sample size and never show more than a 4% increase to metabolism. That's well within the margin of error for calorie counters.
Green tea is nice if you like it, but personally, I wouldn't base my weight loss on the tea alone.
im not basing my weight loss solely on it once i restart the green tea. ive been consistently loosing weight every week so im just doing it to see what itll do.
I'm curious why you asked if you're only interested in your personal experience?
i just find it interesting. things said to make you lose weight or alter your body. It may not be legit but i still find it interesting.
I find this kind of stuff interesting, too. Which is why I can pull up studies quickly to post here. When I find something like this interesting, I want to dig into the why of it all. How does it work (or not work in this case)? What causes it? What kind of factors affect it? It's why I learned how to find and read studies. I learned how to dig up opposition pieces. I learned which sources I can trust and which I can't. I learned how weight loss works at its simplest so I can see how things like green tea affect it or don't. What I don't usually do is try it blindly and wonder whether it's working or not. I don't see the fun in that when you have so many other variables affecting your weight fluctuations. You can't get a good feel for what it does or doesn't do by trying things willy-nilly and judging them based on your feels. Dig into the science sometime. It's pretty interesting if you like this kind of stuff.14 -
FaithGonzalesss wrote: »but for those 2-3 days i also wasnt eating very much at all, besides alot of watermelon.
I wonder if this had anything to do with the weight loss.
Hint: It's not the green tea.
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I drink green tea vs. black tea (or coffee) only because I desire to minimize the enamel erosion and staining of my teeth. That's it. If I want caffeine, I consume it in OTC tablet form with 11-16 oz of water.3
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I try to drink two glasses of diet green tea a day. Not in place of my regular diet. If you drink it in the morning it’s supposed to boost your metabolism. I’m not sure, it does make me fuller.10
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EEAngelina wrote: »I try to drink two glasses of diet green tea a day. Not in place of my regular diet. If you drink it in the morning it’s supposed to boost your metabolism. I’m not sure, it does make me fuller.
It doesn't do anything to your metabolism.6 -
Why drink it if you hate it? That makes sad.7
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EEAngelina wrote: »I try to drink two glasses of diet green tea a day.
"Diet" green tea? 1 calorie instead of 2?
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You have to drink something like 18 cups a day for it to affect weight loss the way you want it to.
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Pocatello_Ravenclaw wrote: »You have to drink something like 18 cups a day for it to affect weight loss the way you want it to.
I like green tea. I don't like it enough to do that to myself....3 -
How old are you Op?5
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Can it help, sure, but there are a lot of factors to consider, such as bioavailability and other factors as noted below. Will drinking green tea help, most likely not as it doesn't take into considerations the below information.
https://examine.com/supplements/green-tea-catechins/
"The benefits of green tea catechins on lipid oxidation and related fat-burning pathways are achieved in a dose dependent manner. Significant effects in humans are noted only at high doses, such as 400-500mg EGCG equivalent per day (most Green Tea Extract supplements are roughly 50% EGCG). Fat burning effects are highly synergistic, almost dependent, on not consuming caffeine habitually."4 -
Pocatello_Ravenclaw wrote: »You have to drink something like 18 cups a day for it to affect weight loss the way you want it to.
Lol Yea I can def see this, you would be so full of tea you wouldn't have room for extra calores=weightloss
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emmydoodles83 wrote: »Pocatello_Ravenclaw wrote: »You have to drink something like 18 cups a day for it to affect weight loss the way you want it to.
Lol Yea I can def see this, you would be so full of tea you wouldn't have room for extra calores=weightloss
You'd also get some exercise going back and forth to the toilet!5 -
FaithGonzalesss wrote: »Alatariel75 wrote: »FaithGonzalesss wrote: »diannethegeek wrote: »FaithGonzalesss wrote: »It's interesting that people will join this website which is based on controlling calories, and then use other diets to try and lose weight.
Believe me, from my own personal experience, MFP works. No need to do anything else.
There is no trick to weight loss. Just eat less calories than your body burns in a day and stay the course.
well thats not all accurate. Ive lost about 30 lbs and it wasn't just by eating less calories than my body burns a day.i changed my diet.
How do you think weight loss works?
There seems to be a bit of strain or tension on this discussion. I apologize if I've offended or upset you.
It's just very frustrating when someone starts a discussion by asking for people's views, then responds on the basis that they don't really care what anyone says, they're going to do their own thing anyway.
Plus, you seem to have some inaccurate ideas about weight loss and people are trying to clarify for you, but you don't seem to be interested in learning anything.
I think by some of the stuff ive been saying it does sound like i don't understand the process of weight loss. But i do, i just wanted to TRY this random, false, fad diet. I dont have any expectations of weight loss from this.i expect weight loss from healthy eating, lower calories sometimes and working out..
You can actually not eat healthy and not work out.........just the lowering calories to a deficit(not sometimes but most if not all of the time) would do it. The others are a health bonus and def recommended.
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I drink tons of green tea. Matcha, sencha, genmaicha... at least a couple 16oz mugs a day.
And I can say - without a doubt - it has not affected my weight loss progress whatsoever. The calories are the only thing that matter.2 -
I drink green tea every morning - in fact, I'm doing so as I type this up.
I've gained ~12 lb over the last few months - some (most?) is water weight, but still...1 -
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FaithGonzalesss wrote: »Ive read about how good it is to drink 3-4 cups of green tea a day for weight loss. i was planning to try it for a month or 2. i failed, i forgot to bring it with me. Although i did try it for 2-3 days and my weight did actually go down quickly. but for those 2-3 days i also wasnt eating very much at all, besides alot of watermelon. whats your views of this diet type thing?
Weight loss - all weight loss - comes from calorie deficit.
If green tea helped you eat less, then I guess it helped a bit. I've been a green tea drinker for decades, but it has never helped me.
A lot of water melon - not a lot of nutrition there. The goal shouldn't be to get the lowest possible calories.....nutrition be damned. Nutrition still matters, your stored body fat won't nourish everything. Look at macros - protein, fat, and carbs.....are you meeting those?
Named "diets" never work for me. Sure I can lose the weight, but that's just the first step. Look for something that helps you lose weight AND helps you keep it off.1 -
Green tea as well as oolong tea have very amazing health benefits, however both have a stigma that they're great for weight loss. This is not true, the amount of tea you'd have to drink would be so much that, that's all your stomach can handle. However both are packed full of antioxidants which can make you feel and look better!7
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Green tea has many of health benefits. As far as weight loss, I think it might aid in weight loss by giving you something to put in your stomach to help with hunger pains. Sometimes when I think I'm hungry, I drink a hot beverage instead and it helps. But I've also read that too much green tea can have adverse side effects. All in moderation.2
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There's a lot of aggressiveness here.. I don't expect this to make me lose weight, I just find this stuff fascinating. not a waste of money or time, it takes literally 8 seconds for me to down a cup of green tea. Once i get back to my normal diet, basically 100% carbs (im vegan), ill restart just for the fun of it for me.5
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FaithGonzalesss wrote: »There's a lot of aggressiveness here.. I don't expect this to make me lose weight, I just find this stuff fascinating. not a waste of money or time, it takes literally 8 seconds for me to down a cup of green tea. Once i get back to my normal diet, basically 100% carbs (im vegan), ill restart just for the fun of it for me.
Being vegan doesn't have to result in a diet that is 100% carbohydrates -- in fact, given that many plant foods have protein and fat, it would require some work in order to consume that percentage.
For example, I'm vegan and my diet is typically 50-60% carbohydrates. That's without doing any carbohydrate restriction.3 -
FaithGonzalesss wrote: »There's a lot of aggressiveness here.. I don't expect this to make me lose weight, I just find this stuff fascinating. not a waste of money or time, it takes literally 8 seconds for me to down a cup of green tea. Once i get back to my normal diet, basically 100% carbs (im vegan), ill restart just for the fun of it for me.
Even vegans eat foods with protein and fat. If your diet is 100% carbs you have problems
Lentils, 1 cup 230 calories 40g carbs 1g fat 18g protein 16g fiber
Walnuts, 0.25 cup 200 calories 4g carbs 20g fat 5g protein 2g fiber5 -
janejellyroll wrote: »FaithGonzalesss wrote: »There's a lot of aggressiveness here.. I don't expect this to make me lose weight, I just find this stuff fascinating. not a waste of money or time, it takes literally 8 seconds for me to down a cup of green tea. Once i get back to my normal diet, basically 100% carbs (im vegan), ill restart just for the fun of it for me.
Being vegan doesn't have to result in a diet that is 100% carbohydrates -- in fact, given that many plant foods have protein and fat, it would require some work in order to consume that percentage.
Yeah, it would be basically impossible unless your diet was low in veg and super unbalanced. I really can't even imagine how it would be possible.3 -
I drink green tea in the morning in place of breakfast because I don't like to eat in the morning, it keeps me full until lunch so I eat less and therefore lose weight. That doesn't mean the green tea made me lose weight, eating less made me lose weight.0
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