Can you lose weight by drinking tea?

Weight loss is about calories. I drank lots of tea when I was more than a hundred pounds heavier, and I still drink lots of tea. Specific foods or drinks don't cause or stop fat loss. If you're trying to lose weight you may
need to account for anything you add to the tea in your calories (sugar, cream, milk, anything else that has calories).

I drink roughly 2 liters of tea per day (unsweetened and no milk or other additives, just hot water and the tea leaves respectively whatever herbal tea happens to be my current favorite). If that alone could cause weight loss, I'd be super model thin by now.

Alas, I'm obese and need to lose about 40 kg...

I find that a cup of blueberry tea can help tide me over when I crave a snack. In that sense it assists me in my calorie deficit which is what is required for weight loss.

In good news tea has a negligible amount of calories assuming you drink it black, so you can definitely keep drinking tea even if you need to cut calories elsewhere. If however you are like an old flat mate of mine who drank about 8 pints of tea per day with 2 Tbsp of sugar in each, that’s a lot of liquid calories that need to be evaluated.

Yes you can lose weight by drinking tea* - if you are in a calorie deficit.

If you drink tea* and are not in a calorie deficit, you will not lose weight


* substitute 'tea' for any food or drink item - yes you can lose weight by eating bananas or donuts or chicken sandwiches or whatever - if you are in a calorie deficit.

Or not if you are not in one.

Diatonic12 wrote: »

Elaborate. Are you thinking that it burns fat in no time at all or something along those lines.

Are you thinking of Detox Tea. If so, just know that you are not 'toxed' and if you were actually 'toxed' there's no amount of tea that could detox you. It would mean your liver has gone kaput. There are Detox Teas out there that make people sick with ultra high amounts of caffeine and other kinds of multi-cr@p ingredients.

You like tea. Me, too.

Why do I want to go up to people and and ask if they're toxed now?

I drink a sugar free chai latte that I created. Adding foamed skim milk makes it feel creamy and satisfying. I drink them two or three times a day, between meals and snacks.

For me, hot and creamy lattes fool me into being able to tide off the munchies.

So in that regards, yes, tea has helped me lose weight.

If you’re looking for a magical weight loss tea, however, if such a thing existed, the maker would be richer than Croesus.

Sure. I mean, tea is just hot water with leaves in it, and the more water you drink, the more likely you are to feel full more often. It's not a magic trick, it's just you upping your water intake... plus leaves.

Disclaimer: I don't add milk or sugar to my tea, so it really is just hot water and leaves in my case. If you add stuff to it and drink enough cups, that might waste quite a lot of your calories.

@glassyo Ain't nobody got time for being all toxed.

harper16 wrote: »

Based off the website in her profile she's advertising for Chinese teas. Mfp doesn't seem to care if people advertise links in their profiles, or links to their YouTube or Instagram account.

I think they do care, you just have to report it.