Green Tea

yea!.. i drink it because i like it, but i heard that it boosts your metabolism. this is evident in the fact that it is one of the main ingredients in one-a-day weight smart vitamins.

besides being a good supplement, its also a good replacement for diet soda, or juice. it gets boring to drink water all the time-even seltezer and stuff. but the artificial sugar in diet soda leads your body to believe it is getting sugar and then when it realizes that it hasn't-it craves it even more. diet soda also bloats your stomache and is believed to alter your brain chemistry and make you feel depressed. i used to drink like 2 20oz bottles a day and since i stopped drinking it its been much easier for me to limit the amount of bread/white bread i eat, along with cravings for candy when im not even hungry. and juice while full of nutriets ( like v8 splash or somthing, forget juice cocktail because thats all sugar) it has as much calories as a small meal, doesn't fill you, and has tons of sugar.

heres a recipe for making green tea a little more tolerable:

make a big pot of it, enough to fill a pitcher/ the whole tea pot.
boil and make the tea with 3-5 tea bags, let it sit for 5 min
add a bottle of pom (pom is the brand:pomegrate juice) or acai juice(i found the acai berry juice right next to the pom and it was cheaper) get the 1-2 serving bottle
refridgerate

if you buy the de-caf kind you can have as many glasses as you want a day!

If you live near a Trader Joe's, they sell Green Tea with a hint of mint that is unsweetened. I drink it all summer long over ice but I suppose you could heat it up too.

I can't stand the taste of green tea, so I buy mine at walmart or gnc in capsule form, works just the same.