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Not necessarily true. Green teas in particular can have a large amount of flouride in them, which can cause crippling flurosis. The odds of that happening at 7 cups of tea is pretty slim. Caffeine is beneficial to weight loss - it's a thermogenic and an appetite suppressant. I'm not sure who gave you this advice, OP, but…

Obviously, a pound is a pound and we rarely have any way of knowing whether it's fat, muscle, water or ... :ahem: something else. Most indulgences are high in sodium, which causes temporary water retention. Even if you eat 3500 calories over maintenance, there's no guarantee it will all be used for fat storage anyway.

What you describe here is pretty important from a metabolic standpoint. Someone who is 150 lbs at 30% bf has a much lower BMR and maintenance level than someone who is 150 lbs at 20% bf. It is always beneficial to have more lean body mass.

You're eating too many calories. Think of BMR calculators and maintenance calculators as rough estimates. Everyone is different. I wouldn't go see a doctor because there isn't a physiological condition that will let you violate the laws of thermodynamics. There is only one guaranteed weight loss strategy and that is to…

1 week will not break you. If you overate by 1000 calories a day you'd gain less than 2 lbs. That said, I've lived in the deep south, you can eat healthy there it's just that most people don't. Don't give yourself excuses before you've even started.

Here's my advice: If you hate doing it, don't do it. It isn't necessary to log food, it's just a helpful tool. But anything you hate or feel like is a chore will eventually hurt your weight loss goals. Conceptually, losing weight isn't hard - eat less than you burn. If you have done a few days of a normal diet, you have an…

There is no such thing as "good" food or "bad" food. Eat what you like, within your caloric boundaries.

Health/weight loss is not the goal of the company, so I'd be wary of their products. It is, as mentioned, a pyramid scheme. As with most pyramid schemes, the actual product is nearly irrelevant, it's about convincing people they can sign up more people and become rich. In other words, there are literally a million ways to…

Assuming the garlic has active allicin (which is the point, it's the natural antibiotic in garlic) it will definitely have a negative impact on your gut flora. But allicin is broken down within minutes of garlic being physically broken, which largely renders garlic pills useless. There's still no support in vitamin C…