is green tea really good for weight loss?
Wednesday, July 28th, 2010 at
9:41 am
hayy
i have been told that green tea is great to help you loose weight when your on a diet… is this true… if so how ??? does it speed up your metabolism, or keep hunger at bay ??? , what about lemon tea does this work in the same way ???
how fast does it take to work also, i go the gym 3 times a week and do alot of walking and jogging…i just want 2 loose a few pounds for a wedding xxx
thanks every1 xxx
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It can speed up your metabolism as part of a healthy diet of course, but you need to drink loads of the stuff for it to make any difference. I’d recommend it, as it’s full of anti-oxidants and then increase your exercise and stick to a healthy diet.
try special k x
About Green Tea and Weight Loss – The No-Nonsense Truth
Consider the following – One pound of fat (.45 kg) is equivalent to approximately 3500 calories. Whether using green tea for weight loss or any other method, in order to lose one pound of fat over the period of a week, a person must maintain a calorie deficit of 3500 below their normal "set point", that "set point" being the amount of calories consumed in one’s diet where a person neither loses nor gains fat. This calorie deficit can come through the modification of diet, through exercise, or a through a combination of both. In the case of a pound per week weight loss, that works out to a needed calorie deficit of 500 calories per day.
Research by Japanese and other researchers(1) suggest that if the average person were to drink five cups of green tea a day, they would burn an extra 70 to 80 extra calories through an effect known as thermogenesis – the process of heat production in organisms. While much of the thermogenesis effect in green tea is derived from caffeine, studies also suggest(2) that thermogenesis in green tea occurs to some degree beyond its caffeine content from epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG.)
Regardless, 70-80 calories per day does not quite come close to the 500 calorie deficit needed per day to lose a pound a week, and for sure it’s nowhere close to the calorie deficit needed to lose "inches per week" from one’s waistline as some green tea web sites would have consumers believe. According to the research, if a person were to change nothing outside of adding five cups of green tea to their diet per day, then over the course of 43 days one could expect to lose 1 pound. Over the period of one year, one could expect a loss of about 8 pounds. Yes, there is some correlation between green tea and weight loss, unfortunately it’s not on the level many would have you believe.
Clearly, drinking green tea alone is not going to be satisfactory for significant weight loss. Still, green tea can still be quite useful as a weight loss aid. The extra 80 calories per day can be just what a person needs to tip the scale from a calorie surplus to a calorie deficit, especially when following a balanced nutrition and exercise regime.
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If you are serious about losing weight, even though you should not expect the pounds to melt off as some will claim, we still definitely do recommend green tea as a complement to a sound nutrition and exercise regime, not only for the slight metabolism boost it will give you, but more importantly for the many other documented health benefits.
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Hayy hayy girl, uh huh, it is good to loose weight. Try some hoodia too,.
http://www.google.com/search?q=hoodia&rls=com.microsoft:en-us&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&startIndex=&startPage=1
Yup Green Tea is really awesome for you. You should try Special K. I guess it keeps your hunger under control
It needs to be natural. It speeds up your metabolism and is full of antioxidants that help us burn fat. Plus it fills you up for longer.
I didn’t really lose anything. x
im not aware that it does any of the above but it is known for its detoxing properties. best way to lose weight is to eat small and often, healthy foods not necessarily a plate of lettuce !
my friend was used to drinking crystal lite and she switched to diet lipton green tea with citrus and lost 20 pounds in 6 weeks without any other life-style changes.
totally
Tea in general is a low calorie drink that helps with boosting your metabolism for short periods of time (b/c of the caffeine). Tea has near to 0 calories (which is much much better than soda/coffee). It can keep hunger at bay because you don’t confuse hunger with thirst and it extends your stomach slightly to trick your body in thinking that you’re not as hungry as you are. Although, theoretically, if you keep yourself dehydrated you’re supposed to not be hungry. Imagine if you’ve eaten a can of salt. Do you want food or do you want water?
Weight loss is never instant. You should expect to lose 1-2 lbs per week if you work your ass off (depending on how overweight you are to begin with).
Have fun…
Bull, there are so many things u can do, and technicly is well work better…but how much better!! All the little tricks work to an extent, but the actual things u should do is excersies and deit only if u know what ur doing. I like green normally, but for a diet…green tea is only good for flavoring water, which is good to drink in small amounts throghout the day. If u ever used real leaves…wow so much work and there are like 30 different types!!! (but they all taste like dirt). Stick with hard work not tricks.
Over the last few decades green tea has been subjected to many scientific and medical studies to determine the extent of its long-purported health benefits, with some evidence suggesting regular green tea drinkers may have lower chances of heart disease and developing certain types of cancer.[1] Green tea has also been claimed as useful for "weight loss management"[citation needed] – a claim with no scientific support according to medical databases such as PubMed.
I don’t know but I’m drinking some right now
J-Man
yes drink it without milk
it speeds up your metabolism, while it fills you with virtually no calories
i have no idea about lemon tea – doubt it.