Re: Lose Weight 4

Ted_Hutchinson

Green tea on fat metabolism and obesity (8 publications)In general the research described in these abstracts is made by brewing GREEN TEA LEAVES in a teapot for about 15mins to extract the highest amount of active ingredients. I doubt that switching to Green Tea bags, either plain or flavoured would have the same effect.

In the latest Japanese research described at the above link 38 overweight men drank a bottle of green tea containing 690 mg of active ingredient daily for 12 weeks. If you were brewing your own about 3 cups per day would provide 240–320 mg of polyphenols so to get the same effect you would need to drink at least 6 cups.

There are other potential health benefits so if you haven't tried drinking Green Tea made by brewing tea leaves in a pot rather than bags in a mug, it might be worth giving it a go. It took me a little while to get used to it but I now prefer it to normal black tea or coffee.

jenpoptab

VelvetGlove wrote:

jenpoptab, sounds like you are off to a really good start Hope your weigh in brings you the news you are hoping for.


Got weighed in tonight at club and lost a whopping 4.5 pounds! OK, I know it's my first week of being back on the diet properly but it was still a really nice boost to send me into the coming week with Stocked up with Hi-Fi bars and can happily munch on those during the coming week.

Fingers crossed for next week.... good luck everyone!

Site password is 'unlimited' this week.

Thank you, also to all those who have given me encouragement, I will weigh in tomorrow morning. I have a feeling I've doen quite well as I feel so positive! Fingers crossed eh!

Velvet Glove, fantastic weight loss. Well done.

Savvy_Sue

Ted_Hutchinson wrote:

There are other potential health benefits so if you haven't tried drinking Green Tea made by brewing tea leaves in a pot rather than bags in a mug, it might be worth giving it a go. It took me a little while to get used to it but I now prefer it to normal black tea or coffee.

Someone on another thread suggested waving the teabag quickly through the hot water. I know this won't give you anything like the health benefits of brewing it in a teapot for 15 minutes, but if you've drunk green tea once and thought 'never again' this may be a way of acclimatising yourself. Plus I can't bear to throw the teabags out but equally I can't yet bear to drink the stuff if it's brewed ...

jenpoptab

5 lb off, hurray, i feel so chuffed. :j :j :j

elona

I have had a 2 week break from Slimming World - go to get weighed tonight and am dreading it as I have totally "lost it " and overdone everything.

I will try not to let the scales get me down as at least I will be facing it and can then deal with things.

jenpoptab

Elona, hopefully it won't be too bad and you can start being positive from now and hopefully things will be better next week. You never know, this week might not be too bad after all!

elona

Thanks for the kind words

I stayed the same weight so have cheered up a bit.

Next weeks password is "unlimited"

I think that this week it is" trifle."

jenpoptab

Well done, see it wasn't that bad after all.

Linda12_2

Hi everone
I usually post the password for the slimming world website but I have been diagnosed with endrometrial cancer and now face the biggest challenge of my life.
I will be in touch when I can. Good luck to everyone .......see you soon.
Love Linda xxxxx

Scoflo

Will be thinking of you. (((((hugs)))))