Green tea for fat loss
I will cut to the chase here: you should be drinking green tea - a lot of it. Okay, you don’t have to drink it constantly, otherwise you’ll be going to the toilet constantly, but a few cups per day will do you good, especially if you want to lose fat. Of course you want to know why, as if my word alone isn’t good enough for you (yet), so here goes:
I know what you're thinking, but no, it's not the same.
1. Antioxidants
Green tea is rich in antioxidants. Why do you care? Well… free radicals are bad, they occur naturally in the body but also caused by UV rays, radiation, smoking, pollution, etc. and they damage your cells. Many scientists believe they contribute to the ageing process as well as causing cancer, heart disease, and a whole bunch of other things I can’t be bothered listing. They’re bad, okay?
And antioxidants neutralize free radicals and may even prevent the damage. Sounds pretty good, right?
2. Caffeine
Caffeine gives you a slight metabolic boost, increases fat burning, and helps delay fatigue when doing exercise. This is all good for fat loss, if you couldn’t put that 2 and 2 together. Green tea has caffeine, so you get those benefits without all the added sugar and rubbish you get in high-caffeine “energy drinks”.
This doesn't count either.
3. Zero calories!
If you currently drink a lot of high-calorie beverages, this will probably be the most important point - green tea has zero calories. Every time you drink green tea instead of another drink (whether it’s milk, soda, juice, whatever) you’re saving yourself a couple hundred calories you didn’t need, so that’s going to help a lot with weight loss. Just don’t think that drinking a cup of green tea means you’re allowed to eat 5 biscuits with it, because you’re not. Don’t do it.
4. It’s cheap
At only a few cents per teabag, you can start saving money on all those expensive drinks you currently buy. Don’t worry, I’m sure you’ll find something else to spend the money on.
What about coffee?
Yeah, coffee has antioxidants and caffeine, so you’re allowed to drink it. But not if you pour milk, cream and sugar into it like most people, because then any benefits of the coffee are more than negated by all the calories of the crap you put in it. So either stop putting all that junk in your coffee, or admit that you only pretend to like coffee - and really just drink it for the milk and sugar - and make the switch to green tea.
