How does green tea help to reduce weight?

It is scientifically proven that green tea burns extra calories and impedes fat  absorption in human body. Green tea contains an antioxidant called epigallocatechin gallate(EGCG) which stimulates metabolism and that results in weight loss. The combined effect of EGCG and caffeine causes release of fat into the blood stream which the body uses as fuel for various activities.

This process referred to as ‘thermogenesis’ ultimately leads to losing weight. This also helps in another way- by providing more energy to exercise more.

How is green tea different or more effective than other tea varieties

Like green tea, black tea and oolong tea are produced from the same plant, Camellia sinensis. The major difference is that for green tea, leaves are not fermented before steaming and drying. Compared to other varieties, green tea has the highest concentration of catechin polyphenols, which accelerate fat oxidation and thermogenesis.

Right amount of intake for desired results

Making green tea a part of your life is not that difficult. It’s just adding green tea to your daily diet. You can drink green tea instead of tea or coffee, before and after the meals. But in order to get the maximum results you must drink at least four to six cups. If you don’t like the flavor, you can add green tea concentrate to other food items and have it. Green tea capsules and pills are also available in the market.

Other health benefits of green tea

For thousands of years, green tea has been used as a health drink in many parts of the world. Besides aiding weight loss green tea is scientifically proven to reduce high blood pressure, lower blood sugar and cholesterol and fight cancer. Recent studies have shown that catechins- the powerful antioxidants contained in the green tea fight viruses, slow aging and destroy free radicals which cause cancer, heart disease etc.

Side effects

Being a natural product green tea does not cause any serious side effects. But some may have minor problems while the body adjusts to the consumption of green tea, like more frequent visits to the rest room or sleeping troubles for non coffee or tea drinkers in the first one or two weeks.

Finally, you have to remember that only regular exercise and proper diet can help you to make the most out of green tea.

The answers could shock you. A friend of mine, a nurse from the local hospital says that she very rarely find a fat Chinese lady. Even if she really finds them, the number is really small.

So, what happen exactly with these Chinese ladies? How they could maintain their weight, and stay healthy? Don’t they ever eat anything?

A recent studies in Japan shows that there is a special type of Chinese tea called the Okuma’s Wu Long tea that could burn more calories than an original Japanese tea. Drink this regularly and combine it with some exercises, and the calorie burning will increase two folds. The smart way of drinking this tea is by drinking it for 15 minutes before you eat any carbohydrates. It’s proven to suppress the rise of insulin in your body that usually happens when you eat carbohydrates.

Because carbohydrates increase the insulin level in your body, you’ll also feel that your body gain weight when you eat a lot of carbohydrates. Drinking this tea will control the weight gain that you have.

Other benefits of the Okuma’s Wu Long tea that the Japanese Research founds are:
- the eczema could clears up in 30 days after the first time you drink it
- reducing free radicals in your body
- lower the risk infections

In one of the old Chinese pharmaceutical book called “Bencao Shiyi “(The Compendium of Materia Medica), you could find the quote that says tea “will make one live long and stay in good shape.” Tea, especially the Okuma’s Wu Long tea comes from China’s Fujian Province where the ladies in there drink this type of tea for generations. This special tea helps melting the body fat they have, clear their skin, and even boost their energy. The newer scientific discoveries also said that it’s possible to melt inches of your waistline by using this tea.

Teas are a good complement of your diet foods. Even if it’s not necessary, you could use it to lose weight faster. To make your weight loss diet plan more successful, the combining of a healthy diet plan, teas, and exercises are a good way to go.

However, I will show you some simple steps to a fun weight loss plan that you could do today.

1. Be in the right mindset. Very often people fall into a lose-weight-fast mindset. It’s not wrong, but it could be problematic for you because you’ll want to try different diet plan from one another just to lose weight fast. It could be happen, but you’ll then realize that you gain weight much quicker than you lose it. So, get a different mindset. Think that you want a permanent weight loss while maintain your healthy condition, even if it takes you 1-3 months to get there. It will help you to prepare your body better, and you know what to expect from a certain weight loss program.

2. Eat natural foods. You need to stay away from the processed or junk foods. Natural food or food that you cook by yourself contain more nutritious for your body. No more calorie counting because your body naturally will found out how many portions it can handle per meal and you’ll feel energized after you eat. Processed food, even if they’re quick to serve, it lacks certain calorie that your body needs and your body will force you to get more calories. The results, you will eat more than you can handle.

3. Chew your food slowly

Chew the food slowly will help you to get most of the nutrients benefits into your body. It could also make you feel full and satisfied faster than just throwing the food into your mouth. This chewing also reduces the hard duty of your stomach to digest it.

4. Eat a frequent small meal. The longer time between each meal the hungrier you become. Overcome this by eating a small meal during the day. Give yourself 2-4 hours rest before you eat the next small meal.

5. Move more. People usually overweight because they eat so much and doing nothing. The only way to overcome this is by move your body more often. However, you don’t have to being forced to do this. You could try by walking farther and longer than before, bicycling for an hour than 30 minutes, walking with more dogs that force you to chase them, and so on. Do the activities that you like, and you will enjoy it.

6. Drink more water. Some people can’t figure out whether they’re hungry for food or just plainly thirsty. Figure this out by drinking some water before you eat. Don’t let yourself eat some foods when you’re supposed to be drinking the water. Water also helps to moisture your skin and digests your food better.

Here are 7 habits that you could implement to your life right away:

1. Moving more

Ordinary people will burn about a third calories everyday. You could increase your calories burning by simply moving more than you do before. This simple habit will helps you to burn more calories everyday. So, how do you do that? Just keep moving. Don’t let your body just sitting in there. One tip for you, put the post-it-notes in the place where you’re always sitting or doing nothing for a long period of time. Write just one word in it, “MOVE!”

It will remind you that you still need to move during your break. Here are a few ideas that you could start doing to move some parts of your body: swing your legs when you’re sit down, change your position often, stand up and stretch your body, stand up when you phoned someone and start pacing, or park your car in the furthest corner of your parking lot.

2. Eat small and often

Eating small but often will keep you energized during the day and prevent you to want “something more” to eat. It also helps to burn your calories faster, and distribute the fat in your body properly. Try to eat a small portion of your meals every 2-4 hours because it will make your body working constantly to digest the food. This digesting process requires more energy, and energy burns more fat in your body.

3. Consume “healthy” fats

Even if our goal is to burn more fat, we need to realize that fats are also essential for our body. Healthy fats will help you lose weight by increasing the calories burning process. Some of the foods that contain healthy fats are olive oil, flaxseed oil, salmon, avocados, and nuts. Add some of these into your daily diet plan.

4. Drink Cold Water

Cold water will make your body to burn more calories in order to raise the temperature of it. Besides, it could also keep you well hydrated during the day and make your metabolic process burn quicker.

5. Do exercise with weights

Weights are another good way to burn your calories. Lifting weights regularly will develop a muscle tissue in your body. This muscle tissue is metabolically active and it needs more calories when it’s in the rest condition. Not only that, it could also increasing the fat-burning enzymes in the body.

6. Eat spicy food

Hot spices could speed up the metabolism in your body. Try it by adding half a teaspoon cinnamon into your coffee per day. It can boost your metabolism and keep your sugar level steady. If you can’t stand a cinnamon in your coffee, try adding different spices into your meal, such as wasabi or crushed red pepper.

7. Eat protein

The process to digest the protein into your body requires more calories to burn. It’s because the complexity of their chemical breakdown. Plan your meal that contains more proteins and eat snacks that contain it too. Protein, which takes longer to digest, will make you not to overeat and stay full for a longer period of time.

So, what is this 6 Week Body Makeover? It comes from a theory that says each person have a different shape that defines their bodies in its natural state. Another principle that you can find in this 6 Week Body Makeover is each people have their own metabolism system that tailored to their bodies. It’s different from one people and another.

One of the best advantage of this 6 Week Body Makeover is that there is a unique metabolic system in it that will helps you to burn more fat and lose more weight just like a normal diet.

That’s what make the people that trying this program feel interested and love the innovative approach. They also find it exciting because it’s solely focus on the individuals, not on the diet plan itself.

When you start to find a diet plan for yourself, you usually want it to be easy to follow and help you to lose weight in a shortest period of time. You probably stumble into several programs that tell you they could do just that for you. However, it’s slightly different with 6 Week Body Makeover. In here, you’ll be asked to fill some questionnaires to find some pattern of metabolism in your body, and what exactly is the type of your metabolism.

After that, you’ll need to match your general body shape and size to the sample drawings that they have. Pick the one that really or approximately closer to your body shape today. Why? Because it will allows you to find out which part of your body that have more fat than others. You’ll also need to determine your specific problem areas.

After you finished, it will analyze your answer in the questionnaires, checking your general body shape and size from the sample drawing, and take notes of specific problem areas in your body. From all of that, your 6 Week Body Makeover is developed.

The 6 Week Body Makeover program also carries the same principle of other successful weight loss program, which focusing on a regular exercise and a proper diet. This program also including food plans that will help you to stay healthy and energetic during your weight loss program in 6 Week Body Makeover.

If you’re already stuck with all those no-success diet plans, it’s time for you to try this program because it will shows you how the metabolic system in your body functioned, and then shows you the right direction to burn your fat.

If you’re really committed to lose weight and keep it that way without get back to your old weight, you need to change your lifestyle. Strip off your old lifestyle, and replace it with a much healthier lifestyle so you could wok on your weight loss program without too many efforts. Here are some tips that you can do right away to banish several pounds in your body this month:

1. Walking. Set aside 30 minutes every day to do some walking. Walking could reduce your stress, give you a different point of view of your problems, and keep you healthy. Walking is much more effective than jogging. So, if you don’t like to jog, this is a better alternative for you

Doing the walking or jogging is great for your weight loss program. However, the effectiveness in walking could beat down the jogging. It is because when you walk; you increase your heart rate to a fat-burning level, maintain it that way, and have a long-lasting result. But, when you jogging, your heart rate increasing to the aerobic levels, and will drop as soon as you stopped the activity. That’s why it would be better for you to choose walking than jogging.

2. Get a small portion of your favorite foods. It also suggested that you cut your portion in half, especially the ones like hamburger, french fries, and other greasy food. It’s good for you because the calories in your body will reduce significantly and make your body accustomed to it.

3. Get a good night sleep. If you have a bad habit of sleeping not more than 3 hours per day, you should change it right away. If you have a good night sleep, your body will process the food more efficiently than sitting on a sofa. A good night sleep also gives you more energy to face the next day. Remember, an undisturbed night sleep is much better than none.

4. Reduce your stress. Having a high stress level will interfere your weight loss program and affect your physiological effect. Before you get stressed by looking at a pile of projects on your hands or a long to-do list that needed to be done, organize yourself first. Start tackles what needs to be done one by one, and do it as soon as possible, preferable as soon as you get it. By doing it this way, you could reduce your stress level.

5. Drink plenty of water. Water could help you to detoxify your body from harmful substance, hydrates your cells, and moisture your skin. Besides water, you could drink some green tea or juice that is effective to burn fat.

If you’re in love with caffeine and seems can’t go anywhere without one, make sure you also drink a glass of water along with your cup of coffee. Ask your friend to do the same weight loss program that you have, so you’re both could cheer up each other and keep yourselves on track.