Best Tea to help with Weight loss?

I find that any time you’re repacing a drink that has calories with (unadulterated) tea, it’s good for weight loss (IE: replacing milk, pop, juice, etc with tea or water). Of course, if you add sugar or milk to your tea it might defeat that purpose a bit. : )

Otherwise, I don’t notice any difference, but I find that nothing works for weight loss (for me) like working out and eating better did. Unfortunately. : )

Guayusa!!!

I’m doing a 20lb 20 week weight loss challenge with doing brazilian jiujitsu for my blog and I swear when I drink guayusa it makes me feel full and I stop snacking. I also come out after cardio or jiujitsu not feeling hungry and I don’t eat back the calories I just lost.

Other teas I’ve tried in the past were asian diet teas – some are supposed to make you feel full, others are laxatives which probably isn’t a healthy way to drop weight. The feeling full teas didn’t work at all for me compared to guayusa.

But yeah, overall tea is great to replace out high calorie drinks like what Uniquity said, but you can also use fun desserty blend teas to swap out or ease cravings for actual desserts.

Science seems to suggest that caffeine will boost your metabolism but I know a good number of coffee addicts who struggle with their weight so the boost is likely minimal. Or they just compensate by eating more. Not sure. In the end, the only way I’ve found to keep my weight down is healthy eating habits and regular exercise. This is a life style commitment, but healthiest in the end. Tea can be a part of your healthy food plan! You can have an iced root beer tea instead of root beer, or a lovely dessert tea instead of actual dessert. Even with a bit of sugar and cream, a cup of chocolate tea is better than a bar of chocolate. Then you can work on enjoying your tea sugar free! Admittedly, sugar free tea was a long journey for me. Now I can’t stand sugar in my tea unless it’s black or rooibos.

Good luck! To health! Clinks mugs :)

I am doing 6 week body makeover Plus adding in soldier Fit for my exercise :) Thank you all for you suggestions !! I think with this triple team at weight loss i may not know what is doing it but as long as I loose weight I don’t care! lol

Sare, good question.

According the the research we could find, Oolong is almost 3x more effective at weight loss than green tea. The research and links are here:

http://www.wulongforlife.com/blog/best-tea-for-weight-loss/

To address Uniquity’s very observant comment, you have to have a realistic point of view on it.

If you start drinking tea to loose weight, but continue to eat 3 pizza’s for dinner and not exercise (for example), then you will probably be disappointed. It is not a magic bullet.

What does make tea a perfect COMPLIMENT to any weight loss program is the effect it has on your metabolism – and thus weight loss. It is not about calories you ingest. Tea is effective for weight loss because of the great increase in Energy Expenditure after drinking the tea.

Oolong tea has been shown to be the best at this. Again, here is the research:

http://www.wulongforlife.com/blog/oolong-tea-for-weight-loss/

Yes, we sell it, but we also believe in it and see many email from our customers every single day how it helps people. I hope this doesn’t come off as too spammy, but we are passionate about what a great foundation for weight loss oolong tea can be.

No matter what, keep trying and good luck. If we can help you in any way, just ask.

The tea is derived from a single plant. The big differentiators in the tea are the different regions where the tea is grown. Some are good, some are great.

You really want to find a good, high quality tea from the Fujian province. These have been reputed to be the best for thousands of years.

Read more:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oolong

http://www.teadiscussion.com/types/oolong-tea.php

http://www.wulongforlife.com/blog/the-best-oolong-tea/

Have a great weekend.

Sare, I have this tea from Teavana called Weight to Go: http://www.teavana.com/the-teas/black-teas/p/weight-to-go-pu-erh-tea It’s pu-erh mixed with oolong. I don’t know if it’s helped me lose any weight, because I don’t drink it every day, but I know it tastes good! I’ll send you a sample if you want when I send you the other tea.

There is a great package from Nature’s Tea Leaf called Best Teas For Weight Loss. It includes Pu’erh, King Peony White, Chickweed and Bilberry. They are all quality loose teas.

We do a Lotus Tea which is a slimline tea. It’s very mild and easy to drink with no caffeine in it and has been very popular. http://www.innteas.com/lotus.php is where you can read more information.

As the others have said, tea is a brilliant way of cutting out high calorie drinks and many are so delicious, they don’t need anything added. Alternatively, a tea spoon of natural honey is a lovely way of adding a sweeter flavour to many teas.

Many good points made about green tea (detoxing), oolong and puerh and agreed with all of these.

With regards to keeping tea fresh, I recommend a container (not plastic) and don’t allow the leaves to get damp.

I’ve heard that yerba mate is wonderful for weight loss. I’ve been drinking it lately and have noticed a lot of my snacking has gone down and my energy has gone way, way up! If you don’t like the taste of it try mixing it with another tea :] My personal favorites are blueberry rooibos and lemongrass black tea!