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You will find how green tea can help you lose more weight while you fast, in addition to giving you an energy boost when you feel like throwing in the towel from withdrawal symptoms and hunger pains.
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We have found them to be top notch and very smooth.
A Good Juicer
If you are interested in juice fasting, having a good juicer is crucial and will make your fasting for weight loss goals easier and more enjoyable.
On our growing list of TOP PICKS, we want to take a moment and highly recommend to you The Jack Lalanne Power Juicer -- The Breville Juicer Juice Fountain Plus as ones we have used and will ALWAYS give you optimal results in your juice fasting and weight loss / detoxification efforts.
Note: While our aim in this website is to provide information and support to help you achieve your weight loss and detoxification goals, it is important to emphasize that no juicer, tablet or tea was the "individual" solution to my weight and poor eating problems.
I had to have the resolve and commitment.
All in all, green tea has grown to become one of my favorites and one I hope will help support your fasting efforts. I am glad you are here!
A Bounty of Benefits
When I started fasting for weight loss, I soon realized I was going to need extra energy to help me maintain my daily activities.
Looking for information, I came across green tea weight loss studies that talked about its thermogenic or body heating effects. Intrigued, I continued my research.
I learned that drinking oolong tea or green tea extract -- a more concentrated form of oolong tea – could give me more energy.
It also could help accelerate so called fat burning or “oxidation” and consequently, facilitate weight loss. I was amazed, yet still skeptical.
By the way, green tea contains a powerful antioxidant called Epigallocatechin (EGCG) which aids the body repair itself at the cellular level.
Practical Results
At the time I was new to fasting but my efforts were going fairly well. I started with juice fasting and had gotten pretty good at mixing fruits, vegetables and even yogurt to sustain me while I abstained from solid food.
I also did several three-day water only fasts, which were even more challenging. But, through it all, I found myself feeling very weak. Also, the pounds were not melting as swiftly as I had hoped.
As I recall, at the time I was coming up on a special engagement that required me to be at a very specific weight.
I can tell you from first-hand experience that green tea, while not a fix-all, DID help to expedite loss of weight. It was not shockingly dramatic but it did help. It made the weight loss consistent and very noticeable.
I had fasted before without using green tea and did notice a positive difference. Drinking green tea also DID pep me up and allow me to stay functional. I was convinced. Green tea weight loss and energy-boosting properties were real.
Green Tea Studies
Micronutrient research by the Linus Pauling Institute at Oregon State University has looked closely at green tea (catchetins) and its effect in humans.
According to the institute, green tea weight loss occurs because the body appears to use more energy after the tea is ingested due to the herb’s inherent fat oxidation and body heating properties.
The tea leaf contains large quantities of “phytochemical polyphenols” called flavonols, commonly known as catchetins.
Although green tea and black tea originate from the same leaf, they have different chemical structures due to how they are processed.
Apart from an initial brief steam roasting to stop fermentation, the production of green tea is largely a manual process. Japanese green teas contain more catchetins than Chinese green teas.
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Y! MyWebI personally discovered that this added energy from catchetins can help immensely while fasting, especially when one needs to maintain daily activities or work.
The green tea weight loss properties were an added bonus!
Green Tea vs. Coffee
In addition to Linus Pauling, I found another interesting study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition (1999) where subjects were given caffeine and asked to compare its effect to the one produced after drinking green tea.
The participants drinking green tea showed higher thermogenic (body heating) and fat oxidation than those taking just caffeine. Why? Because, the study indicates, it is the catchetins in green tea that produce this energy boosting, fat burning result – not the caffeine as initially suspected.
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Further supporting green tea weight loss claims, the International Journal of Obesity has stated that green tea increases the body’s ability to burn calories and fat, thus helping people to lose weight.
So if you do not like caffeine (like me) you can have the same green tea weight loss results with decaf green tea.
One more study I discovered was one from Jan. 2005 by the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
In it, the journal concluded that daily consumption for 12 weeks of green tea containing 690 mg. of catchetins helped to reduce body fat !
This, the journal added, “suggests that the catchetins in green tea might be useful for obesity.” Green tea weight loss and energy-boosting properties are truly helpful.
The Ephedrine Factor
Even though I do not agree, green tea weight loss and energy capacities have been “enhanced” in recent years with the unfortunate addition, by some brands, of the stimulant ephedrine.
Green tea does have caffeine, but not as much as coffee. But when you add ephedrine AND caffeine, in my opinion, the result is a bomb that your body does not need - especially if you are fasting.
Ephedrine is similar to amphetamines and is found naturally in the Chinese herbal medicine "ma-huang" and in "Mormon’s tea."
Some college students and truck drivers use it for its sleep-suppressing effect. But ephedrine also raises heart rate and blood pressure.
Ephedrine has been tragically associated with strokes and deaths in adolescents. So be very cautious.
Read labels and, when possible, shun green tea – whether liquid, capsules or powder -- that has been “enhanced” with ephedrine.
What about Power Drinks?
Neither can I recommend the ingestion of so called “power drinks.”
Nearly all of these drinks contain too many stimulants and, especially when fasting, may cause very unpleasant nervousness rather than energy. They also usually have large amounts of sugar or corn syrup which, when fasting, could very much upset your stomach.
You are fasting to lose weight and for detoxification, not to replace food with ephedrine and loads of sugar.
Stick to green tea without with or without caffeine, but say NO to additional stimulants!
I can tell you that while I was fasting, the experience was much more pleasurable when I drank a cup of green tea several times a day.
I had more energy and the hunger pains were not as strong. I also lost weight more steadily thanks to the catchetins’ fat burning effect.
Usually when I am fasting I take green tea with me in a thermos. But you also can use it in powder form, extract, herbal preparations etc…
Remember: you are fasting to improve your health and quality of life. This takes time. Take it easy. Breathe. Do not rush or try to cut corners with so called power drinks or teas spiked with ephedrine!
Green Tea & Insomnia
Green tea weight loss and energy faculties are very helpful. But be careful if you have sleep-related problems.
Green tea, if ingested too late during the day, may strain your system and actually worsen insomnia.
My suggestion is that, if you do have trouble sleeping, that you do not drink any tea with caffeine after 6PM.
There are other types of “soothing” herbal teas that can also help with the hunger pains, without possibly disrupting your much-needed rest during this period of fasting.
Remember, green tea does have caffeine. Not as much as coffee, but it does contain it nevertheless.
Beyond Tea & Pills
It is my firm opinion that fasting for weight loss combined with at least three cups of green tea per day can place your efforts in the fast track to success.
If you prefer green tea powder or capsules, I would stick to the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition’s recommendation of 690 milligrams per day.
I recommend these 100% pure and organic(Items #3 & #8) Oolong Green Tea products as support to your fasting and weight loss goals.
It might taste a little strong for you at first if you are not used to it, but it is by far the best - in my experience. And I have drank lots of tea.
In addition to green tea weight loss capabilities and fasting, I also want to take this moment to recommend you supplement your efforts with all natural Bach Flower Extract to help calm anxiety and discomfort.
These have truly done wonders for me overall, not just while I have been fasting.
So, in closing, I want to emphasize that the new life you seek through fasting is much more than just drinking tea or juices.
Green tea weight loss capacities can be an excellent support to your efforts. But this is about permanently changing your eating habits and embracing a more active lifestyle.
No pill, juice or tea is the one and all solution. Please, let me repeat it once more: The new life you seek is about changing your eating habits and embracing a more active lifestyle.
Light Exercise
When you start losing weight (and you will), start taking short walks for a minimum of 15 minutes three or four times per week.
If your health permits it, incorporate light dumbbells or ankle/wrist weights to increase the cardiovascular effect.
Maintain exercise as a regular part of your life.
And, very important, DO NOT return to eating junk food!
For additional support while fasting please visit Fasting Motivation and Fasting and The Mind.
If you are serious about changing your life through fasting, you may also wish to consider starting a Fasting Journal to record the magnificent changes that with effort and faith will certainly materialize in your life.
Green tea weight loss and energy-boosting properties can serve as positive support to help you achieve your goals.
We want to be of support, encouragement and inspiration. Remember, the amazing discipline of fasting, if you stick to it, CAN transform your life and make all your weight loss and fitness goals come true!
Most of all: ENJOY YOUR PROCESS. ENJOY YOUR LIFE!
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