Go Green For Weight Loss

It is accepted that in order to lose a pound over a week of dieting, the dieter must cut down their calorie intake by 3500 calories. This sounds like a lot, even when you break it down over the course of seven days – 500 calories a day amounts to a full meal in some cases, which is a lot to cut out of your daily diet. That being said, if you look at your daily diet you can always find a few calories to cut out here and there – whether it be by replacing chips with rice, using light salad dressing, or replacing white bread with a more wholesome alternative.

Drinking green tea has been talked about as a way to aid weight loss, and it certainly has its place. A process known as thermogenesis – whereby the human body produces its own heat – can give the body an extra boost, and Japanese scientists have discovered that drinking five cups of green tea a day will lead to a person shedding up to 80 calories. Now, the mathematicians out there will have figured out that, at a rate of 80 calories per day, it would take nearly 44 days to drop a pound. But looking at your diet, ask yourself – is there something in there that could be replaced by green tea?

Many people, for example, will have a few glasses of Coke a day. As one 250ml glass of Coke contains 105 calories, if you drink five glasses of Coke a day the total calories from that amounts to 525. If you were to replace those glasses of coke with cups of green tea, the overall difference would be an impressive –605 calories per day, which adds up to –4235 a week, a loss of one pound with a bit to spare. It needn’t be Coke that you cut out, of course. For you there may be something else that you feel you could happily say goodbye to. It’s up to you to find what you can cut out, make the change and enjoy the benefits.