Reasons Why You Still Don’t Lose Weight Even After Drinking Green Tea

5You are mixing Green tea with milk

This is a big no-no, where you could be diluting many of the effects of the green tea with milk. Green tea is best brewed as it is and consumed with no sugar and no milk. To enhance the flavor and the health factor you could add items like ginger, cinnamon, a teaspoon of honey or cloves. Mint leaves are an excellent addition to green tea. 

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6You don’t exercise

Green tea isn’t some magic potion that can make you reduce weight overnight. Neither will it show results when you lead an unhealthy sedentary lifestyle. In such a circumstance you put on more pounds through calories than green tea can burn. While drinking green tea you need to exercise daily or engage in healthy physical activity that will help you burn calories. If you do not suffer from health issues, then drinking a cup of green tea and having a cardio session in the morning on your treadmill or engaging in walking would certainly help you lose weight. While you burn the calories that you gain through the food you eat every day, drinking green tea will also contribute to an increased metabolism that will help burn existing stores of fat. This is why drinking green tea in the morning and also at night before retiring to bed would be a great idea to effectively lose weight. 

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7You are eating the wrong food

No amount of green tea will help you lose weight if you keep gorging on the wrong type of food. Fries, carbonated drinks, snacks and junk food contribute to loading up of calories and excess sugar. How on earth will green tea help you if your diet is as poor as that? While you engage on a green tea routine, maintain a healthy diet of the right amount of carbs, proteins, and fats so that your green tea can work its benefits on you to lose weight. Make sure you get the right amount of protein because the biggest mistake of diet is to maintain a high carb one while not getting enough protein. 

8Stop snacking or taking sugary treats with green tea

If you are habituated to snacking while drinking green tea then that won’t work. Remember, the physiology of your body isn’t one that will make an extra effort to dig into fat stores but utilize existing current fat and calories for energy. It is the same problem with people who feel that though they diet, they don’t lose weight.

Snacking or consuming sugar with green tea will introduce extra calories into your system. After a while, the fat burning mechanism of green tea just works on the calories you just consumed. The result! You don’t really lose weight.

When you consume green tea, don’t eat anything else. At the most you could munch on a few nuts or protein related sacks that won’t contribute to calorie build up. Remember, it takes at least 5-7 cups of green tea to lose weight.  If you really want green tea for weight loss to benefit you then switch to green tea extracts as a supplementation but always consult with your doctor before doing so.

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