Tea ... What do we know about him? It turns out that the Irish drink it more than all the nationalities in the world. In the Middle Kingdom, a tea ceremony can last as long as six hours. Tea is the national drink of countries such as Afghanistan and Iran. And stiff English on its basis prepare alcoholic cocktails! This one of the favorite drinks of people around the world can help in losing weight, which of us did not arrange a fasting day with green tea from time to time?
For proper weight loss requires an integrated approach. Losing weight is not a quick process, it sometimes takes more than one year. An unloading day is suitable as an auxiliary method for weight loss, it will work as a kind of “push” for the body, and will serve as a good shock therapy that will “trigger” weight loss mechanisms. And it will help to urgently lose a couple of kilograms, if necessary.
What is a good fasting day on green tea? He is more useful than his black "brother" because of the technology of receipt. The raw material from which it is made is practically not subject to oxidation, and, accordingly, the drink preserves such useful natural substances as antioxidants, vitamins and trace elements.
Hot tea speeds up the metabolism and thus helps to lose weight, but it can be consumed in cold form. This tonic should be brewed without sugar and drunk instead of water. According to doctors, no more than 500-750 ml of green tea can be drunk per day, but Chinese experts agree that even a liter of drink will not harm the body. Nevertheless, it is better to dilute it with water or milk in equal proportions and consume up to 2 liters of such a drink per day - this is the norm.
In addition, on this day, your food can be supplemented with one or two products in small quantities.
What can green tea be used for and why?
It is recommended to add low-calorie foods to the drink that accelerate the burning of excess fat and perfectly satisfy hunger. This is cottage cheese and milk, lemon, honey, sometimes dried fruits, ginger.
How not to hurt yourself on a fasting day
There are certain conditions that must be observed when planning to organize unloading. The most important rule - do not take this day as a period of violence against the body, think that this is a good time when your body gets in order, becomes healthier, cleanses and rejuvenates. Believe that the next day a feeling of lightness will come to you, the brain will work in a completely different way, a huge amount of released energy and self-confidence will appear. Follow these guidelines:
- Do not plan a fasting day when you need to exert yourself mentally or physically.
- On an unloading day, you should not sit at the computer or lie on the couch. Do something interesting for yourself - go for a walk, arrange yourself a "beauty day" (sauna, massage, salon). Take yourself away from the seductive refrigerator.
- Do not force hunger artificially. Drink tea and eat the selected product at regular intervals so that the body does not have time to get very hungry and go crazy. The minimum number of drinks should not be less than 6 times.
- On the eve of the fasting day, you can easily have dinner, do not eat up, and in the morning, after the fasting day, have easy breakfast.
It is important to follow the principle of expediency. If you have everything in order with digestion and there is no excess weight, you should not arrange a fasting day just because your girlfriend is bored with tea alone. Another thing, if we are talking about protracted holidays, after which the body must be cleaned and allowed to rest, or improper systematic nutrition, when you do not eat during the day, and before going to bed, eat up. And such options are found. At the unloading day it will be very useful to visit the pool and sauna, do massage and other spa treatments.
Features and contraindications
Which is better? To cook, brewing it at home, for the whole day, or to cook it at work? The choice is yours. Pluses of green tea:
- It contains polyphenols and caffeine, which accelerate metabolism.
- It is not difficult to survive a fasting day on tea, as the drink suppresses appetite.
- Due to the large amount of liquid, blood is purified, toxins, salts and toxins are excreted faster.
Remember that a doctor’s advice is needed. Fasting day on green tea is contraindicated for people with any gastrointestinal problems. In green tea, there is a lot of caffeine, which will "rock" your nervous system, and excessive "motor" will only lead to sleep problems. Add mint, lemon, cinnamon, linden to tea, and you will make it healthier. Green tea is able to lower the pressure, if it is already less than normal, you can not drink the drink. In addition, it is unacceptable to drink any medicine with green tea, it is incompatible with alcohol (if you use them together, the work of the kidneys may be impaired).
Even after 4-5 cups of this drink, people may experience unpleasant sensations - nausea, dizziness, general anxiety. Drink water if you feel unwell.
Quick disposal of excess kilograms is, of course, inspiring, but you should not get carried away with a drink. To ensure that the effect of unloading is stable, you can include green tea in your regular diet for every day, but no more than 2-3 cups per day.
Let's look at the basic recipes for losing weight on green tea with the addition of additional products.
Cottage cheese
An unloading day on cottage cheese and green tea will allow you to lose 0.5-1 kg of excess weight. This is perhaps the most useful and easy in terms of transferring from all the "unloading". If you spend this day correctly, no harm will be done to your health. As the main product in the diet for weight loss, choose low-fat cottage cheese, more than 3-4% fat - this is no longer a dietary product. Due to the rich chemical composition of cottage cheese, the body is provided with proteins, fats and carbohydrates. You will also supply your body with minerals: potassium and calcium, magnesium and phosphorus, iron and sodium, as well as vitamins A, thiamine, riboflavin and nicotinic acid. The composition of cottage cheese also includes amino acids: choline, methionine and lysine.
Thanks to these substances, metabolic processes are regulated, their presence affects the work of the liver, heart, teeth and bones are strengthened.
Fasting day on cottage cheese and green tea will not make you uncomfortable with severe hunger. Divide half a kilo of fat-free cottage cheese into 6 parts and drink each of the six meals with green tea (1.5 liters). The calorie content of a fat-free product is 105 kcal, with a fat content of 2.5% - about 160 calories. Thus, your daily calorie content will not exceed 800 calories.
Milk
An unloading day on tea with milk will also not become very stressful for the body. After all, even skim milk contains a balanced amount of protein and carbohydrates, as well as priceless calories - about 360 kilocalories are contained in a liter of “skimmed” milk, whereas dietary daily calorie content requires 900 kcal from us. Thanks to milk, the harmful effects of caffeine in tea are neutralized, and there will be no problems with sleep.
In some reviews of the fasting day on tea with milk, questions are asked about what to do if a person has lactose intolerance? You can always replace milk with low-fat kefir (of course, you should not mix tea with kefir, drink them separately), or take goat.
How to make milk milk. In two liters of non-skim milk (up to 2.5%), heated to 80 degrees, pour 2 tablespoons of green tea and leave for about 20 minutes. Then strain and pour into a thermos. You can brew tea separately and then combine with milk in equal proportions.
For a saturated drink per liter of boiled water, take two tablespoons of tea leaves. During the day you need to drink about 1.5-2 liters of milk drink, then you will lose about 1 kilogram of excess weight.
Water
An unloading day on water and tea is the toughest measure of weight loss. Empty tea, brewed with boiling water, with a bitter aftertaste, will not bring much benefit, and doctors do not recommend using it in this form, without sweetening or adding milk. Your total per day is zero calories. An organism that does not receive any substances at all during the day will sound the alarm and start storing everything that enters it in double volume. Therefore, it is not worth using a pure sheet drink with water for a fasting day on tea, unless, of course, there are special medical instructions.
Water plus green tea. Normal fasting drinking day. No more than five liters of water and tea should be consumed per day. Water should be mineral or filtered. The main thing - do not faint ...
Honey
Ode to carbohydrates! An unloading day on tea with honey, in pure form or with dried fruits is delicious. Anyone who is used to sweetening their gulls will love this option. Choose natural honey of good quality. As a second option, a small amount of dried apricots or dried melon, as well as pineapple or several dates throughout the day, are suitable. About 1.5 liters of tea should be drunk per day, dividing the intake into 6 parts.
- With the first four cups you need to eat 2 teaspoons of honey in the bite, during the last tea party - one teaspoon. Honey must be slowly absorbed, and in no case be added to hot tea, otherwise all the useful properties of the precious product will be lost.
- You can drink herbal decoctions, mineral water without gas, natural juices and low-fat kefir (no more than 1-2 glasses per day).
Lemon
Any additives will add variety to a boring fasting day. On tea with lemon and ginger, you can lose weight even more than just on tea. The ginger drink due to the healing root will disperse the blood very well, stimulate metabolism, cleanse the liver and normalize peristalsis, and the added lemon will provide the body with an additional dose of vitamins.
Pour loose tea into a teapot and add a slice of chopped fresh ginger, pour the contents with boiling water. Wait a couple of minutes and put a slice of lemon with zest here. Drink about 1.5 liters of drink per day.
Reviews
An important feature of drinks based on green tea is their diuretic, so plan your route carefully if your day is fast. You can’t sit on green tea for more than a day, according to reviews of those who were on this “unloading” for more than one day, the body began to “rebel”. Irritability, low blood pressure, nausea, impaired brain function - these are just a few complaints. As recommendations, you can advise drinking plenty of water to compensate for fluid loss.
Those who have tried these weight loss options are advised to choose varieties with large leaves, without artificial additives. Another user advice - the same tea leaves should not be used more than two times, since after the second tea leaves only one fifth of the nutrients remain in the leaves.
Rice
Finally, add oriental motifs to our diet. Fasting day on green tea in Japanese will allow you to lose about 1 kilogram per day. Just add 250-300 grams of boiled brown rice to tea with milk.
Become a geisha?
There is another option for a five-day diet of exotic geishas, thanks to which you can lose up to 5 kilograms in 5 days. This mode is very strict, and involves only 3 meals a day, no snacks are allowed. Here is the diet schedule: in the morning - 2 glasses of milk jelly, and for lunch and dinner add 250 grams of boiled brown rice to them. Water without gas can be drunk without any restrictions, and between meals you can drink 2 additional glasses of green tea without milk.