Well, a few weeks back, I decided for the 900th time in my life to give up coffee, even though I love it. Basically, I love it too much, and the side effects, for me, are just not worth it any more. It affects my skin, my scalp, and my nerves, just to name a few. Even though it was (always is) painful to give it up, the improvements in my body are obvious almost overnight.
And although in the past I have always said "I'll just quit for a few weeks and can always go back, as long as I keep it to one a day..." Yeah right. For me, translate that to "one pot a day.." This time, I am daring to say, I believe will be the last time - I'm planning on giving it up for good.
Anyway, my "substitute" morning beverage is green tea (always has been during my periods without coffee.) Actually, I really like tea in general, green tea included. I learned a lot of years ago about the health benefits of green tea, and when I studied Chinese martial arts, my teacher talked about how powerful it's healing effects are. And that includes for weight loss.
Green tea helps with weight loss mainly because it cleanses the body in general, and it also helps to increase metabolism, which of course is how we lose any weight to begin with. I am currently in my late 30's, and have been overweight for about 5 years now (thank you slowing metabolism) whereas before that, my problem was always being "too skinny" (what a reversal, not fun.)
Anyway, since I recently got back on a regular routine of exercise, watching my diet closer, this switching to green tea has really been helpful to my overall effort of losing weight and renewing my health. If you're a coffee drinker, and feel burned out (and want some help buring fat) I would highly suggest giving it a try. It takes discipline at first, but eventually, the rewards make it much easier.
Funny, as I wrote that sentence, a commercial just came on TV for Lipton's "Green Ice Tea". Nice little touch of synchronicty I guess.
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I think it's important to take into account the whole picture of weight loss. Calories in, calories out. How often you work out or exercise with a sustained heart rate at a healthy level. I found an interesting article that goes against the grain and actually suggest we run LESS. Kinda unique! Let me know what you make of it: http://marketermentor.com/there-is-no-need-to-run-more-cardio-myth-exposed/
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