Green tea is our #1 fat burning food because it has been shown in study after study to help you increase your metabolism, burn fat and lose weight.
Green tea is also a mild appetite suppressant that makes you eat less helping you even more.
Green Tea is a diuretic. It removes excess water from your body.
The catechins in green tea force your body into thermogenesis – this is where your body burns fat for energy.
Green Tea causes carbohydrates to be released slowly, preventing rises in blood-insulin levels and this causes your body to burn fat.
Green Tea prevents you from gaining weight by stopping the movement of sugar into your fat cells.
Drink green tea before, after and during meals. You can’t go wrong.
Naturally the easiest way to enjoy green tea is hot or cold in a cup.
But here are a couple of other Green Tea Recipes for you to enjoy:
Green Tea Sauteed Vegetables
Ingredients:
- 2 tablespoons Canola Oil
- 2 teaspoons finely chopped fresh Red Chili Pepper
- 1 teaspoon grated Lemon Peel
- 1 teaspoon loose Green Tea Leaves
- 4 cups Broccoli Florets
- 1 cup Yellow Zucchini or Summer Squash, cut into 1/4 inch diagonal slices
- 1/2 cup brewed Green Tea
- 1/4 cup Red Bell Pepper squares (1 inch
- salt and pepper to taste
Directions:
- Add the oil to a nonstick wok or cooking pan over medium-heat and swirl the pan to coat.
- Add the chile pepper, lemon peel and tea leaves.
- Stir fry until fragrant for about 1 minute.
- Add the broccoli florets and zucchini.
- Stir fry for 2 minutes.
- Add the tea and bell pepper.
- Season with salt and pepper.
- Cook until most of the liquid evaporates and serve hot.
Makes 4 servings.
Source: Cooking with Green Tea
Honey-Ginger-Green Tea Salad Dressing
Ingredients
- 1/4 Cup Brewed Green Tea
- 2 Tablespoons Rice Vinegar
- 1/2 Tablespoon Honey
- 2 Teaspoons Fish Sauce
- 2 Small Cloves Garlic, Minced
- 1 Teaspoon Minced Ginger Root
- 1 Green Onion, Green Part Only, Minced
Easy Directions:
- Mix all the ingredients in a small container.
Use immediately or cover and store in the refrigerator for up to 1 week.
Use as a sauce or as a salad dressing.
Makes 1/2 cup.
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Adding 1/4 to 1 teaspoon of cinnamon to something you eat every day can help blood sugar get into your cells to be used for energy. That means less is stored as fat.
There is a whole scientific explanation behind it, I am sure. But do we really need to know that?
The main problem with cinnamon is that we typically enjoy it on foods that are LOADED with fat and calories (Cinnamon Sweet Rolls, anyone?)
So the problem becomes getting the fat burning power of cinnamon without adding massive amounts of fat in the process.
Consider adding a dash to your morning coffee. Or your oatmeal or yogurt.
Or give these two recipes a try:
Cinnamon Bread
Ingredients:
- 3 cups all-purpose Flour
- 2 cups Sugar
- 1 (5.1 ounce) package instant Vanilla Pudding Mix
- 1/2 teaspoon Baking Soda
- 1 1/2 teaspoons Baking Powder
- 1/2 teaspoon Salt
- 2 teaspoons ground Cinnamon
- 1 1/2 cups Milk
- 1/2 cup Vegetable Oil
- 1/2 cup Applesauce
- 2 Eggs, beaten
- 1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
- 2 tablespoons Cinnamon Sugar
Directions:
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees F.
- Grease two 5×9 inch loaf pans.
- Mix the flour, sugar, pudding mix, baking soda, baking powder, salt, and cinnamon.
- In a separate bowl, mix the milk, oil, applesauce, eggs, and vanilla.
- Gently stir the milk mixture into the flour mixture until smooth.
- Sprinkle the bottoms of the loaf pans with cinnamon sugar.
- Evenly divide the batter between the 2 pans.
- Bake for 1 hour or until a toothpick inserted in the center of a loaf comes out clean.
- Enjoy
Cinnamon Chicken
Ingredients:
Yes — this includes butter. But it makes enough for 4 people. That’s one tablespoon apiece.
- 1 Garlic Clove, cut in half
- 4 tablespoons Butter, melted
- 1 teaspoon Soy Sauce
- 1/4 cup White Wine
- 1 teaspoon Sugar
- Parsley
- 2 teaspoons Cinnamon
- One whole Chicken or 2 pounds Chicken Parts (remove skin for less fat)
Directions
- Rub chicken well with garlic.
- Pour melted butter over chicken.
- Dust well with cinnamon.
- Sprinkle with soy sauce.
Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes. - Mix wine, sugar and parsley.
- Pour over chicken.
- Bake for another 30 minutes, basting often.
- Enjoy
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One of the most lifelong and frustrating endeavors you can undertake is to lose weight.
It can be a minefield of diets, weight swings, mood swings, successes and failures. However for many dieters and would be biggest losers little attention is paid to one of the most crucial factors in the weight loss equation.
Your metabolism.
Speeding up metabolism can be a huge factor in weight loss. So lets look at what metabolism is and why speeding it up can be important.
What is metabolism? It isn’t a part of the body. It is actually a bodily process, really in fact a series of processes. It’s a process that your body uses to turn food into energy.
That’s right. Food goes in and the body converts that food into energy to fuel the running of the body. It’s a constant process that goes on without you knowing it.
Your body uses energy to fuel a range of body processes and this fuel comes from the calories in your food. If you have too much energy, or calories, your body stores this as fat.
The body can use the energy that it gets to either create energy/fat cells in your body, or to help break them down to release energy. These two processes are the opposite of each other. What you want your body doing is spending more time breaking energy cells down and less time creating more energy cells. The process of speeding up your metabolism changes the balance between creating more energy cells, and breaking them down.
Faster metabolism, more energy cells broken down.
There are ways to speed your metabolism and this aids in your weight loss program. It’s not an answer all on it’s own but it greatly helps your chances of success. But it does take a little effort.
You can’t speed up your metabolism overnight. It takes some time, but doing so can be one of the very best things you could ever do for your weight loss program. The time and effort can be well worth while.
You get your body working for you rather than against you if you speed up your metabolism.
But you won’t find a lot of talk about speeding up metabolism in the general losing weight literature because there’s not much money to be made from it. There’s no expensive program to sell, no pre made meals to sell, not much really. It’s really pretty simple.
But just because you don’t read a lot about increasing your metabolism don’t ignore it. It can be one of the best things you can ever do for your weight.
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