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Usually through diet and training I go from 76kg to 74kg between December and May. This year, I only got to 75.5kg with everything else being pretty much equal.
Except, since early May, I’ve suddenly lost another Kg. The only substantial difference I can put my finger on is that I change my protein supplement, from whey protein with green tea extract to normal why protein at the beginning of May. I’d never used green tea extract before and thought it’d help me with the weight loss in the first half of the year - could it have really done the opposite?
Calories tracked with mfp, so I haven’t eaten more to compensate for the green tea.
Nope, green tea doesn't make you fat. Probably more likely that the green tea protein blend contained more calories (sugar / carbs) than advertised.
Were you trying to disguise the taste by eating chocolate afterwards?
It seems like the changes you're measuring might be within the margin of normal daily fluctuation from water loss/retention. Could the green tea have disrupted this cycle so that you're measuring yourself at the heavy point of the cycle rather than the light point?
(Sorry, no actual expertise or answers here. Just a hand-waving 'maybe')
Only if you fry the leaves in butter served in a white fried bread sandwich garnished with lard 😉
Hepatotoxicity
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/276358041_Hepatotoxicity_of_green_tea_An_update
Nope, green tea doesn’t make you fat. Probably more likely that the green tea protein blend contained more calories (sugar / carbs) than advertised.
According to the packaging, 98 for the green tea blend, 111 for the current one.
It seems like the changes you’re measuring might be within the margin of normal daily fluctuation from water loss/retention
No, this over 6 months with an obvious downturn from May 2nd, so six weeks not a fluctuation.
Hepatotoxicity
interesting. I’ve had an elevated resting hr also which matches the schedule above, which I assumed was caused by the GT.
Were you trying to disguise the taste by eating chocolate afterwards?
😀
Thats my main issue with anythign "sport nutritional" I neck it then look around desperately for cake and biscuits to make it go away from my mouth.
PRotein shakes shoud be flavours like "Roast beef and horseraddish" not "chocolate worse than actual shit, with sweeteners"
No, this over 6 months with an obvious downturn from May 2nd, so six weeks not a fluctuation
Not sure I've explained my idea very well. I'm assuming that in order to account for the daily variance you measure at the same time each day (I was always advised to do it first thing in the morning). Could the green tea be causing you to retain more water at this time of day?
That might not be it exactly but if I were thinking about where 1kg of mass went in a month with no obvious change in calories I'd be investigating water first.
WARNING>
Green tea may make your wife/partner fat. 🙂
A good friend of mine was working in Afghanistan and got to drinking a lot of green tea. On return to the UK he had a brief fling with an old flame, before getting together with someone he had been in college with. A couple of months later both of them reported that they were pregnant. My mate attributes this to the green tea as before he drank it he had assumed he was impotent having spent 20 years never using contraception with zero issues!
How many sugars are you adding? 😉
Great story WF, could you keep us updated maybe with a separate thread.
Yorkshire Tea for the win.
Age OP. If you’re posting here regularly I’m assuming you’re over forty. Just retaining more weight as you get old.