Time for tea!

Lets talk about tea for a second – tea is my favourite kind of drink, tea is relaxing, refreshing, warms you up if its chilly, and basically just an all round good drink.

What it doesn’t do it make you loose weight.

I have been seeing all these weight loss teas advertised lately on a lot of social media, and I will be honest at first it made me curious – could it really help you loose weight? So I tried it, I wont mentioned brands of course, but a friends of mine has been using it and said it worked really well for her friend… so why not, what’s the worst that can happen?

So I bought some tea and began the detox, I will be honest I was terrified of the first night as some one had said it gave them the runs for days!

But I woke up on the Friday, no dodgy tummy or anything phew, so I had my morning tea at work, went about my day again terrified the dreaded ‘runs’ would get me, even more worried as I was going out for dinner that night! But nothing.

In fact let me tell you, and sorry if this is too much information for you, but I had nothing for a few days! Yea nothing, that is NOT fun!

I also noticed my skin was looking awful! So spotty and this is unusual for me, I don’t have perfectly clear skin but I do pride myself on having nice skin most days of the month!

I also felt bloated – probably the side effect from not going to the toilet for a few days, but as far as detox goes I felt gross!

So I stopped drinking the tea – I lasted a week, I couldn’t even bare the taste for the full 14 days, thank goodness I only bought for 14 days worth, and I felt better switching back to my trusty peppermint tea or lemon and ginger.

So in conclusion the only tea I highly recommend is the herbal kind, my personal favourites are peppermint for after meals – this does reduce bloat, it settles my stomach, and is refreshing, lemon and ginger is a great early morning tea, light and refreshing with a slight ting to it, lemon water has become a new favourite of mine great for clearing the toxins out of your system and doing a cleanse.

So do yourself a favour, next time you see a model or celeb holding the tea saying how great it makes them feel you can almost put money on the fact they have been paid to say that and it has never past their lips!

Stick to clean eating, training hard and looking after yourself and the weight will take care of itself!