Controlling weight comes down to one thing, calorie intake vs calories burned. The average person needs around 2000 calories a day if they arent very active to maintain their weight. The more active you are the more you can eat. No matter what diet youre on you cant consume more calories than your body uses and still lose weight.

I dont think tea is going to do anything for you as far as metabolism or weight loss. Just my opinion.

You mostly control weight by eating right. Eat mostly real food, less processed food (sugar/refined grains).

And it's not just calories. It's the source. I probably eat more calories from fat than I ever did in all the years I before I learned about the postprandial effects of sugar & refined carbs.

You mostly control weight by eating right. Eat mostly real food, less processed food (sugar/refined grains).

And it's not just calories. It's the source. I probably eat more calories from fat than I ever did in all the years I before I learned about the postprandial effects of sugar & refined carbs.

I disagree calories are calories no matter what the food source is. As long as you watch how many calories youre consuming a day youre going to lose weight. Now you will be healthier over all eating less processed foods and more whole foods.

I disagree calories are calories no matter what the food source is. As long as you watch how many calories youre consuming a day youre going to lose weight. Now you will be healthier over all eating less processed foods and more whole foods.

Caloric value is derived from the amount of free energy in the bonds of a molecule that is released when those bonds are broken (when the molecule is fully oxidized). This is how we get the 4 calories per sugar, 9 per fat (or whatever it is) and so forth. We don't really take any biological mechanisms of breakdown into account. For example; if you eat a molecule of fat, sometimes that fat is oxidized fully, sometimes it's used for anabolism (as a precursor to larger molecules, such as some proteins), sometimes it's stored as triglycerides, sometimes it's modified and incorporated into membranes. Our caloric values describe only one of these situations - that when the molecule is fully oxidized.

Since each macromolecular nutrient (sugar, fat, protein) can be a precursor to different molecules or metabolized in different ways, each source of nutrients is fundamentally different in a way that is not described by our calorie value system. But more importantly, the different nutrients contribute differently to weight gain even when they are being stored, and even depending on how they are consumed. The entire system becomes extremely complicated. For example: if you drink a soda, you'll spike your blood sugar, insulin will be released in large quantities to protect your blood vessels from incurring damage from crystallized sugars, and thus uptake of sugars by cells will be massively increased, and thus more sugar is stored in cells like adipocytes (fat cells), thus making you gain more fatty mass. On the insulin rebound, when your blood sugar drops because the insulin has cleared it all out (sugar low), your body compensates by releasing stored sugars from the liver and other tissues - and not from adipocytes (until liver storage runs out). Thus you have gained a little bit of fatty mass.

If you eat, say, fat or protein, you don't really get an insulin spike (at least, not one that's nearly as large as if you were to eat sugars) because fats and proteins are digested more slowly. Fat needs to be emulsified before it diffuses across intestinal cell membranes, and then it is bound to proteins for transport. This reliance on protein transport limits the rate of absorption. Proteins need to be cleaved multiple times by digestive enzymes into smaller bits before they are actively transported into intestinal cells - a process that requires energy. These transporters also limit the rate at which proteins can be absorbed, which is part of the reason why they sometimes go undigested if you eat too much protein in one meal. Not only can sugars be absorbed without using energy (uses passive transport into intestinal cells via sugar/Na+ gradient, then passive transport again from intestinal cells to bloodstream), but they also don't require any extra proteins to be absorbed (except for the passive transporters). So you can see some of the many differences between how sugars, proteins and fats are absorbed and used by our bodies. And these differences just scratch the surface.

In short, this is some of the biochemistry behind things like the Atkins diet, or the Paleo diet. The source of your energy really does have an impact on how you use it, even without considering how the vitamins and minerals present in your food modulate metabolism, which they do quite drastically.

To the OP: In order to control weight, I would recommend a plant-leaning paleo diet. Eat until you are no longer hungry, eat diversely, and vegetables are important (for those vitamins and minerals that make your metabolism so much more efficient). Matcha (which is what your tea is I think) does indeed boost metabolism through this very mechanism (that being the extra vitamins and minerals), but I doubt you will see that much of an impact from tea alone.

You mostly control weight by eating right. Eat mostly real food, less processed food (sugar/refined grains).

And it's not just calories. It's the source. I probably eat more calories from fat than I ever did in all the years I before I learned about the postprandial effects of sugar & refined carbs.

hey alternativista, i know it's a bit offtopic but do you have any general sugestion to keep my weight on?

i'm 6.1 feet tall and since i started eliminating pork/animal fat this includes any type of salami or processed foods (except fish fat, fish i eat a lot), and frying in oil, and sweets, and overcooked foods, that is 3-4years ago, i went from 205pounds to 160pounds.

eliminating bread for a couple weeks further reduced my weight to 147pounds.

eating raw foods consumes callories, so that's even worst.

and my main problem is that i refuse to lift weights in excess 'cause i'm convinced it provokes acne ultimately. (i exercise with weights daily but smaller ones. like max 40pounds. back in high school at the gym i was playing with over 200)

i try to eat more fruits, to give me more appetite, but i'm kind of full.. many times my stomach feels like it still has work to do many times. it possibly got smaller, and the type of food needs more processing if it's more raw or not simple sugars-fruits etc.

and these foods that are my main diet like lentils/buckwheat/beans/peas/chickpeas/soy and such and all sorts of legumes give me a sensation of satiety.

i also cut rice and potatoes a couple of years back.

also no dairy for 3months now.. i'm getting worried about my weight now with cutting bread.

do you have any suggestion? eat more! lol .i'm trying but i seemingly can't put weight back. at least not fat. i try to exercise but just a bit... this acne makes everything very complicated. you talk of eating more fat, is that from plant source like nuts, oil, etc?can you expand a little? it would be easy to just add more oil on any food, but not sure its ok for acne. i think the lack of (excess of) carbs made my fat disappear but it's beginning to worry me.

You mostly control weight by eating right. Eat mostly real food, less processed food (sugar/refined grains).

And it's not just calories. It's the source. I probably eat more calories from fat than I ever did in all the years I before I learned about the postprandial effects of sugar & refined carbs.

hey alternativista, i know it's a bit offtopic but do you have any general sugestion to keep my weight on?

i'm 6.1 feet tall and since i started eliminating pork/animal fat this includes any type of salami or processed foods (except fish fat, fish i eat a lot), and frying in oil, and sweets, and overcooked foods, that is 3-4years ago, i went from 205pounds to 160pounds.

eliminating bread for a couple weeks further reduced my weight to 147pounds.

eating raw foods consumes callories, so that's even worst.

and my main problem is that i refuse to lift weights in excess 'cause i'm convinced it provokes acne ultimately. (i exercise with weights daily but smaller ones. like max 40pounds. back in high school at the gym i was playing with over 200)

i try to eat more fruits, to give me more appetite, but i'm kind of full.. many times my stomach feels like it still has work to do many times. it possibly got smaller, and the type of food needs more processing if it's more raw or not simple sugars-fruits etc.

and these foods that are my main diet like lentils/buckwheat/beans/peas/chickpeas/soy and such and all sorts of legumes give me a sensation of satiety.

i also cut rice and potatoes a couple of years back.

also no dairy for 3months now.. i'm getting worried about my weight now with cutting bread.

do you have any suggestion? eat more! lol .i'm trying but i seemingly can't put weight back. at least not fat. i try to exercise but just a bit... this acne makes everything very complicated. you talk of eating more fat, is that from plant source like nuts, oil, etc?can you expand a little? it would be easy to just add more oil on any food, but not sure its ok for acne. i think the lack of (excess of) carbs made my fat disappear but it's beginning to worry me.

Yes, nuts, seeds, olive oil, coconut oil, avocados etc.

You mostly control weight by eating right. Eat mostly real food, less processed food (sugar/refined grains).

And it's not just calories. It's the source. I probably eat more calories from fat than I ever did in all the years I before I learned about the postprandial effects of sugar & refined carbs.

hey alternativista, i know it's a bit offtopic but do you have any general sugestion to keep my weight on?

i'm 6.1 feet tall and since i started eliminating pork/animal fat this includes any type of salami or processed foods (except fish fat, fish i eat a lot), and frying in oil, and sweets, and overcooked foods, that is 3-4years ago, i went from 205pounds to 160pounds.

eliminating bread for a couple weeks further reduced my weight to 147pounds.

eating raw foods consumes callories, so that's even worst.

and my main problem is that i refuse to lift weights in excess 'cause i'm convinced it provokes acne ultimately. (i exercise with weights daily but smaller ones. like max 40pounds. back in high school at the gym i was playing with over 200)

i try to eat more fruits, to give me more appetite, but i'm kind of full.. many times my stomach feels like it still has work to do many times. it possibly got smaller, and the type of food needs more processing if it's more raw or not simple sugars-fruits etc.

and these foods that are my main diet like lentils/buckwheat/beans/peas/chickpeas/soy and such and all sorts of legumes give me a sensation of satiety.

i also cut rice and potatoes a couple of years back.

also no dairy for 3months now.. i'm getting worried about my weight now with cutting bread.

do you have any suggestion? eat more! lol .i'm trying but i seemingly can't put weight back. at least not fat. i try to exercise but just a bit... this acne makes everything very complicated. you talk of eating more fat, is that from plant source like nuts, oil, etc?can you expand a little? it would be easy to just add more oil on any food, but not sure its ok for acne. i think the lack of (excess of) carbs made my fat disappear but it's beginning to worry me.

Yes, nuts, seeds, olive oil, coconut oil, avocados etc.

ok, thanks.

oh i forgot to mention that not eating past 8pm (helping the liver) also doesn't help. lol