I am sometimes too dense for human kind.
Ok so I have been drinking tea of all sorts as of late, but with the coming of the new year I want to get a lower bodyfat and that calls for the good old green tea. Green tea is an acquired taste to say the least for it has a sweet aftertaste that is different then regular teas. I went for the longest time drinking just plain green tea and forced my self to get used to this oddness. A rather pointless effort for the best tasting green tea is this flavor from Good Earth:
It is a decent tasting tea a little citrusy and less weird then most. Supposedly green tea helps burn fat. I do not know if this is true but I believe it is better then drinking other beverages. All things considered it does not seem to be a negative effect on my diet so I drink the heck out of it (or used to and I lost 50 pounds during that era of training).
I suppose drinking straight green tea and not opening my mind to maybe trying the flavored kind for it might go down easier would be dense enough to put me down like a rabid dog (it took me about eight months to try a flavored kind) but no I have struck a new level of density. One of the benefits of drinking green tea is is that you can get about 5 steepings out of each bag. I work at a hotel and our coffee pot has a hot water tap that gives you boiling water instantly. I usually have 5 cups ready at the begining of my shift and fill the first steep, fill the second and so on until all five cups are ready to go. This is my green tea ritual that I have done for the last three years. It dawned on me tonight that instead of using 5 cups I could just use a pitcher for the tea and let it steep in it thus saving me quite abit of time and effort.
All I can say is I am glad I train with someone for god only knows what odd thing I may of been doing in training that would of been so dense it would of took on a mythical standing. Here’s to small miracles.
December 29, 2008 at 5:28 am
Try Gymenma and Coleus too as well as the Black Pepper and green tea if you are looking to lose more weight while you lift and do cardio/fat burning.