Green Tea with Ginger & Lemon for Weight Loss
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How to make Green Tea with Ginger that will help you lose weight and feel more energized. The reason why are these healthy ingredients!
Drinking green tea with ginger and lemon is a great way to jump-start your day. Shoot for 3 glasses a day for three days.
Green tea – It is loaded with polyphenols like flavonoids and catechins, which function as powerful antioxidants in our body. Green tea has been shown to boost the metabolic rate and increase fat burning.
Ginger – It can be used to ease indigestion and reduce gas, bloating along with flatulence. The spicy component of ginger can also rev up your internal fire along with upping your metabolism.
Lemon – From a lot of reading, the phytochemicals in lemons do some sort of stabilizing magic on the catechins when they’re in your digestive tract. What does that mean? When you sip Green Tea your body may destroy good enzymes in the tea. Lemon will counteract that.
- 1 Gallon Water
- 6 Green Tea Packets
- Juice of 3 Lemons
- Fresh Ginger about 2" grated
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Bring your water to a rolling simmer.
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Add the tea bags and let steep 20 minutes.
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Juice the lemon and add it to the water.
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Peel the fresh ginger.
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Grate or puree the ginger and add it to the mixture.
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Remove the tea bags.
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Mix all and place in a container.
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Drink over ice 4 times per day.
adecheine
April and Dave are the creators of Skinny Over 40 which is about living a healthy lifestyle over 40, and under. We give you the skinny on detoxing and weight loss.
64 Comments
Maureen
This sounds delicious! I have some loose green tea a friend brought me from China. I have been interested in finding a good use for it and this is it! How much loose tea equals 6 tea bags?
adecheine
Great, I know I have been given different teas for years and never really thought about the health benefit! I would say close to a Tablespoon is about one tea bag from the looks of it 🙂 Let me know how it goes!
mickey coutts (@ahelicoptermom)
This sounds wonderful. I love ginger and lemon, so I’ll definitely want to give this a try. Thanks!
Crystal @ Simply Being Mommy.com
Interesting. I just bought some ginger root. Guess I need to try this tea 🙂
misstywatsony
Ooh, I’m definitely going to try this as it looks very refreshing!
Donna
I love green tea… going to give this a try!
Rachel Lacy
I seriously need to try this — ginger and lemon are yum!
annecrane
I have issues with bloating. I’d like to give this a try!
Marcie W.
I am always looking for anti-bloat solutions, plus this sounds really good.
Kungphoo
Those are a few things i do like together.. The bloating is insane. sometimes..
Paula Parker
I think I hear about the benefits of green tea everyday. This is a very important item to add to the diet if you can. Thanks for the info!
Samantha Angell
Good thing green tea is some of my favorite tea!
Don Purdum
I love ginger. We use it in our fresh juices. It’s amazing how much better I feel when I have it from when I don’t over prolonged periods of time.
Joanna Sormunen
I drink grean tea with lemon every day. But I think I need to add some ginger in it. Sounds like it would be very benefitial for me! Thank you!
bakesinslippers
sounds great and i am looking for ways to clean out my system and lose weight. thank you!
schulmanart
i think it is a great idea to squeeze some fresh lemon on your food or in your water each day. thanks for the reminder.
Rochies (@iHeartSpills)
Green tea and ginger lemon from what I know are great proponents of anticancer foods. I’ll recommend this recipe to my mom since she has been wanting to lose weight.
Michelle F.
That looks really good. I love ginger and tea.
Maria Constanza Oller Martin
I was doing something like this with water, lemon, honey and cinnamon it works too I need to try this just to switch flavors tired of the cinnamon one
paulabuenosaires
This is a combination that might be appropiate for winter as well.
Hilary @ The RNY Life
That looks interesting. I’ve never been a fan of lemon in tea but maybe the ginger would help with that.
foreclosure2frugal
This recipe looks amazing!
franckxethee
Green tea is really great for weight loss and ginger and lemon can give it a better taste.
rubbieanne
Wow never heard this one!! Thanks for sharing
Ralff Dizon
This is interesting. I will going to try this.
Rena McDaniel-The Diary of an Alzheimer's Caregiver
Detoxing drinks are all the rage lately! I know that green tea and ginger are very healthy on their own but I bet they are amazing together like this!
katrinagehman
I have never tried this for weight loss but when i have a cold. I will soon for weight and see how it helps. thanks
Payal Bansal
Ginger and lemon are natural fat cutters… ginger lemon tea makes it easier and tastier to loose weight
Rebecca Swenor
I have heard of many people using this and I thing I might try this because if not anything else it will taste good. Thanks for sharing
Natalie (@nataliemadeit)
I knew ginger was a good weight lose, but I just pinned this to try it at a later date when I have all the items, thanks for sharing!
Jhady
This is a great idea, I have been meaning to make my own tea and not buy from the store where they use corn syrup.
Jay
Awesome idea. I’m always open to try all kind of natural diets, this is my next one.
Lexie Lane
I have all those things so I will try it first thing tomorrow morning!
Marielle Altenor
Sounds delicious for a weight loss tea lol I happen to have all these ingredients and will be making myself a nice big bottle of it!
Katherine Rose Coronel- Rivera
I think this tastes great even if with ginger. The ginger will add spicy taste but will surefire weight loss
Becka
That actually sounds really good. I will try that
irena
I’m obsessed with green tea but I haven’t tried this one before. Although I know for benefits of ginger!
Liz Mays
I love the sound of the ginger in there, April. A tasty way to weight loss.
mumwrites (@vixquips)
i have heard about weigh loss benefits of ginger + lemon. i hope to give this one a try one of these days…
Sheilah
Had problems finding my regular green tea brand but I decided to give the green tea and ginger w/pear a try. Not crazy about ginger but will drink it for it’s health benefits. Plan to also add the lemon. Thanks!
Katherine Bullis
I don’t have an issue with bloating, I’ve had a total hysterectomy, but I love all the ingredients in this detox and definitely will give it a try. I’m having a lot of trouble getting this weight off and I know it’s from the hysterectomy. If you could send me exercises and a really good diet to do I would appreciate it.
Bali Tour
Great Article
Thanks for the information 🙂
adecheine
Glad you enjoyed it.
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Florece
I love them all, ginger,lemon and green tea all are my favrts..
And it sounds very tasty.. tnx u guys for providing such infos.. God bless
Odili Florence
I have been taken green tea but I think I have to add ginger tea and see the effect. Thanks a lot.
Namatullah Hamid Akbari
Now a days everyone especially those who are around and above 40 are looking for weight loss and bloats problem. This is just amazing will try it for a month.
Thank you very much.
adecheine
Yup, at that age we need a little more help!
laura
I have tried the Green tea and lime juice, and it working to me but I will add the ginger to it and see if will help loose more weight
Vidushi srivastava
I lost 10 kg in 2 months frm ds tea…ds was amazing
Sanu
Do u really loss weight for this because I want to use this n how to uset this in full day how to take that
Plz reply
Rich Marcelo
Green tea with fresh ginger root is a go-to for me. I use my Keruig to brew fresh anytime I want.
Required:
1. 2 tsp gunpowder green tea (gunpowder tea is the best IMO)
2. Ginger root sliced paper thin about 1 inch long (X4)
3. 1 tsp raw honey or agave nectar
4. 2″X3″ Muslin brewing pouch
Place 2 tsp gunpowder tea and 4 slices of ginger root into the muslin pouch.
Place the music pouch into a 16oz glass, and use the Keurig to dispense hot water, sans pod.
Allow to steep 2 minutes, remove such and gently squeeze pouch (careful, it’ll be hot!)
Set the pouch aside for cups 2, 3, and 4.
Add 1 tsp of raw honey or agave nectar and stir thoroughly.
Add Ice to top it off or drink hot.
The bra pouch can be used two or three more times. A longer steep time will be required for subsequent glasses, naturally. I haven’t tried yet, but I believe a sprig of fresh mint, bergamot, or Jasmine would take this to another level of enjoyment. I’ll report back to let you all know.
Ingrid fyffe
I am all for the green tea, lemon and ginger. And i have been drinking it but i hate hot so i am drinking it cold. This is like my first week. Ladies my question to you is this will it still be effective to drink it cold? I get real turned off from drinking hot liquid but i tend to consume more when it is cold.
adecheine
Sure you can drink it cold!
Jeena
Any problem for breastfeeding women.??
adecheine
I cannot see why it would be a problem, it is all natural ingredients.
Rodelit
It says 3times a day so is it after or before food
adecheine
I like to drink it before I eat.
adecheine
Either or! I drink it with my meals as well.
Sheila Lantz
Will it be alright to use the dry ground ginger?. I keep a bottle in with my spices or do i have to use fresh?
adecheine
You can use dried. You may need to start with 1/8 of a teaspoon and then increase. It has a different strength than the fresh.
Sheila Lantz
Okay. Thank you.
Oliva
I already started…..
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