Can drinking ginger tea help you lose weight? Female Chinese Medicine Practitioner: Don’t drink it wrong again!

It is widely rumored on the Internet: "Ginger can promote blood circulation and enhance metabolism. If you make ginger tea and drink it every day, you will lose weight quickly." Is it really that magical? Chinese medicine practitioners point out that the key to weight loss is calorie control. The help of ginger tea is actually very limited. Moreover, people with hot constitutions are more likely to get acne and constipation if they drink too much!

The main function of ginger tea is to warm up the body and adjust the physical condition, and its help for weight loss is quite limited.

Controlling calories can help you lose weight. Ginger tea can improve your cold constitution.

There are all kinds of secrets to losing weight, especially the seemingly easy method of "drinking something to lose weight" is the most popular. However, Chinese medicine practitioner Tian Yimin emphasized that "there is no free lunch in the world". If you want to have a slim figure, you still have to start with the most basic "eat less and exercise more". Drinking ginger tea is at most an auxiliary role, mainly to adjust the physical condition.

Chinese medicine practitioner Tian Yimin reminds us that the basic principle of weight loss is to control calories and exercise moderately, so that you can lose weight effectively and healthily. (Photo provided by Chinese medicine doctor Tian Yimin)

Chinese medicine practitioner Tian Yimin gave an example, if a person eats and drinks a lot without any restraint in diet, he will not lose weight even if he drinks a cup of ginger tea after meals! Although ginger can promote metabolism, the calories consumed by drinking ginger tea alone are much less than eating 500 calories less a day or exercising for 30 minutes. In fact, ginger tea is more suitable for people with weak and cold constitution to warm the stomach and body, rather than for weight loss.

Calculate calories correctly and lose weight healthily without worries

If you want to lose weight, you should reduce your food calorie intake and burn calories through exercise. This is a long-term and healthy way. The following will teach you how to calculate calories correctly!

Moderately reducing calorie intake is the only way to lose weight.

Chinese medicine practitioner Tian Yimin said that for office workers who do not do much work, the calories they need per day are about 30 calories per kilogram of body weight. That is to say, a 50 kg person needs about 1500 calories per day.

On the other hand, every 7,700 calories consumed can help you lose 1 kilogram, so if the daily calorie intake is reduced from 1,500 calories to 1,000 calories, it is equivalent to a reduction of 500 calories per day, and 3,500 calories per week. In this way, you can lose 1 kilogram in about two weeks.

Don't reduce calories too much. It's safest to consult a doctor.

For those who are in urgent need of losing weight, if they only want to consume 800 calories a day, they must consult a doctor first and do it under the supervision of a doctor to avoid harming their body.

I would like to remind everyone that under the premise of a balanced diet, moderately reducing calories is the way to lose weight. Not only is ginger tea not very helpful for weight loss, it is also not suitable for everyone!