Weight Loss Ideas: Tea, coffee and Hot Chocolate

You may not think that tea is the most original of weight loss ideas...the British panacea for all ills have been around for some time and has already proven its worth.

But think it over...if tea is taken with-out sugar and milk, it can be a very comforting part of a weight loss diet, more due to this association we have with tea drinking, than for any other reason. Whatever goes wrong...my English friends believe that the solution will be more obvious after a cup of tea. Some would argue that there is too much caffeine and tannin in black tea...and I'll have to admit that they have a point.

So I'll point you in the direction of "infusions" and "tisanes": the French way of enjoying tea. Brew a healthy cup of tea from fresh herbs whenever you can. I grow spearmint, peppermint, pineapple mint,apple mint and pennyroyal in my herb garden for this purpose, as well as several other medicinal herbs.But you can choose from an endless variety: rose, rose hip, ginger, every sort of fruit you can name and combinations there of, liquorice,lavender and sage...

Have a cup of your favourite herbal tea before you listen to your self-hypnosis recording. Involve your sense of taste and so treble the effect of your self-suggestions.

Since ancient times people have utilized herbs, plants, and other natural substances to affect the way they feel.

Aromatic herbs, such as clove oil or mint were used for tooth pain. Coffee and tea are well-known stimulants used by many peoples worldwide to help them get going in the morning. The benefits from teas come from both the ingestion of the herbs as well as the aroma produced when the tea is steeped.

Certain herbs used to make tea which are stimulating like Maté, historically used by the people of the Pampas region of South America. This wild growing plant is a member of the holly family, and its use is both social and spiritual, and may be pound for pound one of the most effective all natural stimulants in the world.

Tea can also be calming and sedative. Chamomile has long been used to induce relaxation. Green, black and red teas,like Rooibos tea, provide high levels of antioxidants, and often contain vitamins A, B1 and B2, and sometimes vitamin C.

Redbush tea: the ultimate weight loss idea

Rooibos has no caffeine, very little tannin. It contains powerful anti-allergic and antioxidant components.A very potent weight loss idea.

It is delicious, and if taken without milk or sugar, it can be drunk often to curb cravings, fill that empty spot or calm one's nerves. It is equally irresistible iced, with lemon, especially on a very hot day. In South Africa, you can also buy cans of rooibos mixed with fruit juice...apricot, plum, nectarine, pine apple...no reason why you can't make your own here.

I have even heard rumours that some people combine it with a tot of brandy, last thing at night...thoroughly decadent!

Sitting down after a long stressful day with a cup of Rooibos tea is a treat to be savoured while watching a sun as red as your tea sink lower on the horizon.

I have emphasise tea here, and specifically redbush tea, because I am familiar with it and it holds very special, comforting memories for me...

It must be one of the best weight loss ideas I ever encountered: I tend to feel like munching when I feel stressed...and nothing calms me as fast or as efficiently as a cup of rooibos tea.

Red bush tea is one of the main ingredients of the Parisian 3 Day Detox Diet:

Steaming Hot Chocolate

So have a cup of tea before you start your self-hypnosis break. Or have a cup of hot chocolate, if you prefer. Make sure it is the highest quality chocolate that you can get hold of, and savour it...make it from scratch, from cocoa paste, like the French do.

Make it a ritual, make it special. Rather a small cup of the purest, thickest chocolate paste, than a large cup of some artificially modified and sweetened powder.

Indulge yourself...both only with the very best. You're worth it.

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