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I don't understand why..I drink green tea and don't lose weight? It may be that eating pizza for breakfast washed down with green tea isn't the key to losing weight! I always laugh when I hear those magic recipes for losing weight: pineapple, pills, green tea, cabbage soup to name a few! Why do people think that they can lose weight while not putting in an ounce of effort? When we age, our metabolism slows down (women's slow down even more than men's and that is why we have more difficulty losing weight) and we have more difficulty getting rid of our unwanted pounds.

Drink green tea if you like it, you can even thrown in cabbage and pineapples if you like (but stay away from those diet pills please), but if you don't you will only feel frustration. If we are frustrated, there is more chance that we will binge eat. I suggest exercise and changing eating habits. It is the only way that you can lose weight sensibly. I am not talking here about morbid obesity, but about people like me who have around 30 pounds to lose. You have to burn off the calories that you ingest. You have to find an exercise that you like doing if you want to stick to doing it. Drinking green tea is like going to the gym, it gets old it you don't like it.

I have one suggestion for losing weight: take dance classes! I noticed over the years that women love dancing. At my gym, there are a couple of aerobics classes centered around dancing and they are the most popular. We chacha, merengue,disco and salsa and laugh at the same time because we are not the best. The objective is not to be the best, but to move and feel great afterward!

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