Does Green Tea Promote Weight Loss?

I'm a believer when it comes to green tea as a weight loss aid, but i don't see it as a complete solution. The basics of a weight loss regime should always be a balanced high protein diet and exercise. Green tea can help as it is known to speed up your metabolism and burn around 80 extra calories a day for each cup.

Green tea is an interesting one and although the research sample size is pretty low, in my experience the results are obtainable. I drink green tea throughout the day to supplement my healthy eating and have recorded weight losses of over 2kg per week. I am not grossely overweight but would be considered just over the obese mark so I was not supprosed to read the loss of over 3kg per week. It would be interesting to read the full piece to see if a breakdown of the foods eaten were included. I don't believe in fad diets and always work towards moderation, so my losses have been obtained in weeks were I have also eaten not-so-healthy foods such as a chicken kebab take-away!

Remember, not all green teas are equal. The property that aids weight loss is polyphenols (studies have compared polyphenol rich teas with ones contain lower levels) and the teas with most polyphenol lead to most weight loss. Oolong (wuyi) teas are the best for this purpose. That at least is according to Hsu and Kusumoto in their paper called "Polyphenol-enriched oolong tea increases fecal lipid excretio" from 2006, published in European Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

There are two ways to lose weight either reduce energy intake, or increase energy expenditure. Obese patients naturally are looking for options that can help safely help raise the metabolism. Green tea extracts are found to help increase metabolism.

Richard, I wrote this post a long time ago, I'm amazed at how you found it!
"Am I wrong, or is the study actually indicating that a significant increase in weight loss of 3.3 kg relative to the baseline group was reported at week 12, not just a total weight loss of 3.3 kg?"
In terms of the weight loss reported in the study:
At both weeks 8 and 12, there were statistically significant differences both between groups (placebo and green tea) but also for both in comparison to baseline.
"Perhaps the take-away, if my impression holds, is that at the 8th week and the 12th week, significant differences in weight loss over and above the baseline group were measured."
Yes, that's right. Here's what I wrote back then, "Total weight loss in the green tea group was 5.10 kg at week 8 and just 3.3 kg at week 12."
I should have included "relative to placebo" in that statement. The numbers reported by the study authors have corrected for differences in baseline weight between the two groups as well of course.

I may be interpreting this incorrectly, but I see a distinction between the study's stated results: "In comparing the two groups, differences in weight loss were [...] 5.10 and 3.3 kg during the [...] 8th, and 12th weeks of the study, respectively" and the take-away: "Total weight loss in the green tea group was 5.10 kg at week 8 and just 3.3 kg at week 12."
Am I wrong, or is the study actually indicating that a significant increase in weight loss of 3.3 kg relative to the baseline group was reported at week 12, not just a total weight loss of 3.3 kg? In other words, my impression is that the cumulative (total) weight loss is well over 3.3 kg by week 12, and possibly more than 3.3 kg even at week 12, 3.3 kg being the difference and not the total amount of weight lost. Perhaps the take-away, if my impression holds, is that at the 8th week and the 12th week, significant differences in weight loss over and above the baseline group were measured.
Green tea it is!

I also believed that green tea not only promote health being but also help in weight control.