Slimming Tea Runs

Yikes! So I was drinking the slimming tea for 7 days ... I figured out how it keeps you slim! It gives you diarrhea! Naturally, if you eat and your body just passes out the food instantly, then your body won't have time to absorb the fats that are associated with the food. This sounds fantastic doesn't it? It's almost like "Akavar's outrageous claim to EAT ALL YOU WANT AND STILL LOSE WEIGHT!"
But think about the whole picture! If your body is passing the food out so quickly that your not absorbing the fats ... chances are, you're also not absorbing any of the nutrients associated with the foods either. There is no magical weight loss program and all of these fad diets are just bad news. True, drinking Oolong tea (or any tea for that matter) will help speed up your metabolism (it's got caffeine people, think!) but that is definitely not a substitute for exercise. So my boyfriend and I took up some cardio exercise again after being sedentary for the last 2 months and hoping that the slimming tea would be my saving grace! We ran 2.5 miles! Sheesh! I am feeling the effects of lack of exercise trust me! But I feel better about myself than drinking that slimming tea.
All of these things; the lemonade diet, slimming tea, atkins ... all of these things are just bandaids! They aren't meant to be long term solutions, they never were. People just keep hoping that they will be and use them as crutches because they're lazy! The slimming tea thing was horrible too! I mean the day I decided that the tea wasn't going to work for me was last Wednesday. I was trying to get home after work. Before I left work, I felt a rumbling in my stomach and I was like "maybe it's gas!" Well, I take the express train home and it's only a 20-30minute ride and I had to jump out at Grand Central to look for a restroom because I couldn't hold it anymore! Isn't that crazy?! Then after I got out at my stop I was 2 blocks from my house when I was hit with another "runs" attack and had to run into MEETH to use their restroom b/c I couldn't make it back to my apartment without squirting my pants! It was soooooo embarrassing, let me tell you! Thankfully my boyf is a very understanding and non-judgmental person! Believe me, I have absolutely NO INTENTIONS of making running to the bathroom on a regular basis part of my daily activity. And no, running to the bathroom does NOT count as exercise! So I experimented ... and from my experiences if anyone manages to stumble across my blog hoping to find some help while they're trying to decide whether or not they should do the slimming tea diet ... my best answer is ... NO! Drink tea regularly, it's good for you ... don't drink the tea that has the words "slimming", "ultra slim", "super slim" or any of the like. If you want to use it as a natural diuretic or as a stool softener b/c you're constipated it maybe a gentler more natural way to go ... but to use it as a weight loss supplement. I would not recommend it unless you enjoy stressing your body "running" for the restroom.