Is it difficult to lose weight in winter? Wu Mingzhu: Drink rose jasmine tea to lose fat

As the saying goes, "Losing weight in winter is harder than climbing to the sky." The main reason is that it is easy to accumulate fat in cold weather. In addition to exercising more and controlling your diet, Chinese medicine practitioners recommend that you drink more herbal tea to help lose weight, or drink more stewed white radish, vegetable soup, choy sum soup, etc., to reduce calorie intake, increase satiety, eliminate edema, and burn fat without the burden.

Chinese medicine practitioner Wu Mingzhu (left) stressed that losing weight in winter is an impossible task but using herbal tea can help burn fat. (Photo by reporter Jiang Minjun)

There are many holidays and gatherings in winter, so eating too much seems inevitable; coupled with the cold weather and heavy clothes, moving less becomes inevitable. Losing weight in winter seems to be an "impossible task", even harder than climbing to the sky.

Drink more scented tea in winter to increase satiety

Chinese medicine practitioner Wu Mingzhu reminds us that it is not difficult to control weight in winter. She recommends doing more indoor exercises, such as indoor swimming, using fitness equipment, or even climbing stairs and shopping in hypermarkets, etc., to make up for the lack of exercise due to weather factors.

Also, stay alert to your health status at all times. Before eating, drink more hot water or scented tea to increase your sense of fullness. For example, lavender can help you sleep, treat coughs, and relieve stress and headaches. Pink roses can burn fat and lose weight, promote blood circulation, eliminate fatigue, improve endocrine disorders, back pain, etc.

Chinese medicine practitioner Wu Mingzhu emphasized that the general way to brew herbal tea is to brew it directly with 85°C to 90°C boiling water. It can be brewed 1-2 times again, with 3 to 5 grams each time. After brewing with hot water for about 10 minutes, the taste and concentration will be just right, or you can add an appropriate amount of honey.

Herbal tea can increase satiety and help burn fat and reduce edema.

【Rose Jasmine Black Tea】

1. Rose: It tastes sweet and slightly bitter, and is warm in nature. Its most obvious effects are regulating qi and relieving depression, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, and regulating menstruation and relieving pain. In addition, the medicinal properties of roses are very mild. They can warm the heart, liver and blood vessels, relieve the depression in the body, and have a calming, soothing and anti-depressant effect.

Women often feel irritable before or during menstruation, and drinking some rose water can help regulate it. Today, when work and life pressures are increasing, even if you are not menstruating, you can drink more rose water to soothe and stabilize your emotions.

2. Jasmine: spicy, sweet, and neutral in nature. It can eliminate dampness, harmonize the stomach, regulate Qi and relieve depression.

Ingredients: appropriate amounts of rose and jasmine flowers, 1 black tea bag.

Method: Soak roses, jasmine flowers and tea bags in hot water for a few minutes, then add a little honey and drink.

Efficacy: It can regulate Qi and blood, eliminate abdominal fat, and is a delicious beauty drink.

[Nourish the kidneys, invigorate blood circulation, replenish qi and prevent hunger in winter]

Medicinal materials: 10g black fungus, 3g wolfberry, 1.5g salvia miltiorrhiza, 3g astragalus, add water and boil as tea.

【Tips from female Chinese medicine practitioners】:

Although we sweat less in winter, we still need to pay attention to replenishing water. Drinking more water not only does not provide calories, but the body must consume a lot of calories to metabolize the water. In addition, it is best to drink more water during weight loss, because water can accelerate metabolism and excrete waste from the body. Therefore, drinking more water has a positive effect on weight loss.