♡Final Skinny Me Tea Review♡

Hi guys! Ok, so, I know it was a little while ago that I completed the Skinny Me Tea but I thought I'd type up my final review of the product. Again, I wasn't trying the tea to necessarily lose weight but to hopefully feel better, to ecourage myself to be healthier, to hopefully be more toned and I've always been curious to try a teatox. The fact that I thought I'd lose a couple  of kilos was a welcome bonus. Following the SMT instagram and seeing people's transformation photos and finding out that my friends were ordering it gave me the final push to order some with them.

Half way through the tea I also decided to do some research because I wasn't feeling 'energised' after drinking the tea, if anything I was feeling sluggish. It turns out that the tea actually restricts the amount of nutrients your body consumes during the day and then gets rid of the remaining nutrients from your body through the use of the diuretic, which my body found especially intense as it gave me really bad cramps and really hurt my stomach. I knew straight away that if the tea was resulting in me having this pain then it couldn't be good for me. My body also felt drained and weak, especially the days after having the night tea. I do have to admit that some mornings the tea made me feel better if I'd had a big night as it was cleaning out the gunk (for lack of a better word) but majority of the time this wasn't the case.

I did lose a couple of kilos to begin with but then I gained it all again which was the same case with my two friends, this is simply put down to water weight. Besides, it is definitely NOT healthy to lose weight quickly, the healthiest and most effective way is to lose weight gradually over time.

It turns out that the colon cleanse actually strips your body of the fluids it needs which means you will be left feeling dehydrated and the morning tea will leave you feeling flat, which it did to me and is the opposite of what the website promises. The laxative tea temporarily removes excess water weight from your body and also empties out your intestines which creates the look of a “flat stomach”.

Yes, there were days when I felt 'healthy' but I think this is simply because the tea has a bit of a placebo effect. The best way to be healthy and to lose weight while keeping it off is to eat the foods your body needs and to make sure you look after yourself. You also need to be realistic, it can't happen overnight. Something that supposedly gives you an ideal body in such a short amount of time is almost definitely something that will not last. At the end of the day your best bet is to listen to your body and what it needs and look after yourself! Life is too short to get caught up in fads like this that promise you the 'ideal body', your body is beautiful anyway!

If you choose to try the tea this is your decision and it's perfectly ok to experiment with it yourself to see what it's like but I thought I'd let you know what the experience was like for me. I'm definitely going to stick to my herbal teas :-)

~ EDIT: I also just want to add that I have a friend that did the tea and had amazing results but this is because she actually had more weight to lose, she followed a healthy diet and did lots of exercise which was different to her lifestyle previously. She believes that her weight loss isn't necessarily due to the tea but in fact the changes she made.

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♡Skinny Me Tea♡

Hello again guys! This time I thought I would post a review on Skinny Me Tea, which I am halfway through the 14 day detox of. I have always been curious to how this works/if this works. The purpose of the tea is to cleanse and detoxify your body. I was hoping that it would help clean out my inside after a couple heavy nights out and would also make me a bit more 'trim'. My friends and I started it together and our opinions of it have all been different.

On the left is the loose leaf morning tea which I have had every morning, the site suggests drinking this half an hour before breakfast so I'd often drink it as soon as I woke up because sometimes i can get hungry straight away. This tea "Contains caffeine & other natural stimulants like ‘yerba mate’ tea-leaves to provide extra energy, burn fat and calories, suppress appetite etc." as the site says and the leaves are not needed to be drunk.

It's ingredients are Sencha Green Tea, Yerba Mate, Dandelion Leaf, Ginseng Leaf, Lemon Grass, Celery Leaf, Nettle Leaf, Goji Berries (Fresh & Powdered), Açai Powder.

Personally, as I am a big tea drinker, I liked the taste of it, it reminded me slightly of green tea although it did take a little getting used to as the flavours are stronger.

On the right are the colon cleanse tea bags which you have every second night, starting on the first night of the teatox. The ingredients are Senna Leaf & Root, Hawthorn Berry Extract, Barley, Lotus Leaf, Lime Leaf & Extract, Psyllium Husk Seed, Phaseolus Calcaratus Seed, Rhubarb Root,Poria Cocos Stem Bark and the taste resembles more of a white tea and took a bit more getting used to than the loose leaf tea as the smell is more intense and the taste is stronger but once I got used to it I had no problem drinking it.

The night time tea is supposed to provide a laxative affect and the website says that the laxative affect usually takes 10-12 hours to set in. The morning after having the colon cleanse tea for the first time it went... well to put it delicately, my bowels reacted the way the site said it would. The second and third time I used it though it wasn't as smooth sailing. The site suggests leaving the tea bag in for 3-5 minutes but the longer you leave it in the stronger the laxative reaction will be. The second night I woke up in the early hours of the morning with bad cramping that was extremely painful and I then needed to use the bathroom before the 12 hour mark. The third time I used it I followed the sites suggestion of leaving the teabag in for a shorter amount of time so that my body could adjust but I still had an issue with cramps and needing to go to the bathroom before the time was up (sorry, a bit tmi).

I then decided to give my body a little break from drinking the night time tea as my stomach was feeling a bit sore. I am pleased to say that the fourth time I drank the tea after leaving it in for around 30 seconds it was a lot better. I didn't expereince any cramping at all.

With all this being said the tea has definitely made me feel cleaner and I have lost a couple of kilos, not that that was really my goal, but I think that is just water weight. One of my friends has actually gained a few kilos since drinking this tea while another one of my friends has lost a few kilos and also has a boundless amount of energy - neither of them experienced the cramping that I did.

My advice to anyone wanting to try the tea is to let your body adjust to the colon cleanse and also to keep in mind that everyone's bodies react differently, the tea doesn't necessarily work on everyone. I do also have to say that my stomach looks like it has a bit more definition. I would definitely try this tea again, maybe in a couple of months time, mainly because it feels like I am doing something good for my insides but at the same time I don't want my body to become dependent on the laxative affect of the night time tea. Just remember to look after yourself if you try it and to listen to your body. 
I will post a final review of the tea a little bit later once I have finished the teatox.

~EDIT: My final review can be read here http://billieastrid.blogspot.com.au/2013/05/final-skinny-me-tea-review.html

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