Status Updates From A Dieta do Chá

Only 3 vegetarian meal recipes: dinner frittata, egg wrap, black bean omelet.

No vegan options listed among the proteins.

In addition to smoothie and dinner recipes, there’s a list of food suggestions within a category (protein, veggies, starch) to assemble a meal of your choosing.

A whole section devoted to counteracting monthly hormone fluctuations!

Don't worry if you don't follow this perfectly -- "achieving perfection every day isn't realistic."

A 10- to 30-minute morning walk is the only prescribed exercise on this plan. After a drink of metabolism tea, but before other food or drink. Because "people burn up to 20 percent more body fat by exercising in the morning on an empty stomach."

Dessert is not allowed on this cleanse, but alcohol is. I’d skip it, however. With so few allotted calories per day, I’d rather put that toward solid food.

A flat-belly, in this case, is not about an exercises but in reducing/eliminating bloating.

“Bloating, has, hunger pangs, cravings—they’re all signs that something’s amiss.”

I’m skeptical of this. On a 1000-calories-a-day diet, anyone would have hunger pangs.

"[B]lack tea drinkers are better able to manage stress than their herbal-sipping counterparts."