tea drinkers?

i love tea but i am australian i drink it in the morning with a wee bit of milk. its my only form of caffeine

You might not have as big a problem as you think you do. Try drinking water for a whole week and see if you get the headaches and other withdrawal symptoms that coffee drinkers get. I think because of the smaller caffeine content in tea as well as other substances in tea like theanine, it won't affect you as much.

Couldn't give up tea there cud be worse things in the world to be addicted to :-P

I just kicked caffeine about 6 months ago. It was the best decision I ever made. I was addicted to coffee. Drank it in the morning and right before bed. I noticed I was always tired so I started drinking a Monster about every other day. Then I noticed I just could not get up in the morning so I started drinking 5 hr Energies as well. Still I was struggle with bursts of energy and long crashes that most times left me useless so I decided to kick caffeine. I thought maybe I wasn't getting very good rest at night because of the caffeine. Once I quit I felt like a new a person!! I actually had more energy during the day than I did when I was sucking down all those caffeinated drinks. I can wake up in the morning, go strong all day long and can go to bed at a decent time now. I would highly recommend kicking caffeine to anyone! I have a lot of friends that just can't comprehend how I had more energy and are too afraid to kick their caffeine, but I swear by it! Try it out. FYI, I do drink decaf now and then so I still get my coffee fix when I want it. )

I drink decaffeinated tea when I'm at home.

There's nothing wrong with drinking tea. It has tons on antioxidents and is great for your overall wellbeing. You just have to be careful how much sugar and cream you add. 1-2% milk is a great replacement for people who use half&half or heavy cream and is actually what was traditionally used for tea time (yes, they always said they were adding "cream" to their tea, but it was really just milk). Also, caffeine in reasonable amounts isn't bad for you and helps your body to burn calories. If you're worried about your caffeine intake though, I would suggest looking into rooibos (African red bush). It's caffeine free and won't turn bitter if you oversteep it.

There are a ton of differently flavoured green teas, all still zero cal. Toasted rice green tea is pretty epic, lemongrass...jasmine...and if you like sweet taste without the calories, pomegranate or other fruit flavoured green teas are lovely.

The three days Ive been on here Ive cut down on gallons of tea whilst drinking more water! Have a vague headache which is
withdrawal symtoms ha ha . Still having couple of cups that very little for me:happy:

I'm your steroetypical Scottish tea drinker - wave the tea bag over the cup and save for later. More like drinking hot water really, Been drinking it weak and black for a while, along with waaay too much coffee, but switched to Red Bush a couple of years ago (which tastes like tea but is caffeine free, and also has loads of antioxidants). I still need my strong black coffee in the morning to get me going - but that's all the caffeine I get now. And then shedloads of tea during the day!

Drinking hojicha as I am writing this, yumm!

i love tea. it's a ritual for me in the mornings, and when i return from lunch. in this crazy world sometimes only a cup of tea can calm my nerves. peppermint at night, green & black during the day.

Keep drinking tea

I like the 0 calorie green tea with citris but prefer the white tea with raspberry. I have to limit myself to 1 a day though.

I also love chai tea, black tea, earl grey, lemon lift and almost any tea besides plain green. I usually add some sweetener or sugar with a bit of milk to mine.

Can't stand water and trying to avoid too much diet pop I get headaches and stomacheaches from mio water and have to be careful how much aspartame I get.

I used coffee when kicking caffeine, I was a tea drinker too and coffee as well. Here's how I did it using coffee. Put a measuring spoon inside the instant coffee jar. Journaled for a week to find my baseline caffeine intake. Leveled that off by getting an average and going with one teaspoon a day of instant coffee. Kept this up for 2 months then adjusted the adjustable teaspoon to 1/2 a teaspoon. Did that for two months. Then adjusted it down to 1/4 teaspoon, did that for 2 months. Then came the hard part. Tried going to zero got headaches. Increased back up to 1/4 teaspoon. Tried every other day, got headaches. Increased up to 1/4 teaspoon. Light bulb went on and made a 1/4 teaspoon cup of coffee but only drank half. No headache. Kept this up for 2 months. Then tried zero again, got headache. Then tried alternating days of half cup of 1/4 teaspoon coffee--aka. 1/8 teaspoon. Still got headaches. So went back up to 1/8 teaspoon. Next attempt changed my definition of a "day" from 24 hours to 36 hours. That's right I had coffee in the morning one day, coffee in the evening the following day, etc. Kind of wacky but that amount of coffee did not keep me up at night but was still necessary to avoid the withdrawal headache. Eventually I could alternate days. Finally one day I realized I'd forgotten two days in a row so I went for the whole week caffeine free and knew I was home free! By the second week I knew I had succeeded!

I have been caffeine free for two years now! It took me a full year to quit but it was waaaaay worth it. Good luck to you, it can be done!

I kept track of all this with a calendar on the fridge. I used decaf to supplement the coffee to make a full tasting cup of coffee. If I ever found myself in a lurch or away from home just used any very popular caffeine substitute like coke or iced tea or anything easy to look up the caffeine content of and logged it on my calendar.

NOTE: one thing I learned while obsessed with tea is that tea can be easily ridden of it's caffeine by steeping it shortly for like 30 seconds discarding the water (and caffeine) and then rebrewed the 2nd time for a tea with way less caffeine if any. To cite the site I learned this might be hard to remember but it's probably Teavana's website or their Blog site. If not it might have been one of the many caffeine oriented sites I visited during this quitting phase. Hope this helps you realize you can quit caffeine without quitting tea altogether if you love it that much.

I love Tea! I drink it all day long too. I've tried to be healthier by ditching my usual 2 sugars, and sometimes have a fruit/green tea instead. Have you tried red bush tea? It's nice with or without milk and has no caffeine.