tea drinkers?

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.

Love tea. Drink black tea the Britsh way, milk and sweetener, got that habit when I was there. I like green tea, have chamomile almost every night, and Teavana has fabulous black Jasmine tea, looks gold in the cup, so flavorful. My husband doesn't do coffee but loves tea too.

I've had chronic insomnia, and chamomile or sleepytime does help. The Tension Tamer you can buy anywhere is pretty good too. The vanilla Sleepytime isn't so good, not a big vanilla fan. I'm reading that ginger tea is good for monthly pains.

i drink one a day, usually at night to wind down... almost always lipton but sometimes its sleepytime herbal....
my friend has this vanilla chai tea that is awesome and i need to find in store!

i like it made with a stevia packet and a couple drops of almond milk (miss real cream tho)

So a mug is two cups. And I have a mug (with a giant heart on it!) which is the size of 2 mugs, or 4 cups.

And I have multiple of those a day. Especially weekends.

Yes, I like tea.

There's no need to cut out tea and go all water, unless you are having issues with caffeine. Assuming not, water is water regardless of what else is mixed in.

HUGE tea drinker here! I'm obsessed with DavidsTea teas! I drink maybe one black coffee a week (usually on the weekends - it gives me heartburn), and black tea 2/3 times a week before work. The rest of the week I drink herbal, green, oolong, rooibos, and white teas. Usually 4-5 cups a day! Helps when I'm trying to lose weight because there are so many flavours and helps keep my water intake up (I aim for 8 cups of water a day + my tea). I even have a cookie dough and birthday cake flavoured tea - great mixed together! Water, tea, and coffee (and maybe 2-4 glasses of wine or beer a month and fresh green and fruit juices in the summer) are the only things I drink.