Should I ditch the tea? vote

I vote No

what about trying green tea? chamomile and peppermint? I love tea, and drink a lot of it, but do you add sugar to yours? That would add up to a lot of extra calories per day.
Tea doesn't have much caffeine in it, well compared to coffee anyways, but i'm all for moderation and 8 cups a day is too much. However, i think 4 is fine (as long as your not adding sugar)

I drink green tea with 0-calorie stevia sweetener. The EGCG in the tea helps increase metabolism...and it tastes yummy!

Being a Brit, I love my tea. I drink it and add the milk cals to my diary .....

How about for every cup of tea you drink you also drink a cup of water? Not necessarily one right after the other but keep a tally in your mind or on here and then you could have the best of both worlds

ummmm...milk is bad now?

There are good calories and bad calories. I myself place milk in the good category.

My vote is to let them have tea. We may be dieting but god, we still have to live!

I don't personally see milk a good category when your main goal is to shed pounds unless it's in a small amount and skim. There are other ways to get the nutrients of milk without the milk fat. I think if the original poster doesn't want to give up her tea, the easiest way to cut on the calories is to switch to an alternative milk product or cut it out completely.

At our adult age our bodies don't require the nutrients we get from milk anyways. That's why so many adults are lactose intolerant.

I gave up sugar years ago I've drank tea with milk since I was little so think im a true caffeine addict plus being a brit its the only drink you ever seem to be offered everywhere you go. I might give green tea a go I've tried herbal tea but it tastes like pond water of air freshener lol.

It was worth staying up late just to witness actual brits discussing tea! :drinker:

I myself place milk in the good category.

I know this is a totally different conversation but I had to say it:

Milk is actually a totally unnatural food. Adult mammals consuming the mammary secretions of another species of mammal? :huh:

It's a gross and weird practice. As an adult, you wouldn't drink another HUMAN'S breast milk. But you don't think twice when it comes from a cow? Now, I eat dairy so I'm not an anti-milk products nut but you do have to admit it's a bit strange.

...and probably not what we ought to call "good" calories.

The National Dairy Council stopped using the slogan "Milk, It Does A Body Good" because...it really doesn't. There are benefits and drawbacks, as with anything.

/rant

dude you are seriously my new best friend

I've been saying this forever

Cows milk is meant to make a calf the size of a full grown cow. The only reason it exists is to make a small hoofed mammal into a giant one. It does nothing for humans but add an extremely unnecessary amount of fat to their bodies! We do not require milk past infancy, and this is why so many adults are lactose intolerant. It may give you calcium but the fat isn't meant to be taken in by a human body.

I have no idea why nobody believes me when I say this but you my friend, are my hero!

I'd totally buy those responses if you didn't eat yogurt or ice cream or cheese or any of the million ways we get milk in a day.

According to those reasonings all those products are unnatural and off the list. Personally I drink soy milk, but that's cause I like the flavor. I usually have it with a nice piece of cheese.

And the statement that no other animal will drink another's milk is untrue. Give a cat some milk, see what happens. No animal cooks its food, but we do. The logic is plain faulty.

The truth is that before the advent of agriculture--all adult humans, like the adults of other animal species, were lactose intolerant. This doesn't mean it is impossible to drink milk, it just tends to cause discomfort (for most individuals--some can have more dangerous/deadly reactions). But once we had agriculture, we began to raise animals for meat. Our ancestors, in times of hunger, also began drinking milk. It caused discomfort, but it was better than starvation. Over a surprisingly short period of time, people in agricultural communities developed the ability to tolerate lactose, as this increased survival.

This is called evolution. I guess if you wanted to follow the caveman diet you'd be okay.

But it's totally off topic anyway. Even at 8 cups of tea-we're talking maybe 1/4 c. of milk.

I vote you try a bunch of no caffeine teas which also don't require milk or sugar. Green rooibos is great as it is naturally sweet. Also regular rooibos, green (and flavoured green), mint, fruit, white etc. I no longer take milk in tea at all due to intolerance and now I get maybe 5 cups of waters worth a day from these less known teas.

Yes it's pretty minimal whether you take in milk and sugar in your tea, but if you are drinking just 1 cup a day, say with 1 milk 2 sugar, you can save 11,000 calories in sugar a year and 7,500 in milk. That is over 5lbs.

Despite tea having a diuretic effect (dehydrating the body) it is still overall a hydrating product ie: although it makes you pee more, you're still gaining water from the amount that you drink. So no, don't stop - particularly if you don't drink water regularly

I myself place milk in the good category.

I know this is a totally different conversation but I had to say it:

Milk is actually a totally unnatural food. Adult mammals consuming the mammary secretions of another species of mammal? :huh:

It's a gross and weird practice. As an adult, you wouldn't drink another HUMAN'S breast milk. But you don't think twice when it comes from a cow? Now, I eat dairy so I'm not an anti-milk products nut but you do have to admit it's a bit strange.

...and probably not what we ought to call "good" calories.

The National Dairy Council stopped using the slogan "Milk, It Does A Body Good" because...it really doesn't. There are benefits and drawbacks, as with anything.

/rant

dude you are seriously my new best friend

I've been saying this forever

Cows milk is meant to make a calf the size of a full grown cow. The only reason it exists is to make a small hoofed mammal into a giant one. It does nothing for humans but add an extremely unnecessary amount of fat to their bodies! We do not require milk past infancy, and this is why so many adults are lactose intolerant. It may give you calcium but the fat isn't meant to be taken in by a human body.

I have no idea why nobody believes me when I say this but you my friend, are my hero!

I so totally want to see both of your diaries