Addicted to Sweet Tea
ForteMom
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Hello,
I am on track again to lose more weight, but my one weak area... sweet tea, black or green... I love sweet tea. Any suggestions on alternatives? Honey just doesn't do it for me and those artificial sweeteners leave a funny taste..... any suggestions would be great. Gold Peaks is so good and everyone in my house drinks it and I give in! Thank you
I am on track again to lose more weight, but my one weak area... sweet tea, black or green... I love sweet tea. Any suggestions on alternatives? Honey just doesn't do it for me and those artificial sweeteners leave a funny taste..... any suggestions would be great. Gold Peaks is so good and everyone in my house drinks it and I give in! Thank you
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Get used to the funny taste of artificial sweeteners or drink unsweetened tea. Or just eat less food to accommodate the calories you're drinking.
Otherwise i have no suggestions for you.0 -
1) Drink a lot less of it.
2) Prelog it and drink a lot less of it (using it as a reward at the end of the day but fitting it into your daily calories).
3) Cut it out all together if you can't moderate the drinking of it.
Those are really your only options. Take a look at how much sugar and calories are in sweet tea and see if those calories are worth it. I've never been one to like sweet tea so I drink PLENTY of water. Once a week I'll drink root beer or some other kind of soda as a treat. I'm cutting out carbs in general though, so simple sugars really don't fit into my calories.
Good luck!0 -
MIO liquid water enhancer Sweet Tea flavor0
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I found the best diet Tea. It is so good. It is Gold Peak diet iced tea. I find it in the tea and juice sections at the store. It tastes just as good as regular ice tea. I love it. It is pricy but it gives me the sweat taste I am looking for.0
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I use Truvia. To me, it doesn't have a funny taste.0
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i was addicted to soda, then switched to sweet tea b/c i can't have corn products. then i was addicted to the sweet tea! i just had to quit. if i have a little, i'll want a lot. LOL as a treat, i'll have some about once a week, but i just drink water now.0
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Hello, I will have to try the diet sweet tea by gold peaks... usually I buy they regular sweet tea anyways. I have tried the truvia and MIO, but ew, they leave a funny taste too. I guess if that doesn't work I must quit all together... thank you for your comments and support.
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It's like any other food that you enjoy: Keep eating/drinking it, just in smaller quantities.0
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Growing up in the South I practically had sweet tea in my veins and didn't think I'd ever be able to give it up. Once I started MFP though I got tired of wasting my precious calories on drinks. I was able to go cold turkey though the first week or so was awful. Now I enjoy my tea unsweetened and when I occasionally get it sweet I almost gag at the sugar content. A couple of years ago I started to drift back into sweetened drinks but an article about cancer caught my eye. It was about the Warburg theory which roughly says that cancer thrives by fermentation of sugar. I don't know how true it is but since my family is full of cancer stricken sweet tea drinkers I'm not taking any chances. Good luck in kicking the habit, it's tough but doable!0
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Hello,
I am on track again to lose more weight, but my one weak area... sweet tea, black or green... I love sweet tea. Any suggestions on alternatives? Honey just doesn't do it for me and those artificial sweeteners leave a funny taste..... any suggestions would be great. Gold Peaks is so good and everyone in my house drinks it and I give in! Thank you
Crystal light makes a sweet tea and it is so good.
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I used to drink my tea with 2 (heaped) teaspoons of sugar in each cup - sometimes as many as 10 cups per day! Now if I have even half a teaspoon of sugar in my tea it tastes incredibly sweet and really gross!
I started by cutting the sugar down 1/2 a teaspoon at a time. After a few weeks you'll get used to it (it is hard at first!) and can cut down some more.
You're in this for the long haul, right? Slowly but surely!0 -
You are not "addicted" to it. You say that to yourself so you have a ready excuse to have one. Break that habit. Stop thinking it's an "addiction"0
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My suggestion is make regular black iced tea in the pitcher, pour it over ice and add a small "splash" of simply lemonade. 1 oz of lemonade is like 15 calories. It sweetens it, but not too much.0
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I used to love the sweet tea at Chick-fil-a. Instead of ordering a sweet tea there, I ask them to mix it with half sweet, half unsweetened tea. Gradually back down on the sweetness and pretty soon, you won't miss the sugar!
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Gold peak makes one that is made with splenda, honestly, I can't tell the difference in terms of taste. My favorite is by Red Diamond. Black sweet tea with splenda, and it by far tastes the best. For only $2/gal, I'd say give it a try. It's sooooooo tasy.0
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You are not "addicted" to it. You say that to yourself so you have a ready excuse to have one. Break that habit. Stop thinking it's an "addiction"
And sugar is addicting. Just like quitting gluten or smoking, the body will crave it. I don't think she's looking for an excuse, she's looking for help.0 -
another food addiction post? Put some mint leaves in it. Probably not as good though0
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theoryofempire wrote: »You are not "addicted" to it. You say that to yourself so you have a ready excuse to have one. Break that habit. Stop thinking it's an "addiction"
And sugar is addicting. Just like quitting gluten or smoking, the body will crave it. I don't think she's looking for an excuse, she's looking for help.
Where is that eye-rolling emoticon when I need it?
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theoryofempire wrote: »You are not "addicted" to it. You say that to yourself so you have a ready excuse to have one. Break that habit. Stop thinking it's an "addiction"
And sugar is addicting. Just like quitting gluten or smoking, the body will crave it. I don't think she's looking for an excuse, she's looking for help.
Where is that eye-rolling emoticon when I need it?
The addiction model is a useful model.
OP if you feel addicted you have to eliminate. That's your only choice with the addiction model.
If you want to use the CICO model, then you need to substitute the calories with non-calories, such as water or non-cal sweetners in the tea.
It's up to you to decide which model is best for you, but either way you have to make a choice.0 -
Hello,
I am on track again to lose more weight, but my one weak area... sweet tea, black or green... I love sweet tea. Any suggestions on alternatives? Honey just doesn't do it for me and those artificial sweeteners leave a funny taste..... any suggestions would be great. Gold Peaks is so good and everyone in my house drinks it and I give in! Thank you
Red diamond diet, and arizona canned green tea zero. Yummy
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Try watering it down, as a start. Pour a glass 3/4 full, and fill the rest of the way with water. Then, 2/3 full, the rest with water. Then 1/2 full, the rest water. Or, mix it half and half with the diet version, so you are not overwhelmed with the artificial sweetener taste. Tapering down might be easier for you than quitting it cold turkey.0
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theoryofempire wrote: »You are not "addicted" to it. You say that to yourself so you have a ready excuse to have one. Break that habit. Stop thinking it's an "addiction"
And sugar is addicting. Just like quitting gluten or smoking, the body will crave it. I don't think she's looking for an excuse, she's looking for help.
Where is that eye-rolling emoticon when I need it?
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You might want to try Splenda. I find it tastes the most like sugar out of the artificial sweeteners. However, with that said, I've recently gone off artificial sweeteners altogether and find I have a lot fewer cravings. So, my recommendation is to try to slowly reduce the sweetness until you can drink the tea without the sweetener. You might want to also experiment with different flavors of brewed herbal tea (like vanilla or orange or raspberry). I've found that those taste sweeter than black or green without any sweetener added.0
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I'm from the south, but I'm fortunate in that I really hate the way most people sweeten their tea here (my average 16-ounce glass is 65 calories). Two things I would recommend would be to stop buying it pre-made, because that's going to be super sweet, and also to start lessening the amount of sugar you use when you make it at home. I think my Dad raised me on tea that was prepared using a cup of sugar per gallon of tea, whereas mine is now 2/3 cup per gallon of tea. It makes it sweet enough that it's not the "dry" flavor of unsweetened tea, but not so sweet that it's a calorie dump. I might even go down to 1/2 cup of sugar per gallon.0
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Don't think of it as an "addiction." It's easy to give in to an "addiction," gives you a sense that inevitably you're going to "relapse."
Think of it like a bad habit, if you like. You drink too much sweet stuff, it'll rot your teeth, etc. That way, you have a positive reason for staying away from it or lessening use. Think of reduced dentist bills and whiter smiles and more actual food to eat (!) within your calories.
Just my $0.02.0 -
theoryofempire wrote: »You are not "addicted" to it. You say that to yourself so you have a ready excuse to have one. Break that habit. Stop thinking it's an "addiction"
And sugar is addicting. Just like quitting gluten or smoking, the body will crave it. I don't think she's looking for an excuse, she's looking for help.
Where is that eye-rolling emoticon when I need it?
eta: OP you just need to decide whats more important, and adjust for that. flex your will power and moderate your intake, or fall prey to your "addiction" and do nothing.
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OP if you feel addicted you have to eliminate. That's your only choice with the addiction model.
If you want to use the CICO model, then you need to substitute the calories with non-calories, such as water or non-cal sweetners in the tea.
It's up to you to decide which model is best for you, but either way you have to make a choice.[/quote]
Confused why MFP member always have the need to go into addiction issues.. LOL
I am from the South too and sweet tea is huge. I use the exact measurements of Stevia in my tea and coffee I have no after taste.
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I've used artificial sweeteners so long I don't notice the aftertaste any more. Might you try a chai tea to see if the artificial sweetener is masked?
Another thought I had, not mentioned yet, is mindful eating (drinking). Pour your tea in a much smaller cup sweetened the way you like it. Make it as perfect as you know how to do it. I'm thinking one of those tiny espresso cups. Spend at least twenty minutes finishing that mini-tea. You will extend your pleasure with a much smaller portion.
http://www.mbsrtraining.com/formal-practice-mindfully-eating-a-raisin/
I practice mindful eating with chocolate.0 -
Nothing could be more unhealthy!rainbowbow wrote: »Get used to the funny taste of artificial sweeteners
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Nothing could be more unhealthy!rainbowbow wrote: »Get used to the funny taste of artificial sweeteners
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