Giving up sugar in tea

I went from 6 to 0 in a day, it seemed to take months for tea/coffee to taste ok but know the smell of a sugared cuppa is too much for me.

I think you've just got to accept it'll be grim for a few months.
 
Nate Silvers said:
I've been cutting all the crap out my diet like processed foods and fat and sugar and taking on a vegan diet.

After a month of eating healthy (as a snack I dip raw broccoli in humus) my girlfriend ordered a big dirty Chinese takeaway and it tasted sooo good it made my foods seems so bland and it's took me a week again to get the yum yum taste back for natural foods. Not eating that salty crap again.

Anyways point is I've been trying to cut down sugar in my teas. I've successfully cut down to 1tsp but just can't bear it with none. Everyone says I'll get used to it, but it still tastes grim without the sugar. Has anyone done this successfully - and how long did it take to get used to it?
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When it comes to tea, I prefer it with no sugar. My coffee, I used to drink with sugar, but now none as well. (Trying to lose weight)
 
I used to have 1 sugar then 1 day I just stopped having it, only took 1 drink to get used to it, I wonder what tea tastes like now I haven't had sugar in it after these years ;)
 
You can do it mate! This comes from someone who used to take 2 heaped teapsoons of sugar in a mug of tea. Until I realized the damage it was doing. So I stopped cold.

I wont lie - it was horrible..agonizing even. It was like drinking hot ditchwater. But I stuck with it. It took me about 2 weeks to settle down and now Im just fine.

The really shocking bit is how SENSITIVE you become to sugar after making this move. A chocolate bar, cookie, cereal...if its too sweet you will hate it. Slowly you'll find yourself controlling sugar in other foods too.

Good luck, your pancreas will thank you :)
 
I am surprised so many of you don't have sugar. Yeah I'm getting more sensitive to sugar now, I can taste subtle sugar in foods I couldn't before like Parnsnips taste way sweeter, had one today. I thought people who didn't like sweets are crazy but guess it's all supply and demand for your body.
 
A buddy of mine offered me a sip of her choco-shake the other day that she'd just got from the drive-thru.

It was like being slammed with a grand-piano. Total and utter sweet overload. Weirdly the shake itself tasted nasty.

And to think there was a time I used to binge on gunk like that. So yea its cool how you can re-program your body. We just dont NEED all that extra sugar.
 
2 coffees per day, 1 sachet of sugar @ 11 calories = 154 cals per week. Whoop dee freaking doo. I laugh at people in the office who love sugar in their tea but "try to be healthy" and go without. Then they scoff a packet of biscuits every other day.
 
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gambitt said:
2 coffees per day, 1 sachet of sugar @ 11 calories = 154 cals per week. Whoop dee freaking doo. I laugh at people in the office who love sugar in their tea but "try to be healthy" and go without. Then they scoff a packet of biscuits every other day.
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Yeah cause they are using 1 sachet of sugar so they are still on the crack cocaine i mean sugar.
 
I never have sugar in tea, and very little (if any) in coffee. Whenever someone makes me a hot drink with sugar in now it tastes vile. If you don't actually like the taste of tea and coffee don't drink it, people who put 3+ spoons in utterly disgust me.
 
I used to have two sugars in my tea until I ran out one day and substituted a teaspoon of honey. When the honey ran out I stopped with sweetening it altogether. Can't say I actually noticed the lack of sweetening by then. I've always drunk tea black though so that may account for it.
 
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