mrs gough Posted September 27, 2012 Share Posted September 27, 2012 Stopped taking sugar altogether where I get the option.. I even use Truvia on my Weetabix now I went off sugar in my tea when I was pregnant with my youngest (she's 14 now) I've never had it since. Cereal tastes so much better without sugar too except cornflakes they are the only cereal I put sugar on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Draggletail Posted September 27, 2012 Author Share Posted September 27, 2012 I faffed & reduced the amount, until I was down to a tiny bit on the edge of the teaspoon. Then stopped & never went back. You could try buying Truvia, which is a natural product & not sugar. It's sweeter than sugar, so you could just use a tiny amount of that, go down to a few grains quite quickly & then stop. Might be a better psychological approach. Good luck. Thanks RosyRat. Never heard of Truvia - I think I'll reserve that for Weetabix Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrs grissom Posted September 27, 2012 Share Posted September 27, 2012 I went the weaning route too and it worked like a charm . Now I can't bear the taste of sweet tea . I didn't stop with tea though. I stopped adding sugar to my porridge and cereals too. Took a little while longer to get used to but now I can't imagine eating them sweetened. Then I stopped drinking ordinary tea and moved on to green tea and white tea during the day and only camomile after three in the afternoon. What a difference it made . I sleep much better now and not having all the added sugar and milk all helped me in losing three stones and keeping it off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rad Posted September 27, 2012 Share Posted September 27, 2012 I used to take sugar or sweetener in both tea and coffee. I drink a lot of coffee in coffee shops and those stirrers don't stir the sugar, so I found I was drinking coffee as it was with a nasty sweet residue at the end - so I stopped bothering sweetening coffee. Whenever other people made me cups of tea they kept forgetting to sweeten it with anything (and sweeteners and sugar regularly vanish from our work kitchen anyway) so I stopped taking it in tea. Neither was by choice but I'm OK with both being unsweetened now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SevenRivers Posted September 27, 2012 Share Posted September 27, 2012 I used to have two sugars in tea but started to feel like it left a slight sugary coating in my mouth and left me still thirsty, tea with no sugar started to feel much more refreshing and thirst quenching. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plain Talker Posted September 27, 2012 Share Posted September 27, 2012 I went the weaning route too and it worked like a charm . Now I can't bear the taste of sweet tea . I didn't stop with tea though. I stopped adding sugar to my porridge and cereals too. Took a little while longer to get used to but now I can't imagine eating them sweetened. Then I stopped drinking ordinary tea and moved on to green tea and white tea during the day and only camomile after three in the afternoon. What a difference it made . I sleep much better now and not having all the added sugar and milk all helped me in losing three stones and keeping it off. I didn't wean, I went cold turkey on sugar in my tea. I don't have sugar on my cereal, either, ( ). I haven't had sweetened tea for over thirty years. My ex-blokes mother used to pour the sugar into the cup, straight out of the bag, and when I measured it, it was about 7 spoonsful in the bottom of the cup. Yuck. (She got though a whole 2lb bag of sugar in a day!!! ) I started asking for "just one spoonful" in the tea, but still got it with the cartloads poured into the tea. Rather than be impolite, and say something like "you daft old bat, what's up with measuring it out with a spoon!" I said oh I'm going to give up sugar, don't put me any in, at all". and that was it. no sugar in my tea! Now, if someone stirs my tea after sugaring theirs, I can taste the sugar, even in those small amounts, and it tastes totally vile to me. I rarely drink coffee, as I find it too bitter to drink without sugar, and I dislike it with sugar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davyboy Posted September 27, 2012 Share Posted September 27, 2012 Gave up sugar in 1968 to support my wife who was pregnant and was putting on too much weight.Doc told her to give up sugar. Tea tastes disgusting with it. I drink coffee white no sugar, black 1 teaspoon but I'm cutting back to none. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
top4718 Posted September 27, 2012 Share Posted September 27, 2012 Stopping having sugar in tea is the first (and usually only) reaction of the pretend diet brigade, as its the only form of pure sugar you intake its the most showy example available. I've known so called dieters drink copious pints of lager while shunning this worthy addition to a nice cuppa. I take mine with a small teaspoon full and i'm sticking with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sarah1 Posted September 27, 2012 Share Posted September 27, 2012 I was a kid aged about 10 when I decided to stop having sugar in my tea.. I have no idea why, I just did.. Now, the slightest taste of sugar in my tea or coffee and I gag.. I love a strong cuppa tea made with 2 tea bags, brewed for quite a bit (I often leave it brewing whilst hanging the washing out), then just a dribble of milk.. Lovely.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronthenekred Posted September 27, 2012 Share Posted September 27, 2012 Get stuffed... I like sweet tea ....and curly teeth. Tea is gross. Kissing a woman just after she's downed a cuppa.:gag: (I really did just wretch) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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