Is sweet tea ever allowed again- It's a Southern Thing

My reaction to sweet tea is to spit it out, eeeewwwww gross, tea with sweetener is disgusting to me.  I love ice tea, live on it actually but polluting with any sweetener is completely wrong.  Loads of lemon inhabit my tea, unlikely many could handle my love of lemons, I pick them all out and eat them.  Just thinking about unsweetened tea with lemon makes my mouth water, yummmm, if it wasn't for the caffeine and diuretic nature of lemon I would have some now but I would rather sleep tonight.  My answer to your question is if you start drinking sugar sweetened tea and you dump you are going to wish you died and if you don't dump I don't see how anyone could possibly drink all those calories and lose weight, you might as well drink soda it is just as bad.  Try all the artificial sweeteners, something has to work for you, or convert to my world of unsweetened tea with lots of lemon.  I typically cut up two full lemons per twenty ounce cup.  Yummy.

I love me some sweet tea and have had a sip here and there (charging myself for the calories, of course)...but when I want to have a full glass, I opt for the non nutritive sweeteners.  I prefer Equal in my hot tea and Splenda in my iced tea.  I find that if I put the splenda in while its still hot (to get it to dissolve, like you would with sugar), the flavor is no bueno.  I've actually started using Torani Sugar Free syrup instead--It's made with splenda and acts like a triple sec so you can wait til the drink is cold and pour it in to taste. Same with the other sugar free flavored syrups.  If the artificial sweetener taste on its own stands out too much for you, try a sugar free raspberry or peach syrup maybe?

I never even thought of using the toroni syrups!! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

I FREAKING LOVE YOU!

Soooo, Im a fellow southerner, and I have been drinking Sweet Tea and Coke my entire life, im pretty sure my Mom put it in my bottle. I was the girl that got Sweet Tea at a Resturaunt and then added MORE Sweetener to it. Since surgery Ive had to deal with the same thing, I haven't tried Regular Sweet Tea yet, and I wont. I order unsweetened tea with lemon and I add atleast 3 or 4 Sweet N Lows to it. NOW. People have been yelling at me about using Sweet N Low, because it can give you cancer and yadda yadda yadda. Well in my opinion Im pretty sure having a few Sweet N Lows instead of Sweet Tea WITH MORE Sweetener, is a better option. I dont think Sweet N Low has the bitter aftertaste of Splenda...Splenda I cannot do. I also get the Iced Passion Tea at Starbucks. Its not your true Southern Sweet Tea, but it is absolutely DEEELICIOUS. Also..Im a huge fan of lemon like someone else had mentioned. I have to have atleast 2 wedges in my glass...If your a lemon fan maybe Try a Diet Arnold Palmer?

I'm going to be honest here and say that I have been drinking sweet tea like it's going out of style for the past month. In my defense, I'm pregnant, so I have crazy cravings, and a Southerner, so it's in my blood. I don't have it as sweet as most Southerners do. Also, like others have said, I know it's not a good choice and isn't something I would continue to do long term.

 I gave it all up when I made the decision to have surgery..do I miss it?? Heck yeah!! I even tried a diet sunkist this past week cause I thought I could handle it but I didn't like it.....my favorite drink now is unsweetened tea with Lemon from McAllisters Deli, I put in two sweet-n-lows, one equal and one splenda...offsets the bite of the sweet-n-lows and the lemon offsets the bites of all of it...it's not bad and almost fools you....plus like others said, do you really want to consume that much sugar and calories...trust me, I'm 11 months out....the hunger returns, the tummy doesn't stay small but there is still restriction but you have to restrict yourself too. 

It's all trial and error, even for me....still....hang in there!

Sherry

Hi! I am also 9 days post op. I haven't tried any iced tea yet but just from my experience with sweeteners (pre-op) I've found that if I use two different kinds it sort of tones down the sweetener aftertaste. For the past several years I've used one equal and one sweet and low in my coffee.