Could you try a less usual tea, maybe berry flavour, or mint, liquorice - or use al little lemon juice?
I've just discovered a dandelion, fennel, ginger and liquorice tea from Waitrose it's just got a lovely hint of liquorice in it. I'm not a herbal tea lover normally I prefer very very weak normal tea - but ditched milk years ago. Waitrose own brand teas, including peppermint that I love, are 1.15 per pack so not too bad although they were a pound a pack until recently!
I have a cupboard full of herbal teas couldn't live with out them, especially fennel crushed in a pestle and mortal bunged into a sieve then add to hot water with a dash of lemon - yum.
That stuff is vile! I'll stick to my builders tea lol!
I’m not a medical person, nor have I heard of the diet you talk about, but 800cals caught my eye and my brain said ‘that sounds dangerous’. A normally healthy, reasonably active person needs around 2000kcals a day (depending on size, weight and loads of other things), so that makes 800 look very little. I’d love to know more about it to find out if I’m jumping to erroneous assumptions or not... (trots off to see what Mr Google knows via Diabetes UK).
It's very low cal, yes, but it's not intended to be a long-term thing, from what I understand. Off the top of my head 6 to 8 weeks or something. Beyond that it would indeed lead to malnourishment, but as a crash diet, it works. After that you have to find something that's sustainable in the long run though.
Maybe switch? Cream in tea, (needs less, still flavorful and fewer carbs), tea without, coffee... I take other stuff too, diluted tomato juice with a sprinkle of salt which seems a bit like soup, broth, make my own tea with lemonbalm and lavender, water with some lemon in, warm or cold, use some tisane I get from amazon.de, watered down coconut milk with cocoa etc.... I have to drink more than I normally would, (kidney stones....) so I just vary a lot with what I take in. Otherwise it'd be all tea, all the time. But my kidneys don't like Earl Grey and chais anymore, alas. All in all though.... You don't have to dump all tea-with-milk. Just have one or two? And fill the rest of the day up with other things?I take a lot of milk in tea, and I drink a lot of tea. Have to change that habit
We use fully skimmed long life milk from Aldi or Lidl (100Kcal per 1/2 pint), being long life it's creamier than fresh fully skimmed milk making it very similar to fresh semi-skimmed milk in taste and consistency.
