How to beat the TEA

OK I need some healthier alternatives to sweet tea...I'm a total addict but drinking plain ole water all freaking day kills me.....Makes me dehydrate b/c I'd rather not drink anything....Help plz!!!

Buy the passion tea from Starbucks (in the box). Starbucks has a passion tea lemonade. I make the tea at home and mix it with a bit of Crystal Light lemonade (the tea is pretty bitter). It's sweet and tasty.

I'm from the south where the sweet tea is wonderful.  I had switched to unsweetened and for a long time it was fine.  Now, I have discovered ice water with a lemon wedge.  It is wonderful and I find a great substitute.  Of course, I love anything lemon. 

How about some sun tea with lemons?  No sugar added to it.

It's definitely one of my weaknesses, but if I drink tea at a restaurant (NEVER at home...it's strange...) I put in a packet of Sweet n Low.  I never put any other sweetener in my tea. 

At home however, I just go for unsweetened.  Maybe you should try a really high-quality tea?  I love Tejava tea which is microbrewed and costs about $1.50 for a liter.  Or try fruit (non tea leaf based) teas or green teas.

I LOVE my red rose orange pekkoe decafe tea... is that sweet tea? I hardly add sugar to it. I love tea... specially home made iced tea! YUM!

I love sweet tea also.  I usually go through about a half gallon a day.  I trained myself to get used to it sweetened with splenda instead of sugar.  I used to hate artificial sweetners, but I got used to it surprisingly fast.  Saved me a ton of calories, and is one of the main factors in my being able to maintain my 70 pound weight loss for the past 2 years.

I think water is over-rated.  I only drink water when I am exercising, which I about 4 times a week, more or less. 

I'm assuming this "sweet tea" you are referring to is just regular (orange pekoe) tea that is chilled plus sugar?  In Canada iced tea always comes sweetened!

I get these really nice fruit herbal teas - zero calories - zero sugar.

I buy a sampler box with different flavours in it.  Any brand works but I get Celestial Seasonings because they give me the option of different flavours in one box.

It comes with raspberry, cranberry, apple, peach & tangerine. They are good hot or "iced" cold. The fruity flavour is a nice change from regular water and even though I love my green teas and orange pekoe I like the non-caffeine option of the fruit teas (plus a lighter fresher fruitier flavour!)

Edit: You are probably more addicted to the sugar than you know! Sugar is very addictive. More so than some drugs.  It will likely take some serious dedication to wean yourself off the sugary drinks! But you can do it!

I always end up making regular lipton hot tea with one sweet n low packet and i just wait til it cools off...

I don't know if this is an option and I have never tried it before but i know crystal light has those little packets u can put in water to make it flavored and i believe that they are sweetened with sweet n low or splenda...i think they are called crystal light on the go.