hey barbo,

along with eating before grocery shopping, try to eat a handful of nuts.

There is a planter's nut-rition (South Beach Diet recommended---note, I am not endorsing the South beach diet for I am on SEE Food diet---but I always loved nuts)

eating a handful of nuts can curb your appetite, have more protein to make you less hungry.

all those calories from the sweets...gulp...I worry more about your possible diabetes and heart...

just to SCARE you about what they can do TO you...

pics of diabetic foot ulcers (my grandmother had them eventually)

heart

the trick might also not to go cold turkey but cutting back.

For example, keep a note on how much sweet teas you drink a day. If you usually drink 8 glasses, drink 4 for three days, then 2....subsitute the rest with water.

Also, we dilute our teas. Starting with just 1/3 cup to 1/2 then 2/3 to now, almost no sweet tea. We usually do 1/3 sweet tea and 2/3 unsweetened tea.

Some calls this the "Arnold Palmer" but he likes it 1/2 and 1/2 of each sweet and unsweetened.