Hi Diane, I would not beat yourself up over having one a day of that tea!! I used to have tea all day and chelated the mercury regardless. I think though it is better to have herbal tea, even if the herbal tea may have some caffeine, just keep it low if you can.

sugar is the worst of these. It'll feed the yeast inside your body, which will then give off more of it's toxins inside your gut, then the liver and interferring with healing and detoxing.

I would pat yourself on the back with what you have achieved. It is not easy at all to give up addictive substances and takes a long time to start turning things around. I think if you need something like that tea to help you and give you a boost as you get off the sugars etc, then all power to you. The diet coke? I'd watch that becuase of the asparatame (hope I have spelt that right), very bad stuff.

It is hard I know. It does take time to get these things out of your system, plus as you detox and heal, things can get worse temporarily. If you need at least something to help, then take it, or you will cave in much worse.

Some people find they may need to do the diet more slowly. So they may need to eat a little fruit or grain at first, until they can eliminate those as well. Once someone is well enough, they can bring them back in the diet again on a limited basis. Doing too much at once can definitely cause a lot of symptoms. And some people really get hit hard with fatigue, depression, all sorts of issues.

Great if you can hang in there and go through it, and the bit of tea is not a sin!!!