Thank you for clarifying the details.

I drink far less diet soda and cystal lite than I used too. At times it is the lesser of 2 evils.

Doing much better with drinking plain water--because the artifical ly sweetened drinks taste Very sweet now.

On another thread, the factoid is that artificail sweeteners hike the insulin levels, and the CAD focus is to keep insulin very low. Atkins allow for 3 servings of artificail sugar a day. Me thinks keeping that to the RM would be beneficail.

Thoughts?