Fri, Sep-12-08, 06:41
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For Real This Time
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Plan: SB (Sorta Beachy)
Stats: 272/260/165
BF:
Progress: 11%
Location: Long Island, NY
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Diet soda/artificial sweetener question?
Just wondering what everyone thinks about using artificial sweeteners on a low-carb diet.
I've been addicted to diet cola for years. Tried many times over the years to quit drinking it, because of all the bad things I've read about artificial sweeteners. I just quit again, about a week before I started the South Beach diet.
I have definitely noticed that when I don't drink it, I don't feel like myself. (Can't concentrate, get headaches, etc) This is what usually makes me start drinking it again. However, on a positive note, when I don't drink it, I feel like my carb cravings decrease quite a bit. I guess the artificial sweetener is messing with me, and making me crave the real thing. (I've read that somewhere, don't remember where)
Does anyone else have these issues with artificial sweeteners? Do you use them on your LC plan, or avoid them? I pretty much only use 2 products in my everyday life with artificial sweetener - soft drinks (diet cola or iced tea), and lite yogurt. Haven't had the diet cola at all since I started LCing, and have had a little of the iced tea and 1 artificially sweetened yogurt. South Beach seems to allow them in moderation, but I wonder if I'm better off avoiding them as much as possible?
I do like unsweetened iced tea with lemon, so I'm trying to make that as much as possible, but the sweetened mixes are more convenient, so I've still been drinking some of that too.
Oh yeah, I forgot - I also use a packet of sweetener if I drink hot tea (a couple of times a week right now, but when winter comes I ditch the iced tea and drink a lot more hot tea)
Thanks in advance for any advice you may have on the subject.
Last edited by donnaliz67 : Fri, Sep-12-08 at 06:48.
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