I have been doing some reading and I found that splenda or sucralose can cause fluid retention. So now I am wondering if splenda is responsible for my 1 month plateau. The stall coincides with my recent obsession with 4C water flavoring with splenda. I drink about 5 packets a day. It really helps me drink more water. Does anyone have any thoughts on this? Anyone with fluid retention or weight stall/gain and artificial sugars?

It does for me, but it's because I do low carb and, while it says there are <1gm in *half* a packet, that means there could be .9gm or almost 2gm carbs in one packet and who the heck uses half a packet anyway?

If you drink 5 of them a day, that would be 10 carbs. A lot if your daily limit is 20-30.

Fluid retention isn't really a stall.

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Thank you. I do follow low carb. I stay under 60 carbs. Yesterday I tried to go cold turkey from the silence.... Dang it felt like withdrawal. How do I get rid of the bloat? Also is there a better alternative to flavoring my water

If you think the Splenda is causing water retention, have you tried putting fruit in your water? I just read this somewhere and tried it and was pleasantly surprised. I've always put lemons or lime in a jug of water for about 30-60 minutes (then removed the fruit) to give it a flavor, but someone told me to do the same with other fruits (strawberries, grapes, melon, kiwi, etc.) or even cucumber. I've done mint leaves as well.

My doctor never had a problem with carbonation so I also drank the Faygo flavored waters. No carbs because there's no artificial sweetener. I love the pink grapefruit!

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Try using TrueLemon, or pure lemon juice. Maybe try some sort of stevia product.

Speaking for myself only, I am a fan of splenda, and I drink it in my ice tea and have managed to carve off 65#, but not without hard work. Now if i could figure out how to change the damn ticker tape, I would be fine..Its hard when I keep forgetting the password........

It hasn't been a problem for me.