I find that sometimes just drinking water a lot my mouth gets a nasty taste so I bought me some sugar free baskin robins cookie and cream hard candy. Is it ok to have these????

Good for you!

Sanity is worth fighting for.

I think many of us stray outside the fences of fanatical weight loss orthodoxy. I know that I will take a bite of just about anything to assure myself that I am not in a straight-jacket. The difference now is that I do not keep biting' date=' I savor the bite and go on with my life without slamming destructive quantities.

I do not want to lose my losing. [/quote']

I'm with you on that one.

It makes me sad, all the people on here who say "I was at a birthday party and I couldn't resist -- I ate 2 bites of birthday cake!! I am such a failure!!". That's just not realistic to me.

It's great if you are in frame of mind to decline the cake and are planning to hit the gym before bedtime, but life doesn't always work like that.

I use stevia for sweetener' date=' it's all natural. I have vanilla and chocolate and original for my shakes and I'm going to order the stevia drinks also. I stopped the crystal light because it is so bad for u and can stall weightloss. Totally different than hard candy but I wanted to add that in there because hard candy even if it's sugar free really is worst for u because of the sugar alcohols and carbs, and everything else lol.[/quote']

Can you explain in more detail why Crystal

light can stall a weight loss?

Thanks!

Can you explain in more detail why Crystal

light can stall a weight loss?

Thanks!

Crystal light is made from artificial sweeteners and contains aspartame, IMO it's like having soda without the carbonation. I talked to my doctor and he said I shouldn't be using artificial anymore once I got to solid foods. It was ok during the liquid stages but now I should be drinking Water and unsweetened tea, I am allowed stevia since its all natural. You can google artificial sweeteners and it gets into more detail.