Artificial sweetners

[NoMoreChubby 12]

I am a HUGE fan of stevia. I mostly use a powdered brand called "Steviva" and the ingredients say: "100% pure stevia leaf extract". You can get it on Amazon. Ever since I discovered that my migraine-like headaches were being caused by aspartame, I'm all for natural sweeteners. I love agave nectar, too.

Edited January 2, 2014 by NoMoreChubby

[planetheather 137]

I've given up sweeteners in most of my daily food. I'm allergic to Splenda, which is in almost everything. Thankfully, I can have Stevia, which is in the Protein powder that I use. That's the only place I still get a sweetener and I usually mix it 1:1 with an unflavored egg white powder to cut how sweet it is. Thank you for this discussion. My husband is not overweight but has Type2 diet-controlled diabetes and is an addict to the splenda-loaded popsicles.

[SuperFab 689]

Good discussion. I know I worry about how much artificial sweeteners I use on a daily basis. This summer when I was newly sleeved and coming off a severe diet coke addiction I allowed myself to drink lots of crystal light. In Sept I gave that up. However I have decided for now I will keep using the sweeteners. I like the Protein powder I use most and I plan on using it till I reach goal. When I get to goal I plan on re evaluating and experimenting with natural sweeteners. I am curious to hear other's thoughts too. Thanks to y'all for sharing and thanks GG for the sweetener chart. Very informative.

They're hard to find but crystal lite has a few flavors sweetened with stevia called crystal lite pure.

April

[sheilarae 84]

That's good to know. I'll be looking.

[michelle68 46]

I just found something made with Stevia to flavor water..its called Stur...you can go to Amazon and put that into the search engine and it comes right up. I just got some....good replacement for crystal light. Its a subtle flavor, but I am very happy with it.

[shadylady_57 54]

I just found something made with Stevia to flaor Water..its called Stur...you can go to Amazon and put that into thr search engine and it comes right up. I just got some....good replacement for crystla light. Its a subtle flavor, but I am very happy with it.

Sobe Life Water is made with Stevia, I've used Stevia for about 4 yrs now, can't stand anything else

[michelle68 46]

I just found something made with Stevia to flaor Water..its called Stur...you can go to Amazon and put that into thr search engine and it comes right up. I just got some....good replacement for crystla light. Its a subtle flavor, but I am very happy with it.

Sobe Life Water is made with Stevia, I've used Stevia for about 4 yrs now, can't stand anything else

I will ck it out too ...thanks

[shadylady_57 54]

It's my new cola fix lol, I love the grapeberry flavor,and coconut Water, they also have coconutand orange not as good, they have several flavors to try.