Cutting Out Sweetner/Aspartame

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  • MysteriousMerlin
    MysteriousMerlin Posts: 2,270 Member
    I use regular sugar or honey for my tea and baking. I also use real butter instead of margarine crap. I'd rather workout a little more and make room in my diet for some of the good stuff than eat highly processed nonfat sugar free cardboard. I may lose weight slower than other people that cut all that stuff out, but I'm still losing weight and enjoying my chocolate bourbon pecan pie!

    Same here, I may lose it slower, but I'm happier being able to continue to bake (about 75% of my Christmas presents are homemade goodies).
    I use sugar/brown sugar for my baking, but I use less than the recipe calls for. For new recipes, I reduce it by a 1/3, then a half. When it starts affecting how the product bakes or tastes, I add a little back until I find a good balance for taste and presentation. I use unsalted butter for baking though. No subs. I don't keep margarine or shortening in the house.

    I still use Splenda in my coffee, but I have reduced the amount down to about 1 packet for 2 cups of coffee.
  • AmykinsCatfood
    AmykinsCatfood Posts: 599 Member
    Instead of cutting out all forms of sweeteners just replace them with stevia or honey/maple syrup! Natural and very good. I buy liquid stevia for my coffee and tea and even use it for baking with. It's awesome! As for things like soda and other calorie free drinks one every now and again won't hurt.
  • AmykinsCatfood
    AmykinsCatfood Posts: 599 Member
    Hey not all sugar free stuff tastes like cardboard- I made sugar free coconut oil christmas shortbread cookies and they tasted amazing! Just used stevia instead of sugar. Putting it in a blender turns it into powdered sugar for frostings.
  • flannery2012
    flannery2012 Posts: 58 Member
    Recently I had gotten in the 1-2 a day diet coke habit. Coincidentally I also started having pain in my right hip joint. Years ago I had the same thing when I was drinking a lot of diet Dr pepper. I quit my diet drinks "just to see" if it would help and within 3 days my hip pain was gone. I tried one drink a week later and within hours the pain was back. So, no it's not scientific proof, only anecdotal evidence, but I am done with aspartame.
  • MysteriousMerlin
    MysteriousMerlin Posts: 2,270 Member
    Recently I had gotten in the 1-2 a day diet coke habit. Coincidentally I also started having pain in my right hip joint. Years ago I had the same thing when I was drinking a lot of diet Dr pepper. I quit my diet drinks "just to see" if it would help and within 3 days my hip pain was gone. I tried one drink a week later and within hours the pain was back. So, no it's not scientific proof, only anecdotal evidence, but I am done with aspartame.

    Hmm...I've recently increased my physical activity, including lunges and squats, AND have cut way back on diet soda (about 1-20oz a week compared to 1 to 1.5 20oz bottles a day), and I have been noticing that my knees are not KILLING me like they have in the past. Before, I'd be in tears by the end of the day, but the most I've been getting now is a slight ache now and then. My ankles haven't been bothering me at all. I will need to do some research into a connection.

    Anyone else having less joint pain when cutting out artificial sweetners?
  • FredDoyle
    FredDoyle Posts: 2,273 Member
    When we eat something sweet the body recognises this and releases insulin into the blood stream to metabolise the glucose.
    The chemical makeup of these sweeteners is also in question and they have been linked to illnesses such as cancer and brain tumours as the toxins build up in the brain. They can also cause liver damage as the liver is under extra strain to filter these toxins out of the body.
    Benny
    naturopathy/nutrition student

    Benny here learned this in a naturopathy/nutrition program at an actual school. There are schools out there today actively teaching this to their students. Benny and her friends will graduate one day soon and go on to counsel actual, real people, with actual, real health concerns, about how and what to eat.

    :flowerforyou:

    Naturopathy...the sciency sounding pseudoscience.
    Scary, isn't it.
  • thatgirlkellib
    thatgirlkellib Posts: 150 Member
    I have always loved splenda, I did some homework about it because it made my bloat very bad, I read that it spikes you bloodsugar with the aspartame which release cortisol and that is chemical that stores fat! so I said bye-bye to that a long time ago! Now I have tried stevia in the raw and truvia I cannot get past the way truvia taste almost chemically tasting in hot beverages... stevia in the raw is about the best one I found. I have learned to go without all (no sweeteners) it for the most part, I totally feel much better.

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