Addicted to Crystal Light

idk if it is bad for you.. but it is mixed with water & you are drinking a ton of that, soooo... lol.. I use a lot of crystal light also, but I have the packets.. not sure exactly how many I use in a day though... I do hope you get some helpful feedback though

Depends on what you mean by a container. Is it the big cylinder full, or the little box?

some people might say the aspartame is bad for you but there are a lot more worse things you can be putting into your body! The amount you are using drinking crystal light is probably minimal....you are doing your body more good in my opinion if it is helping you drink that much water.

Im with you. I drink crystal light almost every day. It helps me get my water in.

Oh, that's not all that bad, but if you feel like it's bad, then don't drink so much. Your body tells you what it needs.

Just for the record, it Crystal Lite does not contain aspartame, it contains sucralose. I am badly addicted to it myself and have been doing research on it this morning. That's how I found this thread. I used to drink water exclusively and it completely satisfied me, but now water does not quench my thirst, only Crystal Lite. Also I seem to have developed a wicked sweet tooth, which I never used to have, and a considerable increase in belly fat. Bummer! However, the real proof to me is that my poor husband, who is tall and has always had a slender body type, has been puzzled and dismayed by having put on nearly 20 pounds right in his midsection. It just clicked with me that it's the Crystal Lite! I appear to have gotten him addicted as well to the ever-present pitcher of peach and lemon iced tea flavored Crystal Lite. I feel just awful! That @#$% has got to go. When my diet is tightly controlled, I don't seem to have a problem with weight gain when drinking this stuff, but my food choices run to the uncharacteristically sweet when my eating habits are, shall we say, unchained. You may not have much of a problem until you hit your 50's like me. I read through a lot of questionable and sloppily written information before I found something credible. Here is that link: http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/04/26/major-media-finally-exposes-splendas-lies.aspx

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I used to love their peach mango green tea. I'd make a pitcher of it and go through it in a day or two.. I realized it had the sucralose too so I kicked the habit. When I want something sweet like tea, I will use Tazo Passionfruit tea mixed with cold water, and add some lemon. A packet of stevia makes it quite sweet!

.......which by the way means that you should only be counting each glass you have as half a glass of water.

just curious why each glass would only count as half a glass?

My question as well.

I'm going to whisper the word toxins. Maybe they secretly eat up half of the water you put them in. Sneaky hobbitses.

By the time I finish writing this response you will be dead.

Condolences to your family.
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I can't handle aspartame at all. It gives me chest pains. No joke, I was so confused as to why I was having chest pains, read some stuff online about aspartame causing that in some people, immediately quit the stuff and the chest pains have never come back!!

I stick to water and the occasional tea with honey.

Crystal light contains aspartame which is not good for you so drinking that much in 1 day is definitely not good for your health. I'm not judging, I have/had the same issue with diet coke and now I am on to the crystal light energy packets... I am going to try the a drink called SPARKLING ICE, it is naturally sweetened and still has no calories.

My husband suffers from really bad migraines and has to see a neurologist. The neurologist told him to stay away from Crystal Light specifically because it triggers migraines. I had an epiphany moment. My husband didn't drink Crystal Light but my 13 year old did and she suffered from headaches too. I made her kick the Crystal Light habit and her headaches diminished. They didn't go away altogether but she wasn't getting nearly as many as she had been.

From my experience, the ratio of Crystal Light powder to water makes the stuff taste a bit strong for my preference- one good way to back off the Crystal Light if you decide that's what your body needs would be to just use like half a packet in that quart of water. Your water will still be lightly flavored, just stick a paper clip on that bad boy and use the other half the next day. It'll save you money, and you'll be ingesting less of the dreaded aspartame, which means your guts won't implode anytime soon.