Pandora's Little Pink Packets

you have opened a can of worms here. there are those who will say--artificial sweetners are of the devil avoid at all costs- some will say-they are better than the alternative--being overweight and everything in between.

Here is my very humble opinion.


Wean your self off--slow as you need to-- use them for now, try to adapt your tastes to less sweet then try to use more natural sweetners ie Stevia or Agave ---but take your time.


Good Luck

Most of those artificial sweeteners are really bad for you especially aspartame. If you want to switch off sugar, try using the newer natural ones with stevia or use agave nectar. I am a recovering splenda addict myself...thought that splenda would be much healthier than the sugar and the other fake stuff but turns out it's not much better. My doctor advised me not to use it too. I finally got off it when I felt like I was having to constantly urinate - went to the dr who informed me that splenda, equal, sweet and low, etc are all bladder irritants. I don't care for alot of the stevia products - truvia, etc. BUT I started using "stevia in the raw" - it's in the baking aisle with all the other sugar and sweeteners. It's alot better - still get the benefit of no sugar and I don't have to pee every 5 minutes lol. As far as using too many, you'll get used to using less if you stick with it. Once you are used to not having so much of that "sweet" taste, everything else will start to taste too sweet. Just be careful with the artifical sweeteners -- they can cause a lot of problems and bad stuff.

The was last year when I talked with her - she told me to stop using "fake" stuff and use sugar and exercise it off. I'm hoping she'll be ok with the stevia b/c it's derived from a natural sweetener and is not as "chemically" like splenda and aspartame. My next visit isn't until september so we'll see what she says. My own experiment is that I ran out of stevia in the raw at home recently and decided to just use the rest of the splenda I had until I picked up more - after using the splenda for a couple of days, I had to pee all the time. Once I switched back to the stevia - I was fine so I think what she said was true. I was using sugar free flavored coffeemate which has splenda in it - so that coupled with the splenda packets was just too much artificial sweetener. I also pretty much have cut out drinking soda including diet soda and that seems to be a lot better too. I kind of feel like when you drink soda - it makes you want crappy food as well and so it's a bad trigger all around and diet soda is really bad too b/c of the asparatame. Good luck!!

Maybe try going cold turkey from anything sweet for a week. When you start eating sweet again everything will be so much more intense. I did that and think juice taste like sugar water, I only use the flavored creamer for my coffee, no extra sweet and an apple or orange will do the trick if I want a sweet thing.