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Just drink the coffee black. Weight loss takes sacrifice I realized. I used to drink it with light cream and sugar, but I wanted to lose weight more than I wanted to be fat. You get used to it in a few days especially ifs all you can have other than water on a 3 day fast.. I now drink it with a splash of half/half and it is very good.

BlondieJenn75 wrote: »

Just starting Keto, and was wondering what everyone's preferred sweetener is? Unfortunately mine was Splenda, so I need to find a new one. I refuse to drink coffee without some kind of sweetener 😂😂 Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! 😁😁

Splenda spikes my blood sugar, and because I have type 2 diabetes and insulin resistance, it is not the best sweetener for me. I've heard a bunch of people on low-carb diets say the same. Another complaint is (that I can agree with to some extent) is that artificial sweeteners can still trigger sugar/carb cravings and still activate that brain chemistry. It can knock some people out of ketosis, too.

I'm not specifically on Keto, never read like a Keto book or anything, but how I eat is closest to Keto than any other... specifically "dirty/lazy/cheap" Keto .

But it came down to it where I realized after giving up all added sugars, all grains, any high-starch veggies and fruits, etc.-- my artificial sweeteners in coffee & snacks were still tripping me up.

I thought I could give them up in everything but my daily coffee. Now, COFFEE is the sweet elixir of life for me. When I wake up and smell it brewing I practically hear choirs of angels singing. I couldn't even think about food or going anywhere until I had at least 2 cups.

I've been addicted to it since I was 14, so 40 years, long before the first modern coffee shop ever sprang up in Seattle. I thought it unfathomable to drink coffee without sweetener. It had been hard enough switching from sugar to sweetener and then lowering the amount of sweetener!!!

But give it up? NEVER!!!!! or so I thought.

So I gave up sweeteners except for coffee-- even cut down to 2 cups per day, one sweetener pack per cup.

It still tripped me up-- blood sugar spikes, sugar cravings, ketosis negative, etc.

Then I finally sucked it up, went high fat and gave up the daily sweeteners too... At first I'd sporadically down an oz or two of black coffee like a shot, just to avoid the caffeine headaches. Gross, but a valiant attempt to make do.

Then, I started putting 2 tbsp of heavy cream in my coffee. And hey, we had something there...

Within 2 weeks, I preferred it that way. Turned out the creaminess factor was more delicious than the sweetness factor.

Then I started experimenting with fats in coffee-- whipping in a tbsp of butter or tbsp of coconut oil using my stick blender. At first it sounded cray cray, but it's da bomb.

My fave breakfast coffee now is taking a raw egg and tbsp of butter, then using my stick blender on high speed to whisk them as I pour in boiling-hot coffee (to cook the egg). It gets so creamy and frothy, I find it delicious and satiating. REALLY keeps any sweet cravings at bay, I almost never get sweet cravings anymore. Everything naturally tastes sweeter to me, even vegetables.

I haven't completely given up sweeteners altogether-- I'll use some every now and then for a little treat, like making low-carb cookies or something. And I don't worry as much about which one I do use, as I don't think using them sparingly is gonna hurt. Though I personally found things like allulose & stevia the least blood sugar affecting, I'll still grab Splenda on occasion simply because I still have a big box of it in the closet.

But I never need it in my coffee anymore, and I don't even miss it!!! If I could time-travel back and tell that to myself a few months ago, my past self would have laughed her *kitten* off at that insinuation and protested with all her might

neanderthin wrote: »

MacLowCarbing wrote: »

BlondieJenn75 wrote: »

Just starting Keto, and was wondering what everyone's preferred sweetener is? Unfortunately mine was Splenda, so I need to find a new one. I refuse to drink coffee without some kind of sweetener 😂😂 Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! 😁😁

Splenda spikes my blood sugar, and because I have type 2 diabetes and insulin resistance, it is not the best sweetener for me. I've heard a bunch of people on low-carb diets say the same. Another complaint is (that I can agree with to some extent) is that artificial sweeteners can still trigger sugar/carb cravings and still activate that brain chemistry. It can knock some people out of ketosis, too.

This isn't backed by science. Sugars along with calories cause blood sugar increases, period. Keep in mind that blood glucose and insulin are two completely different things. Sweeteners on their own also don't kick someone out of ketosis.

LOL yeah, because science has never been wrong in the history of the world, especially when it comes to diet.

There have never been conflicting studies, reports, or scientific opinions.

Individual metabolisms are all absolutely identical and there are never any variations between two different human beings.

And anyone and everyone who has results that go against that perfect, heavenly scientific claim is 100% lying or stupid, even when they are using a continuous glucose monitor and doing controlled experiments to see what different things do to their body.

Okay... you keep believing that. You do you.

BTW there are studies out there backing up that artificial sweeteners can affect blood sugar, if you wanna do research it is there you just have to google it.

I like Stevia and Monk fruit the best