Artificial Sweeteners - Friend or Foe? - 01.09.08 - D21P3R3

LIW - 175.4 lbs (12/17/07)
Today's Weight - 178.2 lbs
2.8 OVER LIW

Here is my menu for yesterday. This is what I had:

Breakfast: 2 Scrambled Eggs with Coffee and Cream
Mid Morning Snack: Egg Salad (2 eggs with mayo, s&p)
Lunch: 2 Egg Omelet with a slice of Swiss Cheese
The Rest of the Day: 4 Deviled Eggs (made with mayo, mustard and SF Relish, s&p)

A total of around 1135 calories divided this way: 84 Fat, 17 Carbs, 72 Protein - I would call my "Egg Day" a success!!! WOO HOO FOR ME!

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Stalls, Gains and Cravings - What to do? P2 Experience Only

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Artificial Sweeteners - Friend or Foe?

So what prompted this discussion? Doing a little bit of research yesterday, I felt it would be in the best interest of my readers to delve into this topic. Who am I kidding? I have been blind way too long on the effects of Artificial Sweeteners and it's time I understood them better. What better way than to spend a few days on this topic. I am learning a lot, and I would feel remiss if I didn't share it with you!

Based on our P2 and P3 experience, and based on the fact that many have 'sweet cravings', I felt this an important topic to consider. I offer NO recommendation on which sweetener you should use, this is a decision you must make for yourself. I am just providing information, and probably some commentary on MY views, but they are to be taken as just that, MY VIEWS! I AM NOT A DOCTOR NOR AM I A SCIENTIST, just a run of the mill Mom trying to learn about stuff that I bring into this house for my family to eat. These views are MY OWN.

The one thing I have noticed is that there sure are a lot of "chemical" names for this stuff, names and words I don't understand, so I chose to find explanations for these terms in a way that I can understand what is going on. And I figure if I break it down so that even "I" can understand it, it might prove helpful to others as well.

For the purpose of this series of articles, I am going to concentrate on true "Artificial Sweeteners" - in other words, those sugar substitutes that are not natural. In the future, I will provide a series on the "natural" sugar substitutes. I want to define different types of "Artificial Sweeteners" that are available now, or have been available in the past. The order I am placing these in are of no significance, it's just how I stumbled on the information.

The first one I will concentrate on, to begin this series will be Aspartame. If any of you out there have any interesting links to information about Aspartame, please feel free to drop me a line and let me know. I must ask one thing tho, please do not send me anything from Dr Mercola's site. I understand that a lot of you out there put extreme trust in this man and his views, but I don't feel the same way. To me, he is too much of a doomsday operator, and I prefer to rest my conclusions on facts, and not just feelings.

There are many ways to contact me, either by using the TagBoard up on my left side bar, or the contact form on my right side bar, or leave a comment here - or use this new fangled thing I came up with! ROFL

Isn't that just positively neato??? WOO HOO FOR ME!


On to my commenter's - these are my responses to yesterday's comments:

Mary - You are too funny! Isn't it interesting tho, even tho you have eaten pretty much as you pleased, you seem to be maintaining around 6 or 7 lbs above LIW - there is something to be said for that. In some of the clinics I have contacted and asked questions to, I have found that most of them say you should figure around a 5 - 7 pound range when you are at goal. That normal people usually experience those kinds of fluxes. Interesting eh? I need to look into that more.

EweWho - I am SO GLAD YOUR BACK! I sure have missed you! I almost wrote you the other day, because I made those AWFUL COOKIES that I gave you the recipe for, OMG - they were so AWFUL - I have to keep telling myself that so I don't make them again! Believe me, I am DRIPPING SARCASM! I had to beg the kids to hurry up and finish them, I didn't want them around anymore!

Misto - Yes, my "egg day" is my alternative to a steak day. I have only done one steak day, and it was a total bust, I didn't lose an ounce. So I opted to try something I did while I was on Atkins to kick start weight loss, and as you can see it works like a charm every time! It's so much easier for me to do this than the steak day. The steak day was about the hardest thing I have ever had to do while on this protocol, yes, even harder than 500 cals a day!

CB - Yup, my eye is always on the prize! I can't wait to join you on P2!!! Yup, I am getting ready!

B - I will be on my way later this morning to visit your post, maybe you have given me some insight on the whole deviation experience. It's funny B, I don't have these kinds of cravings on the P2 portion, and it's really only been this round that my sweet cravings have kicked in. Very weird.

Have a WONDERFUL DAY!

Biz