Sorbitol and stuff.

[fatkitty]

Arizona is making these great new, touted low carb iced teas. very very tasty, sweetened with splenda as well as sorbitol. However after reading Dr Bernstiens, (still not all the way thru) section on sweeteners, i see that sorbitol is a big no-no.

now im checking everything to see what IM eating. lot of stuff says "sugar alchohols" but are not specific, Is sorbitol a sugar alchohol?

I have been having a rough few weeks, due largely in part to avid consumption of carrots and a new "lo carb" chip snack whose ingredients I likened to Atkins crunchers and the onset of a troublesome menstruation. I gained 5 pounds almost over night, and I am back down 4. I have been exercising like crazy but getting depressed.

I have PCOS, anyone else here afflicted with this? my menses has been regular since my metaformin treatment, but hardcore emotionally (and physically) and i also want to eat everything in sight for about 5 days. AHH!!! I'd like to hear from anyone else with PCOS, anyone who has tried Inzotol, and what you do to get through this time. Between my crying over every commercial and bad movie, and trying to eat anything that isn't nailed down, its been a tough October.

:help

[Coop2004]

Hi fatkitty, :wave

FYI, sorbitol is a sugar alcohol.

Linda (Coop)

[2big4mysize]

your wanting to eat everything that isn't nailed down is a very natural thing for all humans. Our brains have a wealth of information about how things effect us and has a system of filing that stores info on what foods have done for us in the past both emotionally and physically. Our Brain as a chemist knows what foods we have eaten in the past that have mimiced certain neurotransmitters to evoke responces. You are blue your brain accesses this filing system and says eat this. it will make you feel better. Streesed eat this it will calm you.
What we emotional eater need to do is reprogram our brains to use other things as medicine when we experience these feelings. Ignore it and your brain will try harder to force you to heal yourself. Get through it without reverting to that food and that neural pathway will weaken this is the concept of exercising your willpower to make it stronger comes frome.
You can find things to substitute like exercise as that uses up many of the chenicals being produces that are stressing you out right now in a productive manner. distraction with water, a book or talking with some one even posting here can help you get through it. I use my treadmill and walk away the food wantings. Whatever you think will work most likely will work.

Whatever you do it will not be an instant cure you car going to have to do it and keep doing it as you retrain your brain. You can do it. We have a board ful of folk who have over come TOM cravings too.

[fatkitty]

thank you, your words are very comforting and moreover they make alot of sense. what I was thinking of as a hormonal response, was my intellectual response to the emotions the hormones are making me feel, and food most definately has posed as an old friend for some time now. actively breaking that habit, or molding that habit into a more beneficial one is something that I can tackle, not just respond to blindly.

on a darker note, I just received the quaterly diabetes flyer from Kaiser, chock full of tips and "helpful suggestions" it makes me shake with anger as it denounces the notion that a highy carb diet is bad, and that insulin merely carries the sugar from blood to cells but has no other effect on us. it cautions us to keep our blood level to 150 (as acceptable) prior to eating, and that low fat or no fat foods should be our goal. the highlight recipie is for chocolate chip meringue drops that includes 4 oz of sugar and 4 oz of chocolate chips. it makes me crazy. the goal is to delay complications, not forestall! :smackhead :speechle: :bang

i feel somewhat like a soldier fighting this battle on my physiology and I am not pleased that the health institution i give big bucks to is soooooooooo irresponsible. gratefully, my physician supports my quest and can see the improvements and is monitoring me to keep my health in check, but sugars most importantly.

okay. off the soap box now, and I am obivously feeling better :joy :guns :joy