I am Addicted to Sweetner

[iyamamaschke]

As of tomorrow I am gunna quit using sweetner and Just use plain ol foods and get rid of em that means no pop no nothing just Water. ANyone elese wanna give up this stuff. I am wondering if it is stalling me so I am gunna try it for 2 weeks and see. I have read some people have the exact same symptoms as me weight gain no loss for months and well I use too much of it and I will admit it openly.

Tomorrow is a new day to give up addictions

Sarah

[dotsamantha]

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Go for it Sarah!

[iyamamaschke]

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Thanks Samatha sitting here with water and a decaff coffie which tastes like crap without sweetner OH well if the weight starts melting off it will be well worth it I will let you all know my Progress.

Sarah

[iyamamaschke]

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This Article made me think twice about any sweetner
http://www.splendaexposed.com/
http://www.sweetpoison.com/aspartame-information.html

[loana]

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I saw the wieght go up after loosing like 7lbs the first three days and it was because of sodas.. I left the diet coke out and is been about 2 days and I lost about 1.5lbs already.. so I am not drinking it anymore

[iyamamaschke]

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COOL, I have been drinking soadas and using the packets in stuff and that's the only thing I haven't eliminated so I am going to see you all will be the first to know if it works.

Sarah

[loana]

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Good luck hun

[iyamamaschke]

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Thanks Loana I am one tough cookie if I can do this I can do anything.

Sarah

[loana]

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wohooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo that's the attitude!!!!! I have been a member of this board since april of this year and I have always looked up to you!!!!! I hope to loose as much weight as you have! You have done amazingly well!

[iyamamaschke]

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Thanks Loana you will do it just like I ahve 1 day at a time. I just keep on Chuggin may not be fast but, I get to where I am going and that's all that matters.

YOU GO GIRL!!!

Sarah

[2big4mysize]

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sarah while I agree being addicted to sweets is not good for weight control you just found out your thyroid meds were too low for the last 6 months or so and will be getting a metabolic boast from the medical correction of that.

you will not be able to tell if giving up anything else will have an actual positive or negative effect on your body until your thyroid hormones are back in normal range every day and it could take 6 weeks for that to stabilize. go slow kiddo and don't over correct yourself in your egarness to get smaller.
Sure concure your addiction but you truely will not know its effect on your weight issues until the thyroid is fixed.

[iyamamaschke]

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YA I know the Information I am reading is staggering and screy at the same time I really think it's better that I just don't have it I ahve eneough going on with my body loading my liver with meds and such that's just another thing that will toxify my body. I basically want to clean myself out and be as natural as possible. That's my thinking.

Sarah

[2big4mysize]

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glad to hear it cause after reading your first post I was worried you werre about to make several radical changes again and mess yourself up gain. remember the best thing is one change at a time and see what that does. if it fixes you great if not undo it and do a different one.

I am wondering if it is stalling me so I am gunna try it for 2 weeks and see.

Sarah I hate to rain on your enthusiasm but that article on phenalalimien si just bogus. the methanol issue is riduclous as the human body produces more of it digesting any wholesome piece of fruit then you'd get from a pound of aspartame. it is endorsed by many of the organizations as not being harmful to folk with those illnesses she mentions and then the PKU issue is a genetic one and folk that are PKU have known since the first few weeks of their life they had it and avoid foods containing phenylamimine even the healthy ones she listed.

what sweetners were you using? splenda isn't a liver processed sweetner. I'm a cephalic responder to the sweet taste so I can't use it.

I do not agree that the presence of chlorine is safe in any form, and feel this "concept" of altering foods is dangerous to human health any way you slice it.

I can't believe any medical doc (which she ins't just a PhD doc) would asy that as clorine is a very much needed compound in the human body and has established healthy minimum and maximum levels which are tested in the standard blood tests we all get. Without clorine in the body you will die. You use it yourself every time you flex a muscle just as an example so take what she says for what it is worth Sarah.
if you feel you are addicted give it up but don't be scared by words written without any science to back them up

[iyamamaschke]

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Well there is something to the addiction to Sweetener it's funny I was chewing a lot of gum and had breath mints drinking POP in Canada you can't find much that isn't sweetened with Aspertame. SO ya at home I use stevia Saccarin or Splenda but when I am out I ahve a lot of Aspertame. I ahve to tell you the Honest to god Truth I have been Sweetener free for 3 days now and yesterday was HORRIBLE I felt sick headaches and well weak and I attribute that to no sweeteners it's the only thing that has changed. I was peeing all day like I have not in a long time. Flushing I assume. ANd well I was sooo tired and Thirsty. I ahve noticed something though since I ahve not had any my cravings for sweets are Zero and it's like all of a sudden I don't feel like I am hungry I was starved all the time it's strange maybe me and sweeteners just doesn't get along.

Well I am gunna keep going I am noticing some cool things not having all these crutches and it feels good to not need a sweet fix. I am gunna keep going and well I'll let ya know how everything goes.

No weigh in for the next 2 weeks. I am startign to see some inch loss something I ahven't seen in a long time could be the tyroid meds strting to kick in. Any how I am feeling really good and if anything I am gunna lose some weihgt.

Sarah

[iyamamaschke]

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Today is a really hard hard Day all I want is a pop AHHHHHHHH!!!!!! I have to get through this I have to get through this I will do it Damn it I have never not made a goal I am not starting now and I am starting to really notice a bit of change in my body WOOOHOOOOO.

Sarah