Did I really give myself a headache from sweetner?

[Jellybean1984]

K, so I am new (But I am a many time arounder) I have decided to do extended with a little non extended habits i suppose. I am unable to drink water it is the last thing on my mind and i have bought a bigger purse to hold my waterbottle yet end of the day comes and i maybe drink 1/4 of a cup. I just can't do it!!!! SO I drink tea with spenda and i have a new chewing gum habit neither which support anything to do with extended intro as i intake to much. Yesturday I had 5 medium teas and 6 sweetner, 7 pieces of gum, however this does not effect my weight loss I got a massive headache beyond one I have had before. Is this from the sweetner? (I use splenda for tea, gum is whatever)

Also, anyone either know a tea which is better to drink without sweetner or to use less which would be better. Also any gum out there that is just gum, no sweetner or sugar, i know it sounds boring but i like chewing gum. Cuz i am tech cheating every day i do this...

OH! And in all technicallity is tea and water the same thing as per intake of fluids!

Cheers
Jen

[Porcelain]

Re: Did I really give myself a headache from sweetner?

Sweetners make me feel pretty bad and do give me headaches. I used to drink anything but water but now, after forcing for a while, I drink only water now with some occasional unsweetened tea. You can also make your own tea and only put a small amount of sweetener in it. A few times, before I gave up sweeteners, I would have a packet of drink mix that would be for a 12 ounce water bottle and I would put it in a liter. It would give me a little bit of taste and only a small amount of sweetener.

[Desertthorn]

Re: Did I really give myself a headache from sweetner?

The only way I can drink water is if it's loaded with ice. I understand how you feel but since we are limited to only 3 packs of Splenda a day, we have to stretch it out as far as we can

[Jellybean1984]

Re: Did I really give myself a headache from sweetner?

Thanks so much for the advice. I am going to try playing with water temp to see if that would help and i love the idea about making my own tea so i will have to see.

[Porcelain]

Re: Did I really give myself a headache from sweetner?

Lipton makes a cold brew tea so you don't even have to heat the water. I used to use this and I would just run warm water out of the tap over it. I bet you could squeeze a bag in a room temperature bottle of water, let it sit, then put it in the fridge.