What I just discovered (shoulda known this before but hadn't looked it up yet) is that powdered Splenda such as in the packets or "Splenda for Baking" is a tiny bit of sucralose mixed with Dextrose and Maltodextrin for the fillers which are both sugars!!!!!


It would take a microscope to see the tiny bit of sucralose in a packet of splenda. In other words, 99.9% of the packet is Dextrose and Maltodextrin -- insulin-raising, weight-stalling, ketosis-killing sugar!!!!!

Now I think I fully understand why Dr. Atkins limits Splenda to 3 packets per day. I'm thinking it's not because of that being 3 carbs, but because the packets contain sugar!!!

Two weeks ago, I switched from Nutrasweet to powdered Splenda, and my weight loss went from great (9 pounds that week) to nearly nada (1 pound the week I switched to Splenda). And yes, I was using more than 3 packets per day because I thought it would affect me just like Nutrasweet and I know I can eat more Nutrasweet without any stall on my weight loss.

So I'm going straight back to Nutrasweet (well, I buy cheapie store-brand aspertame). I'm really really angry over the Splenda weight-loss stall!!!!!!!!!!!

I sure wish one of the long-time Atkineers had explained this somewhere in the forums instead of just parroting the book about how we MUST eat Splenda for our artificial sweetener and oh yeah, limit to 3 packets per day with no explaination of WHY.

Note: Splenda could be a good thing in it's raw sucralose form. Meaning, liquid Splenda is just sucralose and water. As I understand it, the stuff they put in diet sodas with Splenda is just the pure sucralose without the sugar-fillers.