[Fawnn]

I can’t stand Splenda (or any of the other artificial sweeteners). Taste awful and cause digestive upsets.

The food from the gods for me is Whey Low ( http://www.wheylow.com ). It’s a 1-to-1 sugar replacement with the same carb count (1 per teaspoon) as Splenda and 1/4 the calories of sugar; it acts like, bakes like, cooks up like sugar.

When I was using it, I lost weight without otherwise dieting. I even made my own soft drink syrups with it. Unfortunately, Dew addict that I am, I started drinking Dew again over the holidays and haven’t yet replaced it with my Whey Low drinks.

I love the coffee drinks I make with it:
http://www.cookingwithpam.com/sugarfree/low_carb_coffee_drinks.html

Which really makes it stupid that I’m still drinking Dew, other than it’s just easier to flip open a can than to mix up my own stuff. ;)

[Defiant]

I never heard of your whey low, will try it. I think Splenda tastes very close to sugar, close enough to let me enjoy coffee, iced tea or diet soda. I lost a lot of weight about 3 years ago, and have kept it off, and one of the things I did was get rid of sugar entirely.

I know how they make it, and that it is synthetic. Their marketing is a little disingenuous, when they say it is made from sugar, from what I understand it is entirely man-made. But it works, and unless I hear that it is unhealthy, I will continue to enjoy it. I never could use nutrasweet or the pink stuff, they are both disgusting.