Can you use it on a keto diet?
Crystal light
Anniegirl9
(LeeAnn Brooks)
#2
You will get varying answers as artificial sweetners effect people differently. Some will say zero artificial sweetners. Others will say it’s fine. Personally, I would experiment with it and see how it effects you. If you start to stall, take it back out. Or if you test BG, see how it effects it.
If you’re fine using it, don’t worry what the purists say.
One of the warnings that I would watch for is if it increases hunger or cravings for sweets.
Alley
#3
great thing of this life style is you get to do what you want, as we eat more healthy. sweet stuff triggers your primitive mind to gorge because it might be a long time till fuel will be this easy to get. So best practice is to train yourself that the processed sweeteners are not needed and provide no value to you at all.
And in the long run how do you know what harm they are causing.
RobC
(Robert C)
#4
Open a container of Crystal Light.
Think of how happy your gut and liver will be having do deal with all that powder in water over the next month or two:
Citric Acid, Maltodextrin, Aspartame (Phenylketonurics: Contains Phenylalanine.), Natural and Artificial Flavor, Niacinamide, Calcium Pantothenate and Biotin (B-Vitamins), Vitamin B6, Vitamin B12, Magnesium Oxide, Artificial Color, Red 40, Yellow 5, Blue 1, Soy Lecithin, Tocopherol …
It is like anything else (i.e. any other habit), get yourself a good water filter, add back in a pinch of very good pink salt to emulate ancestral water and enjoy. In two weeks you’ll forget about your desire for “Red 40, Yellow 5, Blue 1, Soy Lecithin, Tocopherol etc.”.
Anniegirl9
(LeeAnn Brooks)
#5
I can’t stomach salt water. I can suck salt straight, then wash down with water, but salt water triggers my gag reflexes.
RobC
(Robert C)
#6
I meant truly a pinch of something like Redmond sea salt in a quart - so little that it actually comes out sweet. The idea is to stay away from water that is so fully mineral free (like distilled water) that it ends up depleting your own. This is different from how people on keto sometimes need to add excess salt (which I would rather do in food - sucking salt makes me gag).
KetoGen
#7
No issues whatsoever I’ve been drinking gallons of that stuff for decades on ketogenic diet and it has zero impact on ketosis
Anniegirl9
(LeeAnn Brooks)
#8
When it comes to things like artificial sweetners, you just have to figure out what works or doesn’t work for you.
Same with dairy, nuts and nut butters and such.
The purists will tell you no, and they may be speaking from a personal perspective of it not working for them.
But here’s the thing. I’m here on Keto because of years and years of failures at maintaining LF diet weight loss. I’ve finally found something I’m confident I can maintain. So when someone tries to tell me I can’t have dark chocolate with unsweetened nut butter because of sugar or because it will keep me addicted to sweets, I say too bad, because it works for me and I enjoy it. If someone says I can’t flavor my ketoade in order to mask the flavor of the salt in it, I say it’s better than the effects of not feeding my electrolytes enough. Do what works for you.
There are really only a few basic rules to Keto, and even a few of those are flexible.
Keep carbs below 20 net grams.
Moderate protein as a percent of LBM.
Eat fat to satiety.
Don’t snack between meals.
The rest is all what works for you. If something stops working, change it. If you hit a stall, eliminate something as see if that works. If not, try something else.