For the past few months I’ve been stalled. Worse than that, I’ve probably regained some weight, judging from how my clothes fit. And I’m hungry, not like pre-Keto days, but still hungry. Skin drier than it has been for months.
I chalked it up to stress, too busy over the holidays to figure it out. Keep calm and keto on, right?
So a couple nights ago I really wanted something sweet. I whipped up some hwc, and threw in a splash of the sf vanilla syrup I’ve been using in my coffee. I expected my bg to show a little bump that night, but instead it was lower than normal!
Aha! Insulin spike!!! My sf vanilla syrup is sweetened with sucralose and acesulfame potassium (ace k). These nasties have just joined my list of Evil Edibles, right up there with Maltodextrin.
I thought I’d purged these from my pantry long ago, but I guess I missed it.
It’s been two days since I stopped using this. Hunger is gone, sleeping better, and already my skin feels better.
I think I figured it out
Jan
(Jan)
#1
Shortstuff
(Allie)
#2
I’ve just realised that sucralose spikes my blood sugar… which is really annoying as I have these to use up and they last months 
infromsea
(Tim W)
#3
Good detective work!
Ace K gets me every time, I can’t have a single coke zero without feeling like crap.
Food science, ain’t it grand?
Keto6468
(Karen)
#4
There is the reaction, I read, that with sweeteners the body is expecting carbs. It grabs them out of the blood. So the article said that unless you are zc, your cheese carbs, veggie carbs, almond, pecan carbs, whatever, get stored as fat. They said this is true, even if the sweetener does not spike insulin. Don’t know the mechanism.
Still hard to give up my monk drops.