If you love sweet tea, try some earl gray with a sweetener. My husband likes the fruit flavored teas, apple cinnamon being his favorite. Ginger tea is great for stomach issues and green tea is supposed to be all around great for your body.
Stopped losing weight
PetaMarie
(squirrel-kissing paper tamer)
#42
Me too, being a sort of southern gal. I just made a pitcher of Lipton with some sweetener in it.
copixiechick
(Paula Fox)
#43
I bought some sweetener and it is horrible how do you guys use it. I have some liquid stevia drops that I bought last time I tried this type of diet but eweā¦ Iām struggling thereā¦ They didnāt have swerve at the store I went to which I think is what a lot of you have posted so I bought Pyure and ugh it was pretty awful. Hopefully my tastes will allow me to use that kind of stuff.
CarlKeller
(Carl Keller)
#44
Stevia has a tiny bit of not-so-pleasant aftertaste but I felt the same way about diet sodas. I never could get used to the aftertaste. The alternative, refined sugar, is much worse than a little aftertaste to me and itās not as bad now as when I first started using keto friendly sweeteners.
Ilana_Rose
(mole person)
#45
Honestly, I think you better off without. Loads of people here find their weight loss only starts really moving after they ditch the sweeteners. Some people seem fine with them but plenty are not. Myself, I choose to come by my surgar naturally but very seldom, and after a year and a half without much sweetness my cravings for it are 99% gone.
cw2001
(Cindy)
#46
I canāt stand artificial sweeteners. Stevia is horrible to me for some reason. I agree with pretty much everything Ilana_Rose has said except maybe the protein bit. 
I think we over-estimate just how much protein we need, especially as older women. Maybe if youāre weight lifting and want to create more muscle mass. Plus, people have fasted for 300+ days without muscle loss, so we think we need protein to avoid muscle loss, but evidently, thatās not quite true.
As for eating meals throughout the dayā¦noā¦unless youāre hungry. If you really are hungry, then eat. Once youāre more fat-adapted, youāll find you can go long periods without eating at allā¦but donāt eat just because you think you need to eat or youāre trying to hit certain targets.
Itās like CarlKeller saidā¦listen to your hunger signals. If youāre not very hungry one day, donāt eat! That includes breakfastā¦somewhere along the way, we were told breakfast was the most important meal but itās just not true. Then, if youāre hungrier the next day, eat more. Eat when youāre hungryā¦you wonāt go into āstarvation modeā because remember your body can use calories from your own stores.
As for the dry mouthā¦I had it horribly bad my first week of keto. Didnāt matter how much water I drank. It eventually (thankfully!) went away.
Kris86
#47
Once fat adapted your body will do its thing between meals and you will start to lose weight. Itās my understanding that your body will only think its starving if you start lowering caloric intake long term. If you give yourself and eating window daily, say 6-8 hours and use that time to re-feed appropriately (less than 20g carbs) and eat until satiety, the magic will happen.
copixiechick
(Paula Fox)
#48
Thanks so much everyone you have put my mind to ease about what Iāve been doing. I will just be patient and will continue to eat until Iām full, not eat if Iām not hungry and not worry so much about meeting my calories. It is very hard to retrain your body and I think a big part of that battle is retraining our minds as well. Iām use to eating every day at the exact same times due to my work schedule. And at night when I play at my computer I"m use to munching on junk food. What a struggle to break bad habits. I have made small steps in that direction. Iām not eating any sugars, potatoes, breads, Iām pretty much off all gluten. Like I said I feel much better as far as my joints and overall self image. I will just keep plugging along and see where the tomorrows take me.
Ilana_Rose
(mole person)
#49
Actually, weāre very close on protein too. I have one meal a day and although itās mostly meat and fat I am not a huge eater. I doubt I eat more than 60g a day ever. I also agree that while losing weight people may need even less. Fung give a compelling argument for this, which is similar to yours, but my degree of certainty on protein is lowish so I tend to stay in the forumās 1-1.5 g/kg lean mass when giving advice.
cw2001
(Cindy)
#50
Youāre right! I just worry about some people, especially women, feeling like they have to eat tons of protein. I think when thereās weight to lose, itās almost always better to be conservative.
I think I passed 110lbs by the time I was 10.
Ilana_Rose
(mole person)
#51
I agree. I also feel that having really high protein is experimenting with oneself. We donāt know what the long term effects will be. There are cultures that eat loads of animal products that are very healthy but they all eat a very high fat percentage. I doubt this is just by happenstance.
Iām starting to realize that I feel better with almost all animal myself, but Iām making a great effort to eat high fat, get organ meats frequently, and boil down bones and cartridge for broths.