[MelodyL]

About two weeks ago, I stopped using Splenda after my morning coffee. I only use it when I go out for breakfast and I have two cups of coffee.

Boy did I get a reaction. My sugar dropped down to 80 one morning. I couldn't believe it. I've been using Splenda for years. I was baking with it. Making sugar free mixes with it. Putting it in my beverages. I should have googled "Splenda raises my blood sugar" and BOY WOULD I HAVE LEARNED SOMETHING.

I use a product called True Lemonade with Raspberry (sweetened with Stevia) that I get from Truelemon.com.

That's the only beverage I drink. You just add it to water. I make it by the pitcher. There's no artificial anything in this drink. I think it was the artificialness of the splenda that did me in. Everything I eat is natural, nothing processed. Been doing this for about 2 years now. Lost weight, but my sugar was still high in the morning and NOTHING I DID changed this.

Eating before I went to bed, not eating before I went to bed, giving myself the Lantus before retiring (instead of when I got up), nothing changed my blood sugar in the morning. I thought it was Dawn Effect that I had read about.

When I stopped using Splenda in the afternoon and in my baking mixes, and I started eating fresh fruit (a little but it's fresh), WELL!!! you could knock me over with a feather.

My morning sugar is between 80 and 120 (this morning it was 111). Can you believe this? I still can't.

This happened EXACTLY when I stopped using any Splenda after my breakfast. No more baking with it, putting it in drinks, whatever!!

And slowly but surely, I am going down on the Lantus. Last month I was on 20 units.

As of this morning, 11 units. AND NO OTHER DIABETES MEDS.

Amazing.

Hey, I just might have a shot at getting off of insulin. I hope I an achieve this and do it by diet alone. That's my goal. Initially I had been on metformin, or glipizide, never took Januvia, but went on Lantus 5 years ago, along with metformin. Slowly I got off the oral meds, but I never saw a connection between Splenda and my blood sugar. It's splenda, it's NOT supposed to raise blood sugar.

So if any of you have tried everything and nothing works, and you are using Splenda, give it up for a few days and see what happens.

All the best,

Melody

[Chemar]

there is a lot of anecdotal evidence against the use of Splenda aka sucralose. Kids with neurological problems also seem to be triggered by it, and a lot of people also find it messes with their digestion. I had a very ick reaction when I first tried it, and my son had a major Tourette tic spike when he was using that propel water with it in

I dont know exactly how it is made but I believe there is substitution of chlorine in the sugar molecule...that in itself is enough to keep me away from it!

I think there was a very good reason that the FDA initially would not approve it. Then, 10 years after it first came out, they suddenly approved it............
hmmmmm wonder who had a vested interest to make that happen!

[MelodyL]

Originally Posted by Chemar

there is a lot of anecdotal evidence against the use of Splenda aka sucralose. Kids with neurological problems also seem to be triggered by it, and a lot of people also find it messes with their digestion. I had a very ick reaction when I first tried it, and my son had a major Tourette tic spike when he was using that propel water with it in

I dont know exactly how it is made but I believe there is substitution of chlorine in the sugar molecule...that in itself is enough to keep me away from it!

I think there was a very good reason that the FDA initially would not approve it. Then, 10 years after it first came out, they suddenly approved it............
hmmmmm wonder who had a vested interest to make that happen!

Isn't this interesting. Every time I tell someone that I stopped using Splenda, and my sugar went down, they don't believe me. They say "you don't eat anything normal, anyway". Of course I eat things normal, I just don't eat processed foods. I grow sprouts and I eat chicken and fish for protein, and maybe once in a while, some tofu (ONCE IN A GREAT WHILE). I do love it, but I'm careful.

I bought some Veggie Burgers today, made by Gardenburger.

Now I don't eat these things. Alan does not eat meat so once in a while I make him a veggie burger. He loves it, you can't tell the difference.

Well!!! I looked at the ingredients on the side of the package. going to count them right now. 32 ingredients. True, most were vegetables, but cmon, 32 INGREDIENTS in a veggie burger??

It has something called Guar gum which I see everywhere. And on the front of the package it says "made from all natural ingredients".

Guar gum is natural.

I think it's better if he had a regular hamburger. lol

But he won't.

I do have the occasional turkey burger and with the right seasonings, it tastes and smells great.

But I usually eat Raw and I just started introducing fresh fruit into my body.

You have NO idea what it's like, when you haven't eaten fruit in 22 years and you find out that diabetics are supposed to eat 3 fruits a day to keep their glucose levels stable.

Oh, about Splenda. I read that it's the bulking agent that sometimes makes the blood sugar go up and that bulking agent is in all of those little packets of anything.

So I went to GNC to buy Stevia and I picked up the box of 100 packets and sure enough it said Maltodextrin.

I then purchased a small bottle of liquid Stevia (just for my coffee in the a.m. and in my True lemon beverages.

Tastes Great. Has no bitter aftertaste.

My goodness, if doing all this allows me to go off of insulin, well I have achieved my goal.

Now to lose the rest of the weight. I'm not overweight (at least if one looks at me), but I don't go on the scale because I'd have a heart attack.

I probably will never weigh what I would like to weigh.

I don't think it's biologically possible at my age.

But one never knows.

Take care

Melody

[Kitty]

I don't have diabetes but I do have MS and I've also stopped using Splenda. I only use Stevia.

Chemar's right......somebody at the FDA had a vested interest in Splenda. I wonder if they use it???

[MelodyL]

Originally Posted by Kitty

I don't have diabetes but I do have MS and I've also stopped using Splenda. I only use Stevia.

Chemar's right......somebody at the FDA had a vested interest in Splenda. I wonder if they use it???

Well, I have done it. Or let's just say, I'm doing it now!! NO MORE INSULIN.

I have been on some kind of med for diabetes for the past 22 years.

that's a lot of medicine to be on, (because I was overweight) and not for any other reason. By my brain could not process this. Took me A LONG TIME to get my brain re-wired about food and processing and all that stuff.

Been 4 days now. No insulin, no diabetic meds, no nothing.

And yesterday was very interesting. I had been reading about how the experts now differ on whether diabetics should or should not have fruit.

Some say watermelon is the best fruit. Some say no, Some say you can have ANYTHING 3 times a day as long as it fits in the palm of your hand, because fresh fruit contains natural sugar and is not refined sugar.

So someone had given me some grapes. LOTS OF GRAPES. I couldn't eat all of these grapes if my life depended on it. So I gave some away to neighbors, and yesterday I had 6 grapes. Boy were they good.

And I noticed my energy level shot up in no time. I felt REALLY GOOD. I said "wow, I have to start eating some fruit (just a bit) every day.

So this morning I bought watermelon at my local produce stand.

From what I am reading, it's all about little meals and staggering the fruit intake so you can have STABLE blood sugar levels without the spikes.

So I am continuing to learn about food and my body.

Only took me 62 years.

lol

Hope all of you are well.

Melody

P.S. It's quite strange not to see a syringe next to my morning supplements. Every morning I would have the pills on the table, with the little methyl B-12 pill BELOW the syringe so I'd remember to take the Methyl B-12 as soon as I woke up and did it on an empty stomach because I had read what Mrs. Doubtfire wrote about how one should take Methyl B-12.

So every morning when I walked into my kitchen and saw the Methyl B-12 and the SYRINGE, well, it's quite strange not to see any syringe on that table.

Hopefully I can continue on this path.

No guarantees, this I know.

But at least I did try.

melody