Question About Water

[Georgiana]

Originally Posted by msanjelpie

I add Crystal Light to my water. It is frowned upon in this forum because it contains aspartame which stalls 20% of dieters, however, at least I get my water in me... Since I have started doing that my lips have been normal again. (They were peeling from dehydration before I started drinking the sweetened water.)

No, aspartame does not stall 20% of dieters. Or at least it was never shown to stall 20% of them. When Dr. Atkins was alive, about 25% of the stalled dieters who called his office were able to break their stall by giving up diet sodas sweetened with aspartame. Depending how many stalled Atkinseers called Dr. Atkins' office and how many started losing because they gave up diet sodas rather than aspartame, this number might decrease. We also don't know how many dieters experienced only a slowdown in weight loss because of aspartame, which might increase the percentage of Atkinseers whose weight loss rate is affected by aspartame (not necessarily stalled).

Lemon juice is limited to 2-3 tablespoons daily.

[not2late]

Just be careful about flavoring your water......don't let it become an excuse for increasing the flavoring more and more and more. The taste fatigue is common for all of the 5 tastes, requiring a higher and higher amount to get the desired effect.

So if you flavor your water, you might want to slow taper the flavoring down to prevent taste fatigue and the need to continually flavor or increase the flavor.

[msanjelpie]

Originally Posted by Georgiana

No, aspartame does not stall 20% of dieters. Or at least it was never shown to stall 20% of them. When Dr. Atkins was alive, about 25% of the stalled dieters who called his office were able to break their stall by giving up diet sodas sweetened with aspartame. Depending how many stalled Atkinseers called Dr. Atkins' office and how many started losing because they gave up diet sodas rather than aspartame, this number might decrease. We also don't know how many dieters experienced only a slowdown in weight loss because of aspartame, which might increase the percentage of Atkinseers whose weight loss rate is affected by aspartame (not necessarily stalled).

I see! THANKS!