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Splenda is all we use, as was said it tastes like sugar and another thing I like is that I can cook with it. Trust me, if it didn't taste like sugar, I wouldn't be able to tolerate it; Chuck doesn't mind Equal, but I can't take it.
I happen to be cooking a potful of cabbage with onions and peppers right now...flavored with thick bacon, salt, pepper and splenda. I use in all my recipes, as well as on fruit, in coffee, in tea, and I make a really tasty flavored water that we drink at all autox meets.
As far as the Atkins diet...
I have to say that I'm a fan of it. Chuck and I go on for months at a time, then perhaps off for certain times...traveling is more difficult and Christmas at the store is impossible. We've each dropped quite a bit of weight, maybe gained a few pounds when off of it, then dropped those within a week of being back on it. Presently we are on it. Well to a point with me. I've been trying to maintain the weight I'm at now after being on the diet for three months, so I'm not strict with myself right now. I'm still maintaining Chuck's diet, but stretching things for myself, mostly eating the same, but varying beverages for interest.
I lowered my cholesterol by twenty points, something I was very pleased with since my doctor was threatening to put me on meds for it. Chuck has never had a cholesterol problem, unfortunately it runs in my family on my mother's side. I ALWAYS feel better when I'm on the diet. I have more energy, higher stamina and breath better.
I have a friend in Wake Forest who frankly weighs all of 100# but is usually on the Atkins diet for other reasons. She has serious back problems that are sensitive even to a weight gain of a few pounds.
I believe that Atkins can work for a lot of reasons. If you want to lose weight, you enjoy meat and cheese and don't mind leaving the breads, pastas and potatoes out of your life for that duration, there's nothing like it. Nothing says that you have to stay on it forever either, although some people gain weight again almost immediately after leaving the diet. Also know that people are DIFFERENT, like they are in every other way, their metabolism varies, their sensitivity to carbohydrates varies! I can lose weight on 30 - 50 carbs per day, Chuck must have as little as possible or his body reacts immediately...if I take him off of the basic diet any more than adding a little more vegetable...he reacts and gains. His brother is more like me. Judge the diet on an individual basis.
I wouldn't be surprised if we are on and off it from now on, more as a lifestyle than a fad diet. Like I said, I FEEL better on it.
Last edited by Donna Frank on Wed May 26, 2004 9:40 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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