lisa---I agree with you. I was perfectly happy with my 2 lbs loss. My coach thinks maybe by eliminating Mio and Splenda this week I could get to my goal. I am not banking on it and am not even sure if it will make any difference at all.

Kim

I am on alternative and have used Mio drops since day one. I don't like plain water so the Mio dops have enabled me to drink 3-4 quarts of water a day. I usually give a healthy squeeze into a quart water bottle. I don't feel that it has hendered my weight loss.

I'm wondering whether the coach is confusing Mio with vitamin water or other brands of ready-to-drink low-calorie beverages that DO contain sugar alcohols.

I've never seen a flavor of Mio that actually contained sugar alcohols. The sweeteners used in Mio are sucralose (Splenda) and acesulfame potassium.

Sugar alcohols do present a bit of a challenge, because some people digest sugar alcohols (or at least some sugar alcohols) better than others. Using sugar alcohols often end up no-win situation. If you don't digest them well, you end up with very smelly gas and explosive diarrhea, and if you don't get the diarrhea, there's a good chance that you're digesting them well (meaning you're probably absorbing more calories than someone who does get the diarrhea).