So have you ever found something you really liked and found it was "diet friendly?" Well, after a couple of months without pepsi, sugar, popcorn, candy and candy and more candy, I found some sugarfree stuff. They are Baskin and Robbins sugarfree fatfree hard candies that are a chocolate mint thing. YUMMMYYY!!!!! I take them to work and am loving them. One particularly stressful day, I'm munching on them like there's no tomorrow. I'm thinking "hey at least they're sugarfree". About a couple of hours later my stomach is just rumbling........ugh.

Well, the next day, the same type of thing. These are yummy, they aren't bad for me blah blah blah. They are keeping my mouth entertained. A couple of hours later, same thing. My gut is in knots. I'm in a patient room starting an IV and you could hear my stomach rumble into the next county! I can't figure out what's going on, but it doesn't matter cause I gotta make a hasty exit and get to the ladies room.

I got reading on the package of those delicious little hard candies and read "excess consumption may have a laxative effect" WHAT??? Having never really gotten into fatfree or sugarfree before this was news to me. Anyway, now all I see when I look at those little candies is exlax.......don't taste good anymore.

Am I the only idiot?

Well, I'm lucky. I've never eaten them to excess.

Now my husband, OTOH gets horrible gas from the Lay's WOW potato chips...and he's been known to eat them right before going underway. On purpose.

My friend and I were actually discussing this today. The Baskins and Robbins candies in fact. They give her horrible gas and upset stomach, and it took a few days of it before she figured it out. I have never eaten that many to see if they do that to me (and now I won't ) But the WOW potato chips definately do that to me!

I just got one of the daily dishes where Dr.A. warns of over consumption of SF candies can cause those type of reactions. I bought some Hershey's SF candy bars tonight. They are more dark choc. which I am not crazy about and only intend to eat them at certain times. It has a caution on the package about stomach trouble if you eat to much. Hope you feel better now.

A woman I work with actually had a severe reaction to the WOW potato chips, starting having convulsions, passed out and knocked 3 teeth out. Sorry, but any product that warns against 'anal weeping' will -not- be on my list of food items to enjoy.

Aspartame affects me terribly - I cannot tolerate it, and if I drink more than 1 diet coke in a day, my stomache rebels. Splenda is a god send!

My rule.....NO FRANKENFOODS!

What are Frankenfoods? I'm confused Though, maybe I just need more coffee

BethAnn

Bethann, it's just me up on my nutritional soapbox spouting off about "substitutes". I strongly feel that eating chips and ice cream and cookies got us into this state so we may as well get over them, whether legal or not. The less processing the better for our health.

ohhh - I get it! I thought it might have something to do with Frankenstein - foods that he would have eaten, or, that Dr. Frankenstein would have created!

Bethann

I have to agree totally with Ruth. I never eat the substitute food when the real stuff got me over weight in the first place. I do best to totally stay away from that type of food, because I'm an addictive type of person. There is NO such thing as one piece of chocolate or one potato chip.

Same here - but I am really proud of myself because now that I have gone through withdrawal from all these foods I have finally been able to buy chips, biscuts and fizzy drink for the rest of the family and keep them in the cupboards and not touch them! Occasionally I will buy a dark chocolate Sante bar (because they are only 35 grams) and eat it straight away but don't buy a bar of chocolate and try to just eat one piece. I seem to have developed an amazing will power on this diet.