Does anyone else have a bad reaction to sugar alcohols? Practically every low-carb meal bar or sugar-free ice cream, gum, or candy out there is sweetened with maltitol, sorbitol, mannitol, etc. I have discovered through bad experience that anything that ends in -tol is going to have very bad effects on my tummy, and not exactly what the warning labels say ("a laxative effect")--instead, so embarrassing, they make me FART! I'm so bummed--I have NO other food sensitivities, a cast-iron stomach, etc. The no-sugar-added ice cream is the worst, I don't know why. So I can only eat certain flavors of Advantage bar, and basically no other meal bars, since they all have either sugar or maltitol/sorbitol.
And I have the world's BIGGEST sweet tooth. Velamints sugar-free chocolate mints were my lifeline until I realized the connection....SIGH.
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Max weight 180--current weight 145--goal weight 130