We are on Day 53 of the 4HB. Wow. Our posts have dropped off just due to busy schedules and traveling, but we are still going full-steam ahead and maintaining a daily diet (except for cheat day) of beans/protein/veggie at each of the four meals.
Cheat days continue to be fun. We are discovering (re-discovering) the things that we crave and we are so different. B wants meat (?!), chips, rice/pasta, beer and Bee wants anything baked, cheese, milk, bananas; where we agree? Chocolate, lots and lots of sugared chocolate.
New topic: Sugar-free. So, the bulk section has some sugar-free options, which if you read the label closely, turns out to still be made with a natural form of sugar. Confused? Yeah, me too. They can be made with "malitol/maltitol" or "zylitol/xylitol"
Definitions:
1. Malitol: A natural sugar free sweetener, which has 90% the sweetness of sugar. It is slower assimilated and does not spike up blood glucose levels as sugar does, which makes it a good alternative to sugar, for Diabetics and Low Carb Dieters.
2. Zylitol: A natural sugar free sweetener derived from plants. It has same sweetness in equal proportions to regular sucrose sugar, with 1/3 fewer calories, and no unpleasant after taste.
Excessive use of these can cause abdominal distress because they are slower to be absorbed by the body...note to self :-)
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