long day, Ritas' sugar free (cation a lil TMI)

Hi everyone! My day officially started  at 9am. Dropped hubby off at work took LC to the Dentist after the dentist dropped off luch to hubby, took LC to his season opener (our team won 14-4 YAY) took LC to Rita's for a water ice and thought OH YEAH, sugar free cherry water ice I can have THAT on my pre op diet! It was delicious! I couldn't even believe it was sugar free it tasted so good! Brought LC home he got showered and dressed took him to Trenton to his Abuela's house for his lil cousin's bowling birthday party, on the way to Trenton I began to have sharp gas pains! I was cool though when I got to Trenton I was sitting on the porch and was getting the gas pain more and my stomach was making sonds I have NEVER heard before! Abuela had nothing at her house for me to take so I figured I would get something from CVS  (had to stop at CVS a for a card I TOTALLY forgot) I forgot to get something from CVS and rushed back to my sons Abuela's house to drop off the card, in the mean time the pain got worse!! I was lucky that I made it back to Philly when I did because when I got in the house all h-e-double hockey sticks (Go Flyers!) broke out! TMI sorry guys! But all of this to say eat sugar free Rita's water ice at your own risk! I'm petrified to dump already,  after this experience and not even having the surgery yet! Evidently sugar free isn't always a sure way to get your Yum on either! Those sugar alcohols will tear your stomach up! BELIEVE ME PLEASE! I learned the hard way! Now I have a banging headache and I want to go on my walk, but Im a lil affraid it will hit me again :( my stomach is still rumbling....J*

Eek!  EW!  I will take that as a good warning and stay away from the sugar free Rita's..eek!!  But I hope you feel better soon!!

Thank you Laura! I just finished reading your food porn post! Too funny! I see that term used mostly on the main board, those freaks! LOL J*

Yep, sugar alcohols can  be the devil.  I know someone else ( I think it was Mary) dumped on Rita's sugar free rootbeer flavor.  I had their SF tangerine the other night and it was SOOOO good....Luckly, I didn't get sick. I did only eat 1/2 of the small size in one sitting....I probably would have gotten sick if i had eaten the whole thing at once.  Often, anything SF will  make me sick as a dog.  I will  be going back to try their other flavors soon and hopefully none of them have a bad effect.  Sorry you got sick off of it!!! 

they may have given you the regular water ice and not SF, it happened to me before and I will never eat Rita's again, I bought a slushie maker and make my own with SF crystal light Good Luck  Susan

LOL, I think your LC's team was the team that played against my daughter's!
You walloped us!

Sorry to hear about your reaction to the water ice. And thanks for the warning

I've heard the same, and yes, I believe it was mary who dumped off of the rootbeer flavor....glad you are starting to feel better!

  I dumped on Rita's sugar free long before surgery.  I never ate it after the first time.  Stick to sugar free pops.

I tried the sf rootbeer ice & didn't have any ill effects.We'll see if I'm as lucky next time I guess

Jen: I too bought SF Cherry Rita's water ice (a quart) the other night to change up the liquids I have been taking in on this liquid diet.  After reading your post, I tried it for the first time.  I only had a few spoonfuls because I was scared, but I did fine.  My husband kept on saying.....how do you know that is sugar free.....it tastes regular.  I wanted to kill him!!! Linda