Alternatives to water

I don't see why not. All I drink is diet cranberry juice. If I go to a restaurant I order ice water and fresh lime. I make a limeade and that's pretty good. 

--gina

Sure!  But I must report that for me artificial sweeteners slow weight loss.

Totally anecdotal but as far as I know it's never failed.  Plain old mint tea ramps UP weight loss.

I'd have to add something to the mint tea to make it sweet...unsweetened just tastes bad!

Absolutely

Sure.  I use crystal lite all the time and when at a restaurant I do what Gina does except with extra lemon and splenda to make a light flavored lemonade. 

~Becky

becky - are you still intolerant to sugar alcohols?  manitol etc?  i would love to try crystal light, but afraid since my horrible incident right after surgery with sorbitol.

The Walmart brand of crystal lite has aspertame not itols.  I am eating itols now in Atkins bars and as long as I limit to 1 a day I do okay.  I haven't tried anything with a lot of itols like SF candy.  There is also itols in the SF syrup I use and I do ok with it.  So long answer...none in crystal lite that I am aware of and some itols I can handle now when after surgery could do none.

~Becky

I thought I could only have stevia (YUK!!) but it actually turns out I'm fine on sucralose (AKA Splenda).  Crystal Light has sucralose, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed for you.  I know it's horrid 'testing' how you get on.  I started off by having one tablet of Splenda and one of stevia in my coffee (yes I have a sweet tooth) 'til I eventually went with all Splenda.  All's good knock on wood. ;-)

I enjoy the Hawaiian punch that is 5 calories. they are in the exact same section as the crystal lite...same packaging too....Im not sure if its right, but I use that all the time.  I get bored with water.