Maybe I found the culprit!

That is WAY too many carbs a day for me.  MUCH worse than Splenda or Sweet and Low.  I do my best to stay under 20 grams a day, and I've been going over that just in sweeteners.

Jane

Try nunaturals stevia. 0 calories and 0 carbs for the liquid stevia. 5 drops in the drink of your choice and you are good to go. Around 8 dollars for a bottle that has 260 servings or so. It comes in many flavours or just plain stevia. Hope that helps!

Thanks!  That must be like the powdered stevia I ended up getting when I ordered stevia on Amazon.  I'd prefer it liquid.  Thanks!

Jane

I use pure sucralose -- ordered from Amazon.  No carbs because it has no filler -- but since it has no filler, you use only a fraction of tsp.  I keep a "baby spoon" in the bag of sucralose, and just put some on the tip of spoon.  I sweeten a gallon jug of KoolAid with just about 1/4 of a baby spoonful.  

It costs a lot, but you only use a very small amount. 

Thanks so much!  I can try these different options and see what I like best.  And no carbs.  Yay!

Jane

I buy one called sweetzfree online. It is liquid sucralose. It's a bit pricey but its awesome and you only need a couple of drops at a time. A 2 ounce bottle lasts about a year and is something like 32.00.  Just google it. 

 

Laura

You have to be careful too because many of the packets have dextrose which is sugar.  I buy stevia brands with no dextrose, and have the liquid and the one with no additives.  I also count torani as carbs (1 per T for the torani) even though it says zero because I don't buy that it's zero!  I try to avoid splenda and only have one carbs worth a day.

Torani uses the liquid form of sweetener that does not contain any carbs.  DaVinci and Starbucks, too.  So you don't have to worry about them, at least!

Jane

I hope not, I just don't trust that.  Especially since some of the syrups I've bought have shown carbs.  But to be fair, I haven't compared ingredients.