Splenda Problems

Wow, you never know when the answer to your problem will pop up when you least expect it. I'd been on a nasty plateau for three long weeks ! I'd been having water retention like crazy and even water pills weren't relieving it.
I was going through my digital scrapbooking list email late last week and after being very behind in it, I was deleting quite a few of the emails. For some reason one of the emails caught my eye and I opened it and read it. One of the members of the list was talking about her doctor taking her off Splenda products because it was causing her to retain water really badly.
I'd been using a lot of Splenda products since starting Weight Watchers in January but until the weather had gotten so hot, it was only one or two servings of it a day. But lately we've been in the midst of a huge heat wave and my husband has been making a lot of iced tea with Splenda in it.
I'd been drinking a lot of his iced tea hoping the diuretic effects of the tea would take care of the water retention, which obviously didn't happen.
So...after reading that post in my digital scrapping email I decided to cut out the Splenda and see what happened.
I've lost 5 pounds in the last 3 days. I think it's safe to say I have a sensitivity to Splenda :)
I may stay off it another week or so and then go back to just one serving of it a day and see if I can tolerate small doses of it.
Anyway, I see it as an answer to prayer at this point after praying a lot about the plateau and how to break it. So for now I'm just thrilled to be back to the losing game :)