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Yes, but only because the taste of diet drinks disgusts me right now. I used to be a crazed Diet Coke/Coke Zero/Diet Dr. Pepper person.

Now I just drink the real stuff. So I'm not much better off, but I'm not consuming basically any aspartame right now...

I don't avoid it strictly--I prefer diet soda over regular, but I don't go out of my way to buy low sugar options for my other foods. It's something i have been removing from my diet for awhile now. So diet soda can stay

I have GD so I can't really avoid it if I want a soda, etc. I avoided it completely for my last pregnancy!

I'm not pregnant, but I avoid it anyway.

I avoid all artificial sugars. I even avoid Stevia because my doctor said to (although I don't really think that's necessary since it is from a plant but I'm not going to argue.) I generally try to avoid aspartame and sucralose pregnant or not so it hasn't been difficult. I have found sucralose hidden in things that aren't even labeled 'light' which is really annoying. I bought pumpkin spice english muffins, and once I got them home I looked at the ingredients and there it was! I felt like writing a letter!

I talked to my doctor about it and she didn't tell me to completely eliminate it. As she said, there are no studies to prove it's bad while pregnant but there also aren't studies to prove it's ok. So as she told me, one drink a day with aspartame or artificial sweetners (dt. pop, crystal light, etc.) is probably ok, 5 of them a day is probably not.

I try to. I used to order unsweet tea and put Sweet N Low in it (I know it's weird, it's the way I've always drank it) but now I use Splenda.

@ladyfingers: I do that too!! I don't like sweet tea cause it is too sweet but I need something.

I avoid it at all times anyway. My ob also advised me to avoid it while pregnant.

My OB said to avoid all artificial sweeteners - which we were already doing. The gum is the hardest one - I have "Spry" gum with xylitol from Amazon but.. it is not the same