This is sponsored content from BlogHer and Crystal Light Pure Fitness.

I’m not generally known in my circle of friends for natural anything, except hair and makeup (I rarely “do” my hair, and I rarely wear a lot of makeup).  I’m an admitted sugar fiend, but when I got serious about weight loss and my health in general, I knew I had to make some difficult choices with my favorite foodie friends. 

I started substituting turbinado in some of my recipes and was excited to read about Stevia.  Crystal Light’s Pure Fitness is the first drink I’ve had that is naturally sweetened with Truvia, a derivative of Stevia. 

Considering I’ve been a lab rat for years - I’ve had a Splenda addiction that replaced my Equal addiction - I would happily replace my reliance on artificial sugar sweeteners with something more, um, natural.  Looking back at my years of processed food and weird chemicals that make my iced tea taste better, I’m sure I’m a cancer time bomb waiting to go off. 

At this point, all I can do is make a conscious effort to change my eating habits and take care of myself.  One of my other favorite naturally sweetened beverages is the Izze Blackberry.  I’m also a big fan of fruit, especially berries, because I can almost fake myself into thinking they are dessert (a little bit of light Cool Whip on chilled raspberries??? DELICIOUS!)
I can also say that I love the grape flavor of PureFitness because it’s sweet but not cloying.  If a tiny bit of Truvia can make something healthy taste better, I’m all for it.  Now if I could just get my lima beans to taste that good . . .

I will be giving away a $100 Visa gift card after all of my Pure Fitness blogs have been published.  I will combine all entries/comments and choose a winner from among them.  All you have to do to be entered into the pool is to tweet about this post (place link in the comments, please!) or post a comment about your favorite naturally sweet drink or food. 

You can check out the reviews and giveaways from BlogHer at BlogHer.com Crystal Light Pure Fitness exclusive offers page. There are always great giveaways and ideas there.  Make sure you check out the other participating bloggers’ reviews as you will have three other chances to win the $100 gift card - or the $1,000 sweepstakes on the round-up page! 

Official rules are here.  Don’t forget to check out the BlogHer Round Ups for other chances to win.  You can find out everything you ever wanted to know about Crystal Light’s Pure Fitness by going here.