@Dazercat Congrats on 7 months, Eric. You are absolutely right to celebrate. Your journey, your rules 
400 days today for me.
I remember how last year the whole Advent and Christmas period was so difficult. I felt triggered all day for weeks. I had asked my family to hide all their sweets.
This year I did not care even a bit. My brain has adapted. It does not get triggered by the sight of sweets.
Such a relief and freedom.
Thanks Aga. I needed that. And congratulations on your 400.
My brain doesn’t really want desserts anymore and that’s HUGE for me. Especially since we go out to eat a lot. I almost always got dessert. Now I don’t even think about it.
And it still took work on my part. And now the wife has ramped up the sweets because she isn’t drinking. So it’s around.
I’m going to see if I can find a sugar free carrot cake for my birthday. There’s some nice bakeries around here. Someone might have something. But I don’t want sugar substitutes either. Taste nasty. Rather go without.
I hope you had a great Christmas. Sounds like it was better than last year on the sugar front.
I identify a lot with what you have said here, Eric. I also feel that it isn’t like alcohol. Just cutting out obvious desserts, or biscuits, or pieces of chocolate is huge. I purposely eat honey because it is a naturally occurring substance with alleged health benefits in fighting infections, etc.
A colleague of mine at work asked me a couple of weeks back whether I missed eating cake (we regularly celebrate birthdays by bringing and eating cake in our department). I had to think about it for a minute, but in doing so, I came to the realisation that I no longer consider ultra processed things as human food. They are so far removed from what we would eat in the natural world. The idea of putting them into my system has become completely alien, in much the same way that putting alcohol into my system has. For some reason, in my mind, I likened it to eating a dusty concrete block. Not sure why.
Anyway, I’m glad to hear that you’re doing well. I hope you had a great Christmas and wish you all the best for the new year.
This was a very important step for me too. It removed a lot of mental confusion about what food is.
Nice job…I do believe in the no sugar thing is a very good investment…I too do it my way! Reducing processed sugar and being aware of food ingredients is life changing.
I’ve been back on the sugar train with the holidays. Thank you guys for posting and keeping me motivated to keep trying! My bff and and I were just discussing this today and then I found this thread. Grateful for you!
I like this, thank you for the visual.
Great job! Really this first week is just the hardest. Physically and mentally. 
