sundown
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I'm also trying to cut out sugar from my diet and using xylitol in my hot drinks - bit different but not as chemical tasting as other sweetners!!!
IMO if you want to bust the sugar habit, going on to sweeteners won't do it. The issue if you're addicted to sweetness is that you're simply replacing one very high calorie 'sweet' with another, artificial, low calorie 'sweet'. That doesn't train your taste-buds away from the sweetness.
Many years ago I got ME and one of the oddities about it was that I felt nauseous when eating a lot of things - I pinned the culprits down to things with sugar in them (chocolate etc), alcohol (high sugar) and starchy carbs (spuds, pasta etc that all turn very quickly to sugar). I cut the whole lot out completely and that particular ME symptom went. When I got over ME I found my tastes had totally altered - you'll not find chocolate, cakes, sweetsb in my cupboards...not because I'm a fat mare...but because they all taste disgustingly sweet to me. And goes doubly so for stuff with artificial sweetener in - it's actually sweeter than the real stuff! Anyway, since then I've met a number of people who've done hard-core 'sugar detox' diets for a week or so and found most of them never regained the taste either.
IMO sugar is more addictive, more toxic and more dangerous to us humans than alcohol or tobacco.