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To quit sugar, I had to quit bread. It incited cravings. I can get away with Ezekiel bread, but why bother?

I have also taken 200 mcg of chromium picolinate for years every morning. It helps with cravings. If I run out, they come back, even when I haven't been paying enough attention to create the reverse-panacea effect in my brain.

One side of my family has type 2 diabetes all over the place. I have managed to avoid that and I think those are the two reasons.

If it's a special occasion and I eat a piece of wedding cake or similar and I have that feeling of "I want more," I take another chromium at bedtime. It's over by morning.

(I'm not a doctor, needless to say. It's just worked for me, and there is medical literature showing successful trials with diabetics. Some doctors recommend it for that. I've tried different types of chromium and the only brand I've found that is that type and dosage is Solgar.)

I will say this, it was a LOT easier to quit sugar than it was to quit smoking! That took about 100 tries. But with sugar, an occasional special event and even a couple of days of them won't completely suck me in if I stay hydrated etc. With cigarettes, it was all or nothing for me.

After you don't have any for a while, just a little fruit will taste much sweeter than it ever did before. (Oh, and I think artificial sweeteners can trick our brains into the sugar craving thing. I read some things about that and wish I'd saved a good source, but I didn't.)