I didn’t touch sugar for 7 years at all, no cheating. The first two months were tough. I had “withdrawal” because I ate a lot of it to medicate my feelings. During the first two months, instead of giving up, I did trauma therapy to finally deal with what I was running away from. I did more trauma therapy for those 7 years. I stayed away from artificial sweeteners too, and to be honest, after the 2 first months I didn’t care for it all too much. Fruit tasted like ice cream, sweet potatoes like cake. I completely adapted