Trying to get off sugar

[pegkerr]

I am trying to drastically cut the amount of sugar I am eating. It's an interesting challenge. I hope that it will both help with weight loss and also help my general health, including continuing to keep depression at bay. I'm not telling myself that I'm cutting out sugar permanently. It seems to work better if I just say, for now, I'll choose this instead of that; I can eat it in the future. I've had one brownie in three weeks, which is quite a bit less than usual. I have a huge weakness for Starbucks brownies, and I was eating them three times a week or so. I've made that black bean bars recipe several times, which helps, too.

One of my other new tricks is that instead of eating a bowl of ice cream after dinner, which was getting to be a very regular bad habit, I'm instead eating frozen fruit. I made some watermelon sorbet the other night, but I've also resorted to frozen strawberries and blueberries. I should get some grapes and freeze those, too. And my new crack? Frozen mango chunks. OMG so good! I've told Rob that they are now mandatory to keep in the freezer.

Sure enough, I've quite significantly cut the amount of sugar I've been eating. I'm noticed that already my tastes are changing, so that now that when I do eat sugar, what I used to like now seems too sweet. A good sign.

Are any of the rest of you trying to cut sugar? What are some of your techniques that help you outsmart the cravings?