I've done it for a month, lost 10kgs and couldn't be happier. But on a daily basis temptation knocks. The special cake made just for me, sushi for the Gods, my little girl bakes muffins or one lick, it's cinnamon and white chocolate, it won't hurt. I don't blame anyone even though I suspect getting me off this is a sport. What I do is carry around a big magnifying glass. Everything that's presented I check the label for sugar like Sherlock Holmes and it works beautifully. It allows me to pause and reaffirm this life saving strategy, explaining a magnifying glass is much more amusing  than the inevitable diet debate and there's a whole lot more sugar out there than I suspected.

No it wasn't the cravings that bothered me it was the nearest and dearest. They kept coming up to me with sugar-free cake, chocolates, you name it, they thought it was sugar free and on our terms it wasn't. It was hard to knock back the well intended purchases of my friends and relatives because they were trying to be nice. My addiction went pretty quickly mainly because I took David's word on it and never touched sugar again. I'm not sure but I think it's been 6 months now and it's going great. No problems.

I went from early January to early April (just about 3 months) sugar free and thought I had it licked. Then the Easter weekend happened and I had just have a little chocolate. It was flood-gates for me.... I have been having chocolate now for two weeks and want to get back onto the sugar free thing as I felt much better. I did find that my desire for carbs increased and perhaps that prevented me from being totally 'sugar free'... perhaps the addiction was still there... not really sure. Anyhow, I'm re-reading the 'Sweet Poison' book in the hope it will re-ignite my sugar free will....here's hoping. I did have a holiday with my husband in South Africa and managed to go the full 3 weeks without any wish to have sugar. It was Easter and being surrounded by all that chocolate that did me in!!