[Nikaia]

I've seen agave and stevia mentioned, but nobody's mentioned evaporated cane juice. It's much less processed than white sugar, so it's better for you.

Heh, it was sugar that got me started on losing weight this time. My mom suggested, since I'd been living with her over the summer and she'd seen my eating (read: dessert) habits, that I cut out sugar and sugary stuff from my diet entirely for one week. Kind of that "You can live with anything for one week, right?" Man, did I crave that stuff SO BAD. But I stuck with it - except when I slipped and had a bit of my aunt's Blizzard on Friday of that week, which then gave me headaches the rest of the day - and now, I don't do sweet stuff hardly at all.

You really do adapt to things. The less you have them, the less you crave them.

[Altari]

My thing is baking. I bake alot - it's my therapy, and the one thing I refuse to give up. Kneeding a loaf of bread helps me control me anger so I don't yell at my kids.

I've been mainly doing ww bread lately, but sometimes I get in a muffin/cookie mood. There's so much sugar in there and alot of recipes say how you can substitute splenda.

It's good to know that so many people are doing it au natural. The guides make it sound like you can't sustain a diet without substituting.