Anyone want to give up sugar with Me?

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I need to take action! My skin is itchy and my bowels are terrible. I feel foggy all the time too. I'm giving up sugar or at least cutting down 90 per cent. Anyone with me?

I don’t fall off the wagon as such, more like (as with any diet I suppose) have planned ‘days off’ where I have foods I wouldn’t otherwise have. For example, I’m off away for the weekend with Dh tomorrow, so will probably have desserts etc that I wouldn’t have at home. It’s helpful to not treat it as ‘off the wagon’ but a planned food in a balanced diet. So if you plan to have cake and a hot chocolate once a month, for example- you haven’t failed! When I first quit sugar I went from New Year’s Day to Easter Sunday with zero sugar (then my treat was an Easter egg!)
Now it’s probably once a month where I have something sweet.

can I have diet coke??

I feel rough today. Ibs bad although the whole reason I'm doing this is because of Ibs!

while sweets, cakes, diet foods, fizzy pop, low fat food and smoothies are obvious crap to cut right down, with symptoms like that what does the doctor say?

She says ibs. Not crohns or coeliac I've had the tests. I've done fodmap with some success. I'm ok with wheat and dairy. Garlic gives me diarrhoea so I avoid.
My dad cut sugar out a while ago and found his ibs and aches and pains subsided