What help are you getting with the stresses in our life, both practical and emotional? It must be very challenging to try and make a drastic lifestyle change if you are fighting battles on many fronts.
On the other hand, you KNOW that you will ultimately feel so much better, healthier, and less worried about potential future health complications if you bite the bullet and beat the sugar addiction.
For me, being virtually sugar free became a way of life, and after the first couple of weeks it became surprisingly easy - partly because there was no longer any sugar in my blood to feed the cravings for more sugar.
In practical terms, I focused on exercising and eating really delicious savory foods - salads and vegetables flavoured with a range of uplifting flavours:
Herbs such as parsley, basil, dill, mint, fresh coriander
Ginger and garlic
Punchy salad dressings (vinaigrette with a teaspoon of mustard or horseradish, or based around lemon juice and EVOO)
Plus eating a fair bit of protein (chicken, fish, especiallysalmon and tuna, plus eggs, again flavoured to make them interesting by adding:
A teaspoon of curry paste
Asian marinades (soy sauce, fish sauce, lemon juice, ginger, garlic, chilli)
Homemade pesto
Tomato and roast red pepper sauce with garlic and lots of basil
Or just a bunch of herbs and chilli sauce a d lots of lemon juice.
Intermittent fasting became natural, but I always have boiled eggs (= protein bombs) and fruit in the fridge in case I feel hungry between brunch and dinner.
I seem to have written a novel, but if you do nothing else, do watch this short video: