Janet and David,
Thankyou for your thoughts. All the ideas really helped.
Janet, I found your idea of substitutes helpful. At the moment I like frozen plain yogurt with fruit, so it's like icecream.
David, Thank you for that important point- that a certain amount of fructose can trigger off your cravings. I thought it was just me!
At the moment, I'm doing well if I compare myself to my previous amount of sugar consumption. I haven't got past the cravings stage yet, but I need to work on:
1. finding substitutes for all the different times I crave sugar- e.g. when stressed, to celebrate something.
2. Drinking lots of water. Oddly, this is helping. I once tried to analyse why I had to eat chocolate daily, and one reason came up with was that I was thirsty, but I'd left it so long that I was tired too, and only sugar could jump start me! If that seems weird, I say cravings are weird. Anyway, I found some evidence to back it up in a book on water by a Dr. Batmanghelidj which I found at the library.
Dennise