We stopped buying raw sugar as well as things with added sugar at the grocery store.  We also stopped buying juice and obvious junk food like potato chips.  We still buy whole milk and bacon and cheese and pasta.<p>It was hard at first, but we still have sugar in various forms around the home to use on occasion.  We&#x27;re buying more fruit now too, but eat less than it takes to make the juice we eliminated.<p>We&#x27;re losing about one pound per week, with no change in activity levels.  So that&#x27;s crudely about 500 calories per day, each.  We have sweet things for social reasons, or to celebrate.  The trick is just to avoid buying them so you can&#x27;t eat them when you get hungry.  Once we get down to our target weights I imagine we&#x27;ll buy more.<p>It&#x27;s really quite shocking when you stop buying sugar, just how many of your usual purchases you end up putting back on the shelf.