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[quote=Anonymous]It sounds like you're doing things the right way, OP.  I've known so many moms who are restricting food for themselves and just simply remove it from the house completely and expect their kids to eat like them.  It's none of my business, but I wonder if they are teaching their kids to demonize every food that's not a fruit or a vegetable (Actually, I know parents who barely let their kids have fruit).

Of course no one "needs" sweets, but we all have our biases - I was raised in the 80s and we had a glorious supply of junk food at all times - no one ended up with any weight or health issues as a result of it and I feel that my siblings had a healthy relationship with food. (I ended up with an eating disorder but that was unrelated to me having access to Pop Tarts)

So when I had kids at home, I kept sweets and junk in the house even though I ended up with stress-induced binge eating of sweets during my daughter's teen years.  You say that you were eating a dessert on a nightly basis. That does not really sounds like you had a huge problem with sugar but only you know what's going on in your head and in your body. I was doing things like having daily "breakfast dessert" and "lunch dessert" and I gained about 30 pounds over the course of maybe 6 years (up to 160). If I had just had one sweet per day, I would not have felt out of control or gained any excess weight.

f you are able to have it in the house and just decline without making a show of it, that's great. I personally waited for an empty nest, finally committed to cutting out the sugar then, kept it out of the house and dropped 40+ pounds in about 7 months and have kept it off for two years and feel great.[/quote]

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