[spain]

In my experience I cut out a lot of candy, sugars, and sweets from my diet at a very young age and haven't looked back, so I don't have that much experience with the "cravings" or withdrawal symptoms people describe (I don't drink coffee either). I like to believe the reason for this is that my tongue was a little more sensitive than normal and so I often got "overwhelmed" by sugary foods and simply started avoiding them (I still do). Grownups used to tease me about this whenever candy came up, they were flabbergasted that a child would reject candy as a reward or present for doing something. What? A kid that wouldn't do anything for a candy bar? Impossible.

I also avoid soft drinks like Coca-Cola because they produce an almost allergic reaction with my tongue (it aches for the rest of the day) though that might just be the preservatives. As a result I mostly stick to "vanilla" foods and drinks as I like to call them, like plain water and milk.

I might be wrong and still be getting too much unhealthy sugars and stuff from other food, but I'd like to think that it's not so severe since I live in Finland and not the US. I'm also slightly underweight so there's that, though I suspect that might be due to my genes. I guess what I'm trying to say is that I'm sort of glad they way things turned out in my case.

[rthomas6]

There's been some research that suggests that children, unlike adults, have no limit to the amount of sweetness they will tolerate/enjoy in a food. Maybe your sweetness limit just kicked in earlier than your peers.