@variablepulserate I used to be completely addicted to sugar: close to 1L of soft drinks per day, bags of Oreos in a sitting, most fast food milkshakes tasted "normal"…. My parents never complained about me eating too much fast food or anything of the sort; all they knew about nutrition back then was that I was underweight and could do with eating a little more.
Quit soft drinks cold turkey in 2008 (my own decision) and severely restricted my snacking at the same time; the rest happened pretty slowly after that until I started dedicating a lot of time to tasting (alcohol, coffee, tea…) around late 2013.
Sugary stuff is basically incompatible with a lot of nice drinks, so there's little temptation to go back, though I do splurge once in a while. Soft drinks, though, are a few-time-a-year thing: stopping cold turkey is still one of the hardest things I've ever done and I don't want to go through that again. Also most soft drinks taste awful to me now, Fentiman's being a notable exception.
// @hazardwarning @matigo @phoneboy