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  From SunniB June 19

  Thank you for your input, I was beginning to wonder if I was alone in my decision to use the 12 steps as the base of living without sugar. I am not brave enough to leave all flour yet. I am reading/working through a book that refers back to the 12 step model all the time and as a food therapist she suggests waiting at least one year before tackling the other forms of sugar producers. Stevia is a substitute, but from what I have researched does not produce the same craving or sugar alcohol in the system. I really don't eat "goodies" so have no need of it most of the time. I have found a couple decaffeinated teas that are very sweet naturally. i miss chewing gum though, so most mornings when I am leaving for work, I pick a few leaves from my Steva plants and a few from the chocolate mint plants and chew them together all the way to work! Please keep writing, sounds like you and I are travelling similar paths. I will be 58 soon and am an AA/NA member as well. I have also begun to study a Native American version of the program called the Red Road to Wellbriety (whitebison.org). hope to hear from you soon. Sunni

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