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I changed my diet to avoid wheat and sugar (something like paleolithic). I just did it cold turkey and didn't find it that hard. Stop eating bread and other baked goods, candy, soda and you're 90% there. I lost close to 50 pounds in less than a year. I have not eliminated sugar in the sense that I still eat fruit, but mostly berries and I think eliminating nearly all the refined sugar is what's important.

My diet is now mostly meat, eggs, fish, and salad with some nuts and fruit. There's really nothing complicated about it.

Type II diabetic here - changing the diet is fucking hell, for me anyway.

A general tip is not to have a negative goal.

A better general tip is to have a positive goal.

See what I did there? :)

Instead of reducing sugar in your diet, go for increasing the good stuff - vegetables, berries etc.