Can you see it as a learning experience instead of a failure?
If you begin to associate eating sugar with feeling sick, it will be easier to avoid. In fact, you might even stop considering it to be food.
I knew for a couple years that I needed to stop eating chocolate, since it makes my joints ache. But I continued to eat it for a long time because I anticipated the pleasure of it's taste more more than the discomfort I'd feel for 3-4 days afterward. That eventually changed, though, and once my primary association with chocolate was pain, it no longer tempted me.
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