enjoyed it thoroughly and stopped

Huh, similar experience, except it made me physically nauseous for hour afterword. Be glad you're still able to tolerate sugar.

Great! Me too, except I allowed myself to slide back recently and quickly noticed that it's still bad.

I stopped eating white, industrial sugar. I still eat honey, sometimes cane sugar, and of course other sugars like fruit and vegetables.

While it's debatable whether refined industrial sugar is actually worse than natural sugars (I maintain it is, because it's "empty"), a decision like this blocks you from buying or eating a fuckton of products.

It’s all about reshaping your gut microbiome and the brain. Eventually you’ll stop craving it.

Of course I heard this before but I'm never 100% sure if it's true. Give yourself some credit for overcoming habit!

a lot of differences in taste also just come with age, at least for me.

i used to looove really sweet food, like the type of stuff they sell at the supermarket in the "sweets" section. often, these were made mostly of sugar, such as these ones:

now, i can't eat them anymore. i get literally nauseous if i eat even a single piece of them. it's because i cannot bear the intense amount of sugar anymore. it's just because i've gotten older. i prefer potato salad and such nowadays.