It lets me more or less skip a meal but holy hell I am craving sugar more than ever. On the whole I'm cutting calories and have lost a lot of weight, I just wish I didn't want sugar this much.

I’ve always been more of a savory kind of person myself. I’d take biscuits and gravy or a steak over sweets any day!

But I feel you on sugar. Took me a long time to cut sugar cravings. A decade ago I cut regular soda out of my diet, which a few years later led to me cutting out pretty much anything sweetened. Realistically it wasn’t the sweetness for me, it was the “mouthfeel” or doing something with your mouth. Just straight sparkling water satisfied the entire craving for me.

The hardest thing for me to give up / heavily cut back on was fried things. Maybe that’s the result of my parents using french fries as the reward food when I was a kid…

Try allulose-sweetened stuff. Allulose is a sugar your body doesn't metabolize like sucrose. It has zero calories and does not increase your blood sugar. It's a component of maple syrup and so does taste a bit maple-y, but better than most artificial sweeteners and even stevia leaf extract (stevia and aspartame have a "tang" to them I dislike).