Cutting sugar is pretty easy if you eat at home and don’t buy a lot of processed foods. It’s nearly impossible otherwise- at least for me. The cool thing is once you stop eating a lot of sugar or salt you realize how salty and overly sweet most things are and it kind of grosses you out so it’s easy to keep in the non sweet/ non salty cycle.
Because of my history of surgery for Crohn's years back (which I have totally healed for years now, btw) I can't deal with most spices. It's really hard outside the house to get food that is not heavily spiced with pepper (which I can't tolerate at all), garlic, and other strong flavored spices. The benefit of my very simple clean diet is I really taste my food exactly as it is... and guess what? When nicely prepared, most food doesn't need much spicing to taste really flavorful!
There's a local restaurant we go to fairly often where the owner/chef has customized a pasta and chicken dish for me made with a light wine sauce. He put a button in their menu computer called "Blandissimo" in my honor, which made us all laugh. He calls it hospital food, he loves spices and flavors. But you know what? It's totally delicious and satisfying to me, and I'm tickled he's done that. A win for all!
