I don't eat sweet things. But I do eat bread, and some potatoes. I could cut those out. But from experience it won't matter much.

I'll try the chewing thing I guess.  And I'm due for a fast again.

I'm sure if all the food was removed from my house I would be hungry but have no choice, so the weight would come off. I could probably do that too. But then I couldn't program gossip very effectively -  my amygdala would interrupt me every few minutes, begging me to go eat something.