Okay, here's me with yet another suggestion. Think less about sugar. Instead, start thinking about what foods will be good for your energy levels and mood and will provide the right balance of protein, carbs, & healthy fats to make you healthier, have more energy, and feel better.

Some links:

10 Foods I Eat Every Day to Beat Depression | Therese Borchard

I really like the foods included in a Mediterranean-type diet. Here's a good cookbook for that type of diet: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/055...=1&*entries*=0

Learn some things about nutrition, like what ratios of protein/carbs/fat are good for you. The LIVESTRONG web site has great nutrition information.

I was going to say next "learn to cook new dishes" but then I remembered that I think you're limited in cooking supplies/facilities where you're living? If you can find somewhere that you can cook more or get something like a crockpot/slow cooker, you can do a lot with that, especially for the winter.

Soups are really good to cook for the winter, too.

Don't forget to eat breakfast. I am transitioning from smoothies to oatmeal now, because it's colder. I use steel-cut oats and put fruit and nuts (either walnuts or slivered almonds) in it. It takes a while to cook, but you can cook up a batch of 4-5 then divide it into portions and reheat as needed.

I was reading something a few months ago that was talking about how ready-to-eat foods contribute to poor nutrition because one factor that gets lost is the time required to prepare the food. If you have to cook everything you eat, you generally end up eating better food and less of it.

The "don't think so much about sugar" bit is sort of a NLP (neurolinguistic programming) idea. You know, from the sort of research that says if we hear "Don't have sex before marriage", "Don't eat so much sugar", etc, the message that our brain gets is "SEX! SUGAR!"