Sugar

Eat your vegetables and your fruit or suffer from massive constipation. Cut out the processed sugar if you really want to (I'm not personally a fan of cutting foods out entirely) but DO NOT cut out your fruits and ESPECIALLY your veggies.

No way don't cut out fruits or veggies, they are natural sugars. if you want to cut out sugar cut out processed sugar.

Sugar is addicting, and since you have a problem with it avoid all ADDED and PROCESSED sugar, not vegetables. I'd avoid fruit for now, but definitely not vegetables; they have too many benefits to avoid just because of negligible natural sugar.

You *might* want to cut out grains for a while and see how you feel. It might help

If you cut back on processed sugar slowly, it may make the withdrawl easier. But don't be afraid of natural sugar, like in fruits and veggies! An orange or an apple is better for you than a spoonful of processed sugar.

and reduce my intake down to about 3 tsp a day 15g

This isn't necessary. Your issue is junk food and yes, by all means cut that out. But plenty of healthy foodstuffs contain sugar too, exactly the kinds of foods you now need to be eating. Sugar itself is not the enemy here, it's your junk food habit meaning you're eating too much of it. Deal with the actual problem and don't get hung up the numbers.

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I have a problem with sugar - once I start on biscuits, chocolate, etc., I cannot stop, and end up bingeing for days so I've decided to cut the rubbish out and reduce my intake down to about 3 tsp a day 15g by logging onto MFP.

Can I ask how you decided on a 15g per day limit? I'm all for limiting added sugar, because I too have a terrible sweet tooth and a tendency to rampage on candies so I know how gross it can make you feel. But 15 g total per day seems so limiting that you'd cut out so many healthy delicious snacks that there should be a solid reason.

I have a problem with sugar - once I start on biscuits, chocolate, etc., I cannot stop, and end up bingeing for days so I've decided to cut the rubbish out and reduce my intake down to about 3 tsp a day 15g by logging onto MFP. Its day 4 and I'm feeling better, after 3 days of feeling tired and a splitting headache. I've cut out fruit but have noticed that vegetables contain sugar for example I logged on 1/2 pack of M&S chef style vegetables and they contained 6g sugar (over a teaspoon). I would welcome some advice please.

Why are you assuming sugar is the problem? There are many other elements that are in all those foods? All the scaremongering bad press methinks. In reality as others have said everything contains sugar. It sounds to me that the main problem is your self control around certain foods and your will to actually do something about it. If you find foods a problem don't have them in the house. Try and teach yourself to have them in moderation. This cut all sugar lark will do nothing to help. If you have real psychological issues around food and binging maybe you need to consider help from a professional or some form of counseling. Avoiding the problem which are trying to do wont work on the long term

practice yourself to eat natural sugar -> fruits
get rid of processed food
avoid food additives and preservatives

I'm going to make a few suggestions here. First, stop referring to any type of food as crap or junk. It's fuel for your body. Some types of food are nutritionally better than others, but even the "crap" and "junk" has a place in our lives. If your mother made you a birthday cake, would you say to her "your cake is utter crap"? Probably not. Just because you have an issue controlling your intake of a certain food does not make that food inherently bad. You may decide to incorporate those foods back into your daily life someday when you can manage in moderation, and they are not suddenly going to change in nutritional value or become "ok" just because you are thinner. It's just food.

Next, rather than taking the "cutting things out" approach, why not focus on adding things in? Make your goal to add more fresh fruits and veggies, and leave it at that. You'll end up eating less of the processed stuff simply by virtue of trying to hit your fruit and veggie goals, but without the frustration of feeling like you've failed or are a hypocrite if you do have sweets. Plus you won't run the risk of alienating everyone around you by getting all preachy about sugar. If you decide you want something sweet one day, that's fine, and it doesn't undo all the awesome whole food you've been eating all day. If you decide you're not in the mood for sweets, that's fine too. That's the cool thing about moderation.

If you really need to get sweets out of the house, then do it, but keep in mind you are only removing a symptom of the problem. You still need to figure out how to get the bingeing behavior under control. This is a great time to figure out the reasons why you binge and start developing ways to cope with whatever is triggering the binges without turning to food. If you have access to a therapist or counselor, they can help you work through it. If not, I'm sure the internet can provide some ideas you could try.