Well they do say at one point, you'll be craving the sweets less and less. But honey cannot really replace them. It's not the same at all.
However the good thing is that after a long pause if you eat sweets, you'll start to feel icky quite fast, at least in some cases. In best case scenario, it'll help manage to reduce all kinds of sweets and such on a long run even if you don't quit them in total.
I'm glad your payouts are slowly growing. I'm at a point I'm not taking much stress about payouts, because I'm having a secret hope Steem price will jump to at least $10 and then the current Steem amount owned by me is already quite nice. Well it could always be nicer, but still!
The lack of interaction is however depressing as most know. I'm lucky not to get that much spam comments, but I do really know what you mean with the "this is geat art"-comments. It's not that we're looking for compliments and such but discussion, interactions and something which points out to people that they might care.