We eat too much chocolate

maggut

I have to say i do like raisins.......the chocolate covered ones
But a bit of fruit just wont satisfy me the way choccy does. Until i start putting on weight and needing fillings then i'll continue to indulge!

savvy

Prudent this is taken from a book called Healing Foods;

Magnesium is found in wholegrain cereals, wheatgerm, nuts and seeds, shrimps, winles, okra, chard, soya beans, tofu and dried apricots.

The adsorption of magnesium is reduced when large amounts of calcium, protein or phosphate are eaten at the same time.

Defficiency is shown by muscle weakness, poor nerve-muscle interaction, lethargy, depression, irritability...................which is probably when most people reach for the chocolate!!!!;)

jaimeo

This may seem like a crap tip but try drinking hot chocolate (e.g. Options). If you like , add no-sugar squirty cream to it, this will have far fewer cals, grams of carbs etc.

Or, if any of you or your SOs are into weightlifting then steal their protein shake powder and make yourself a scoop with skimmed milk.

I am a bit of a chocoholic. I can control it when i drink protein powder though, or the hot choc. I only realised how valuable these two are when I ran out of both a week back. Coincidentally I also ate over a kilo of choc in the same week! Now stocked up...no cravings!

About the fruit- i dont want to disagree...but substituting fruit for chocolate (personally) was about as effective as the doctors suggestion of a glass of water when I wanted a fag!

FYI smoking ceased 6 months ago now. lost 33lbs so far through dieting, i know the pain of chocaholism!

Luis

Thankfully I am not a chocoholic, but mostly because I don't have it in the house :rotfl:

A few years ago I went through a VERY skint patch, and stopped buying treats like choc, cakes, crisps, biccies etc, and just never seemed to get back in the habit - never even go down the relevant aisles in the supermarket anymore. This has helped the OH hugely - when we do have chocolate in the house he will eat it all - hence having to buy his kids' easter eggs twice this year :rolleyes:

Now what I tend to do is have a bag of my favourite expensive Thornotns in the house and have one as a treat every now and then - the thought of scoffing £10 of choc in one go puts me off too!

culpepper

My OH will buy it nearly everyday.
Ive just spent the last 2 weeks making easter eggs as usual. It comes down to 225g of chocolate each that we will be stuffing on tomorrow but today in asda he was still eyeing the creme eggs.I eat more choc that OH brings home than I buy for myself. It's very hard to not say thanks and just gobble it up when everyone else is eating it.

Jeryth

I actually vary really wildly - sometimes I could take it or leave it; other times I HAVE to have some. Some advice I was given a while ago makes sense; it's like the idea of not denying yourself any type of food, to keep a healthy mental attitude towards food. A dietician said it was a good idea to have a "pudding" after your main evening meal, to satisfy your sweet tooth, but also to signal the end of the day's eating. I take it to mean that I can have a little of something sweet each day, as long as I don't pig out. It helps me reduce my "emotional" eating, too. But as I gave up Ice cream for Lent, I'm soooooo looking forward to that tub of Haagen Daz!

mutley74

Chocolate gives one pleasure. If you wish to stop /cut back eating chocolate you either need the will power and determination yourself. If not see the advantages and disadvantages of eating chocolate or in other words the pleasure you get from eating chocolate e.g. taste, feeling etc. versus the pain e.g. putting on excess calories.

If you wish to lose weight maybe you could see each chocolate bar as set back in losing weight, and try building up a more -ve picture of chocolate eating, and more reasons not to eat it. or try and associate more mental pictures that are nice to see associated with chocolate e.g. blobs of fat, flavourings etc...and view nice pictures of yourself if you did not eat it such as better skin quality, less fat, more money saved etc etc. its all down to what is best for you.

Maddie

How about eating small amounts of high cocoa density chocolate when you get a craving? This should satisfy your need for chocolate, but it's very hard to eat more than a couple of squares, so you won't need to pig out!

elona

I came across a tip to cut dark chocolate into very small pieces, wrap in foil then put in freezer.
If you are desperate for chocolate then take a small piece and place it in your mouth while it is still frozen - it will take ages to melt and you feel as if you had a lot more than you actually have.

BrokeBrokeBroke

That's also worked for me, but I don't even have to freeze it. One or two squares of good dark chocolate works a treat!