chocolate

Ooh Yes Indeedy.....I am a self confessed Chocoholic and can quite easily pack away the same amount of chocolate per day as you. Glad I am not the only one who eats excessive amounts. 🙂

I have always been addicted to chocolate I must admit. I very easily gave up drinking and smoking but the thought of giving up chocolate makes me upset!!

I cannot imagine a life without chocolate and do not know how I could give up something I enjoy so much. What would life be like ??!!

Somebody told me not so long ago that you can now get chocolate patches! Is this true?

I didn't need patches for giving up smoking I just went cold turkey so to speak but there is no way I could do the same with chocolate.

Can you go to meetings like you can for 'Alcoholics Anonymous'??

Is there a 'Chocoholics Anonymous' ?? :confused: Hmm I wonder...:(

Hello Vicki
Oh yes, count me in!
Ive had E.F.T to try and stop my chocolate cravings, but it hasnt seem to work at all.
I also quit smoking along time ago and that was easy compared to giving up chocolate.!!!
Ive been told its emotional and that i need to look deeper.....??? watch this space...if i find the answer i will let you know!

Love and sunshine
Rachel

Lindor Chockies.....

Hiya everyone

I love my chocolate too, but lately, if I eat too much it gives me terrible stomach cramps and diarrhoea.:( It actually puts me off eating too much of it now.

A couple of weeks ago my son had some of those Lindor Chocolates and he gave me one. (The little balls filled with runny chocolate.) OMG! I beg you all, please don't try them, they are terribly addictive. WHSmiths have not helped by selling bags of 12 of them for a reduced price of £1.99.

I resisted buying a bag a couple of days ago by refusing to go in and get my weekly magazine. I popped to my local Sainsburys/Bells Store to get it instead and lo and behold, right on the counter next to the till, they sell blooming boxes of them for £2.99.....well I tell you, it was just criminal to walk away and leave them at that price.......

Angel x

i used to adore chocolate i used to even have it for breakfast, but that was a few years ago when i used to be a size 10. but now i seem to have to really fancy it to have some. i do love galaxy and hotel chocolate do a lovely chocolate with chilli in it which is very nice but i still could not sit there and eats loads of it, ithink now when i have chocolate it is a hormonal thing cos now if i was to have chocolate for breakfast i would end up being the size of a house end

Mm, chocolate. Actually I go through phases with it. Sometimes I just don't fancy it and can go a couple of weeks without but since Christmas -:eek: I can't get enough of it! But there again, food in general I can't get enough at the moment. Don't know why but I just want something in my mouth all the time.:rolleyes:
No rude comments now! (Cirrus or Serendipity);):p

i think that might be a comfort thing, just think of a baby with a dummy lol

As long as I don't turn pink & squidgy!

Do you remember those giant red dummies you could buy from the seaside or fairgrounds? Pure sugar, couldn't eat one now!

you can still get them , i still love candy floss but feel sick after one bag i used to eat loads of it

Is chocolate cravings somehow connected with magnesium deficiency?

Don't know why but I just want something in my mouth all the time.:rolleyes:
No rude comments now! (Cirrus or Serendipity);):p

As if!!! I can't say anything as I am exactly the same at the moment. I was good before Christmas and now I eat everything and anything in sight. I think it's a natural hibernating thing - well that's my excuse anyway.

I think chocolate helps lift the mood doesn't it, and it has been quite grim since Christmas.......we could be craving for a bit of happiness during the dull weather and shorter days, an antidepressant....the problem is its mixed with so much sugar we then get high and low energy spikes to contend with as well.

Is chocolate cravings somehow connected with magnesium deficiency?

I think Debra Waterhouse in her book "Why Women Need Chocolate" thinks that if it was a craving for magnesium alone we would be more likely to crave more magnesium rich food. She says we would have to eat a lot of chocolate to get the recommended daily allowance of magnesium.

But the sugar and fat in chocolate boosts seratonin and endorphins, then there's phenylethlamine, a chemical released by the brain when we fall in love, theobromine - enhances alertness concentration and cognitive functioning, and then some magnesium as well. We only need 3 or 4 squares to get the benefits .....

So in moderation, eaten when we are hungry, its apparently a good food to satisfy cravings, balance our moods etc.

Sounds medicinal to me 🙂

I to love chocolate and eat some everyday.

I try to keep it under control though. I prefer just slab chocolate.

I buy Morrisons dark chocolate which is very cheap and actually has more cocoa than Bourneville in it and tastes quite good.

I have 6 small squares a day after dinner and suck not chew.

Oooooooooh chocolate!:p:043::015: