Cutting down on chocolate

[zc81]

Hi all,

Appreciate Easter is about family and stuffing as much chocolate as it is possible to eat. However, chocolate is my Achilles heel and will eat everything insight.

I'm desperate to lose weight and need to stop eating chocolate. Has anyone else cut down at all?

[IndigoBlue61]

Hello zc81

I am pretty good at eating limited amounts of my favourite foods but chocolate is the exception, once I've had a little I just crave more so I prefer to not have any at all.

Over time my taste buds have changed and my sweet cravings have diminished 😊

Good luck

[orcadiana]

The only chocolate I dare let in the house is Options low calorie hot choc drink! Since 1 January I have avoided chocolate almost completely and feel that my addiction to the brown stuff has more or less gone. However, I think it's a bit like quitting smoking - I could very easily slip back into the habit. I do eat a lot more fruit now and find the sharper and fresher taste of satsumas, raspberries, etc help banish cravings for other sugary stuff. Good luck!

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I've made it a personal challenge not to eat any chocolate Monday to Friday (including yoghurt with chocolate bits in etc) and then I can have a bit at the weekend as long as I'm not having it ontop of other treats I was a "one chocolate treat a day" person and it suddenly became chocolate throughout the day so I've done this to prove that I can control myself. It can be done! I'd say if you can't control yourself cold turkey is probably the best way to start with.

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I absolutely love cadbury chocolate & for me to completely cut it out I wouldn't last very long. Seven weeks on I look forward to having a little bar of a night of the weekend. I'm managing fine without it & if I feel the need to have a bit of chocolate I might have the occasional Jaffa with a cup of tea after dinner. I'm really enjoying fruit & yogurt now.

[BadlyDrawnBadger 7lbs]

I've found buying only small bars that come in their own wrapper (if I had a larger bar and said I'd just have one row it would never happen!) and limiting it to certain nights has helped me. I don't have any other sweet things like biscuits or cake in the house so my only treat is a Freddo. Although some lovely person has just bought me a huge (and delicious looking) Easter egg so will have to see if I have got will-power to just snap 100g off per night rather than stuffing the lot in one day as I'd would have done four months ago!

I also seem to remember that the best calorie:chocolate bar ratio was a curly wurly - and they take longer to eat, so that might be an option if you like toffee?