Im a junkie

kinda lost

Chocolate junkie that is,
I went through a phase of being a chocaholic when i was younger and i still have cravings for chocalte everyday and cant manage to kick it.i eat fruit and drink loads of water but i still have to have a mars bar or a bag a maltesers everyday in work. maybe both somedays,Anyone got advise on what i could try to kick the hadit.

SprostonGreen

You need to find the answer within. Advice can be offered, but essentially its you that can change you.

wexhun

Hello, I am your sister, I am a total chocoholic, Love it like life! I think the addiction is something to do with the release of those happy seratonin chemicals in your brain when you eat chocolate, it gives you the same feeling when you fall in love.
Now don't laugh at this but I remember(i think, or maybe i dreamed it) hearing of patches that yuo could wear to stave off the cravings for chocolate, something similar to the nicotine patches for smokers, barring that you could go out and fall in love! I do sympathise though I really need to kick the habit too:rolleyes:

Transform

Neither are addicted to chocolate both are addicted to SUGAR!!!!

Real choc - 60-70% coca is quite bitter and though to eat lots of it so make the switch to green and blacks

Finally describing yourself as 'I am a chocaholic' only confounds the problem as you are telling yourself subconsciously that you are what you imagine - what about telling yourself that you are a healthy person who enjoys good food without having to eat choc?

Fill your mind with what you want or just keep telling yourself all the lies that you indulge in - your choice.
p.s. we all do it its just how much that is important

Soulgirl

Hi, I dont think having the bag of malteasers or mars bar every day is bad - we all have our treats, and cutting them out probably wouldnt make a HUGE difference.
But - just one tip I have heard before is that its possible to cut chocolate cravings using vanilla pods. Some people stick one to their wrist, and throughout the day you have the scent of it. Apparently smelling it will turn you off craving sweet things......could be complete hokum though ?
I'm just waiting for the slagging this post will probably get!

g'em

Soulgirl wrote:

I'm just waiting for the slagging this post will probably get!

us? slag? nah!!!!

I would have to disagree a little bit with saying that eating chocoalte everyday isn't a bad thing.. it pretty much is. 'Cheap' chocolate like mars bars and cadbury's is very low in quality. The amount of cocoa used to make it is negligible and the chocolaty taste usualy comes from additives, flavourings, buckets of sugar and copious amounts of fats used in them. Now if you said there's nothing wrong with eating chocolate once a week, then I'd agree with you. There's no point in denying yourself of something entirely, you'll only end up wanting it more.

Like Transform said, if you're going to eat chocolate, eat Green and Black's. Its 70% cocoa and made from all organic ingredients with no additives or flavourings. A little bit goes a very long way, and this type of pure chocolate really does have antioxodant properties and promotes release of seratonin. You get it from any decent health food shop and some of the bigger supermarkets.

t-ha

g'em wrote:

Like Transform said, if you're going to eat chocolate, eat Green and Black's. Its 70% cocoa and made from all organic ingredients with no additives or flavourings. A little bit goes a very long way, and this type of pure chocolate really does have antioxodant properties and promotes release of seratonin. You get it from any decent health food shop and some of the bigger supermarkets.

Then melt it, pour it over strawberries and allow to set in the fridge. Delicious, and also the perfect Valentines day pre or post-sex workout food .


A trick you could try to get rid of your cravings is to do an uber-strict dieting phase for a couple of weeks, no cheats. By the time you're done with that, cabbage will taste like chocolate.

incisor71

t-ha wrote:

A trick you could try to get rid of your cravings is to do an uber-strict dieting phase for a couple of weeks, no cheats. By the time you're done with that, cabbage will taste like chocolate.

On the recommendation of a herbalist doctor, I went through that phase during April of last year, but for three weeks, with no cheating and no days off. Afterwards, I found that chocolate tasted more like cabbage to be honest

But even that short time of abstinence - admittedly, I combined it with three weeks of sugar-free eating and a teetotal regime - cured a raftload of health problems (skin, digestion) that had dogged me for years. Not only that but mentally I became much better able to say No to my own cravings - and to the temptations introduced by dessert-time offerings (meant in the most innocent sense possible ) from other people.

t-ha

incisor71 wrote:

and to the temptations introduced by dessert-time offerings (meant in the most innocent sense possible ) from other people.

Hmmm... does somebody want a strawberry?

*gives incosor71's avatar a strawberry, which she is now holding in her right hand*:D

incisor71

*puts clothes peg on nose and covers tongue with road salt* .... arghhhh ... must.... resist.... delee-shusssss.... taste!!!

t-ha wrote:

Hmmm... does somebody want a strawberry?

*gives incosor71's avatar a strawberry, which she is now holding in her right hand*:D