Chocolate and getting off it

snapplejacks

for past couple of months i've let myself go a bit and took into fast food, chocolate, crisps etc.... i am now almost back on the good stuff....but i'm having trouble walking past my vending machine at work here for a bar of chocolate!!

anyone any ideas as to what i could replace the bar of chocolate with, maybe something nice to snack on low in calories ?

Huggles

snapplejacks wrote:

for past couple of months i've let myself go a bit and took into fast food, chocolate, crisps etc.... i am now almost back on the good stuff....but i'm having trouble walking past my vending machine at work here for a bar of chocolate!!

anyone any ideas as to what i could replace the bar of chocolate with, maybe something nice to snack on low in calories ?

Fruit ftw!

Hail 2 Da Chimp

Bannanas FTW!!!

mack1

Fruit, Nuts (unsalted, unroasted), I have a can of tuna (ok not exactly a chocolate replacement but hey!)

Roper

Why would anyone want to get off chocolate!

I'm a chocoholic- so what I do is I train a bit harder and tell myself that makes up for it! Seriously though, chocolate should be treated like a treat for yourself and not a part of your daily routine.

justsomebloke

a chicken breast with a small salad

AlphaMale 3OO

snapplejacks wrote:

anyone any ideas as to what i could replace the bar of chocolate with, maybe something nice to snack on low in calories ?

There are some really authentic tasting protein bars out there and they can cetainly fill the gap. as for avoiding chocolate do what i do. just dont eat it! simple as that, walk past the machine. it'll get easier and easier and as your diet gets better you'll be able to wean yourself off it. i found that the addition of organic peanut butter to my diet really helped kill my cravings for chocolate, maybe because i am now feeding my body with the fat it craves but doing it in a constructive way. I sometimes eat four tablespoons a day with no negative impact whatsoever on body fat levels (11% 220lbs). I have actually burned more fat. And beyond this you could still eat chocolate once a week, everyone is entitled to a treat. I have eaten chocolate once in 2007 but this is what I ate in a 1 hour period: (I dont condone this)

1 Tesco Chocolate Cake
1 Large Tub of Ben Jerrys Phish Food
2 chocolate iced donuts
1 Medium sized Box Butlers Chocolates
2 Large Smarties Cookies

This came to 3300 calories.

AlphaMale 3OO

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Transform

Well then if its from a vending machine its not chocolate you are craving is bloody sugar!!

Have the dark real chocolate and go for anything above 60-70% coca

mathie

Transform wrote:

Well then if its from a vending machine its not chocolate you are craving is bloody sugar!!

Have the dark real chocolate and go for anything above 60-70% coca

Is dark chocolate 'good' for you? Or just not bad?

Stark

Good quality dark chocolate (not Cadbury's bournville ****e and the like) is good for you. Go for the Green&Blacks stuff, that's the best I think.

Personally I find it's best not to try substituting though. Try and distinguish between real hunger and cravings. If it's not real hunger, then you shouldn't be trying to feed yourself to get rid of cravings. If it is real hunger, then make sure you have fruit and the like handy.

AlphaMale 3OO

Stark wrote:

Good quality dark chocolate is good for you.

No it isnt. No chocolate is good for you. its a little less bad but its not good.

Transform

It has a high antioxidant count but yes save it as a treat and its much harder to eat lots of dark chocolate than the cheap sugary varieties that they call chocolate

Huggles

forbesii wrote:

1 Tesco Chocolate Cake
1 Large Tub of Ben Jerrys Phish Food
2 chocolate iced donuts
1 Medium sized Box Butlers Chocolates
2 Large Smarties Cookies

This came to 3300 calories.

Yup That would do me for a year too

AlphaMale 3OO

TheGooner wrote:

Yup That would do me for a year too

I was hibernating for Summer. I knew the weather would be ****e.:D

nesf

forbesii wrote:

No it isnt. No chocolate is good for you. its a little less bad but its not good.

I don't think it makes much sense to think of chocolate (and things like it) as being "good" or "bad". Chocolate itself isn't going to do damage to you. If you overeat and stuff yourself full of it, that's not a great idea but you could say the same for a lot of things.

The bigger picture is more important than any individual piece of food etc.

forbesii wrote:

1 Tesco Chocolate Cake
1 Large Tub of Ben Jerrys Phish Food
2 chocolate iced donuts
1 Medium sized Box Butlers Chocolates
2 Large Smarties Cookies

I wouldn't have gotten past the cake...

AlphaMale 3OO

nesf wrote:

I wouldn't have gotten past the cake...

It was the hardest bit. Plain cruising after that.;)

mc23

If its a craving try chewing gum. I can never eat chocolate after brushing my teeth or chewing gum and once its sugar free will be good for your choppers.

g'em

nesf wrote:

I don't think it makes much sense to think of chocolate (and things like it) as being "good" or "bad". Chocolate itself isn't going to do damage to you. If you overeat and stuff yourself full of it, that's not a great idea but you could say the same for a lot of things.

qft.

As soon as you start to demonise anything, it becomes forbidden fruit, you'll crave it. There's room for chocolate in any good diet - ideally like Transform says it'll be good quality stuff and no the gloopy, nasty bars of vegetbale oil + sugar muck that passes for chocolate in newsagents

But OP - if you want to stop eating chocolate... just stop. Seriously. Think about it - it actually requires more will-power to make the decision to eat chocolate, go to the vending machine, get the bar and eat it than it does to do nothing. If you're carving sugar have fruit, or water or even a diet drink if you must. Eat well 90% of the time and enjoy your treats guilt-free. Right now the chocolate-eating is just a habit, and a lazy one at that.

Stark

g'em wrote:

or even a diet drink if you must.

Diet drinks aren't much good either in my opinion. They have their own addictive properties and in any case, it's just swapping one bad habit for another rather than getting out of the compulsive feeding habit full stop. Drink plenty of water and have an apple(I find it's the most satisfying fruit) in the late afternoon to keep hunger levels at bay.

Mogs22

a chomp! Still chocolate but only 100 cals, yum!