Chocolate bar addicition.

johanz

No not the normal chocolate, I mean stuff like mars, snickers, twix, kit-kat and so on.

I am addicted to them. I usually eat at least two a day, sometimes 3 or even more.

And no, I am not fat, a bit underweight actually.

I really need to somehow lay off of them, but I suppose they don't sell chocolate stickers

EileenG

Try to acquire a taste for the good stuff. Start with the 70% cocoa bars, and work up to the 85%, then the 90% and finally the 99% stuff. No-one who eats 99% chocolate can go back to eating Mars bars.

johanz

What, I don't want to replace one addiction with another one.
I like chocolate too, but I can't eat a lot of pure chocolate.

Acoshla

Dark chocolate can be good for you, and most people can't eat as much of it as the cheapy milk chocolate, that's why it's always suggested that if someone is trying to lose weight or stop eating the types you named that they switched to good quality 60-70%, a few squares a day, so much nicer than all the other crap.

EileenG

I'm a chocolate addict, and I can eat max about 10g of the 99%, and usually less.

metamorphosis

EileenG wrote: »

I'm a chocolate addict, and I can eat max about 10g of the 99%, and usually less.

I usually eat about 40gm lindt 99% with a nice strong brewed coffee in one sitting. Yum. Considering a at the start of 2009 i could not stomach 60%, i now find 70% too sweet and milk chocolate tastes like sugar to me now.

rowanh

They have a lot of free chocolate where i work, i was eating loads, at least three bars a day for ages. I replaced it with cheese, they also have small pieces of cheese in their fridges, i then just stopped eating loads of cheese which was fairly easy. Now i only eat either the odd time when they have stuff like frys mint cream bars or if there is reeses stuff about.

the drifter

ULStudent...im assuming your shopping in limerick? where are you getting your lindt?

i gotta sort out my snacking!

metamorphosis

Get yourself into tescos arthurs quay now for lindt 90% because im going back into town and im gonna buy them out if it. The 99% stuff i got in dublin and usually never see anything higher than 85% around Limerick. Tescos do a nice 85% too but they don't always have it. Eats of Eden on Thomas street have a Vivani 85% thats nice and there's some in castletroy shopping center that do a Plamil 87%.

the drifter

mm there is a tesco in roxbro across from where i work....might check it out at lunch!!! otherwise ill be in town for it tomorrow :P

Thank you sir!

rubadub

johanz wrote: »

What, I don't want to replace one addiction with another one.
I like chocolate too, but I can't eat a lot of pure chocolate.

Thats the whole point, you cannot physically stand as much of it, so eat less. It would be like switching from white bread to ryvita, I could eat 500g of white bread easily, 500g of ryvita is 2 full packs, no way I could face that.

Not only do you eat less, the dark chocolate/ryvita is a better thing to be "addicted" to.

metamorphosis

OP - i see you posted this in personnal issues forum too - maybe try chromium picolinate before a meal. It's been linked to reduce sugar cravings by regulating blood sugar levels. When i took 200mcg before meals i just found it made me fuller but maybe that was just in my mind. Maybe try taking 200mcg before a decent meal and you might be fuller.

Also what's your diet like? If you start eating more protein and good fats with your meals and cut down on refined carbs like bread, pasta, boxed cereals - these cravings might reduce as your blood sugar levels will stay more stable. Maybe try eating more fish, lean meat, cottage cheese, nuts, bulk up on veg too.

I_choose_life

Two questions..... Is it possible to buy this Chromium Picolinate as a supplement in the usual health shops and where in Dublin can you buy 99% chocolate.

EileenG

Yes, all health food shops, and some chemists would carry the CP.

I buy my Lindt 99% in JCs supermarket in Swords or in Fallon & Byrne. Listons in Camden Street have a block of 100% as well.

But any shop that sells Lindt has access to the 99%. Ask them to get it in for you, and they will. That's why JC in Swords carries it, just because I asked them to.

metamorphosis

There is also a new shop opening up on Dame street next week called Artisian du Chocolate that does 100% and a lovely 70% with espresso. Yum.

EileenG

Oooooh! I'm book my bed there now.

the drifter

i got Lindt 90% in tescos a while ago and its going to have to be an aquired taste...

metamorphosis

Are you used to dark chocolate? If not work your way up. Start with 60 or 70% maybe. There is a green and blacks 70% mint and a few of the main brands do lower % cocoa with the likes of chilli, orange etc. Might be a way to wean yourself up the ladder.

the drifter

i think im going to have to do that! :P