Chocolate 'may help keep people slim'

LoopyLaura68

i eat a small bar of chocolate every evening,& am still managing to lose weight.i account for it in calories,making sure i don't go over etc.i've tried dieting before & cut out chocolate etc,but this is were most 'diets' can fail,giving stuff up,then stopping the 'diet' because people can't live without stuff.i just try & eat healthily,exercise more & stick to my suggested calorie intake.

mummyv811

i eat a small bar of chocolate every evening,& am still managing to lose weight.i account for it in calories,making sure i don't go over etc.i've tried dieting before & cut out chocolate etc,but this is were most 'diets' can fail,giving stuff up,then stopping the 'diet' because people can't live without stuff.i just try & eat healthily,exercise more & stick to my suggested calorie intake.

^^^^^^ THIS!

I have crisps and chocolate every work day for lunch. I am managing to lose and budget for these 'treats' accordingly! I chose not to cut things out because I crave and binge on them if I do, causing a neon *DIET FAILED* sign to flash and blind me so I cannot get back on track.

Everything in moderation, that's what I'm learning! :happy:

I'm glad everyone enjoyed the article! :drinker:

Matt_Wild

What an awful interpretation. Correlation does not imply causation!

The article does not distinguish between whether eating chocolate actively makes you slimmer, or slim people tend to have a relationship with food where can allow themselves to eat more chocolate without going over their total daily energy expenditure.

Bingo.

dandelion39

What Helenium said.