Can't resist chocolate!

rhesk23
rhesk23 Posts: 2
in Health and Weight Loss
Help I can't say no to chocolate in the evenings! :-(
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  • tricksee
    tricksee Posts: 835 Member
    Don't buy it!! If it isn't there you can't eat it!!
  • laylaness
    laylaness Posts: 262 Member
    Buy high-quality dark chocolate instead of milk chocolate. Leave a few extra calories at the end of the day and eat 2 or 3 squares.
  • LJCannon
    LJCannon Posts: 3,636 Member
    :drinker: Life is NOT Worth Living Without Chocolate!!

    :flowerforyou: Moderation & Portion Control.
  • R3b3ccaa
    R3b3ccaa Posts: 9 Member
    I was the same way. With my last 2 pregnancies I craved sweets especially chocolate so afterward I was addicted. It was really hard to beat the habit of having sweets every night. You have to start small. I started replacing sweets with fruit at first (I really liked cutting up an apple and dipping it in a small amount of peanut butter.) Then slowly I started cutting out any snacks 1 to 2 nights a week and so forth. I now do not crave sweets as much. I still like to have some occasionally but the hard cravings are gone. Good luck I sympathize with you.
  • Timshel_
    Timshel_ Posts: 22,834 Member
    Have less. Try a Cliff Bar Chcocolate Brownie or other substitute. Change your habit and try adding fruit with the chocolate and slowly ween out the chocolate part.
  • pobalita
    pobalita Posts: 741 Member
    I need my nightly chocolate too!. And I can't be trusted to only eat 2 or 3 squares of the whole bar. Trader Joe's has individually wrapped bars of dark chocolate that are 100 calories each and come in a box of 5 or 6. I can usually just take one of those and be ok..

    I confess that there have been a couple of times that I have taken my 2 or 3 squares and asked my son to hide the rest of it. It's too embarrassing to ask him to go and get it again so mom can cheat on her calories. LOL.
  • pseudomuffin
    pseudomuffin Posts: 1,058 Member
    Have less. Try a Cliff Bar Chcocolate Brownie or other substitute. Change your habit and try adding fruit with the chocolate and slowly ween out the chocolate part.

    This this this! The Cliff Bars in chocolate are actually really good! I also second the suggestion to try high quality dark chocolate, just a little bit isn't bad :)
  • NakeshiaB
    NakeshiaB Posts: 250 Member
    Yes you can if you really want to.

    I'm having a chocolate-free February. I'm not buying it, eating it, drinking it or even looking at it. My boss gave me a chocolate the other day, I gave it to someone else!

    If you make it a clear set goal then it's easier to say no. Prove to yourself that you can do it!
  • Rodderick89
    Rodderick89 Posts: 205 Member
    Personally I know if I'm craving chocolate, it's better for me to have say a full sized crunchie (185 calories) and really enjoy it, than to keep eating "healthier" foods until I feel satisfied - e.g apple and PB, a rice cake and some almonds, ending up going way over on calories and STILL be craving chocolate... when I could have just used 185 on a crunchie and been done with it!

    Alternative options:

    Chocolate rice cakes - quite filling, about 60 calories for a large one.
    Snack size chocolate bars - if you have the will power to only eat one.
    Protein shake/Smoothie with a tablespoon of cocoa powder (adds 70ish calories for the cocoa)
    Hot chocolate - can get 'light' versions
    Cadburys Light chocolate mousse (60 calories)
    Sugar free jelly (ok, not chocolate but still hits the 'sweet' craving)
    Homemade 2 ingredient ice cream (slice a banana, freeze the slices, whizz them in a food processor, add some cocoa)
    Make a 'chocolate' milkshake mixture (could use light soya milk and cocoa or hot chocolate powder, etc) and freeze into lollies.

    What other people have suggested about slowly cutting down the evening snacks sounds like a good idea too :)
  • evileen99
    evileen99 Posts: 1,564 Member
    I have chocolate every day. Not a lot, but I eat it every single day.
  • Anthonydaman
    Anthonydaman Posts: 854 Member
    Who Can? Dark chocolate and moderation are your friends.
  • schondell
    schondell Posts: 556 Member
    Stop buying it. Develop willpower.
  • MissJanet55
    MissJanet55 Posts: 457 Member
    Yes, you can!

    Cravings will last 3 days, and you can tough it out that long. Believe it or not, when I want sweets I eat frozen grapes and it is really satisfying.

    That being said, I ate chocolate today for the first time in a month. Logged it.
  • aimeelikesblue
    aimeelikesblue Posts: 1
    I have the same trouble. I love a piece of chocolate after dinner. Tonight, I'm having some (15) gummy bears instead.
  • Starlage
    Starlage Posts: 1,709 Member
    Buy high-quality dark chocolate instead of milk chocolate. Leave a few extra calories at the end of the day and eat 2 or 3 squares.

    This. I eat chocolate most days of the week, but I only but the super dark stuff (70% or higher) because it's low in sugar. Admittedly, if you don't love the taste it's a definite adjustment. I love the stuff now though!
  • Trechechus
    Trechechus Posts: 2,819 Member
    So eat it. I eat ice cream almost every night... when I'm not too lazy to go to the store to buy it.
    Just ration it.
  • Silver_Star
    Silver_Star Posts: 1,351 Member
    Dont say no to Chocolate! Portion it out so you dont see the whole bar of candy at once.

    Forgot to mention: Eating or drinking something with Cinnamon in it takes the edge off! It helps!
  • elisa123gal
    elisa123gal Posts: 4,324 Member
    make my dark chocolate cheerio marshmallow bark..yummy for 100 calories.
  • Riemersma4
    Riemersma4 Posts: 400 Member
    why resist? Seems futile to me, right?

    This is where i extol the nutritional value of dark chocolate, right?

    nah... it tastes great. Eat it. in moderation. 1 Dove Dark Chocolate square is 42 calories. Barely a blip on the TDEE tracking but, man, does it taste good! Totally worth it! I break it in to 3 pieces to make it last longer. Going to get one now. Thanks for the reminder!

    Cut somethign else out but not the dark chocolate!
  • JenniTheVeggie
    JenniTheVeggie Posts: 2,474 Member
    The 90% lindt (spelling?) fits into my eating nicely. I just don't eat the whole bar. :smile:
  • na1ry2be3
    na1ry2be3 Posts: 2 Member
    I know EXACTLY how you feel. I consider myself a chocolate addict. Seriously. I could care less about chips or other candy's but chocolate is a whole different story. I have come to the sad conclusion that I simply can not have it in my house. One bite, piece, whatever is never enough. I can't stop myself and the more I have the more I want. It truly can be an addiction. There is no subsitute. I had to go cold turkey. It takes a week or so to get all of that sugar out of your body. When you do, the cravings will subside. I still indulge once in awhile. BUT I have to make sure it is not in a way that can carry over from day to day (like a bag or chocolate candy)...once, done, gone...get back on track. Good luck. It's a tough one!
  • Trechechus
    Trechechus Posts: 2,819 Member
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  • carolineire
    carolineire Posts: 65 Member
    I sometimes eat organic rice cakes with an orange flavoured yoghurt dressing, it actually tastes like chocolate, so it kinda satisfies the craving. But if I really need it, I try to buy Freddo bars, which is just a tiny bar, anout about 80 cals, it does the job instead of a regular sized bar. When I work out I dont feel guilty as I have lots of exercise calories to eat back, so I feel its ok.

    Everything in moderation is good, the more you deprive yourself of it, the more youll keep thinking about it and drive yourself mad- been there, done that!

    Not having it in the house is brilliant, sometimes I realise that I dont want it enough to get dressed and go to the shops :laugh:
  • akilahleemarie
    akilahleemarie Posts: 80 Member
    I have a sweet tooth...I didn't gain my extra pounds from eating too many cheeseburgers...I got it from candy...honestly, the best thing you can do is say no to chocolate as long as you are trying to lose weight. not going to lie...it was so hard at first...but the next day when you wake up guilt free...man the feeling is awesome! i am either one extreme or the next...i either binge eat junk food..or eat healthy (no junk food at all)...i try to tell myself...that eating the candy will be a step back...and if i eat healthy it will be that much closer to being at my goal weight...that much closer to eating more calories to maintain my new weight...and then i will be able to afford candy :) when im not on a diet its not that bad...but when you are on a diet it just mentally hard KNOWING you can't have any in order to get to where you want to be :)
  • elzylz
    elzylz Posts: 1
    I was the same, then I started watching my sugar intake as well as my calories and it really helped me stop eating chocolate every day (just change your settings on MFP). Did you know that one little bag of M&M's is about a days intake of sugar! So now I try and have "sugar free" days where I minimise sugar intake (ie, only from fruit etc) and then once every 4 or 5 days I'll have a little bag (48g) of M&Ms or a couple of squares of dark lindt. Ultimately, counting my sugar intake and only buying chocolate on the day I intend to eat it makes a huge difference. When I was really overweight I used to eat a family size block of chocolate (or more!) a day - if I can stop anyone can!

    The less you eat the less you will crave it. I also find now that the days I eat chocolate I have bad dreams at night - it's a good incentive to keep away from it!
  • misselemental
    misselemental Posts: 28 Member
    Sometimes when I really need chocolate I snack on a few semi sweet chocolate chips. The ones I get-Guittard's are 70 cals for 30 pieces, let them melt in your mouth really slowly!
  • sppride
    sppride Posts: 15 Member
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    Dark chocolate good. Also the quaker popped rice cakes have some chocolate flavor to them.
  • CherokeeBabe
    CherokeeBabe Posts: 1,704 Member
    I found and fell in love with a store-brand version of Fudgecicles recently. Super-strong chocolate flavor, like dark chocolate almost. So rich, so delicious, does not taste like 'diet' dessert. Only 90 calories. Same exact thing as Fudgecicles.
  • meadow_sage
    meadow_sage Posts: 308 Member
    Skinny Cow and Weight Watchers Giant Fudge Bars :love:
  • katrinajMiles
    katrinajMiles Posts: 71 Member
    At the end of the day everything in moderation.

    I sometimes get that sweet craving about 3pm. So I brought a block of 85% Lindt chocolate it is like 54cal for one square and they are big squares. Because it is such dark chocolate and so rich I find one square is enough I don't think I would be able to eat anymore than that.

    But if you really didn't like dark chocolate and really wanted milk buy small individually wrapped chocolates have one a day and hid them in a draw you don't open often so you're not seeing them every time you open the pantry or walk into the kitchen.

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