Is there a healthy way to have chocolate?

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  • Timmmy40
    Timmmy40 Posts: 152 Member
    Moderation. I have chocolate once in a while. I also eat my wife's homemade cake. You have to find a healthy balance.
  • cadaverousbones
    cadaverousbones Posts: 421 Member
    Dark chocolate is actually good for you and has antioxidants in it. I would say that its okay to have chocolate when you feel like it as long as you are not eating a huge amount and going over your calories and nutrition goals. If it fits in to all that, why not have it? Are you really never going to eat chocolate again for the rest of your life?
  • Kamikazeflutterby
    Kamikazeflutterby Posts: 770 Member
    If I have a craving for chocolate, I eat some. I don't even worry about what kind of chocolate it is. I just fit it into my calories.

    This. When I started MFP I bought a box of Snickers Ice Cream bars. It was easy to plan for 180 calories of delicious, delicious chocolate, caramel and ice cream at the end of the day and it didn't blow the rest of my eating plan.

    Crazy, I know. I had something that I liked and didn't immediately gain 5 lbs or develop the diabetus.
  • kr1stadee
    kr1stadee Posts: 1,774 Member
    The healthiest way to have chocolate is dark, often and orally.

    You're welcome. :smile:

    I read this as 'often orally' ... I was a little scared to ask .... LOL
  • slim4health56
    slim4health56 Posts: 439 Member
    Open mouth. Insert chocolate.
    This. Daily.
  • LishieFruit89
    LishieFruit89 Posts: 1,956 Member
    A good way to stop those cravings is to have a tiny nibble of your favourite choc, then put the rest in the microwave in a non microwavable container for 2 minutes on hi. The smell of your choc and the melted plastic will put u off for the next few months at least :drinker:
    It works, i fluked it, just i used ice magic haha

    ^That is ABSURD, WASTEFUL, and SOOOOOO mentally unhealthy.


    OP,
    try what others have suggest with the hershey kisses, dove promises, or hershey's bliss squares.
    I've found that with those, since they're thicker, I won't eat them as quick, I'll let them melt in my mouth like others have suggested.
    I'm all for the Lindt Dark Choc. with the orange in it (year round chocolate orange instead of christmas only - I <3 those) but since the squares are so thin, I nom through them so fast.

    edit: spelling error
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    Dark chocolate has numerous health benefits; it is calorie dense, but also chalk full of antioxidants and other nutrients. Eat dark chocolate.
  • Lifelink
    Lifelink Posts: 193 Member
    Its because your body crave magnesium...Look for fruits or other food high in magnesium.

    Also for future reference for any craving: this is good to remember, because this works across the board for all foods. :]
  • auntiebabs
    auntiebabs Posts: 1,754 Member
    I have been having serious chocolate cravings this week. Luckily I have stayed strong in resisting the urge to go out and by anything chocolate.

    I was wondering if there was any "healthy" way to have a little bit of chocolate now and then?

    I have a little chocolate everyday... I prefer dark chocolate which has got good-for-you anti-oxidants in it.
    The trick is serving size (Dark chocolate tends only to come in large bars.)
    1 Tablespoon of semi-sweet or bitter-sweet chocolate chips is usually pretty easy to fit into the daily calories,
    As is a square or two of the good stuff... (Heck, if I'm only eating a little it might as well be tasty)
  • tfpdunn
    tfpdunn Posts: 68 Member
    Of course, as long as it fits in your macros.
  • Groovyca2022
    Groovyca2022 Posts: 21,378 Member
    I prefer bite size milk chocolate...kisses or chocolate ice cream. Just plan ahead and fit it into your daily allowance.:smile:
  • MistyMtnMan
    MistyMtnMan Posts: 527 Member
    Sure just eat it. Just not a lot of it. If it fits in your daily totals go for it.
  • jennyrebekka
    jennyrebekka Posts: 626 Member
    chocolate "milk" - straight from the source
  • TheEffort
    TheEffort Posts: 1,028 Member
    I eat unsweetened dark chocolate (See's Candy)...I work it into my meal plan and it makes me happy. :happy:
  • Lupercalia
    Lupercalia Posts: 1,857 Member
    I like Green & Black's 85% dark chocolate....I find I can eat just a square or two and be totally satisfied, whereas if I'm eating something like a milk chocolate, or even a different dark chocolate that doesn't have such a high percentage of cocoa content, I won't be satisfied as quickly and will have a more difficult time stopping at just a small portion.

    I also use a chocolate flavoured whey protein powder.
  • sandra80
    sandra80 Posts: 308 Member
    I keep a box of individually wrapped dark chocolate dove squares. 30 calories each. I have 1 every now and then. 30 calories is nothing and it's just enough to savor the taste, i just can't eat the whole box lol

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