I know it doesn't make up for what i did this afternoon ... but me knee was feeling better so i went for a jog...

10k in 52:52 and then some walk/jog cooldown. Pain was about a 4/10. Hurt, but i could deliberately keep going.

Efsim wrote: »

Hey fellow team: I’m struggling with chocolate ( it’s not simple to say eat dark chocolate) I am the person that is an all or nothing type; so I get bag at store or bar and eat it all- I will sacrifice calories other places ( but I don’t want to do that)
Any advice to overcome my chocolate addiction and to get it out of my life????

I went cold turkey on everything unhealthy for 3 months, was hard at first but got better, after a while you stop thinking about it and it doesn't have the same pull (build up your resistance muscle).

Before I started my diet, was the same as you "all or nothing", there were times when at the supermarket I'd buy a block of chocolate with the intention we'd share it as a family, then my partner went to bed early and my daughter was in her cave and I'd find myself eating the whole block all by myself, and be so ashamed that I'd hide the rubbish deep in the bin so no one knew I'd had chocolate. If there was chocolate in the house, I'd end up eating it, often secretly. And if chocolate was on special at the supermarket (which it almost always is) I'd buy on impulse.

I did break my diet at Easter, a moment of weakness, but not too big - one dark chocolate truffle and one small caramello egg. It was actually after Easter - I had resisted as everyone else around me consumed chocolate over the Easter period, and then two days after Easter, home alone, saw the left over chocolate... at least I stopped at one chocolate truffle (there were about 8 available).

I have found now that I have been doing so well with my diet for 3 months that I am better at self control. I recently made some dark chocolate & peanut protein balls (mixing dark chocolate & peanut butter with ground flax, sunflower seeds, and almonds), I ate less than one piece of dark chocolate when making them, and have only eaten one protein ball so far, and will ration them so I only eat one every 2 days. There is still half a block of chocolate sitting in the kitchen, and I haven't been tempted to eat it. The protein balls are my way of mixing a flavour I like with something healthy, so the food is not simply "bad".