i gave up smoking 8 years ago, but i just cant stop the chocolate, even after watching jamie oliver the other night, and loads of mckeith type programmes and knowing its really bad! i can eat anything up to around 4 or 5 bars a day on a bad day.
does anyone else have trouble with chocolate?
Came across an interesting 10min video on YouTube, on use of EFT for chocolate addiction by Tania Prince here
Masha
Plain dark chocolate is very good for the heart. I try to eat an ounce a day. More makes me sick --and I am a sugar addict. Dark chocolate has far less sugar, so does not trigger my cravings.
I ate so much chocolate that I had physical and mental consequences. When I ate it I had to lie down, when I stop it I had to lie down... It was pure horror but I made it. I do not use white sugar chocolate at all anymore. Sometimes I use cacao powder but when I see I am going to badly hook up it again I stop it before it is going to go too bad.
I gave up on idea to quit chocolate, it was hard enough to quit smoking...
I'm so addicted to chocolate, I know I really need to cut down but I don't know how 🙁
I feel like the only way for me is to give it up completely, I'm very much a all or nothing person. The trouble is I can't see myself ever being able to give it up, so feel like its pointless even trying and have no motivation to do so.
I'm a very addictive person and my chocolate addiction is getting worse, I find myself having chocolate instead of breakfast, eating it as snacks throughout the day then pigging out on even more after dinner. If I gave up I feel like there would be a gap in my life and I don't know how to fill it - it's the thought of giving up my after dinner chocolate that's the hardest.
I thought maybe if I switch to dark chocolate I'd eat less but I've still wolfed down a big bar of green and blacks.
My only idea, and I know this sounds like a bad one, is to eat so much chocolate that I make myself really sick and put myself off chocolate. I'm not meaning this in a purging way - I'm actually frightened of being physically sick and will always try my best to stop myself bring sick. The idea comes from once when I was about 15, I ate 4 packs of crisps and was sick and since then I'm not a fan of crisps - the rare occasion I feel like eating a packet I end up feeling unwell for the rest of the day as a result.
I don't really want to make myself ill but don't know what else to do. Anyone have any comments or a miracle solution please?
Just realised this is a really old thread, opps!
Maybe you should reduce your chocolate addiction. It can cause bad for your health, especially diabetes
I think, Gilbo, that Iona_ already realises that she (? - I'm assuming) needs to reduce.
Addictions try to fill a space in our lives. What is it, Iona_, that chocolate is trying to replace?