Chocoholics have you ever tired to give up chocolate ? How long did you last?

I am a sugar burner which means I lose wiehgt by eating sugar and it burns intead of turning to fat. Which one are you????

My husband was known as "The Chocoholic" by all his friends, who cheerfully volunteered to start an IV of 40 weight chocolate for him if he ever got "low"...

Well, one day the Doc up and says his cholesterol is way too high, and chocolate is off the menu! We finally found chocolate flavored rice cakes that were non fat, but he still craved the stuff horribly. In the end, no amount of dieting helped his cholesterol, and he ended up on medication. His sentiments? (He is looking over my shoulder helping me write this.) "I never should have had to stop eating the chocolate in the first place, it didn't help, and I was miserable for nothing!"

Nowadays they say chocolate is actually good for LOWERING your cholesterol.

("Yeah, where were they when I had to go on that diet", he says.)

The trick is to make it DARK chocolate. It also takes less of it to satisfy the cravings, and if has something in it called, "flavinoids", and "tannins" that usually only come from fruit. It also contains a hormone called "oxytocin" that is the chemical responsible for feeling that "in love" or infatuation feeling, and for bonding with your new baby, etc.

My advice? Go in the closet and cheat, or call your dark chocolate your "fruit" of the day.

You can't just live on veggies and fruit, you need some calcium and protein in your diet as well, so please at least drink 3 cups of low fat milk per day to get the nourishment that your body needs.

YES, I have tried to give up chocolate and i figured out that eating cheese curbed my cravings for chocolate.(i lost a stone in one month=14 pounds) But cheese is really fatening, so if you do this, then eat fat free cheese(if you have fat free cheeses over there where you live).

P.S. Remember to drink lots and lots of water per day. You need to be drink 4 litres of water per day to get out all the toxins and keep yourself well hydrated.

GOOD LUCK!!! And merry Christmas

heheh I lasted for 2 days - ok maybe I wasn't really trying hard enough! I think I could go a month but it would be difficult. And btw - you are so lucky to remain slim! I'm chubby and so I shouldn't be eating the stuff anyway!

I am afraid that I am addicted to chocolate also. I tried omitting chocolate from my diet one year and did fine-until I went to the store and saw those candy bars......I fell slam off the wagon and been in the dirt ever since!

The Very Thought of Choclates makes Me Mad.. Tried Once.. Could not think abt Leaving it for more than 1 and a Half Day..

quite hard... it took me two weeks and then i was back on it. its xmas now and there will be so many chocolate treats so that is going to be hard, then in Jan we have valentines day... every other occassion seems to involve chocolate somehow... so good luck. i dont care anymore, i love chocolate and i wont stop.

I lasted for a MONTH. An entire month, then I BINGED on chocolate. I wish you luck on your diet.

I gave it up once for Lent, just to see if I could do it. Next time I'll give up something less difficult to resist, like air.