Chocolate addiction

[Anonymous]

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am not a troll, not am I strong willed.

How do I get off chocolate addiction?
I always have some in the house given by someone , I am a teacher.

I am prediabetic and I am desperately trying, rather unsuccessfully to get off chocolate.

Any suggestions?

As soon as you get the chocolate give it away or leave it in the teacher's lounge. Do not buy it or have it in your house

[Anonymous]

Replace it with something else - fizzy water, a cracker, even a piece of fruit.

[Anonymous]

OP, I have your answer ~ There is a product, the kSafe. For me it's stocked with Hersey Bars. It's a box that you lock and has a timer. It doesn't unlock until the set time has been reached. I set mine to unlock early each morning. I take out half a Hersey bar to eat later in the day, and lock the box again to open next morning.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Embrace it. Good quality dark chocolate is high in fiber and iron and relatively low in sugar. Plus loads of antioxidants. Go ahead and have a couple squares daily.

Throw out all the cheap chocolate candy

NP. I agree re dark chocolate. Higher cocoa % the better, and preferably real dark chocolate at least 60-65% cocoa. Dark chocolate has been found to be a good thing (in moderation, of course). I never liked dark chocolate when I was a kid and didn't start "tolerating" its taste until well into adulthood. Now in my 50s (and recently facing diabetes and pre-diabetes, as well as the need to lose 50#), I find that when I do get a craving, it's for dark chocolate.

I find dark chocolate more satiating; whereas when I have milk chocolate, I keep craving another piece. Instead of one (maybe two) pieces of dark chocolate candy, I ALWAYS have to have 3 pieces of the milk chocolate candy.
I've also found some dark chocolate at Aldi that's pretty good and already broken into little squares. I find sucking on one of them (v. chewing it up) satisfies a craving. Sometimes I'll pop a second; but one is really sufficient.

Also, (1) the craving frequency dramatically drops the longer you've gone with healthier eating; and (2) more cravings will go away more quickly. Soda was a big one for me. Once I stopped having it for several weeks, I found I could keep it in the house and only have one if my craving for it stuck around for 3 days. If I just ignored the craving at the beginning, it often went away quickly. But if it stuck around for 2 or 3 days, I knew I really really wanted one. Even then I don't really need a whole (reg size) can to satisfy the craving. Unfortunately, I find the mini-cans not as good tasting most of the time; but the size would be perfect.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Embrace it. Good quality dark chocolate is high in fiber and iron and relatively low in sugar. Plus loads of antioxidants. Go ahead and have a couple squares daily.

Throw out all the cheap chocolate candy

This!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, I have your answer ~ There is a product, the kSafe. For me it's stocked with Hersey Bars. It's a box that you lock and has a timer. It doesn't unlock until the set time has been reached. I set mine to unlock early each morning. I take out half a Hersey bar to eat later in the day, and lock the box again to open next morning.

Apparently you have a good deal of willpower and discipline. I'd just take out more chocolate to have accessible when I want it!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, I have your answer ~ There is a product, the kSafe. For me it's stocked with Hersey Bars. It's a box that you lock and has a timer. It doesn't unlock until the set time has been reached. I set mine to unlock early each morning. I take out half a Hersey bar to eat later in the day, and lock the box again to open next morning.

Apparently you have a good deal of willpower and discipline. I'd just take out more chocolate to have accessible when I want it!

Op here
This product sounds fantastic!
But you do have a lot of willpower not to unlock it!

[Anonymous]

Op here,

Getting lot of good ideas here.

Its true when I have a piece of dark chocolate, I feel satiated wheres I keep wanting more than a piece of milk chocolate.
So dark chocolate it is.
Will start keeping house free of milk chocolate or at least not accessible to me easily.

I come home for lunch and thats where most of my chocolate craving starts, right after the meal. I will do dark chocolate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Op here,

Getting lot of good ideas here.

Its true when I have a piece of dark chocolate, I feel satiated wheres I keep wanting more than a piece of milk chocolate.
So dark chocolate it is.
Will start keeping house free of milk chocolate or at least not accessible to me easily.

I come home for lunch and thats where most of my chocolate craving starts, right after the meal. I will do dark chocolate.

Good luck, OP! Let us know how it goes and what you find helpful!
I was never a big chocolate milk fan; but I recently tried Fairlife chocolate milk and am now a big fan. It has more sugar than the white milk; but at least it has the higher protein content of Fairlife to go along with it. It is very chocolatey and like drinking instant chocolate pudding before it sets. There are probably other chocolate flavored protein drinks or breakfast drinks that taste similarly(?) Maybe that will satisfy a craving?

[Anonymous]

Don’t drink chocolate milk! The sugar is the problem, not the cocoa. The only way I can control it is to not keep sugary chocolate in the house. I always stock apples and bananas and will have one of those when I feel the urge for a piece of candy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Don’t drink chocolate milk! The sugar is the problem, not the cocoa. The only way I can control it is to not keep sugary chocolate in the house. I always stock apples and bananas and will have one of those when I feel the urge for a piece of candy.

op here
WOW I wish I had the will
power to eat apples and bananas inited of chocolates!.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Op here,

Getting lot of good ideas here.

Its true when I have a piece of dark chocolate, I feel satiated wheres I keep wanting more than a piece of milk chocolate.
So dark chocolate it is.
Will start keeping house free of milk chocolate or at least not accessible to me easily.

I come home for lunch and thats where most of my chocolate craving starts, right after the meal. I will do dark chocolate.

Good luck, OP! Let us know how it goes and what you find helpful!
I was never a big chocolate milk fan; but I recently tried Fairlife chocolate milk and am now a big fan. It has more sugar than the white milk; but at least it has the higher protein content of Fairlife to go along with it. It is very chocolatey and like drinking instant chocolate pudding before it sets. There are probably other chocolate flavored protein drinks or breakfast drinks that taste similarly(?) Maybe that will satisfy a craving?

I tried chocolate milk that doesnt satisfy the craving.

I just opened my new dark chocolate .

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Don’t drink chocolate milk! The sugar is the problem, not the cocoa. The only way I can control it is to not keep sugary chocolate in the house. I always stock apples and bananas and will have one of those when I feel the urge for a piece of candy.

op here
WOW I wish I had the will
power to eat apples and bananas inited of chocolates!.

You can do it. It’s all about what you make available to yourself. The willpower happens at the store. If there’s nothing in the house when you have a craving you’re 90% of the way there.

[Anonymous]

I’d just like to add “willpower” is the wrong word and I shouldn’t have used it. Sugar addiction is real and food scientists know this. It’s not about willpower. Similar to how sober alcoholics have to minimize their time spent it bars, you need to keep it out of the house, avoid 7-11s, etc.