How to Quit Chocolate with Extreme Diet - The Toffee and the Torment of a Chocoholic
Posted: Thursday, January 14, 2010
by Julian Price
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As I write, I am practically frothing at the mouth craving a piece of chocolate. A small, tiny, miniscule piece will do. Just the hint of a chocolate taste will help quench this insatiable hunger for dreamy chocolate. My extreme diet, however, prevents me from even grazing the tips of my fingers over the silvery foil wrapping of a chocolate or candy bar.
What follows, are the steps that led me to make the ultimate chocolate sacrifice and diet decision.
1. Reduction Gradually Reduce Chocolate Intake (Difficulty Level - Extreme)
The idea is simple enough. If you are eating two chocolate bars a day, start off gently by eating just one and half portions. Then after a couple of weeks, reduce it to one portion a day. Eventually, you may be able to cope with a solitary portion every other day.
Result: Abject failure! If the candy is in the house, you will ruthlessly hunt it down and devour it without mercy. If you can so much as smell the cocoa butter you are in trouble, and believe me, if you are a qualified chocoholic you can pick up that scent from a hundred paces at least!
Once you have eaten the local chocolate content, you will convince yourself to try again and buy another truck load of the stuff in. Because of course, how can you have your reduced daily quota if the content isn’t on the property?
2. Weekend Rations Only (Difficulty Level - Super Extreme)
Step two is simply a more brutal version of step one. The idea this time, is that you only purchase chocolate on a Friday evening. Just enough to give you a few weekend treats.
Result: Potential near death experiences!
The theory, that if you have been good for five days, then you deserve a little chocolate pampering, is a fatally flawed one and likely to lead to chocolate doom. The problem is over compensation. Easily being able to absorb a fortnight’s worth of chocolate during a couple of late night DVD’s really doesn’t work in your favour.
3. Chocolate Ban - Complete and Utter (Difficulty Level - Insane!)
The clue is in the title. This third and final step, returns us to my opening paragraph. All I can say, is that writing about it has at least been a few minutes worth of distraction. Does that qualify as therapy? Yes a complete and utter ban of all things chocolate. Crash helmet and protective clothing required. If a movie was made of this stage, it would be rated at least a PG 13.
This diet really is extreme and it certainly isn’t for everyone. After all, not everyone is prepared to substitute chocolate with bathroom sponge (nowhere near as tasty and very dry!). If you can do it, I shall take my hat (crash helmet) off to you. Can I do it? I really don’t know. Let me see how I feel after this next piece of sponge. Splutter!
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Top-level comments on this article: (2 total)Ah yes chocolate the bane of dieters. Fun stuff as usual Julian.Thanks Jim, always appreciate your comments.
That's quite a nice way to stop eating chocolate like hell.Thank you very much for reading and for the comment!
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