How Do You Manage A Chocolate Addiction?
Chocolate gives you theobromine. Theobromine makes you feel good, and mildly stimulated. There are worse things to be dependent on, such as caffeine or alcohol. Enjoy your theobromine but find ways to get it without all the fat and sugar. • Take theobromine in the mornings: get the craving over with, start your day with a zing, and spend the day burning it off. • Focus on cocoa as a source of theobromine instead of chocolate, which greatly reduces daily fat intake. Also cocoa does not have the “mouth feel” of chocolate so that it is less more-ish – it is easier to manage quantities, to stop. • Find recipes that don’t add lots of fat or sugar, or you will be back where you started Develop a taste for more bitter foods, especially in the mornings. Drinkers of unsweetened espresso coffee understand this.
• Take theobromine in the mornings: get the craving over with, start your day with a zing, and spend the day burning it off. • Focus on cocoa as a source of theobromine instead of chocolate, which greatly reduces daily fat intake. Also cocoa does not have the “mouth feel” of chocolate so that it is less more-ish – it is easier to manage quantities, to stop. • Find recipes that don’t add lots of fat or sugar, or you will be back where you started Develop a taste for more bitter foods, especially in the mornings. Drinkers of unsweetened espresso coffee understand this.
