Chocolate addict all my life! (My Chocolate Addiction)

Member Name: caravaningqueen

Product:	My Chocolate Addiction
Date:	12/01/09 (253 review reads)
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Disadvantages: I am now 3 stone over weight :-(

I have been addicted to chocolate all my life.... well since I was 12 months old! My mum and dad denied me chocolate until I was 12 months old in a hope that I would not develop a sweet tooth.... it did not work!

As a child I enjoyed a small piece of chocolate at least on a daily basis, if not more.

As a teenager and a college student I would buy my chocolate out of the vending machine at school/ college or the local shop. By the time I was 15 I would eat a chocolate bar, such as a mars bar, in a morning and one in an afternoon!

When I got pregnant at 28 and was "eating for two" I would eat as much chocolate that I could get my hands on and have been known to eat a whole chocolate orange in one sitting! I would eat 15 chocolate digestives in one go and regularly enjoyed hot chocolates, fudge cake, chocolate mousse, chocolate bars, chocolate icecream.... infact anything that had chocolate in the title!

After another two children and the same eating habits, happily blaming my chocolate addiction on my hormones I have become three stone over weight! (This may also be down to a couple of bottles of wine a week too and a curry LOL).

What do I love about chocolate?.... EVERYTHING. The taste, the texture, the melting, the sugar rush, the dark brown colour, the list is endless..... I JUST LOVE IT!

But, its not that easy getting rid of an addiction, after 34 years chocolate has been a huge part of my life. I eat it when I am happy, I eat it when I am sad....

Now, I am on the Rosemary Connolly diet and am not allowed to eat anything over 5% fat per 100g and excercise 6 hours per week.

Have I beaten my addiction?

NO, of course not but I now drink a very low calorie hot chocolate drink such as options twice a day (at 37cals and very little fat per drink its far better for me that my on average 600Kcal intake of chocolate products) and this is keeping my chocolate addiction at bay...... FOR NOW!

Summary: Beat your addiction with a low cal hot choc, its worked for me ;-) x