So I’ve banished all the bad chocolate from my house. I brought it to work where I have a stock of good chocolate in case I get the urge.

Yay for good cruelty-free, high cocoa content chocolate! 5 years ago

I haven’t had bad (read ‘cheap’) chocolate for months, so I’m taking this one off the list. I need to pare down the list a bit so that I can see what is important. I had filled it up with things that I was more or less doing, which made me feel good about the list, but didn’t result in much progress. 5 years ago

Not so good on the ‘less often’ part. It was my birthday on Friday, and DH gave me a bag of my favourite hand-made chocolates. I did share one or two, but the rest got scoffed. It was soooooo gooood. 6 years ago

I did eat a little bit of crap chocolate, but it wasn’t my fault … kind of. I was getting a video on Friday, and my two-year-old wandered off and got a chocolate frog and started upwrapping it. At that point, I had to pay for it, and I couldn’t reward her bad behaviour by giving it to her, so I took it home determined to throw it in the bin. But then on Sunday night I was tired and cranky and I saw it sitting in my bag and just scoffed it. It didn’t make me feel good at all. I should have just asked them to toss it for me at the video store. 6 years ago

Last week I bought four packs of really yummy hand made chocolate. I just finished the first pack. I spent about as much on the good stuff as I would have spent on crap, but I am eating less and enjoying it more. And knowing it’s at home in the cupboard stops me buying stuff at afternoon tea. 6 years ago

Yesterday is was a public holiday, so we went into town and I went to my favourite chocolate shop and bought a supply. I’ll be good and eat it slowly. It was so nice last night. It left the yummiest taste in my mouth for so long. Knowing it’s at home will make it easier to put off the three o’clock cravings. 6 years ago

That doesn’t mean I’ve been good about eating sugar, however. I had ‘eat less sugar’ on my list, but I had to take it off because I discovered that what I thought was a chocolate addiction, is actually a sugar addiction, and it just happens that chocolate is my favourite form of sugar. Once I get my hands on some good quality chocolate that I can use as a reward, I will cut out the sugar. 6 years ago

OK, so I’m not giving up sugar completely, but I’ve really got to stop going down to the shop at 3 o’clock and buying nasty chocolate that doesn’t actually satisfy the craving, but is just the best I can get my hands on at the time. I’d much rather get some really yummy hand made chocolate once a week. I’m still not quite sure how to go about it, because when the craving hits, I need something else to do/consume. 6 years ago

But last Thursday I bought a bag of Twix minis for my office desk. I was fine with them there for two whole days – I hide them behind a bunch of folders (from myself – they’re in plain sight of the people who come to see me), but yesterday and today I caved.

I did only have one each day and that’s considerably less chocolate than I was eating before I started this goal, but I need to get thee to a Green & Black’s bar, stat. I don’t eat the crap if I’ve got the good stuff on hand. 6 years ago

Life’s too short to spend money and calories on chocolate that’s anything less than blissfully good.

Chocolate used to be special. It used to be an indulgence. When it was first brought to Europe, it was pure luxury. Cocoa beans had been used as currancy, for crissakes. Try wrapping your head around that – the frivolity of ingesting your currancy!?

These days people like myself eat it everyday. It might as well be one of the major food groups as far as I’m concerned. And that’s not right. I’m obviously not eating it the way it’s supposed to be eaten. It should be savored. It should be experienced. Something has to change: Better chocolate less often. 6 years ago