I'm addicted to chocolate - help

I used to be called a phantom chocolate eater as a child…I would sneak and couldn’t resist the urge!
I track everything I eat on my fitness pal…..but then I get the guilt if I go overboard.
I restrict chocolate until after tea and evening and just to one bar….i don’t buy anything else.
Also I have a coffee on a morning and that’s it now. To not have coffee and a sweet treat.

however the if I go out and meet someone for a coffee etc I can’t resist a sweet treat.

My BMI is 29 and i fluctuate between a BMI of 26-30 all the time. I just can’t keep it down! I’m ‘good’ for periods….then Im like F**k it’s Friday (or any other day of the week 🤣)

i miss 1 little line in brackets at the end of a long paragraph…….. sorry 🙄

Cut your consumption in half and try out some low sugar versions. They can’t be eaten in quantities due to a laxative effect.

I eat at least a bar a day (individual size). I don’t drink any sugary drinks and don’t have sugar any other way (apart from small amounts maybe in sauces etc). I try and get my 5 a day, don’t smoke or drink alcohol and have my hbac done every year and I’m no where near even pre diabetic.
so cut yourself some slack! There could be worse things I always think.
from one choc a holic to another!

Exactly the same here OP. I could’ve written your OP. I’m 41 and it’s getting worse. Nobody takes me seriously they just laugh and presume I’m exaggerating.

Aldi do smaller individual wrapped bars, Moser Roth (see my user name I like the orange and almond) but does the 70% and 80%.
I limit myself to one bar! Otherwise I would keep going for more!

Read the thread!

I totally sympathise and have really struggled with the same. I managed to quit smoking and alcohol (years ago!) but could never crack chocolate. I tell you what has worked for me, it’s weird. I’d been working remotely for years quite happily but recently got another job which is out of the house. As soon as I started working with people again it was like something switched on again for me and I realised how much I’d missed interacting with people. It makes me tired in the evenings in a good way and the chocolate craving has just gone. I feel like I was missing something in my life that has now been filled. Could it be the same for you, OP? Not with work perhaps but something else?

Have you tried dark chocolate? Gradually increasing the cocoa content.
I find I eat a lot less dark chocolate because it’s rich!

I'm on Mounjaro and been on it for about 7 months with the last four months positively dreaming about chocolate, which is the opposite of how you should feel. I've just gone into my fourth stone bracket of weight loss so it's working do not sure what these cravings are about . I've found out that having low magnesium can cause chocolate cravings so I've just bought a pack of Magnesoum Glycinate.

I'm going to see how I get on but it might be worth you trying this to see if it reduces your cravings.

It was in the 1970s version (mixed with water and cream and it started to smell) but the 2005 version used 100% swiss chocolate

I can offer no helpful input at all but have you seen that scene in Charlie and the chocolate factory where Augustus Gloop falls in? If not you should watch it as I only found out recently that they actually used real chocolate. It was something ridiculous like a million litres of melted chocolate

I was/am addicted to chocolate and the only thing that stopped it consuming my life was mounjaro. Which obviously won’t help you if you are not overweight. I wasn’t hugely overweight until I had a couple of kiddies and left my 20s behind then I ballooned.

It would help me get out of bed in the morning if I knew there was something chocolatey I could eat. I would instigate meeting up with friends e.g dinner/cinema as those are acceptable places to eat loads of chocolate. I would drive to the shops every evening to buy more. I would lie about what I was eating and hide it. Had various counselling and hypnotherapy. Being a ‘chocoholic’ was a well known ‘joke’ amongst friends and family for years but I just felt devastated and pathetic. I would probably average 5x ‘family sharing’ sized chocolate bars a day. Really hard to describe to anyone who has a ‘normal’ relationship with chocolate, think I had a thread about it at one point.

I feel tired a lot, which I am sure is related.

Have you had a blood test to check your blood sugar level?

Around 2 weeks. It felt like it would last forever. Then it was like a switch flicked.

Also forgot to add I find eating mints helpful. Try to carry one of the tins of mints around and have one when I crave chocolate as after you've had a mind you know the chocolate won't taste nice anymore.

Also suffer with the same issue so you have my sympathies though I do find the cravings go through peaks and troughs. I do find that if I don't eat for periods I don't crave it as much anymore. Years when I've given it up for lent I find myself eating very little after as the cravings aren't there as much. I try as much as possible to not have it in the house so even when I fancy it, I can't just grab it. I try replacing it with dark chocolate covered biscuits as I don't eat the same volume of them as I do chocolate bars, I could easily get through a large sharing bar in one sitting. Also trying to drink water when craving it can help. I'm sticking on this thread to hear any other pearls of wisdom you might get!

I'm similar - I eat chocolate daily and it's a battle not to have it multiple times each day.

Things that have helped me:

• not buying it! If it's in the house, I will eat it. I don't buy those big bars, because like you I can't stop.
• find something that helps the craving that isn't a bar of chocolate. For me I've found only two things that do this - dark chocolate coated rice cakes or those little chocolate eclair sweets (the toffees with chocolate in the middle). But hit the spot enough to stop me wanting to eat more.
• I know you said chewing gum didn't work - what about brushing your teeth?