I'm going cold turkey from eating chocolate

[DianaPrinceRocks]

Would anyone be willing to join me ? I reckon I have at least 21 days ahead of me before I'll feel on top of it.

I'm starting tomorrow as I've already binged today (large bar of Dark Milk and sharing bag of M&M's ). I know I need to stop and thankfully I feel ready as I'm sick of feeling bloated and tired and generally awful.

I've been lurking on a few of the other chocolate addiction threads but didn't want to hijack them and couldn't decide the best place to put this so I stuck with Chat.

I've got a fridge full of fruit and some choc syrup and options choc powder as a backup. I've just remembered there's half a bar of dark rum and raisin hiding in the house but I'm going to throw it away tonight 🤞.

I'm going to keep drinking loads of nice sugar free drinks to keep me full hopefully, but otherwise I'm going to eat normally. I'm just as addicted to buying it as eating it, so lunchtimes will be my weakness when I pop out.

It feels very indulgent to start a thread but I hope writing it down might help .

Checking in for day 1.

I've collected all the empty wrappers/bags from my hiding places & car and thrown them away.

I've weighed myself and put on 7.5lbs since the start of July. Every ounce of that gain is chocolate .

I'm feeling determined but didn't sleep well so normally that would be excuse enough to buy some. But I'm not going to.

Good luck everyone! Starters and continuers! We can do this!!

I gave up chocolate for lent and have pretty much kept off it since. Except last week when I was sick and the choc digestives in the house were the only attractive food.

I am a total chocoholic (and sugar addict tbh) but whilst it was horrid at first after a while I found I couldn’t really remember the taste.

I’m going to have to be strict with myself though now as otherwise the odd biscuit is a sliding slope back to mass consumption.

DianaPrinceRocks and a fine chair you make too 🤗

The bathroom trips, or rather the reduction in them, will, hopefully be a good driver for you.

I'm holding onto how crap I felt and the horrendous indigestion that woke me up. Now all the 'wrong for me' food is getting this look

Can I join you? I love chocolate and my guilty pleasure is the sharing bags of large chocolate buttons, but I will eat most types of chocolate if they are within arm's length of me .

I have recently given up alcohol and apparently this can lead to sugar withdrawal symptoms, so I am really going to give myself a hard time here, but I have decided that I need to do it for my health (and my weight). Both my parents got type 2 diabetes in their later years, so I know that I need to do something about my weight and my chocolate consumption.

Checking in for day one! No chocolate in the house as I ate it all yesterday but about to go shopping after the gym and am actually fantasising about the jaffa cakes that I know are on offer. Must. Be. Strong.

Almost ate a tiny kinder bar from the cupboard that was meant as a treat for one of the children. Didn't do it. Wooohoo :)

Day 3. I've just had my Tesco delivery come with loads of chocolate which my husband and our adult sons (who can all eat and eat and eat and not gain a lb) will devour over the next week.
I usually order a sharing bag and eat it as a reward once the shopping has been put away but I deleted it from the order this week.

My danger time is late at night. I'm usually the last to bed so end up raiding the fridge once I'm alone.

Onatreebyariver well done! That's brilliant and the more we resist the easier it will get (hopefully ).

lookingatthings don't buy anything choccie!! Imagine us all telling you off when you have to confess you bought naughty stuff . And especially when you are going to the gym - don't undo all the fab work there!

Pull up a seat any new joiners - the more of us the better.

I am over my biggest risk time - lunchtime - and I didn't go to the shops or buy anything, so I am safe for today as there's no chocolate in the house. But I feel a bit down in myself and fed up - flat maybe is the best description. It's like the excitement of sneaky buying and eating (rubbish) is gone and there's nothing to replace that high yet. I know it will pass with each day I behave, but it's bloody mad really that I have let it get such a hold over me .

Ooo MadisonAvenue I cross-posted with you - it's great you didn't add the sharing bag.

Do you have any sweet fruit like strawberries or grapes that you could munch on instead tonight? Or if you like milk would a glass (hot or cold) with some sweetener be any use?

It is so hard when it's in the house, but I know you will feel so proud of yourself going to bed if you can sit on your hands and resist.

I am trying to disassociate the 'niceness' of it, so instead of immediately thinking of it as something lovely, I'm trying to think of it as something awful that does terrible things to my teeth and insides and skin. Not sure if that would help either - if not my last suggestion is to imagine a nest of viper MNers standing guard around your fridge clutching their pearl necklaces and tut tutting at you .

I'm 6 months into this and do not miss chocolate at all. I have it in the house cause it's not fair on dh and ds and I have to cope with it and not cave in.

Keep going, you can do this. I never thought I could and I am a chocolate addict. It's amazing how you'll feel without the sugar crashes.

Sneaking in a day late.

Hello I am not known for eating large quantities of chocolate but it concerns me how I can't go a day without at least some form of chocolate, it's like I don't feel satisfied I've finished my dinner in the evening without just having at least one piece of chocolate. Want to break the connection. And it gives me terrible acne.

Unfortunately I have a secret packet of after eights in my locker at work which is going to be super hard to resist (THE SMELL mmm)

mrsjg Well done! What do you have instead as a treat? I don't drink or smoke, so giving up the chocolate is leaving a bit of a gap in my life...

MrsMozart - I don't drink or smoke either and I'm really struggling to find alternatives. Even though I've given up chocolate I haven't given up sweets and find that I'm eating them to replace the chocolate. I'm currently in a slimming world class waiting for it to begin 'cause being chocolate free hasn't helped!!

Can I join you? I's a bit late for me to join you today as I've already eaten chocolate so can I count tomorrow as my Day 1?

I'm really bad at eating chocolate without even realising and regularly buy it when I don't need to. As a result, I'm the biggest I've ever been and feel quite disgusted with myself. I've always told myself that it's OK because I don't smoke and don't drink very much so everyone is allowed one vice, but it's seriously out of hand now.

Good luck everyone!

I'm 6weeks 3days into this. Main insentive was to loose weight. Still eat normal meals. Have eliminated all sweeties choc and alcohol so far. I also have a dp who eats snacks during the evenings when we watch tv. Very hard and I have/do feel my mouth watering. Been buying fresh fruit juice (Not sugar free) but diluting with water 50/50 and have had a cup of that esp in the beginning while dp ate his lovely treats. I have found even drinking a cup of tea helps to distract myself from him eating. It has got easier as times gone on.

Good for you....you can do it!
I have given up my beloved chocolate twice now ..once for a whole year after my baby was born...then for another 9 months when my mum was undergoing chemo.
After a few weeks I didn't miss it. It was easier saying I don't eat chocolate rather than um oh well I shouldn't just a little bit etc!
I set a date when I could eat it again and made a proper vow to myself that I would not break it.
And noone I know eats more chocolate than me ..I can get through 5 X 200g bars in a day!
I eat chocolate again now but will probably give up for a few months again soon.
Good luck!!

Well I’ve managed day 1 - just the rest of my life to go now!!!
I’m quite pleased with myself, been to the supermarket on the way home and didn’t succumb.
I’ve decided I’m going to start sewing in the evenings to keep my hands busy. I used to make all my own clothes and I’ve got loads of material stashed away, so it could be a double win.

Day 3 done for me - trying very hard not to replace the chocolate with cheese

Hope everyone has had a good chocolate free day :)

Can I join you? I have been looking to cut down but it isn’t working so I think going cold turkey is the answer. As a child I gave up chocolate for lent a few years running. Now I think the idea of giving it up sounds impossible. There’s not much in the house at the moment and the only chocolate I have had today was one oreo to use up the packet. So today is day 0.

Well done all!

I came close, but just thought about how shit it makes me feel so didn't. Did have two small bags of crisps... felt shit (there's a theme...), so readily need to knock them on the head.

I've done day one! After bedtime have been busy working on the laptop, off to read and sleep now so have avoided the danger time. Also reduced my massive dinner portion today and added extra veg. No white bread today either, I'm feeling positively angelic

I've been wanting to do this for ages but never had the will power! Have one last item in the cupboard for this evening (it tends to be the highlight of my evening which isn't right and is one of the reasons I need to do this!) and then I'm hoping that will be it for me for a few days. My idea is to do a few days - have some - then go even longer if I can; until it gets to the point where I don't care anymore. Wean myself off it so to speak!

I bought a multi pack of Wispa Golds and multi pack salted caramel fudge kit kat chunkys last night before I joined you guys, all still unopened in the cupboard! Though today in work I had a mouthful of peanut butter m&ms in my mouth before I even realised what I'd done. 1kg bag in my desk drawer which swiftly went in the bin 😭

Are you fucking insane? 🙈🙈
Honestly good luck though x

Day 1 done! Thanks OP!