When you are on a diet and someone gives you chocolate

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Urgh I hate having to resist. I'm on a secret diet. As in I've not mentioned it because I usually end up giving up quite quickly etc. Anyway, I'm doing well, I'm reasonably motivated to keep going but it's a hard slog. I've always been the kind of person to lose weight really slowly which I think is why I usually give up as I get bored. Anyway, a lovely friend of mine has given me some delicious chocolates. They are now hidden in my garage but I've literally been thinking about them ALL day. I am an all or nothing. If I eat one, I'll eat them all. I keep thinking I should just bin them. But I don't want to. I want to have them in the house and resist them until I reach a goal and then have a reward. I have to learn self control somehow. Anyway, no idea why I'm posting. Just wishing it wasn't so hard to resist.

What diet are you following? I know you say you are all or nothing but if you were calorie counting you could have a couple each day and it wouldn’t be a problem!

Hey :)

I'm on day five of using My Fitness Pal to calorie count.

I'm not exercising yet but I'm disabled and also have an injury waiting to be seen.

I'm all or nothing, in all my life, but with food it's just awful.

What regime are you using? It's hard enough for me to diet full stop, never mind when I'm unable to be active. But I've got half of a square packet of chocolate in the fridge and knowing I have it seems to help, but my partner asked me if I wanted anything, any chocolate etc from the shop and I said no. Not until I've had what's there. But I don't want to eat it yet.

Partner brought me my favourite Costa home today, once I added it to MFP it left me with 662 calories for tea and snacks.

He thinks it's awful it left me with so few calories. I said it was worth it to have the Costa. I won't have one often, not that big anyway.

Depending on your regime, you can (painstakingly) work out what a few of the chocolates come to, and portion them up into separate little food bags. Or, ask a friend to hold onto them. Or to have them all.

It's harder if you don't tell people you're dieting. But I understand you may have good reasons for keeping it to yourself. There's a few people out there who for reasons unknown can be arseholes, or deliberately flaunt food round you.

If you have someone like that in your life, you don't need them.

Honestly I'd just bin them or give them away.

@HundredYearOldMan I've suggested something, but it is hard not to binge. I know I've got disordered eating, it also goes the other way but usually it's bingeing. OP may be the same. It's how to ensure it IS only a few at a time that is the problem.

I would be happy.
chocolate can absolutely be ok as part of a diet. whyever not?
just have a small piece after a meal.

I would put them in the freezer and each evening when I fancy one take just one out and let it defrost before eating. And I would eat it later in the evening and brush my teeth not long after so I am not tempted to have any more.

I am an all or nothing person too and so I don't buy treats often at all.

I don't think the people suggesting have a small but it one or two get the problem. If it was that easy many of us wouldn't be on a diet.

I qould give them away, like you if I opened them they would all be eaten.

Or open them with your DH, share them and then be really good for the rest of the week. So you are sticking yo your calorie limit for the week rather than each day. So say the calories in the chocolates are 600, you reduce the rest of the weeks calories by 100 a day.

Quite happy resisting chocolate. People who keep leaving jammy doughnuts in the tearoom at breaktime however....

I'm calorie counting. I just can't have one or two. I am greedy. I will have to regift them sadly.

I like the idea of freezing them
genius!

either freeze or put in a food bank. Do not throw away!

Re gift, open at work so colleagues can help themselves, give to partner so they can take to work/re gift etc. I'd be happier not having them in the house, personally.

Work out the total calories of the box. If you can "afford" the whole box, pick a day when you won't be doing much and have them as your day's food. Ok, not healthy but in the grand scheme of things it's a day off.

They’d be in the bin or to a food bank if it were me!

would it be so awful to just eat the box and start again tomorrow? It’s not like you’ll be bought a box everyday

I'd eat the box for dinner.

Yes definitely freeze it. Then you can nibble one slowly. You wont be able to chomp through lots.
Good luck OP, chocolate is my downfall too.
I get DH to "look after" them for me and give me 1 when I want it.

When there’s chocolate in my house that I don’t want to eat I keep it in the kitchen cupboard. I much prefer chocolate straight from the fridge so if it’s in the cupboard I’m simply not tempted by it at all because I know I wouldn’t enjoy it.

It would take a couple of hours to reach optimum temperature in the fridge by which time the craving has passed. It’s the only way I can do it. Once it goes into the fridge I can’t resist it and I WILL eat it all

I'm the same with the "all or nothing" and disordered eating (bingeing but sometimes purge as well and lately haven't had an appetite)

@XFPW

When there’s chocolate in my house that I don’t want to eat I keep it in the kitchen cupboard. I much prefer chocolate straight from the fridge so if it’s in the cupboard I’m simply not tempted by it at all because I know I wouldn’t enjoy it.

It would take a couple of hours to reach optimum temperature in the fridge by which time the craving has passed. It’s the only way I can do it. Once it goes into the fridge I can’t resist it and I WILL eat it all

My father can keep chocolate (opened or unopened) for months in a cupboard and when he eats it, just a square at a time. I wish I had inherited his self control gene but sadly it passed me by.

@XFPW

When there’s chocolate in my house that I don’t want to eat I keep it in the kitchen cupboard. I much prefer chocolate straight from the fridge so if it’s in the cupboard I’m simply not tempted by it at all because I know I wouldn’t enjoy it.

It would take a couple of hours to reach optimum temperature in the fridge by which time the craving has passed. It’s the only way I can do it. Once it goes into the fridge I can’t resist it and I WILL eat it all

When there's chocolate in my house that I don't want to eat

See, I cannot relate to that sentence at all. If there is chocolate anywhere within a 30 mile radius of me I want to eat it! I would love to be someone who could enjoy food but just put it down when they have had enough. I am either gorging and hating myself afterwards for it or fantasising about it and wanting it but knowing I shouldn't. Lately my appetite for normal meals has gone but I still crave chocolate.

I popped it in the foodbank

Well done, good plan.