to gulp down a couple of chocolates while boiling the kettle to make the coffee I'm having instead of ice cream?

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because chocolates eaten under those circumstances have hardly any calories, do they, and I'll definitely lose weight for resisting the temptation to eat high fat pudding.

Agree. Chocolates stuffed down whilst standing up do not make you fat.

Erm well I hate to break it to you but a chocolate probably has about the same number of calories as a scoop of ice-cream...

Nonsense! If you eat it quick it has no calories at all!!!! (this logic is why I am overweight!!)

Yabu. Sit down with a small bowl of ice cream and savour it rather than welding down other sugar, probably more of it due to actually wanting ice cream.

and it is getting dark, and isn't all the high calorie food I fight to keep away from all day much better for me, if only I can resist the temptation until evening?????

Write a hundred times:

It is never unreasonable to eat chocolate
It is never unreasonable to eat chocolate

and so on, but in ink. That'll get it into your head

I think the fact that you ate them quickly, and didn't really enjoy them as much as usual reduces the calories in the chocolates quite a lot.

I think that's been proved scientifically.

All food brought into my office to mark special occasions - especially chocolate and Krispy Kremes - passes through a machine called a decaloriser. Every home should have one.

Could you cut the chocolates in half? If you cut food on half it has half the calories, so you can eat twice as much. I learned that frpm Marjorie Dawes

have you had them yet? If you've already had them, then it's fine.

If not, don't, have the icecream instead, you'll probably have just as many calories but that's the calories you really want and will savor more.

But if you've already done sneaky chocolate scoffing, ignore.

YABU to think that guilt is a calorie-reducer. Enjoy the chocolate and then it won't take calorific revenge. It's scientifically proven and everything.

Actually, have the icecream as well - certain combinations of food render the calorie value of both zero. I'm certain chocolate and icecream are one such pairing.

It's quite possible your DCs could have eaten the chocolate. So it's our job as parents to test it first. For toxins naturally. And it just so happens That chocolate eaten for the sake of DCs does not gave calories :)

Enjoy

Did the chocolate have nuts in it? If so, you expended more calories chewing the chocolate than was contained in said chocolate.

If not, don't panic. Just go and get a family block of Roast Almond to repair the damage.

HTH.