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I genuinely live on chocolate. Please no judgements

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Nowanextraone · 29/01/2024 18:08

OK I'm genuinely embarrassed to write this but I feel a 'confession' will hopefully be a pathway to recovery (if that's the right word)!!

I am addicted to chocolate. Cadbury's chocolate. I wish I was joking but I'm not .

I am about a stone overweight (I weigh 11 stone) at 5 foot 4 but my weight hasn't changed for years. Despite my chocolate intake, I stick to about 2000 calories a day.

But for my health, my diet is SHOCKING. My day is basically a 100g bar of cadbury's chocolate for breakfast, and another for lunch 😖 None of my family know I do this, it's like my dirty secret. I have done it for years (genuinely 7/8 years).
I don't eat anything normal or proper during the day.

Then for dinner, I eat a normal, healthy family (home cooked) dinner. Then in the evening, I might share a few squares of chocolate with my husband as a 'treat' (he has no idea about the rest of my day!).

What do I do? I have tried, but I'm honestly like a heroin addict trying to get to her next hit and it all goes wrong by lunch time and I'm back buying the chocolate.

I honestly don't know what to do. I am permanently tired. I'm also permanently hungry during the day. I feel very very unhealthy.

Help

OP posts:
Spikedfluff · 16/10/2024 17:51

How are you doing now OP?X

Ticklyoctopus · 11/11/2025 21:37

Hi OP, I know this is a really old thread but can I ask how you are getting on now? I’m addicted to chocolate (100g bar most nights, sometimes more, maybe a couple of nights a week without it) and desperate to kick it. Did anything help?

namechange0998776554799000 · 12/11/2025 11:41

Not the OP but I started Mounjaro a few months ago and that's the only thing that's ever helped with the chocolate addiction. Haven't even thought about it since I started, having been in a much worse situation than you or the OP all my life.

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