Chocoholic

Sorry.
Cucumber and chocolate are my recent fuel.🥒🍫ヽ(=´Θ`=)ﾉ
So I am not eligible to participate in this GA. :p

For your better health.
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If I followed your example I would be broke right now!

Man, that's gonna be hard on your money. I hope you get the best of the experience.

I hope to reach your goals!!!! And don't worry that you haven't put any GA!!!!!

That's a very good idea. Don't make yourself crazy though. You can control your impulses and still have a little bit of chocolate every day if that makes you happy. Just don't let yourself go overboard. If you find it hard, there is behavioral therapy that can be really helpful with bad habits (not just food habits). In the meantime, I wish you luck and send you good vibes for keeping your will.

I can't go on a diet. Free gelato makes it impossible :(

Hello! i just started using fruits instead & dont buy sweets anymore!

good luck

Kicking food habits is hard. One trick that helps me is to constantly snack on healthy food like fresh cabbage. The fiber fills me up so I don't think about filling myself up with junk food plus I feel great with the added Vitamin C, A, and K. Now if only it had Vitamin E, too so I could make a joke about eating Cabbage CAKE ^_^

interesting take!!
in my experince, I find it easy to control my weight when i watch my food intake.
limit my quantity of pleasure food (only half a cheese burger as a meal). and tried to eat clean (less process and additives, more home meals)
and avoid sugar at all cost, leave a space for a bar from time to time as my sugar intake
they always say the best diet is the one you keep for life.

bro tip: Drink more water, coffee, and tea. just dont add any sugar and milk
and gl

good luck and don't obsess too much over your weight. thx for ga!

Chocolate is not straight sugar like Skittles or Starburst. Believe it or not, the fat in there is better than a straight sugar shot. Do not fool yourself into thinking that the antioxidants in there make it a health food--it is a dessert.

Remember as you get some exercise of various forms and work out--you should GAIN weight. You will slowly trim up, look better, and feel healthier, but it is common to GAIN weight because of the density of muscle. Good luck and do not give up the chocolate.

And remember: Dark chocolate. White chocolate is not chocolate; it is cocoa butter with all the chocolate solids removed (technically still a chocolate product.) And Hershey's is good if you have been lost in the woods for a week. (ok, their dark chocolate is decent)

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Quite a unique way of doing things, I hope it works out for you. I think its a good idea to work on 1 thing at a time as you'd more likely stick to it and not give up.

I love chocolate too much!

thanks you for the giveaway ! Let me tell you what I think about your problem, not that I know the exact answer about this sadly :/

as euroboardgames said, muscle is heavier than fat, so by exercising, the fat will be used for sweating, transforming itself into muscle and maybe others things I am not aware about ( sorry, I am not that knowlegdeable on the human body)
so you shouldn't be depressed to not see some drastic changes on the bathroom scale.
you should continue to exercise, it takes a while to see the result on the bathroom scale, and it will be at least keep you healthier.

as for the chocolate intake, it is a delicate matter : by theory, the best way would be to not remove chocolate completely from your diet, as another SG user said ' the best diet is one that you keep it for life ' meaning that you need to include it in your diet in a way that you won't always have to crave for it, and of course limiting the amount otherwise it is not a diet =)

I hope that I could help you and I wish you the best for your diet.

Cognitive dissonance:
Angel--Wish you well on your quest for better health. O:-)
Devil--Wish for more chocolate-fueled GA's. >:-)

What you need is someone to bring home rotten internal organs!

I dated a girl in college whose mother had a PhD in biochemistry (college professor), and when she found out I smoked, she brought home a cancer-ridden lung addressed to me, complete with wrapping paper and a nice bow. If I got drunk, she brought me a cirrhosis-ridden liver. So all we need here is a kidney affected by diabetes! Or maybe a fat-encrusted heart! Looking back on it, I did eventually quit smoking.

Hmm ... Or I guess you could do it your way. Your way is much less extreme, doesn't involve your girlfriend's mother pilfering human organs from the biology lab, and won't cause the involuntary emptying of the content's of one's stomach. Best of luck! :D

I'm not very active, but I find that the worst thing for me is not what I eat, but rather when I eat - the late night snacking kills any exercise or weight loss I managed to work on during the day, so I've been trying to cut this out completely.

If you really want to lose weight, then the only way is to change your diet. Exercise is good for you and you can lose weight with exercise only, but if you want to lose weight and keep it off, a diet change is the only way. Sometimes exercise can even have the opposite effect, as after a workout, your body wants to replenish those calories it just burned, so it makes you feel hungry.

It really comes down to taking in fewer calories than you burn, forcing your body to use its fat reserves. That means you're going to have to cut something(s) out. The best thing you can start with is sugar, or more specific, added sugar, and chocolate has a lot of added sugar. I don't know what the nutrition labels are like where you live, but in the US, they have to disclose added sugars on the nutrition labels. Switch to dark chocolate when you crave chocolate, it has a lot less sugar than regular or milk chocolate (and tastes better IMO). If you drink soda, cut that out completely and drink only water. Cutting out on sugar alone will have a bigger impact on your health and help you lose weight than exercise.

I made a big change to my diet about 2 years ago after some things cut into my exercise time and I began to put on weight. To make a long story short, I cut out sugars and highly processed carbs (like bread and pasta). I now mainly eat fruits, green vegetables, nuts, fish and chicken, and I don't eat out. That doesn't mean I've cut everything else out completely. I do still occasionally go out with friends for a pizza, burgers, etc. I've found that after making this switch, I'm not as hungry as often, sometimes only eating a couple of small meals a day. I lost all of the weight I put on and then some.

Good luck, dude! I've been getting back into a running habit, at least casually, and am trying to lose some of the beer weight (I have no problems with chocolate :D). Made some progress, but have plateaued lately. I have the same thing...I know what kind of shape that I used to be in, and I'd love to get back to it, but still am not sure I have the dedication level at this stage in my life to get to that point. But if I even come close, I'll be pretty happy.

Thanks for the GA - great idea for a positive way to encourage you in your goals.

I've always found that it's easier for me to change my habits when I am somehow accountable – if I go to the gym with a friend I'm less likely to skip a session because I'd be letting them down. If I'm paying for some kind of lessons, I'm more likely to study because I'd feel like I was wasting money if I didn't, etc.

This is so very true! And yeah, diet has a bigger impact than exercising for losing weight - it's a lot easier to not eat 600 calories worth of chocolate than it is to burn off 600 calories worth of chocolate. :)

But keep at it, and I'm sure you'll get there! :)

Just remember, a day without chocolate is like a day without sunshine

i am in the same situation as you, you had a great idea here.

Feel free to join in :)

I'm trying to eat more healthy, too. A little bit at a time. My weakness is ice cream, as well as salty snacks like pretzels or tortilla chips. It is dangerous to have them in the house. :P

Congrats on 2 days without chocolate, here is a motivation giveaway :)
https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/OZ8UR/luxor-solitaire