In which Josh admits he has an addiction

[jpskewedthrone]

Yes! Yes! I admit it! I'm addicted to chocolate! *collapses, weeping*

Since the beginning of the New Year, I've decided to cut back on chocolate. pbray and jennifer_dunne are no doubt laughing their asses off right now. But I DID decide this, and I've honestly tried to cut back on the chocolate.

But it's HARD! It's so luscious! It's such a vibrant, deep, dark color! When it melts in your mouth and coats your tongue, all you can do is . . . *head rolls back and tongue lolls out; drool is involved*

But seriously, it is hard. What I've discovered is that my body is OK with lunch or dinner, but immediately after eating it wants a follow-up of chocolate. The meal is not complete until there is a follow-up. It's not satisfied with follow-ups that consist of, say, oranges. Or apples. It wants chocolate. It feels that oranges and apples must still be part of lunch or dinner and do not constitute and actual follow-up. It points to the dessert clause in my mind/body contract. I have to physically start doing SOMETHING ELSE to occupy myself, or I will find myself in the kitchen or at the candy bowl with chocolate in my mouth, with no recollection of how I got there.

And I've tried the old "allow myself to have a little bit to satisfy the urge and then stop" routine . . . and it doesn't work. If I allow myself to have, say, just one Dove chocolate, or just one Milano, I black out and wake up to find myself surrounded with a rainbow of empty Dove wrappers or my stomach covered in Milano crumbs and a crumpled up Pepperridge Farm bag. (Double chocolate Milanos, of course, in case you were wondering.)

I'm not offering a solution to this problem here, just stating a fact about myself that might prove entertaining.

I need to join Chocoholics Anonymous (CA). "Hi, my name is Josh, and I'm a chocoladdict!"

Altogether now . . .

Comments

[everyonesakitty.livejournal.com]

LOL! I'm addicted, too. I give it up twice a month, but I'm usually back on it a couple of days later. They keep it lying around at work! It isn't fair. *sigh*

[jpsorrow.livejournal.com]

It's not lying around work for me, but it IS lying around the house, and my mom's house, and practically everywhere else. And I can't get rid of it because my partner and my mom both eat chocolate as well and I can't ask them to give it up.

But yes, I give it up and am back at it a few days later as well.

[authorm.livejournal.com]

You and me both.

[jpsorrow.livejournal.com]

Ha!

[hkneale.livejournal.com]

Sometimes ya gotta go cold turkey, buddy. It's not as hard as it sounds. I go cold turkey at least once a week and don't suffer too much for it. {g}

Barring that, ditch the milk chocolate and go for the dark.

It's not the chocolate itself that's bad, per se, but everything else that we put with it. The extra milk&sugar in milk chocolate, the white flour, eggs and butter in chocolate cake, the cream in truffles...

I've struggled long and hard with this myself and the only solution I can come up with is to go for the pure chocolate and leave the contaminants behind.

[jpsorrow.livejournal.com]

Ah, yes, but you see I have no will power. None at all.

I do tend to like the dark chocolate, so at least that's in my favor.

[nanne.livejournal.com]

Feast of recognition today. First the post about teaching (oh, the pain...), now the post about chocolate. I love Droste Pastilles. Mhhhhh.... Should we ever meet in Brussels I know where they make the chocolate for the gods!

[jpsorrow.livejournal.com]

It's a date. *grin*

[melissajm.livejournal.com]

I believe you can get physically addicted. One summer I had a job where my treat was a chocolate bar every afternoon.
When I went back to college and was no longer exercising enough to justify the candy, I'd get the shakes every afternoon.

It IS possible to wean yourself down. (says the woman who fell off the cocoa wagon at Christmas.)

You can also OD. It causes hyperactivity, labile mood-it's kinda scary.

[jpsorrow.livejournal.com]

I know I can give it up because I've had spells where I've had no chocolate and instead eaten oranges like they were out of style (or some other food). But at the moment I do believe I am addicted. Not the point of getting shakes, but definite cravings.

[melissajm.livejournal.com]

I always get hooked after Christmas.

[rugor.livejournal.com]

Try double chocolate porter. It's beer :)

[jpsorrow.livejournal.com]

You are EVIL! EVIL, I tell you!

Now I have to go see if I can find double chocolate porter somewhere. . . .

[libwitch.livejournal.com]

Ah, Josh, meet my boyfriend, the man who has been known to eat two trays of brownies before I come home from work, and then bake a third so I don't realize what he has done. I thoought I like chocolate until I met him, then I realized my like for chocolate was really, just a mild desire for chocolate. He can live off of it, I think.

I knew a woman who claimed she was a recovering chocoloholic, who, apparently could survive as long as she knew she simply had chocolate around, but did not need to eat it. She could survive a full day at work with a bag of hersheys kisses in her drawer, but never open them. It was very stange.

[jpsorrow.livejournal.com]

Ah, the dreaded brownie tray. *sigh* I make brownies and do the same thing. I can't say I've ever eaten the entire tray (I'm talking 13x9 here) but I can get through half of it without much trouble.

And in a stroke of horrible evil, I've got the urge to make brownies today. I'm free. I'm bored. I have a brownie mix. But this urge started yesterday, before the post, so you are free of all guilt.

[libwitch.livejournal.com]

*whew* thank you. I deal with guilt terribly.

I am worse when I comes to brownie. i am not a fan of them, really. But I am of the batter. Yeah. So not good for me.