Just don't try driving with melting chocolate all over your hands.....serious trouble there sister.

Actually, when I first de-toxed I had a MAJOR addiction to chocolate....mostly in the form of Nestle semi-sweet chips straight from the bag. It seemed to help a lot.

Now you've got me thinking about Dove bars!

The first years of my sobriety I always kept chocolate in my car and a bottle of water. Helped me often when I got somewhat shaky.

Our bodies MUST have it esp. in the early stages. I love this organic dark chocolate bar with hazlenuts and currants I get from Giant food stores. Worth every bite.

Ya...well I passed by a store window today....not pretty.


But I am sober, happy and not lookin for no man, my cats like me better now and not sitting on my bed crying and talking to them

Olive-ya ever see the movie "Chocolat"? Be careful....what goes up.....must come down. lol!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbLqnPfkBAk

more power to ya, girl.....

Dove Dark - you betcha. Love em. The ones with the sayings inside. I ration myself to 4 pieces a day. When I first got sober, I couldn't keep it in the house. It took the edge off, but now appears to be habit forming. Dove Dark chocolate and sweet tea...
Hugs,
Dennis

I'm a newly proclaimed chocoholic, Dennis. I am powerless over chocolate. I will eat it until I pass out. You're starting to sound like a normal chocolatier... 4 pieces a day. Ha! In case you are wondering, I lost count since I made this post -- 15 or so pieces. I guess my tolerance is up. Am starting to slur my words...

lol lol What a neat thought to head to bed with!

At the end of that movie I posted about, the priest who has been trying to shut down the chocolate shop through the whole movie, breaks into the shop and eats himself silly with all the chocolate in the front window display case. Then the inevitable chocolate coma....

The next morning passers by see him covered in chocolate in the fetal position with a huge grin on his face...lol! This is how I picture Olive in a few hours...hahaha!

I second that movie...one of Depp's earlier films....really excellent and sensual....I think I'll go for some hot chocolate!!

I definitely suffer from a shortage of chocolate in my system!! lol

It is true though, I am VERY addictive by nature and what with psych meds that make cravings for carbs/sugar SO MUCH worse (not an excuse, some are really bad for food cravings etc and some for metabolism - trust me!!). I've started on a new healthy eating regime which is going really well. My psychologist suggested the time honoured strategy of just having a little bit of chocolate. Hell Yeh!! I simply cannot eat a small amount of chocholate - I always eat a whole Family Block, or it it's ice-cream a whole family tub. Exactly the way I drank - one's too many and a thousand's not enough. I explained to her for the Nth time that Iam a food addict - just like I am an alcoholic - and certain substances trigger my brain chemistry to say MORE......................

There is no Harm Minimisation strategy that would work with booze for me - and the same with chocolate and ice-cream. So, no chocolate or ice-cream for me -but lots of other yummy food so I'm not in depravation mode - in which I will always fail with food.

Great learnings about yet another substance, which has come about from being sober for a long time.

OMG!!! I too, am addicted to Dove dark chocolate mini bars..got a whole bag on top of fridge that I dip into after dinner every night.. I try to "ration" my doses to two a night but alas, with my addictive personality and cravings, it's just not really always in my control! I have thought about giving it up completly but just love love love the way it makes me feel.. so smooth and yummy, oh how I love them!!The way I look at it, a "couple" doses of chocolate each night is worth every calorie compared to the daily alcohol consumption, hangovers, depression, guilt, weight gain, etc, I used to experience with booze.. =)

This post has me sobbing........I have given up chocolate and sweets for lent! Why? I knew I was become addicted to it. This was to prove to myself that I could do it and......yeahhhhhh, a day at a time, I am. Been a couple of 'devils' around though tempting me....like in the High Street or at the end of meals in a restaurant haha

Roll on Easter Sunday then it will be Cadburys (English Cadburys...none of the world stuff) all the way.

I have my Cadburys Creme Egg ready :)))))))))