You probably need the chocolate - go ahead and have some! Seriously, it has been shown that chocolate has andidepressant effects. How much is loads and loads? Some days I live on chocolate, and do probably get excessive with it, but there was a set of rules for dieters I have seen several times, and one of the rules is that any food eaten for medicinal purposes (comfort food) is medicine, not food, so you don't have to count the calories. Just don't go overboard too often, but don't feel bad about it either.

Let's see, what were some of the other rules? Anything eaten with a diet drink has no calories since diet drink cancels out calories. Broken cookies have no calories, so you don't have to count those broken cookies (all the calories just leak right out). You can substitute calories of foods that are the same color - see, mint candy is the same color as lettuce so just count the calories from the lettuce instead. Chocolate is a universal color, so you can substitute the calorie count for chocolate with anything you like. There are more, but that is what I remember right now.

Do you normally restrict what you eat? If you have been dieting or not letting yourself eat as much as your body wants, it is very normal to lose control and want to eat loads and loads of something - especially something that you have been considering off limits. If you are trying to control your diet, moderation is more likely to be successful and this is only one of the reasons. Also, people who are not eating enough do tend to think about food all the time.

I have to have regular chocolate fixes myself. If there is no chocolate in the house I will freak out in not very much time. I don't know what you have available, but one of my emergency chocolate fixes is a microwave smore. Take half a graham cracker (on a plate - it is messy), and put some chocolate chips and marshmallows on the cracker. Set the microwave for 10 or 15 seconds, but watch it closely and stop it when the marshmallows are about to take over and get out of control. (like 4-7 seconds usually) You can keep corralling the marshmallows and cooking for a few more seconds until it is melty enough for you. Top with the other half of the graham cracker.

I use slimfast candy bar type snacks too, since they are not too many calories and have vitamins and other good stuff in them so there is less guilt that way, but sometimes they just are not good enough and I have to have some real chocolate!

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