Giving up chocolate can’t be that hard, surely?
I’ve decided since I’ve turned into quite the gym fanatic it’s time to start sorting out my healthy eating, too. Plus, Charlie – the random man I met in the sauna – told me your diet accounts to 70% of weight loss, apparently. So it’s time to do something about it. After all, 95% of my weight-gain is usually from chocolate.
I don’t just have a normal chocolate addiction, oh no. I constantly crave it. It comes to the point I wish they would make a chocolate chewing gum so my brain would be convinced I’ve satisfied my sweet tooth. Coming in from a night out I will usually hunt some kind of chocolate bar to fulfil my addiction before going to bed. Lord.
If I take a trip into Tesco I don’t just buy a chocolate bar, oh no, I will ponder the chocolate section for at least 15 minutes trying to decide what I want. (Double that if there’s a 2 for 70p offer.)
The thing with chocolate is that it’s genuinely beautiful; it tastes beautiful, it looks beautiful and is just an all round bar of beautifulness. I can’t get enough of it. Even writing about it makes me want to go eat another chunk. Luckily, I won’t.
Anyway, the point is this: Lent begins tomorrow and what other perfect way to give up chocolate than this religious period. I’m not a religious person; I just need an incentive to help fight my chocoholic addiction. So, off I went to my friend Google and asked him to search ways of helping fight the chocolate-goodness. A few YouTube videos later and I think I’m ready for it. Phew.
46 days of no chocolate. Apparently you don’t count the Sunday’s in Lent, which is just bloody typical because it makes the whole thing drag even more!
I’ve stocked up on loads of chocolate such as M&M’s, muffins and Creme Eggs and will polish them off before my 46 days begins. [I’m practically crying inside at the thought of no chocolate.]
Can I do it, though? Only time will tell...
