This will be my second TOM after surgery. I have been fine with sweets up until this point but for some reason I have been craving chocolate for the past few days. I have a piece or two to relieve it and it's fine, but I can't keep doing this. How do you ladies deal with the cravings and other PMS symptoms?

I eat 100 calorie dark chocolate bar from Trader Joe's (but just one!). The way I see it, this has to be a sustainable lifestyle that I can live with for the rest of my life. I'm not willing to never eat chocolate again. I want slow, steady weight loss and a healthy life. So far, so good.

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I eat 100 calorie dark chocolate bar from Trader Joe's (but just one!). The way I see it, this has to be a sustainable lifestyle that I can live with for the rest of my life. I'm not willing to never eat chocolate again. I want slow, steady weight loss and a healthy life. So far, so good.

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that is awesome. I have been dealing with chocolate cravings this week too..it's my tom. I have been eating very little but your point is so well taken. I would rather lose slowly and be healthy than do it all at once.

Um yeah, I eat chocolate almost every day :)

Usually it is around 100 calories or less.

I read this thing once that Gillian Michaels eats Peanut Butter cups every day...if she can do it, so can I!

Realistically, how miserable would your life be if you could never again have a piece of birthday cake, a cookie at the office, a piece of chocolate...The band usually won't let me go overboard on sweet stuff anyways since most bad stuff tends to be sticky (except ice cream - but even then, too much volume is bad). Le sigh, lettuce goes down juuusssst fine though!!!

I love SF chocolate pudding.. so that's what I go for when I'm craving the stuff. Sometimes I just gotta go for the good stuff though.. I just try to keep it in moderation!

I go for a walk! I do though have a sugar free fudgecycle every evening and it is on 40 cals

fat free sugar free chocolate puddling cups, fat free chocolate frozen yogurt from your local frozen yogurt place.

Fudgesicles are great, they satisfy the choco craving in less than 100 calories sugar free. And I do eat chocolate from time-to-time. I go for the low sugar dark kind it is a healthier choice. I allow myself most foods in moderation choosing the healthiest version.

I am only 2 weeks post op, but in general, See's Candies Lollypops in Chocolate work wonders. I think they are around 80 calories with about 2-3 grams of fat. They take a LONG time to finish and they are WONDERFUL.

I can so relate! I was banded in april if last year down almost 70 pounds yay and I bought easter candy this year the day after!! Ugh was I ever torqued off when I saw plus three at the dr.'s office this morning! Totally my fault and totally the reason why i got banded... I'm trying to look at this as at least it's only three pounds this year..... in the past it's been much more!

Here's to tomorrow!

Hugs