Isn't it interesting that most everyone has an "issue" with chocolate. Either they love it or hate it. I'm always amazed when I run in to people that say..."chocolate - I just really do not care for it". Are you kidding? But most people I know desire it - no matter their size....the better the chocolate - the more it is wanted.

I realize that there are preferences for sweet or salty....put them together and what a GREAT combination! I had a date about 4 years ago that introduced me to mixing our popcorn with the chocolate. I had NEVER done that - mix the two...why would you?!!? The first taste - I thought I had died and gone to heaven....why had I never thought of that?!

So, here's my real point.....I have developed a "need" since being banded to have chocolate in the house. I did not have this need pre-banding. If it is not in the house - I obsess about it....where is it, when can I get it, do I really want it, what kind....the questions go on and on. I know a lot of people on here are advocates for getting it all out of the house. That temptation is the worst thing for most people. If I have it in the house, I feel at peace....the "craving" goes away. I may have a couple of pieces a week or not - but I stop going crazy thinking about it.

Has anyone else had this experience?

Very odd....the only thing I feel that I need to have in the house is flavored Water. I don't really crave anything.

As a matter of fact, I threw away 3/4 of one of those no-bake chocolate/peanut butter Desserts today.

the only thing i need in the house is a man whore...actually I already have him...my husband hehehe

Tiffany, yep, me too. For some reason I pick up a bag of chocolate a week. I don't eat the entire bag myself, DH does that but for some reason I need that bite of chocolate after dinner. If I don't have it I am climbing the walls looking for something to replace it.

I said on another thread that when I crave something sweet and I try to fight it I wind up shoveling 10x more crap in my mouth just to satisfy the beast. I'm better off with the real thing, a few pieces of chocolate and I'm a happy camper.

Problem with that is I want chocolate all the time lol.

Ever since being banded, I have also been constantly craving chocolate! Sometimes I go ahead and eat it but other times I resist the urge and end up wanting it even more than before.

I'm like Eileen...the meal just doesn't seem complete without a bite of chocolate! I've finally decided that as long as one piece satisfies me, I'm better off eating that piece than eating a bunch of other stuff trying to resist. One thing that works for me isto have a "Creme Savers" hard chocolate caramel candy...it lasts a long time and has only 20 calories.

Emily

Ditto to me too. Loving chocolate, cant live without it, need it by my side.

I have a little piece of chocolate everyday in some form or fashion. I buy chcolate chips and put them in the freezer and measure them out in an ounce container and usually I am satifsifed with that.

:hurt This thread needs to die!! :hurt

Every time I look at the new posts, I see the word chocolate!

Y'all are EVIL! Rofl!!

Yes, I'm only kidding. Don't worry about me. I can always..

:painkiller: :lalala: and :boxing: the temptation. I'll find distractions like..

:music: :car:

But I'm still feeling like ---> whenever I see the C word! LOL

Quote GentleSpirit:

I'm like Eileen...the meal just doesn't seem complete without a bite of chocolate! I've finally decided that as long as one piece satisfies me, I'm better off eating that piece than eating a bunch of other stuff trying to resist.

DITTO!

I don't know how you eat just one peice!!! If there's a bag of chocolate around, I EAT & EAT until it's gone. The entire time I'm shoveling it in my mouth I'm saying to myself - "You shouldn't be doing this!" - and then I eat another peice. A few weeks ago I found a bag of the new Hershey's kisses in colors. (My husband is a snack vendor & gets all the new stuff to test.) There was nobody home & I said to myself - I'll just taste one. 1 hr. later, the entire bag is gone.

CHOCOLATE IS DANGEROUS!!! I HATE IT!! I HATE IT!!! :tape:

Geez, it's as if you were reading my mind! I was just going to post the question if anyone craves chocolate after surgery. I didn't crave chocolate before surgery, I wonder why now? Maybe I'm focusing (obsessing) too much on it. I have been sugar free in the past and I know that after the first few days, it becomes easier and more natural. I'm contemplating this because if I have chocolate every day, I tend to NEED chocolate every day. To go through this whole surgery and then not lose weight because of chocolate is too strange for me. I doubt a little will inhibit weight loss, but the way I tend to eat it it will.

Kelli

chocolate IS THE DEVIL!!! THE DEVIL I SAY!

The power of Christ compells you! (Sorry - just watched the Exorcist again today and have that STUCK in my head). I didn't mean to offend anyone.....

Feel2Young2B40 - *laughs and laughs* That was excellent.

I posted at 5:58, laughing about the Exorcist joke. It is now 14 minutes later, the huge music file we have set to random play just landed on Tubular Bells - the Exercorcits theme song! I forgot we even had it! Sweet!

Pea Soup anyone? *laughs*

Count me among those who don't care for chocolate either way.

If I just *have* to eat some it can only be the Special Dark or bittersweet kind - I can't STAND any form of milk chocolate.

After surgery, I would occasionally have a craving for a Reese's (odd, cuz I don't care for either chocolate or peanut butter) but that generally meant my Protein + blood sugar level was low, LOL. Now if I could just crave Protein drinks....