I believe ice-cream is a girls best friend. Pyjama’s should be accepted as daywear. Laughter is the best medicine. And if all else fails, eat a TimTam ~ Miss Cinders
A defining moment came to me the other day when I realised I not only have an addiction to chocolate, but it’s an obsession as well.
Yes people, an obsessed addicted choc-a-holic I am.
The moment came when I deleted photo’s of TimTams from my phone. All forty two of them.
Seriously, what the…?
When my TimTam packet starts to look empty, I always wish for the TimTam genie to come and give me a packet of TimTams that never runs out…
Just so you know, it doesn’t work. The TimTam genie isn’t real, because he doesn’t show up when he’s wished for. And if he is, the inconsiderate bastard hasn’t come to visit me with one of them special packets!
How rude!
So anyway, the other day was my birthday. And what does one buy an obsessed choc-a-holic? Why copious amounts of chocolate of course!
On Monday I tweeted that I’d just noticed how much chocolate I’d eaten in the previous three days… Apparently I’m not the only one who can down chocolate like there is no tomorrow. The lovely Emily @ You Learn Something New Every Day could do it with ease as well…
I also Facebooked… so I would have to do something about it.
Emily’s reply on Twitter, and the replies on Facebook made me realise how alone I am not. And that chocolate is indeed an addictive substance.
I took this pic on Tuesday. My birthday was the previous Friday. All but the front block were empty. As of yesterday, it’s all completely gone.
This is not good. Once I start I can’t stop.
So as of today people I am on a chocolate ban.
For one hundred days I am not allowed to eat TimTams, blocks of chocolate, boxes of chocolates or chocolate bars. Not even one little Pod.
One. Hundred. Days.
With the Digital Parents Conference coming up next month, this will be an achievement of mammoth proportions if I can pull it off. When I travel I eat Snickers Pods. It’s my “travelling treat” of choice. One cannot travel without having that one delightful little mouth-watering treat that is saved for such occasions. But this time I have to.
May 25th is THE day I have to reach if my calculations are correct.
So what is my reward if I achieve this challenge?
I have absolutely no idea. I think just the thought that I went one hundred days without is enough.
That is what I would call a massive life achievement!
P.S. Three words – Murphy’s freakin Law!!!
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Absolutely !!!! Good luck ! You may find once you haven’t had it for that long it won’t taste that nice when you do eat it. I have taken to eating 70% or 80% (and at a push 85%) chocolate – and now find ‘normal’ chocolate just too sweet to eat.
I also LOVE chocolate but don’t think I am quite as addicted as you are – plus if I ate that much chocolate I wouldn’t fit into any of the clothes I have !!
Have a great day fellow choc-a-holic !
Me
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I’m hoping substitutes for my block chocolate addiction will suffice. Although rarely do we have chocolate cake any more because of BJ7′s intolerances.
I’ve bought peanuts to munch on while I blog. Writing blog posts is one of the ways I go through it like nothing else. It helps me think…
xxx
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I was addicted too but I decided last year to stop buying chips and chocolate for 12 months and give the money I saved (estimated $2 per week) to charity. I am giving it to World Vision as I felt so bad that people were starving and I was gorging myself on chocolate. The good thing about this is that people are still allowed to buy chocolate for me (as gifts, or bring it to my house) so I am not deprived. It has been since August last year. Here is my blog post about it if you are interested http://www.mummysundeservedblessings.com/2012/08/giving-up-chips-and-chocolate-to-feed.html
Good luck with getting off the chocolate!
Lisa
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That’s awesome Lisa! I have actually started putting a couple of dollars in a separate bank account to do the same. But I’m going to let it build for a couple of months and then donate it.
I’m hoping I’ll just keep going. I’d really like to.
Thanks for the link! I’ve got it open in my browser so I can have a read later on after I clean the bomb site.
Hope you’re having a fabulous weekend
xxx
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OH MY GOD 100 days?! Really?! Wowsers. Good luck with that. I don’t think I could do it. I’ve read that there are studies to prove that there is an addictive substance in chocolate. I believe it!
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Hahahaha! Stop it! Positive frame of mind! I have to stay positive!
I’ve got Easter, DPCON13 and Mothers Day to get through with this!!!
I just freaked myself out a little more. Shit! lol
xxx
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SNORT! Love it! Glad I prompted you too – despite my tweet and my now ridiculous mid-pregnancy over-consumption, I actually did give chocolate up completely for six months about this time last year. Christmas, New Year, Easter – all without chocolate! And I’ll be doing so again once the pregnancy/breastfeeding merry-go-round has finished this time around.
YOU CAN DO IT! Absolutely. No doubt about it. x
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P.S. This is the six-month celebration post if you’re interested in details: http://emhawker.blogspot.com.au/2012/05/i-can-last-six-months-without-chocolate.html
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Opened the post to read when I’ve done the housework.
I have your “YOU CAN DO IT!” etched on my brain, so every time I want to cave I won’t!!
It can be done!!!
xxx
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Oh gosh hon. Tragic!! But I hope you get there!
xxx
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I know. But imagine how much you won’t hear bitching about my sore kidney! It’s a win win situation! lol
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Omg! Are you serious?? (She exclaims while eating the family size caburys snack!)
Even more freaky – snickers pods? The best! (Just had a thought, if we ran away to our blue lagoon island there would be no chocolate!! However the reason or consuming said chocolate would not be there either so it’s win win)
Ok…. Can’t believe I’m going to say this, but, I think I have a chocolate problem too. So let the record show that I will also decline from indulging in chocolate for 100 days. We can have an online Choc Anonymous support group ok? My waistline will love me.
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YOU ARE SO DOING THIS WITH ME!! Haha!
My guidelines are…
“For one hundred days I am not allowed to eat TimTams, blocks of chocolate, boxes of chocolates or chocolate bars. Not even one little Pod.”
They are what I eat excess of, ALL THE TIME. Things like a piece of cake I rarely eat, so it’s okay. And I can’t drink coffee or tea because they make me deathly sick, so I can drink a hot milo.
This is all about the chocolate I eat in excess. Block chocolate is my weakness in all it’s forms – bars, blocks, pods.
It’s going to be sooo hard not to cave! But I’m not going to.
xxx
Miss Cinders recently posted..things i know
I laughed out loud at 42 pics on your phone of Tims Tams. wtf? Did you pay them or were you just promising to make them famous?
I love chocolate too, but mostly I buy dark chocolate so I only feel like a couple of pieces. I simply cannot have choc biscuits or milk chocolate in the fridge, because I won’t stop till they are gone.
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Yes WTF was exactly my thoughts lol Who does that?! I KNOW!!
Yep that’s it. I can’t stop until it is all gone. It’s beyond a joke.I don’r know if it’s comfort eating or what.
But what I do know is IT’S BAD!!
You are barred from having any yummy deliciousness near me at DPCON! lol
xxx
Miss Cinders recently posted..things i know
A hundred days without chocolate, easy… A hundred days without dark chocolate, I don’t think I can even imagine that… Good luck! That’s a very big challenge!
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