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Weight Loss: Suicide By Chocolate

I think it was a beginning Smothers Brothers routine, which told the story of a man who fell into a vat of chocolate. To ask for help, he shouted "Fire! Why? Because who would come running if he cried "Chocolate?"

In our seemingly endless quest to make our too, too solid flesh, we ask for help from the diet gurus that populate the talk shows in the afternoon, the monthly magazines, tabloids and endless infomercials. We look at the last program of the Food and research reports on an endless quest for the secret ingredient that inexorably melt the fat and gives us pleasure without guilt. You can yell "Fire!" For help, but what we really want is chocolate.

And now they have given us. Without cheating on our food or lying to our inner selves, we can now honestly cites recent scientific reports that claim that certain properties dark chocolate is good for us. What a triumph! Godiva and Nestle and Cadbury and Hershey are not our enemies, after all. Their songs are the equivalent decadent Food for work-out - something we do to make us healthy and slim. As Woody Allen has promised to "Sleeper", science has finally evidence that junk food is good for us. It is a dream of Dieter, a fancy food horrors incredible transformation into orgies of satisfaction.

Awake and smell the coffee (black no sugar)! The chocolate has a place in a healthy and balanced diet? Maybe. She deserves inclusion in any program of severe weight loss? Absolutely not. The key to one of the hundreds of plans there is to increase activity and reduce the number of calories. Whatever type of healthy substances it may contain, chocolate is much too dense calories a charge to be included in any weight loss plan that can be expected to have a modicum of success.

Weight Watchers We are so gullible, so naive, so desperate relief from the drudgery and routine of a boring diet, we clutch at any straw that promises an interruption of our misery. We embrace any concept or a substance that will make us human again. We erase our mistakes with the certainty that we are merely following the precepts of objective science.

A colleague of mine cooked a variety of goodies and make them sell to staff as a secondary activity. She proudly informs potential customers that it uses only dark chocolate has proven to be healthy. The gang goes wild, buying a week's stock cakes and biscuits. Munching down on their thousand calorie snacks, they purr with satisfaction positive that what they eat is healthy and nutritious.

A voice in the wilderness, I remind them that healthy snacks like vegetables or fruits confer the same benefits, but would also avoid swelling size as insidious. Tubbies happy all, they assure me that I am not an update on my knowledge of nutrition and the consumption of dark chocolate is a road proven health and I hop to it.

I look around me at women much younger than I have been pleasantly plump to obesity. (Okay, there are one or two skinny who eat all they want but they are rare exceptions in a group, even if the objects of our desire). It is difficult to reconcile the sight of a plump woman, eyes closed in ecstasy, her cheeks bulging with the concept of optimal weight and health.

What do we do? We Let's face again. We are convinced that as something we eat has some redeeming nutritional value, it's okay for us to eat. We conveniently 'forget' About energy-in/energy-out equation which is the basis for a stable and healthy weight. We assiduously avoid our gratitude internal secret that thin or normal weight can take advantage of the opportunity, we on weight loss programs can not. We ensure that indulgences are necessary to keep our morale and help us stay on our diet.

What diet? Any weight loss plan that promises us we can eat everything we want (and we want a lot) of a particular food, and never feel pain of hunger is simply a scam. Limit intake Food necessarily mean that we can continue to eat as we have in the past - remember, I us fat first.

Losing weight is hard, boring, frustrating and generally without much pleasure. For the few seconds of joy we feel when we work on the scale and detect a permanent loss, we have to endure hours and days that we would refuse to do what we achieve our goal.

Chocolate, like any food that excites and haunts us, holds the seeds of destruction of our weight control among its members. Unlike so many foods we can not avoid looking back, it exerts a toxic temptation that haunts our dreams, crush our will, and murder of our continuing efforts to control our appetites. It offers the promise of heaven: the pure satisfaction for the pleasure centers of our brain.

It is a powerful weapon that we come dangerously. It is almost impossible to handle safely - one bite and constraints fall. Our taste buds, our languages, our neurotransmitters, and ourselves, all cry more. As addicts we are, we pray for another fix.

It is impossible for an alcoholic to stop after the first drink is unthinkable for a leader meth foot while the crystals are still available out of the question for a gambler to leave the table when he chips are still playing. For Overeater true taste of candy, confectionery arm is a death sentence plan.

The only way weight control freaks tortured can manage it is through abstinence. One day at a time, we must fight the temptation to taste, a piece, a corner of a bar shaved prohibited. The more we can avoid the taste, the more his memory fades, but as the addict, we can never completely eliminate cravings and must constantly guard against relapse.

By substituting a low-calorie alternative to chocolate back to start a program of methadone maintenance - we do not get greater weight gain (), but we need a constant dosage to maintain a sense of well-being. While the taste of chocolate is fresh and vivid memory, even if a low-calorie version is used, the attractiveness of the precious stuff remains and will ultimately overwhelm our "no" power and lead to the fear of everything we overweighters yo-yo: Suicide Food.

About the Author

Dr. Bola is a psychologist and an admitted diet fanatic, specializing in therapeutic reframing and the
effects of attitudes and motivation on individual goals.
Visit her at: http://www.DietWithAnAttitude.com/index2.html

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