Day 3

Two Hershey's Dark Chocolate Minatures after lunch and my Jenny Craig dessert in the evening - that was my diet secret. I never gave up chocolate in my diet and I still lost 28 lbs. I lost weight by eating correctly, exercising and learning the magical art of portion control. I discovered, much to my own amazement that I did have the ability to eat just two small chocolates and not the whole bowl. That was until ...I made my "goal weight."

Yeah, goal = kiss of death.

At goal, I figured I could add a little more chocolate in each day...notsomuch a realistic expectation. In the month after making my goal, the weight started to creep back and the old reasons for eating chocolate resurfaced. I was upset about starting to gain weight, so what did I do? Ate more chocolate, of course.

I admit that I will never live a completely chocofree existence...who would want too? I know I'm not cut out to be one of those people (I hear they exist) who never eats sweets. What I need to learn is how chocolate can find a healthy place in my long term diet.