any advice on how to kick...

[kellibelli]

Any advice on how to kick the chocolate habit??? It is a serious addiction for me. I am fine most of the month, but when "Aunt Flow" comes to visit I am a wreck until I get my "hit" of chocolate...any ideas???

[eatyourbroccoli]

http://www.naked-chocolate.com/recipes/

[rawbeliever]

I was using a date-almond combo. Something about the texture and the sweetness helped a lot.

[Pansy]

You could read "12 steps to Raw Foods" by Victoria (Raw Family)!

She has helpful things about kicking addictions!

Hope this helps,

Pansy

[rawfigure]

is your addiction to regular chocolate ? or raw chocolate ?

I have always been a chocoholic. I would skip a meal and eat something (now raw) chocolate when I get a serious craving for it.

My solution is to rarely have chocolate in the house. If I want something chocolate I have to go buy it. More times than not by time I buy things to make a chocolate treat I lost the desire.

The one thing I have been making at that time of the month is chocolate banana ice cream, for some reason this satisfies me and I can keep it in the freezer and eat over a few days and save myself the calories of overeating rich chocolate deserts made with loads of fat.

I freeze 4-6 banana's, mix with stevia/vanilla creme liquid stevia/and cacao powder. Another good one is cookie and cream, I mix 1/2 cup ground almonds, 3-4 dates and 1/8 cup cacao in the FP until it forms a ball. I break it into chucks put in the freeze to set. At the end of the banana process I threw the chucks in few a few spins to incorperate.

[DavidZaneMason]

Opinion:

-Ask yourself what you are REALLY motivated to do. You can only replace a bad habit with a good one - not fight it.

-David Mason

[Conscious Midwife]

MAKE RP's BROWNIES and keep the habit so long as it's RAW cacao or RAW powder.

The brownies are so good you can't eat just one, but so rich you won't over do it after the irst few days

[Sharon in Colorado]

Honestly the best way to kick the chocolate habit is just to go cold turkey. I've done this and it works, however a little taste and I'm back.

Weaning and substituting doesn't work for me. I'm not wild about cacao nibs as they have a strange fermented after taste (anyway, that IS chocolate with the same or worse affects) and carob doesn't really taste like chocolate. However, substituting for something different like a fruit pudding or smoothie would be better.

After 3 days you'll lose the craving for it.

[Brianna]

Dates can help. They have a rich sweet taste.

[kellibelli]

I have thought abuot it a lot and with the information that you all have given me I think that I will try to go cold turkey, but it wont be easy. I know that I will need a few occasional chocolate things around though so I dont completely blow it. For example, I dont have any raw cocao powder right now, but I tried Hersheys cocoa powder with some raw coconut flakes and some agave nectar and a tad of vanilla...it did the trick. I will keep something like that on hand just in case, but I really think it is going to take hard work. I would LOVE it if there was just a three day hump to kick the craving...we shall see!

[spicyfull]

I have heard it called a lot of things but never- Aunt FLOW, that is toooo cute. May I borrow that.

[kellibelli]

Spicyful - You bet! I borrowed it from a friend's mom back in my high school days. :)