Chocolate insanity

[pegkerr]

I usually have a small amount of dark chocolate every day. My habit is to have a smidgen right after lunch: one dark Dove square, for example, or four dark chocolate espresso coffee beans. Just having a small bit, but having it every day, usually keeps the chocolate craving entirely manageable.

Not this week. Oy. Yesterday, I ate lunch, and then overcome with mad cravings, went down to the Spoon River Restaurant, where I know that they have a take-out refrigerator near the register. Found a single serving Ben and Jerry's Chocolate Fudge Brownie ice cream, bought it, and scarfed it down.

This was not enough.

Then I prowled over to Caribou Coffee where I purchased a tin of Bittersweet Chocolate Wedges (70% Cacao). Usually, one of these will last me over a week.

I ate the whole thing, 50 grams of dark chocolate.

The carnage didn't end there. When I got home, I fell upon the package of Dove Dark Chocolate Easter Eggs left over from the girls' Easter baskets. I blush to tell you how many eggs my inner Mongo devoured. And that still wasn't enough!

At 11:00 p.m., I wandered into the kitchen and cut a healthy piece of the (chocolate) pudding pie Delia had baked and put into the refrigerator.

Today, it has been half of a chocolate muffin. When I say "half," this means twice what you should actually eat; it's one of those hugely oversized chocolate-muffins-on-steroids, like something from Panera.

I must stop the madness somehow.

*Ponders.* It's cyclical, really; it's just particularly bad this month. Things should settle down in about a week. Well, taking out everything having anything to do with my endocrine system might help, but that seems a tad extreme.

It may also be a subtle indication that I'm perhaps just a wee bit stressed right now. Just a bit.

Comments

[skg.livejournal.com]

I just went through this same exact thing--I was scarfing chocolate like a mad fiend, and for similar reasons (stress, hormones).

It has subsided for the moment, but I can still feel it simmering just under the surface of my skin...

[naomikritzer]

Ed would shake his head over the fact that you are eating DARK chocolate. He is convinced that milk chocolate offers the stressed-and-depressed a greater pharmaceutical benefit. I think he is also under the impression that it MUST be in the form of Hershey's Kisses. (Clearly, you should try some, and see if the urge to self-medicate subsides.)

[naomikritzer]

(I also prefer dark chocolate, mind you. Ed prefers milk chocolate, and he really likes Hershey's Kisses.)

[maribou]

There are worse vices in which to permit oneself to wallow.

[cesario.livejournal.com]

Considering the way I tend to deal with stress, your dark chocolate splurging really sounds quite sane to me. For instance, you seem to have separated the concepts of "Stress-management" and "self-destruction" which I have not yet done.

[papersky.livejournal.com]

I was just reading the Mayo clinic page on migraines, because this one has been going on for a week today and I'm sick of it. One of the things it says is that they're caused by a serotonin weirdness, probably the opposite one from depression, or as I've long thought, the migraine blowouts I get may be what keeps me cheerful. Anyway, they mention serotonin and estrogen and chocolate as being connected, so maybe your body is sending you a timed self-medication message?

[huladavid.livejournal.com]

I'm giggling over the image of your "inner Mongo".

[wordswoman.livejournal.com]

Chocolate muffins always make me wonder about the real difference between a muffin and a cupcake.

The answer, I've decided, is frosting. So long as you don't frost it, you can pretend it's a muffin.

[von-krag.livejournal.com]

Cupcakes use a much lighter batter, rather like a sponge cake. Muffins use a quick bread batter able to hold fruits, nuts etc.

chef tony

[kijjohnson.livejournal.com]

You're making me want to eat vast quantities of chocolate now.

(BTW, I have been home from work since Monday, and sleeping til noon or one each day. I miss our phone calls, too, and I can't wait to be well again. )

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

I sent a text message, and then I tried sending a picture message for the first time. Did it go through?

[bohemianspirit.livejournal.com]

Hahaha! I can relate. ;-) A day or two after Easter, coming home from work in the early morning, I stopped at Walgreen's, ostensibly to get a small package of Peeps. I bought:

• a small package of Peeps
  
• two Russell Stover coconut cream eggs (covered in dark chocolate)
  
• two Russell Stover raspberry cream eggs (covered in dark chocolate)
  
• two Russell Stover marshmallow bunnies (covered in dark chocolate)
  
• seven (yes, seven) Russell Stover dark chocolate cream eggs with dark chocolate shells -- similar to Cadbury eggs, but all DARK CHOCOLATE!!!111!!!!@&##!!!
  

You get the idea. ;-)

I went home and ate one coconut cream egg, one raspberry cream egg, one marshmallow bunny, and two dark chocolate cream eggs. My stomach was churning, hours later. I ended up giving the rest of the candy (except the Peeps, which still sit unopened in my cupboard, and two of the dark chocolate cream eggs) to my sister jemby. I'm not sure if I was being a Good Sister in so doing.

PS - Want a Russell Stover dark chocolate cream egg??? :-D

[msagara.livejournal.com]

It may also be a subtle indication that I'm perhaps just a wee bit stressed right now. Just a bit.

Just a bit =/. I don't know if virtual tea is at all helpful, but I'd like to offer you some, and a few moments of peace and quiet as well.

I will say, though, that I now have an intense and irrational need to eat Dark Chocolate, and will probably head out of the house to pick some up before the convention tomorrow...

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the virtual tea. In fact, I think I'll go make a real pot right now; that sounds quite nice.

And oh dear! So sorry to have infected you with the dark chocolate craving!

[mayakda.livejournal.com]

It might be the self-medication thing, or it might be a a food craving nutritional thing (like pica).