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

[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