Late night sweet fix

[beenee]

I crave chocolate after dinner everynight - what can I have that is not as sinful but has the same effect? I don't like fruit.

[archbishop]

Chocolate isn't sinful in my church.

[dorisday]

I know its no where near the same as chocolate, but try something like a cereal bar. Doris

[sft42]

Try sex...seriously eating chocolate makes the body release dopamine into the bloodstream which is the bodies own opiate type happy drug and this is released in large quantities during sex and other pleasureable exercises.

[Miss Zippy]

I'm trying to cut back on choc and desserts at the moment too and find that a low fat strawberry or raspberry yogurt or a low fat lemon mousse (Sainsburys own brand is yummy) seems to satisfy my sweet cravings.

[flirty41]

There was a very tiny article about cravings in one of the Sunday magazines, which said that a craving for chocolate could be due to a lack of magnesium in the diet. Obviously, eating a magnesium pill wouldn't be quite so attractive a proposition as a Cadbury's Dairy Milk bar so, instead, it advised making sure you ate plenty of magnesium-containing foods such as nuts, beans, wheatgerms and spinach, to try to curb the craving but, if you just can't resist, try eating dark chocolate as, apparently, it goes further and it's quite good for you too!!

[beenee]

Thank you all!! I wish I read that before I bought tonight's king size Twix bar... Oh well :o)

[coggles]

Sex and chocolate at the same time is even better - much more fun and you burn off the calories too.....

[FTVS]

I used to drink those low calorie chocolate drinks they are about 50 cals a cup all diff choc flavours so you can have some variety AND they help you sleep so no cravings!