chocolate

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edna

it's not "just sugar". according to nutrition labels, clif bars contain about the same amount of sugar as kit kat bars. for many years, i ate two daily clif bars. one day, i just stopped eating clif bars. zero cravings. chocolate has been *really* hard as f**k to give up.

some articles claim that chocolate has the same impact on the brain as "love".

it's the chocolate.

all things equal, i feel emotionally better when i eat chocolate than when i do not eat chocolate, in the short term.

not all things equal.

short term sometimes differs from long term.

craving chocolate.

craving love. s**t

but wtf ever. after eating chocolate, i feel better emotionally for a couple of seconds and then i feel worse b/c i ate too much chocolate.

I had a brief passion for cheap chocolate bars from Aldi, in the 1990s. Whole nut, and fruit and nut mostly. I'd break a huge bar up into large chunks, put it in the coldroom at work, and I'd keep going in there and grabbing a chunk to scoff. But after a week or two I started to feel like crap, and figured it was probably the vast amounts of choccie that was doing it, so I stopped.

These days I live in fear of a heart attack so I usually keep away from the stuff except for one (or sometimes two) of those tiny Hershel's "Kisses" blobs. I even worry about eating that amount, but there has to be a balance between fun and health. I should probably try making my own healthy, liquid chocolate by using cocoa, soya milk powder, fruit sugar, polyunsaturated oil, and maybe rose water to make it taste like Turkish Delight. But it would take a lot of trial-and-error and it'd probably be very messy. I'd have to learn about how to use emulsifiers to stop the aqueous and oily layers from separating out. I don't know how the manufacturers manage to get their chocolate so smooth.