Chocolate

[Mochagirl]

Can someone remind me what it is about chocolate that sways boy? I'm getting some major cravings (af is here) need someone to talk some sense into me before I eat some. I know there's one woman on ig who claims chocolate is acidifying and she ate a dish of chocolate ice cream every night for her successful sway. I know that's a trial of one and so meaningless, but someone please tell me exactly WHY we can't eat it?? I know this diet is meticulously researched by our own great atomic, so I'm sure the answer is simple and I've just forgotten. :shrug:

[DoulaMama]

HA! Someone tell that to my mother who ate chocolate on a daily basis while dieting....she would skip lunch and eat a chocolate bar! 2 girls later......she was thin, ate small amounts of protein, has low testosterone....I don't think that the chocolate made any difference! LOL Although, again, that's one person....I'd eat the chocolate;)

[Mochagirl]

My calories are super low today (750), and I've eaten all my meals. I need something to add calories quickly, and there is a full fat chocolate-covered vanilla ice cream bar in my freezer calling my name....

[DoulaMama]

Go for it! I mean really....how nutritious can that be???!

[Mochagirl]

It's just that I noticed chocolate (particularly dark chocolate, my favourite) is on the boy diet, so there must be a reason for that. Does it build up testosterone or something?

[Mochagirl]

Yep - I just Googled it. Chocolate is linked with increased testosterone levels. Boooo!!!!

[TTC5]

And dark choc is full of antioxidants, BUT I ate LOTS of dairy milk chocolate (not dark) or white and I had 4 girls hehe

[DoulaMama]

Milk chocolate is not that great for you. I would say if it's not dark chocolate....and really.....how much testosterone could you get built up from one ice cream bar???! :wink:

[Mochagirl]

I know, but it's a dark chocolate covered ice cream bar, so I'll be sterssed about it, and stressing = more testosterone. I guess if I'm going to cheat with chocolate it should at least be milk chocolate. I can't stand white chocolate, so I won't be eating that.

I just realised I have enough room in my sodium and protein budget for the day to have some (boring) yogurt. Actually, maybe I should go out and buy something really decadent like a doughnut!

[DoulaMama]

I know, but it's a dark chocolate covered ice cream bar, so I'll be sterssed about it, and stressing = more testosterone. I guess if I'm going to cheat with chocolate it should at least be milk chocolate. I can't stand white chocolate, so I won't be eating that.

I just realised I have enough room in my sodium and protein budget for the day to have some (boring) yogurt. Actually, maybe I should go out and buy something really decadent like a doughnut!

Boo to it being dark chocolate :( and yes....get the donut so I can live vicariously through you!!

[shouldihope?]

Go out and buy a scoop or two of ice cream. I do cheat and eat a little piece of chocolate every once in a while. I try to stick to white chocolate though. What is worse stressing over a piece of chocolate or obsessing over every bite of food? That is how I have felt lately.

[atomic sagebrush]

Can someone remind me what it is about chocolate that sways boy? I'm getting some major cravings (af is here) need someone to talk some sense into me before I eat some. I know there's one woman on ig who claims chocolate is acidifying and she ate a dish of chocolate ice cream every night for her successful sway. I know that's a trial of one and so meaningless, but someone please tell me exactly WHY we can't eat it?? I know this diet is meticulously researched by our own great atomic, so I'm sure the answer is simple and I've just forgotten. :shrug:

DARK chocolate has a lot of antioxidants, and also has saturated fat that your body uses to make cholesterol.

That having been said, there ARE no magic foods and if you want to occasionally eat chocolate while following a low-everything style diet, that's fine by me. Just make sure it is a part of your diet and not extraneous.

I really think there's nothing to the "acidifying" foods thing, she got a girl because she was eating less of everything and the chocolate was just a part of the overall less.

[atomic sagebrush]

HA! Someone tell that to my mother who ate chocolate on a daily basis while dieting....she would skip lunch and eat a chocolate bar! 2 girls later......she was thin, ate small amounts of protein, has low testosterone....I don't think that the chocolate made any difference! LOL Although, again, that's one person....I'd eat the chocolate;)

EXACTLY. That is a recurring theme with girl-moms...dieting while still eating a lot of sweets! Like one girl told me, for lunch every day she used to eat a candy bar and a diet Coke!

The FOODS don't matter in and of themselves. It's the low protein, low cal aspect and if chocolate here and there fits into that, GREAT!!!

[atomic sagebrush]

I know, but it's a dark chocolate covered ice cream bar, so I'll be sterssed about it, and stressing = more testosterone. I guess if I'm going to cheat with chocolate it should at least be milk chocolate. I can't stand white chocolate, so I won't be eating that.

I just realised I have enough room in my sodium and protein budget for the day to have some (boring) yogurt. Actually, maybe I should go out and buy something really decadent like a doughnut!

Milk choc is better than dark but it's true that one bar isn't going to substantially raise your t levels (unless you have to physically wrestle your husband to the ground for it and then eat it standing over him gloating in triumph...)

[zanacal]

Milk choc is better than dark but it's true that one bar isn't going to substantially raise your t levels (unless you have to physically wrestle your husband to the ground for it and then eat it standing over him gloating in triumph...)

So funny, I'm pretty sure I've probably done that at some point!

I love the part about girl mums losing weight while eating crap - that just about sums up my diet at the moment!

[Mochagirl]

Milk choc is better than dark but it's true that one bar isn't going to substantially raise your t levels (unless you have to physically wrestle your husband to the ground for it and then eat it standing over him gloating in triumph...)

After 2 months without chocolate, this scenario is entirely possible
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