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Rules for chocolate?!
Before sharing some of my favorite “chocolate rules” I need to acknowledge (as a previous retail owner of a chocolate store) that I really do know that it’s important for us to be somewhat discerning about the chocolate we eat! After all M&M’s are only a last resort and most of those milk chocolate bars have added sugar and milk.
But…dark chocolate that is at least 70% cacao has health benefits of decreased risk for heart attack and stroke, as well as lowering our stress hormone cortisol.
Of course “they” want me to limit myself to about an ounce of the “good” chocolate daily. Drat.
Now here are some of the RULES FOR CHOCOLATE…
- Why is there no such organization as Chocolate Anonymous? Because no one wants to quit.
2. A nice box of chocolates can provide your total daily intake of calories in one place. Isn’t that handy?
3. If you can’t eat all your chocolate, it will keep in the freezer. But if you can’t eat all your chocolate, what’s wrong with you?
4. If I eat equal amounts of dark chocolate and white chocolate, is that a balanced diet? Don’t they actually counteract each other?
5. If you’ve got melted chocolate all over your hands, you’re eating it too slowly.
6. Put eat chocolate” at the top of your “to-do” list today. That way, at least you’ll get one thing done.
7. “Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands-and then eat just one of the pieces.” Judith Viorst
And here’s that infamous anonymous yet again...
“A good piece of chocolate has about 200 calories. As I enjoy two servings per night, and a few more on weekends, I consume about 3,500 calories of chocolate in a week, which equals one pound of weight per week.
Therefore in the last 3 1/2 years, I have had chocolate caloric intake of about 180 pounds, and I only weigh 155 pounds.
So without chocolate, I would have wasted away to nothing about 3 months ago!”
I owe my life to chocolate!
What about you?
When is enuf, enuf?
What is enough? We are intelligent enough to know that we don’t know everything–that most of our experience falls somewhere in between the black and the white, the right and the wrong, the truth and the lies. When will we know enough, though? I sometimes feel like Goldilocks, with the porridge choices being either too […]
the little things…
Have you ever let the “little things” in your life get you down, make you mad or take the joy out of your life? If so, then this little story I found is for you. The Lesson of the Eagle and the Crow “The only bird that dares to peck an eagle is the crow. […]
Why humor?
For those of you who are old enough to remember Red Skelton, I think you’ll enjoy this post. For those of you not old enough, you can see what you missed! Red Skelton had a lot of great one-liners and was known for his clean humor. It wasn’t sophisticated humor. It was the good old […]
What’s Your “Quarantine 15”?
We don’t have to bring everything from last year into this year of 2021. And I’m not just talking about those possible extra 15 pounds! What about the “15” piles of clutter that resulted from all our homebound activity and working from home? What about the “15” projects that we started and never finished? What […]
And the good news is…
Here’s some very good news: beliefs are malleable. They can be changed. In the end, it takes some time to create new beliefs, but what you are really doing is creating a new you. Tossing out those old beliefs (like I’m too old, I don’t know how, I don’t deserve it) and carving out new […]
Our journey together is so short…
This beautiful message came from a number of blog posts online. It’s for all of us. A young lady sat in a bus. At the next stop a loud and grumpy old lady came and sat by her. She squeezed into the seat and bumped her with her numerous bags. The person sitting on the […]
See yourself in this story?
I’m sharing this wonderful story yet again about the great violinist, Itzhak Perlman! On November 18, 1995, in Lincoln Center in New York City, Perlman was ready to play when suddenly one of his violin strings broke with a snap as sharp as a gunshot. He could not hop up and run off the stage […]
Kids’ letters to God…
A number of years ago I posted a collection of fun questions asked by youngsters. In a light-hearted mood, I want to expand on them and see if you find these new ones as delightful as I do! Let me know which one… resonates with you, or tickles your funny bone, or makes you think! […]
Christmas Eve and books!
In this Christmas season of 2020, books might well be a solution for us. I know books make me happier! I think Iceland is on to something with their Christmas Book Flood idea. A 2013 study showed that 50% of Icelandics read more than 8 books in a year and 93% read at least one […]