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…

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?

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?