I'm restraining myself from eating chocolate tonight...

[BreweryYardRat]

...by having several glasses of milk. :(

I swear, I wish I'd inherited my Dad's nearly complete lack of a sweet tooth. Would sure make losing weight easier. :(

[Fire Walk With Me]

1. Ah, the sweet tooth.. Try sugar-free gum and other distractions.

And eat the right amount. A little at breakfast, more at lunch, and something like two or three pieces of chicken (relative sizing) at dinner, because you have to digest all night.

Good luck.

[LeftyMom]

2. A little bit of chocolate would be less fattening

Milk is concentrated calories- calves get enormous real quick on that stuff.

[BreweryYardRat]

4. It was skim milk.

[LeftyMom]

5. Still very calorie dense

Really, look up the numbers. You'd be waaaay better off with a little bit of chocolate- you can't eat a whole lot of a high quality dark chocolate anyhow.

[BreweryYardRat]

7. I did. 90 calories a cup isn't too bad. Besides, I need the protein.

[BreweryYardRat]

8. I did. 90 calories a cup isn't too bad. Besides, I need the protein.

[Droopy]

3. Hang in there

I'm trying to lose weight, too. Sugar is also a big obstacle to me. But I figured up just how much sugar I was eating a day and I was surprised. It turned out that I was eating about 1400 calories a day in sugar rich food. I would get a snack every night at work that consisted of a six pacxk of those little Hostess donuts and a pint of chocolate milk. That alone was almost 900 calories. Then throw in a couple of candy bars a day and you have the 1400 calories.

I cut out almost all of that and started drinking only water. I say almost because I will still have a little bit of sugar as a treat. A couple of teaspoons of brown sugar in my oatmeal or maybe a couple of those little Andes mints after dinner.

Just by doing that I've lost 15 pounds in the last month.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

6. Good job!

:thumbsup:

[Droopy]

10. Thank you

I should also add that I quit eating pizza and drinking beer as well.

[Solly Mack]

9. You can have a small square of dark chocolate every now and then

and it won't hurt your weight loss

the key is stopping at the small square...

It's hard, I know...