Chocolate and diet: is it possible to eat chocolate and lose weight?
Effects and health benefits of chocolate
Many people have some issues against eating chocolate when you keep a diet.
Well, it's their choice. Also there are many of those (some scientists among them) find
eating chocolate on a diet conceivable and even useful. Be honest, I am one of them
and not only in my words but in my experience as well.I will give you my personal and scientific reasons why any person and even those who are on a diet can eat small amount of chocolate every day:
- It's really hard to keep a diet and especially when you have to forbid many things to achieve your goal. When you deprive yourself of your favorite things it's more likely you will lose self control and binge. That is why it was so important for me and for many others to have a kind of treat for keeping a diet: regular and healthy eating, exercising. It will motivate you to stay on a track. Just 1-2 squares of chocolate bar is enough. Let it slowly melt in your mouth. Enjoy it! Treat yourself!
- If you choose to eat chocolate when you on a diet, stay with dark chocolate. It has less calories then milk or white chocolate.
- Moreover according to scitific studies dark chocolate gives benefits to your health. Dark chocolate contains cocoa phenols which are known to lower blood pressure. Also dark chocolate has antioxidants that decrease risk of heart disease. White or milk chocolate don't give this benefits, because milk cancels out the chocolate's antioxidant effects. Don't even wash dark chocolate down with milk. It will absorb antioxidants from chocolate.
- Chocolate increases the levels of endorphins that lower stress level. It makes us happy and helps us to keep positive attitude towards our diet and live.
And please, don't blame yourself for eating chocolate! Blaming yourself doesn't burn any calories. Love yourself, treat yourself, enjoy chocolate and move on.
Sources:
WebMD
Mercola.com