Chocolate Craving after Lunch

I too, get a huge chocolate craving after lunch.  Most of the time, I can't fight it, but I try.  I eat "lunch" at my desk pretty much from 10:30-1.  I drink water with lunch and after, when I'm hitting that chocolate craving, I dig into my diet soda.  It's sweet and helps me put off eating chocolate.  Then, I visit my friendly co-worker and chocolate keeper and get a snickers mini or 2 hershey kisses with caramel or a few M&Ms. 

Try and go for the smaller portion.  I can't keep chocolate in my office, because I'll eat it.  I'm the office mint keeper. You could also try tootsie rolls instead or I think Hershey or Nestle makes a chocolate flavored hard candy.  That would give you a chocolate taste for longer time without putting more calories in.

Life is too short not ot enjoy chocolate.

I have those cravings sometimes also. A little mint usually does the trick, far less calories. Try it and if that doesn't work, try the Hershey's miniature dark chocolate. Usually only one bite does it for me. I would try to stay away from a whole candy bar!

Most people get sugar cravings from a lack of macronutrients - usually protein - but not in all cases.  In most cases I have see, you are probably eating too carbs for breakfast and lunch and you body starts to crave them.  May I suggest you take a look at a book called "The Metabolic Diet" by Willcott.  There is a basic test in there that you can do to see if you are a "Carb, Mixed, or Protein type."  There are more advanced tests for Metabolic typing - but its a good start.  To think everyone should be eat like the Atkins diet, or South beach diet is a bit far-fetched.

Read the book.  Just a suggestion.

All the best.

Who suggested this?

In many of the forums I have read....including a posting you did on May 20 2005 - in the weight loss cal question (Yeah, shoot for about a 40/30/30 CALORIE ratio of carbs/protein/fat), and in many others I have read.

The reason I brought it up was it may be a protein defiencey, but I don’t know how many proteins this person is consuming, and what type they are according to Willcott’s book, so I didn’t want to say for sure…that it why I brought it up.  For this person to look at their ratios and start from there....