“Just a couple of squares of chocolate per day...” TRIGGER WARNING

(roxanna) #21

This one’s my favorite! I think it’s the best tasting 100% chocolate I’ve had.

(roxanna) #22

I mix mine with avocado and sometimes cacao butter and/or ghee. So amazing.

(Vanessa ) #23

I have been testing my blood sugar levels the past several days, when I wake up and then apx 30-45 mins after each meal. I have found so far the only thing that gives me a large jump upward is chocolate :chocolate_bar:. I have tried both 72% and 90%, only one or two squares, after Keto meals and alone. It goes up every single time, this chocolate addict is very sad.

(Mother of Puppies ) #24

I learned that last year.

Guess I forgot. :wink:

But, no candy bars today (win)

#25

I avoided all chocolate my first month or two of keto - simply because I couldn’t stand the types of dark chocolate I’d encountered (the 85% type). I would have a square but not enjoy it, I would want to cry at the bitterness lol.

Then around month three keto, I found Trader Joe’s Pound Plus Belgian bittersweet chocolate w/almonds - something like 12grams carbs for one square with a sugar hit that gave me a craving for MOAR, so I was partly unsatifisfied and strangely grumpy that I had to limit myself.

Then, more recently, happened to find the German brand Ritter’s 50% dark chocolate hazelnut - somehow it’s less sweet than Belgian yet sweet enough for me to LIKE IT (at 3gm carbs per little chunk, I have between 1-3 chunks) as a lovely dessert after Italian or French type meals.

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I treat is as a VERY SPECIAL thing.

Beforehand I prep the chocolate storage by breaking up the bars into all their little chunks, and putting them in a pretty/fancy enamel storage bowl with an airtight lid. Then when I’ve finished my main meal and the “mood for a little something sweet” strikes (usually to go with with the last swig or two of red wine, because chocolate and wine is divine!), I simply get up and retrieve the bowl, take out a few pieces - depending on the day’s carb totals - put my pieces on my plate, re-cover the bowl and hand it off so that it is on the other side of the table or back in the cupboard - far away.

Fortunately that works - but I know it doesn’t work for some folks, and food addiction can be heavy duty, as in the mere knowledge of extra chocolate on the property feeds an uncontrollable urge to consume it all - in which case other measures are required (like eating more fat!!!).

(Lisa F) #26

I have no moderation gene. The only thing that’s helped my chocolate cravings has been fasting.

(Rob) #27

Never would have thought that one piece has so few carbs… now only having a couple of pieces :flushed:

(Candy Lind) #28

EEK, that’s an entire day of carbs (at least for me)!! @Westieholic is this what you’re eating?? READ. THE. LABELS.

I have Scharffen Berger 100% dark unsweetened baking chocolate, but I really want to try one of those Montezuma bars. The SB I bought for baking is so thick I can’t even break off a block without a big knife.

(Mother of Puppies ) #29

I was in denial.

Buy it.
Plan to eat only ten carbs worth
Eat the whole thing
Rationalize, “well, it’s dark and it hasn’t set off a binge, maybe I can handle it”
Repeat on infinite loop.

(Candy Lind) #30

It’s good you can realize this and take action. Try the chocolate & butter thing. I said “EWWWWW!” at first. Not any more!

(Mike W.) #31

Both 72 and 90 still have sugar in them. Try some 100 and see if that spikes.

(She had one feck to give and that feck is gone.) #32

Love Montezumas 100%. The texture is so satisfying. Never feel the need to eat more than 1 square and no one else will touch it :rofl:

(Mother of Puppies ) #33

Must… try… this!!!

Update- just bought it. Will try after breaking current fast :blush::+1:t4: I got the RitterSport, too @SlowBurnMary

(Vanessa ) #34

I have some 100% I will try it next.

I have eaten a couple of other things this week with a very small amount of sugar, no spikes so far other than the chocolate.

(bryan vandyke) #35

Bought baking chocolate for the longest time. Found 100% unsweetened chocolate chips a few months back. (Basically baking chocolate in chip form…) Works great for adding to yogurt or nut mixes.

Bonus. Listening to everyone’s reaction when they go to secretly snitch chocolate chips from the open bag in the cupboard. :joy:

#36

DAMN! According to the label I just pulled up on those there’s 15g sugar in those @ 2.5 servings/bar! That’s almost 40g sugar just from those! Up your magnesium, lot of connections to low mag and chocolate cravings.

(Mother of Puppies ) #37

I’m really good at denial. :joy::joy::joy:

(Rob) #38

I got the Montezuma’s 100% at Trader Joe’s and then as the poor man’s Ritter Sport, I got their 3 bars of Dark Chocolate with Almonds (for $1.79). Only 4g net carbs for 1/4 of a bar which is my normal serving (in my rational brain).

I tried the Montezuma’s - and it was almost inedible (to me)… and I think 85% is sweet enough… Will have to work out some recipe to use this in plus some sweetener :confounded:

PS I did like the texture of the 100% with the (nice) grittiness of the nibs in it… shame it is SOOO bitter.

(Hoteski) #39

You should try the 99% Lindt. …it’s so bitter that it will scare you off chocolate for weeks after one bite.

(Mother of Puppies ) #40

Ewwwww