Abstaining from chocolate makes me think fondly of the last block of chocolate I owned. It was a massive block from Peru, a gift from Damjan’s parents. How big was it? It was around 25 cm long, 10 cm wide and 2 cm deep. Divided into around 12 squares, each square of chocolate was five or six times bigger than an average chocolate square.
In fact, someone else had the exact same chocolate and was also struck by the size of the squares. Here is a photo from thinkaholic.
I would break off one square and nibble until I was satiated. By then, I would be halfway through the square. If I was sensible, I would stop and save the rest for later. But, no, I always kept going.
Never has a single square of chocolate yielded so much chocolate yumminess! And the best thing was I wouldn’t feel bad because I had eaten only one square!
Why did you give up chocolate?
Well, maybe it would be more correct to say that I am ‘in the process’ of giving up chocolate, as I haven’t gone cold turkey yet. And maybe it would be more sensible for me to minimise, rather than give up.
As to the question ‘why’, I’m having trouble answering it because I don’t want to reveal too much of my thought processes. Chocolate represents a class of foodstuff that makes me feel momentarily happy, then guilty and frustrated. As I said yesterday, I look forward to a time when chocolate isn’t a necessary fix.
I think I understand what you are saying. I feel the same about some things, though none of them are food.