No more feeling guilty ladies

shillelagh · 30-08-2011, 15:48

for all the chocolate that we eat .... its good for our health!!!

BBC News - Chocolate may protect the brain and heart

katex · 30-08-2011, 16:03

Why just us Ladies, Shill ? Men get fat too !

They used to say just dark chocolate... this seems to be any type.

cashman · 30-08-2011, 16:09

Ah that link explains why i'm so intelligent.

jaysay · 30-08-2011, 17:50

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Originally Posted by cashman

Ah that link explains why i'm so intelligent.

Ya me too cashy I love chocies

Margaret Pilkington · 30-08-2011, 19:11

Himself is the chocolate eater in our house.
I have had a box of Thorntons unopened since the middle of June.
I have seen him eyeing them up...if opened, I think that he would eat most of them.

mobertol · 30-08-2011, 20:51

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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

Himself is the chocolate eater in our house.
I have had a box of Thorntons unopened since the middle of June.
I have seen him eyeing them up...if opened, I think that he would eat most of them.

You must be incredibly strong willed Margaret - especially if they're the Thorntons Continental selection....

MargaretR · 30-08-2011, 21:15

For 4months at the end of last year I did a diet which didn't allow me any form of sugar (sucrose, fructose, glucose, lactose).
I got a box of chocs given at christmas, but I had lost my 'sweet tooth' and didn't enjoy them.
Now even carrots taste sweet !

Margaret Pilkington · 30-08-2011, 21:40

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Originally Posted by mobertol

You must be incredibly strong willed Margaret - especially if they're the Thorntons Continental selection....

They are Continental selection.......I took a box down to Llandudno, thinking that one night we might get an attack of the munchies.....we didn't and I left them for the owner of the house we rented.

I seem to have 'gone off' quite a lot of sweet things.......I do sometimes fancy something sweet, but less than I used to.
Can't say I'm sorry about it.

Margaret Pilkington · 30-08-2011, 21:49

Oh, perhaps I should have said that both these boxes of chocolates were given to me as gifts for my birthday back in June(I know I kept it quiet - you don't advertise you are another year older when you get to my time of life)

jaysay · 31-08-2011, 08:45

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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

They are Continental selection.......I took a box down to Llandudno, thinking that one night we might get an attack of the munchies.....we didn't and I left them for the owner of the house we rented.

I seem to have 'gone off' quite a lot of sweet things.......I do sometimes fancy something sweet, but less than I used to.
Can't say I'm sorry about it.

They'd have been lucky to last a weekend in my Gaff

MargaretR · 31-08-2011, 09:16

Refined sugar is processed food ie. junk food!
If you can cure your addiction to it, your health will improve.
Good Sugars, Bad Sugars: Are There Healthy Alternatives for Sugar and Artificial Sweeteners? | Suite101.com

DaveinGermany · 31-08-2011, 18:25

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Originally Posted by katex

Why just us Ladies, Shill ? Men get fat too !

That's as maybe Kate, but us blokes don't let it bother us unlike you Lasses. As far as us Lads go no matter how old & unfit we get, we still see ourselves as having the body of a God (usually that little podgy, baldy booger you see in the Chinkys).