This morning’s adventure began with my mess magnet (daughter) helping herself to a carton of chocolate milk from the fridge. Don’t ask me how, but she managed to nick the bottom corner of the carton open. Chocolate milk dripped inside the fridge, across the floor to where she placed it on the counter. A puddle of chocolate milk formed on the counter and ran down the cabinet. Then she proceeded down the hallway across the area rugs to bring her favorite drink into her room. Needless to say a chocolate milk mess was everywhere. Today, chocolate was my foe.
It is debated whether or not chocolate is an ex-smokers friend or foe. Some articles express that chocolate provides a sugar “high” similar to the nicotine “high”; therefore chocolate is an ex-smoker’s friend. However, I would caution on how much chocolate an ex-smoker consumes. In David Zinczenko’s Abs Diet he classifies a mini snickers bar as an allowed power snack.
Other articles believe that ex smokers should eliminate chocolate altogether from their diets. They feel that the sugar “high” induced by chocolate actually encourages an ex-smoker to pick up the butts, since the urge for more of that good feeling generates the craving for nicotine.
I guess, as an ex-smoker you have to be your own judge as to whether or not chocolate will be a friend or foe.
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