Cravings Continued

I miss chocolate milk.

Not just the regular kind, but the soy kind. If you've never had it, it had a nutty texture that blends with the chocolate taste even better than regular chocolate milk (which i also adore). I miss mochas, coffee with chocolate in it, hot chocolate, and various other things that contain chocolate.

I LOVE chocolate. I can eat it all the time. It's my go-to sugary treat of choice, and I will eat it like a madman if no one is around to stop me. In fact, that's one of the reasons I decided to start this challenge by giving up sugar. As many of you do, I received a box of chocolate wafers fro Christmas. Before New Year's eve, I had nearly eaten all of them. That's a problem. Well, not that in and of itself, but the fact I couldn't be satiated by it. I didn't want a mounting sugar craving to envelop me.

So besides the sugar that I found permeating a lot of the food I would buy, I was also biding farewell to chocolate this month, first and foremost. That's where the real difficulty came from, at least I think so. I have never been one for candy or other sugary things (desserts excluded, of course; I don't even particularly like jams).And I don't drink sugary drinks or sodas all that much.

So when I took my first bite of that wonderful sugarless chocolate, I realized what I had really given up. Chocolate. I missed it, craved it in a way I hadn't really known until I tasted it again. It's the reason that I could give up sugar for a month, but not for a lifetime.

I don't love sugar; I don't love chocolate either. But I come damn close to needing it.