Chocolate happens to be my favorite food. So, avoiding chocolate during a diet really torture me. Really! That’s why I wrote this article to share the facts about how chocolate can still be included in your snack list during your diet program, so that you can still enjoy your favorite food while working hard to lose your weight.

Chocolate Health Benefits

Chocolate is one of healthy foods that have a lot of healthy benefits for your body. Flavonoid is an antioxidant that can help you in anti aging, thanks to its free radical content. Other than that antioxidant can reduce the risk of heart disease. Flavonoid can also balance hormone, help lowering blood pressure and LDL cholesterol by up to 10%.

When you get stressed, chocolate is the best food you can eat, as it can stimulate endorphin production which gives you a pleasure feeling and pain relieve. Lactium, which is contained in chocolate, can also act as a stress relieve.

Last but not least, chocolate also contains probiotics, vitamins B1, B2, D, E, and also several minerals such as potassium and magnesium. Probiotics in chocolate provides you a healthy and enjoyable lifestyle.

Chocolate For Diet

Chocolate can still be your food choice even when you are on a diet program. However, you must limit the daily total calories you take. If you want to do a 1500-1600 calories a day diet for example, eat approx. 125 calories of chocolate. For your info, a bar of dark chocolate contains 400 calories. You can eat ¼ bar a day, or if you want to have some more, you can reduce the intake of other sweet foods (cakes, candy, etc.) so that the total calories which you intake would still be the same.

Plain dark chocolate is the best chocolate for diet, as it contains only natural sugar, no additional sweetener, and 70% of the content is cocoa. Chocolate with fruit filling is still OK. On the other hand, chocolate or dark chocolate with caramel or nougat are the kinds of chocolate you should avoid when you are in a hard diet.

Have you heard about chocolate diet? This seems to be quite a nice diet, especially for you who loves chocolate. Chocolate diet mainly consists of liquids (powder shake) which is given to be blended with milk or water as a snack.

In fact, chocolate diet is just emphasizing that diet is not supposed to be a burden, by eating less or by avoiding your favorite foods. You can have a diet AND eat foods that you love at the same time, as long as you can control the quantity of calories intake.

Besides having your diet in control, support it with exercise. No diet will succeed without exercise, as exercise will help your muscles to burn fat. Same as diet, choose fun exercise that you can really enjoy. If you like sport, choose tennis or swimming. If you like music and dancing, aerobics or belly dance could be your choice. Whatever your choice is, exercise is very good for both your weight loss and for your health. Keep doing it regularly!

More About Chocolate And Diet...

Naked Chocolate: The Astonishing Truth About the World's Greatest Food
by: David Wolfe

This book describes the wonders of cacao–where it comes from, how it is processed, its three varieties, and its origins and role in pre-Columbian cultures of the Americas. It explains the scientific properties and health benefits of chocolate, and elaborates how you will lose weight, soothe your heart, double your joy, increase your sensuality, nourish your intellect, and attract prosperity by eating it!

Somersize Chocolate
by: Suzzane Somers

Somers's latest is little more than a pamphlet of 30-odd recipes, many of which readers can find in other books. But it's bound to please its target readers—women who love chocolate and want to lose weight—because it's everything they need it to be: it gives instructions for making easy, quick desserts that are low in carbohydrates (though not always low in calories).

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