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Chocolate Diet
Background
British diet author and editor Sally Ann Voak promises dieters that they can follow “The Chocolate Diet” and lose 7 pounds in two weeks.
The basic premise of the diet is that it is unrealistic and potentially detrimental to attempt to eliminate chocolate completely from the diet. When chocolate is regarded as a food to strictly avoid during a diet this creates an increased desire for chocolate. When dieters eventually give in to their cravings they may overindulge which leads to guilt and this often results in abandoning the diet completely.
Diet Basics
Voak created ‘The Chocolate Diet’ to enable dieters to break their addiction to chocolate and learn how to include chocolate in the daily diet without compromising weight loss.
Voak categorizes chocolate addicts into six categories and through a series of quizzes dieters can determine which category they belong to. Each category has a designated calorie controlled diet plan to follow that also includes specific dietary strategies and exercise recommendations.
The six categories of chocoholics include:
| Secret Bingers
Eat chocolate in secret or hide it in unusual places. |
| Romantics
Often single people who use chocolate as a substitute for physical and emotional affection. |
| Comfort Eaters
Eat chocolate when they are feeling tired or stressed. This is the most common type. |
| Weekend Indulgers
Use weekends or celebrations as an excuse to overindulge in chocolate. |
| Sugar Addicts
Obtain most of their daily calories from carbohydrates and may eat chocolate as an energy booster when feeling tired. |
| Premenstrual Cravers
Women who overindulge in chocolate only at certain times during their monthly cycle. |
All of the diet plans begin with a complete elimination of chocolate for one week. Voak claims that this allows dieters to control their cravings for chocolate. Following this initial week dieters are provided with a daily chocolate allowance.
Recommended Foods
Low calorie vegetables are permitted in unlimited amounts. The list of these ‘free vegetables’ includes asparagus, broccoli, mushrooms, peppers, spinach, tomato and watercress.
Dieters are also advised to drink skim milk every day and to replace coffee with herbal tea.
Different nutritional supplements are also recommended for each of the six types.
Sample Diet Plan
The meal plans provide 1000 calories per day in week one and 1200-1300 per day for week two and beyond. Men can have an extra 300 calories per day.
The plans vary for each category but in general include a 250-calorie breakfast, one or two small meals of around 300 calories, and one main meal of around 400 calories.
After the first week there is also a chocolate allowance between 50-300 calories per day.
Other low calorie and chocolate recipes can be found here.
Exercise Recommendations
The recommendations vary depending on what type of chocoholic you are.
Secret bingers, sugar addicts and premenstrual cravers are advised to walk briskly for at least 20 minutes every day in addition to being involved in a relaxing exercise such as swimming or yoga a couple of times a week.
Romantics and comfort eaters are advised to swim or do yoga several times a week.
Weekend indulgers are provided with the strategy to take up a sport such as golf or tennis and to do it often and especially on weekends.
These exercises can be used with The Chocolate Diet.
Costs and Expenses
The Chocolate Diet retails for $20.
Pros
- Alleviates deprivation that is often experienced while dieting and this may increase the ability to stick to the diet plan.
- Especially good for dieters who don’t want to give up chocolate or crave it every day.
- If good quality dark chocolate is selected can provide a source of antioxidants in the diet.
- Has an exercise component.
- Promotes intake of vegetables.
- Detailed maintenance plan.
Cons
- Calorie allowances are too low for most dieters especially those who are very physically active.
- Most dieters will feel hungry on this plan.
- Some dieters may find that chocolate even in small amounts increases their cravings.
- Lacking specific guidelines of how to select appropriate foods and plan meals.
- Seven pounds of weight loss in one week is an unrealistic and unhealthy goal.
- May not be helpful for dieters who do not crave chocolate.
- The caffeine in dark chocolate could cause problems for some.
Conclusions
If you are hoping to find a diet that allows you to each chocolate all day and still lose weight you will be disappointed with this diet plan. This is basically a low calorie, low fat diet plan with small amounts of chocolate allowed daily.
Dieters will probably lose weight on this plan initially due to the combination of low calories and exercise however the long-term success of this style of diet plan has been shown to be unreliable for the majority of dieters.
who created this
I think it’s quite cool but I can’t believe you have to pay £20 for it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yes you can lose weight by eating chocolate. Why? Because if you eat less calories than you burn then you will obviously lose weight. Eat only chocolate each day and depending on how much you eat you will lose weight. Say you eat 1000 calories worth of chocolate and nothing else a day, you’ll lose weight.. and after the diet ends you will most likely not want to eat chocolate again coz thats all you would have been eating!
no it cant be healthy
IDK i was told chocolate was a bad junk food
no one on this site loves chocolate like i do and as proof,i will tell you why in a day i can eat a box of choc,with 60 choc nuts,3 packets of m&ms 3 packets of smarties and a snickers bar. i once lost half my body weight started doing that now im at square one but started my diet 2weeks ago,honestly if u want 2 lose weight leave the goodies,nothing good comes easy,exercise and cutting down,when u lose the weight eat the choc but not like a pig
Not all fats are good, that’s for sure. There are both ‘good’ and ‘bad’ fats and the most important thing is to be able to differentiate between the two. As a general rule, good fats are mono-unsaturated, polyunsaturated and saturated fats.
Let’s see the following facts:
1. Poly-Unsaturated Fats are GOOD
Good sources of poly-unsaturated fats are walnuts, salmon, trout and sunflower
seeds.
2. Mono-Unsaturated Fats are GOOD
Some good sources of mono-unsaturated fats include peanuts, almonds and
avocados which are all great for you.
3. Saturated Fats are GOOD
Good sources of saturated fats can be found in Diary and poultry.
Bad fats are ‘trans fats’ (which are linked to cancer). Make sure you read the label of food and avoid anything that says “hydrogenated”. These bad fats lower your HDL (good cholesterol) and increase your LDL (bad cholesterol), they clog arteries, cause insulin resistance and contribute to diabetes.
4. Trans Fats = BAD
Food with high content of ‘trans fats’ include deep fried foods like chips
Yes, this a very true diet that works. I have not read this book, but my husband and I eat dark chocolate (high quality 70 percent or higher cocoa content) all day before all meals and it curves your appitite and we eat much less during our meals. Many evenings we just have a vegtable tray with fruit and nuts with a glass (or two) of red wine. We eat a normal breakfast and lunch. I lost 15 pounds and my husband lost 21 pounds without even thinking we were on a diet. (Which we weren’t) We do exercise regularly, walking, biking or yoga classes a few times a week. But we honestly eat at least 5 to 8oz of dark chocolate every single day!
no the chocolate is not good 4 your health
i’m fat and happy!
no way it totally work I tryed it
OMG…..I can’t believe that someone actually made up a chocolate diet Patheic
What would this diet cost you? not the book cost
good diet:loose weight, eat veggies, exercise, yet still enjoy chocolate
bad diet: starve yourself, and have the chance of becoming more addicted to chocolate
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I’ve tried this diet. With really hard work and watching what you eat and the right exersise, I lost a little less then what it says but close enough. I lost about 5 pounds a month. After a few months i was looking great!
OMG Most of u people trying this are probably skinny! Stop the madness!
diets people come up with hahahaha
Ooh!!! I’d like to try this diet!!!
I LOVE CHOCOLATES!!!
I think this diet I actually good for
people who suffers from anorexia or depretion
Or people who wants to put on weight
I think this diet could really work if you put some effort into it. All i have to say is that if you like chocolate this would be suitable for you!!!!!!!!!!
while i went on this diet i gained 8 pounds wtf is up with that i thought i was supposed to lose weight not gain it.
perhaps you should all be checking out a true chocolate diet. http://www.waycooldiet.com/stellarhealth
I believe this diet could really help if you put alot of effort into it as you would any other diet and I think it really is a good diet for those who are chocholic.
I’m wondering if you can lose weight by eating chocolate?
I think it’s a good diet for people who love chocolate because chocolate is tasty and I love chocolate a lot so if I needed to lose weight this would be a good diet plan (But I don’t)
sounds a bit silly because its basicly a normal diet with excercise..just without chocolate haha
lol hw do you know it won’t work
No, no, no! This is definitely a diet that does not work!
good source of energy for your bones =]
chocolate is a good diet
Is this diet very good?
Does it make large profits?
It looks good mmmm:)