At yesterday's monthly company birthday party, I walked into the lunch room to find a chocolate cake. My first thought was that I was disappointed that I wasn't going to be having any cake today, but then realized that I had remembered not to eat chocolate. I was happy about that. Later in the gathering, I was mentioning to a colleague that I was not eating chocolate any more. He pointed out that as I was taking a scoop of ice cream and eating it, that it had chocolate chips in it.
Initially I thought this challenge would be easy. Remove chocolate. Sure, that should be easy,, I only eat those little chocolate mini bars once or twice a day. It will be hard, but I think I can do it. What I've quickly realized is that chocolate is in a LOT of things. Later in the day yesterday, the family ended up at a local eatery called Freddy's. When the family was looking at the list of sundaes that the restaurant offers, I realized that all but one of them had chocolate in them. Another good and bad feeling moment. Good I realized it, but sad that I realized how chocolate is everywhere.
I write this as lunch approaches again today and am feeling pretty good about my progress. Not by conscious choices, but have been almost chocolate free for three days. I haven't consciously chosen to eat chocolate, which is a huge step forward. Looking forward to finishing this day without consuming my favorite sweet :)
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