I think I've gotten through the stages of grief with my chocolate addiction. Since it was never a severe addiction, I have spent more time working to understand what my triggers are than the emotional issues with a complete withrdrawal. Considering I have not been able to completely remove it from my diet, I have not had to deal with a complete withdrawal as the text we are using for this class suggests is the best method for dealing with an addiction.
In the past week I have gone days without consuming chocolate. After realizing I was largely eating chocolate when in stressful situations as a coping mechanism, I did reward myself in positive and non-stressful situations to re-enforce chocolate in a positive light as opposed to only eating the substance in negative situations.
I still continue to have times when I don't even realize that I am eating chocolate as it is in a LOT of over the counter foods. For example, if I go out for frozen yogurt with the kids, I have avoided eating the chocolate flavored yogurt and deferring to the coffee flavored yogurt only to be told after that the coffee flavor had chocolate in it. grrrr.
Anyway,, overall the progress and learning has been good. I look forward to the fourth and final week of the exercise in dealing with this addiction,,, which has turned into more of a self awareness exercise in stress eating and dealing with a bad behavior.
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