David Hickey wrote:i am struggling greatly with giving up chocolate.  my daily intake is on a good day 2 large family blocks. i crave it when i wake up and i wake up in the middle of the night sometimes and eat it.  i only eat cakes, biscuits etc if they are in the house.  i would drive any distance day or night if i felt i really needed a chocolate hit.  i am 46 and my partner has just read sweet poison, out of concern largely for my health and obviously for his own welfare.  i would very much welcome chatting to people with a crazy addiction to chocolate like myself - i have never met anyone who eats as much as i do.  i am up to day 2 of no chocolate and sugar - using dextrose to cook with and drinking diet drinks instead of cordial.  i could kill for chocolate right now.  i am very interested to see how real chocolate addicts win this awful battle with sugar.  to date i have no real health issues.  i have put on approx 3 stone over the last 8 years - i put this down to getting older and my body changing, but my partner obviously now thinks otherwise.  all of that sugar i have been consuming over the years has to have a cumulative effect on my body sooner or later.  thanks, jo

Hi David

Get off the diet drinks they will make you keep the weight on and unless the sugarless substitute is Stevia they are extremely bad for your health, CANCER CAUSING ETC.

Drink purified water,water, water, water and more water this will also make you loose weight.

Good luck