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Well Chicks, it’s high time I tested the amazing properties of raw cacao properly. 

I have never been a slim person and have always struggled with my weight. I have honestly tried every diet and food fad known to woman.

When I discovered raw chocolate, I couldn’t believe how it not only tasted amazing, but after eating one or two pieces, I didn’t get the urge to gorge myself with chocolate as I would have after eating a dairy milk bar (or two). Making my own raw chocolate meant that I stopped buying commercially processed and sugar laden chocolate and without changing any other eating habits, I actually lost 20 lbs in 1 year. I dropped 2 dress sizes and went from a size 20 to a 16. Two years on and I’m still a size 16 but am definitely ready to drop 2 more dress sizes. 

So the challenge is to lose 14lbs in time for our summer holiday in Spain this July.     I will be drinking  a CHOC Shot before every meal and when I feel hungry during the day/evening, will try and excercise a bit more and will simply eat healthier meals and snacks. (CHOC Shot of Antioxidant Goodness: mix 1tsp of raw cacao powder with warm water, sweetened with1/2 tsp Sweet Freedom).

No major dieting involved, just healthy eating and CHOC Shots and a little help from my friends at Diet Freedom and from the lovely Sam at Miss Fit Personal Training.

I will be speaking with Tina from Diet Freedom durng the week for advice on healthy eating and Sam (the original Miss Fit) has planned a light excercise routine for me for each day this week. Here is what Sam recommended for me today:

Before you start: Write down on a piece of paper EXACTLY why you want to start exercising and what you are going to achieve. Example: ”I’m going to be size 14 by July 1st and have more energy.” Then visualise how you would look, feel, behave once you have achieved this. Experience all the good feelings surrounding this visualisation (rather than focusing on what you’re not happy with at the moment). Stay in this ‘feel good’ factor emotion for a few minutes.

 Every day: Start off with warm water and lemon to hydrate and cleanse. You are a super busy lady so do these exercises before you do anything else to be guaranteed to stick to the plan! Plus, your concentration for the rest of the day will be soooooooo much better and you’ll work smarter!

 Day 1 - Monday April 26

Remember that ‘feel good’ factor of reaching your goal then go for a 30 minute brisk walk, focusing on breathing in deeply the fresh air, ipod on with favourite upbeat music.

OK, so rather than writing on a a piece of paper, I will be blogging about my chocolate weight loss challenge.  I did manage to go for a brisk’ish walk with my daughters and our two dogs (it was around 20 minutes…Rome wasn’t built in a day) and have so far eaten pretty healthy meals. Dinner was particularly delish, we had grilled tuna steaks with mixed greens and broccoli and a very small amount of oven chips (I can’t believe I only had a few, I normally eat loads of chips, it’s early days though!). Since I had some ripe avocados that needed to be eaten, I made our CHOCalicious Raw Chocolate Mousse recipe (look out for our May Recipe of the month next week!) which we all enjoyed for dessert. (my girls were particularly pleased that this chocolate mousse, with avocado in it, actually counts as one of their 5 a day fruit and veg portions!)

As you can see, I have no intention of depriving myself of the things I love, but hopefully I will manage to enjoy this healthier lifestyle and lose weight as well. I have weighed myself, although am a bit ashamed to announce my weight to the world just yet and will try and keep the weighing to a minimum. The proof will be in dropping at least 1 dress size and comfortably fitting into size 14 jeans by July 1st 2010.

So far so good…wish me luck!

CHOC Chick x

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