Still No Chocolate....

So its been just about 2 weeks without chocolate. I was doing pretty good with not having cravings for a while. Things seemed to be pretty easy. That was until Friday came along and I went to the grocery.

Friday at work I decided that I would eat later in the day. 2pm rolled around and I started to get hungry. Well silly me forgot to pack a lunch and my work day was about to end. We had some granola bars and I figured I would just eat one to hold me over until I got home. Well bad news...all of the granola bars had chocolate in them. Agghhh!!

Later that night, Jason and I decided to eat first (which is usually good b/c you don't tend to buy as much food when you are full) before going to the grocery. So as we are going through the grocery I thought that I would get some Slim Rite drinks. (They are so yummy!) Well I picked up a case and put it in the buggy...looked down and said, "I can't get these." They were chocolate.

At this point...my no chocolate for 20+ day's was getting old. I thought...I could just relapse once and be done. But I am just about half-way through my no chocolate I hate to ruin it now. I wanted to get some diet/protein bars but just about all of them had chocolate in them. I was annoyed. I wasn't so much craving chocolate...I was just frustrated that the foods I wanted to buy had chocolate in them. Vanilla Slim Rites just didn't sound as good.

Not having the cravings has really surprised me. But I understand how some addicts can relapse because their addiction is all around them. OR the thing that they can't have but desire to have is in the front of their mind and it seems to be all around them. Shopping on friday night proved this concept to me. I would be fine with no chocolate if chocolate wasn't around me so much. Can I totally avoid contact (seeing, hearing, smelling chocolate) all of the time? No.

13 days without chocolate...little support from Jason (well he supports me but will rub the fact that he gets to eat chocolate in my face...my thoughts...NOT SUPPORTIVE). This exercise for class is to help me understand what addicts go through. Share what you think...