You Know You Like It

Chocolate.

And bacon.

Now don't squirm. You dip your bacon in pancake syrup right? You like to eat choc. chip pancakes?

Well, that was the inspiration for this chocolate flavor and it is delicious! I wish I would have posted right away to convey the proper feelings, but it was months ago and I finally got this photo taken:

The other flavor is chili, which I am totally use addicted to already and tend to keep a stash in various hiding places. I did share these 2 bars. It was pretty cool, hanging around at the end of a speech event with the student leaders, passing around the chocolate. . .

Sad days with no chocolate

There hasn't been much to write because sadly, I decided to go on an extreme diet and cut out fat, most sugars and most chocolate! It hasn't been easy with vacations, parties and junk, but some days I've stuck to it really well. [and lost a modest amount of weight too or I'd have ditched the idea!]

Remember I said I was starting to drink more coffee? Well it's really taken off. I even bought a 'real' coffee maker. [no it doesn't grind the beans, but it does have the stainless steal decor!] To go really extreme with my diet, I gave up 'creamers' and have been drinking coffee with just sugar. I have a mild decaf vanilla variety right now, but I think I need to go to a more robust bean and definitely with caffeine as I think it does help me eat less.

This is intended to be a temporary diet- for the summer, while fresh fruits and veggies are easy to find and yummy to eat. Then come fall, when I'm much lighter, I will simply be 'moderate' and 'maintain'. And hopefully, get back to eating and talking about chocolate. Wait, I can talk about it much sooner than that. . . I do have some photos to upload from months ago- so a few more posts are in the wings. . .