Seriously? Plugging your blog with a post about chocolate?

Dude, you gotta up your game here. Not very entertaining at all.

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whats your problem Mr wonderful?

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I remember the days when blogs were done my interesting people, saying interesting things.

Now everyone loves to hear themselves speak. yawn......

I just have a problem with people trying to promote themselves with stuff that's not interesting at all. Kind of anoying to see, and I just call it out like it is sometimes.

Not trying to be a dick, just saying it like it is. Good call removing the link from the top of your post though.

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Hi Anthony..............

anyone suffer the same affliction?
Yes

how do you cope?

I eat chocolate.

I don't get the problem. You want chocolate, then eat chocolate. Why the guilt?

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http://tri-banter.blogspot.com/

I just have no self control
We have 8 boxes of these (which my wife had to hide) I've been through three boxes myself already

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Hahahahaha I was going to say the same thing

I'm still not getting it. Is it because of the:
-weight gain?
-money spent?
-neglecting your duties as a man?
-uncontrollable acne?
-lost time from training due chocolating?


If not, then you're an adult. You want chocolate, eat chocolate.

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http://tri-banter.blogspot.com/

Is this you?

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weight gain

I tried the trick with dark chocolate too. buy a bar and have a small piece a day, no chance, its was gone in an instant

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yes, lol

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garr :(

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I'm going to engage because I've got the feeling that you are actually concerned about this, as opposed to trying to plug your blog.

You MAY have a magnesium deficiency.

Magnesium deficiency is very common with the modern diet, foods low in it, even the foods that should be high in it (leafy greens) are low because of the way they are farmed.
We then combine those with foods that contain lots of substances that block it's uptake, such as 'whole grains'

For some reason it manifests as a chocolate craving.

Note, this is chocolate, not sweets, not sugar, chocolate.

If you are just wanting sweets then you are a slave to your reward/doparminergic system and you have a sugar addiction.

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Have you tried eating less chocolate? I've heard that works for some people.

Are you really crying about gaining 1 kilo in one month?

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ah, that's interesting
I'll look into that
I do take a multi vitamin, but I have no idea what is in it and some argue that you piss all that out anyway


ta


Anth

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I think this qualifies as the suckiest thread ever on slowtwitch. That's five minutes of my life I'm never going to get back.

lol, I haven't tried sucking chocolate
maybe that's where I'm going wrong


five minutes to read this thread!! were you in the slow readers class???


thhhheee ccaaaattt ssaaatttt ooooonnnnn tttthhhhheeeee mmmmmaaaatttttt

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Tri-Mechanic: Thank you for suggesting the magnesium deficiency. I understand it's just a possibility, but it's worth a try.

I'm in the same boat as the OP. I've got pretty decent - normal, anyway - self-control in most things until it comes to chocolate. And like Tri-Mechanic mentions, it's specific to chocolate. Not sugar, not sweets or cake or bakery stuff. Chocolate. I've got all the behaviours of a genuine addict when it comes to chocolate. Part of the problem in dealing with it is precisely the reaction one sees to this thread: there's a lot of derision, disbelief, and condescension. It's a bit like being an alcoholic but being laughed at when you ask for help. I'm not saying in any way that the two addictions are on the same level or have the same kind of impact on society and family, but you really gotta understand that it's an addiction. If you're reading this post and you just can't fathom what I'm talking about, I envy you! I wish, like you, I could walk by a convenience store and not think of 50 excuses, like "grabbing a newspaper," and just happening to "grab a chocolate bar" while I'm at it...and another one...and another one later on....until that night you're sick (and you knew you would be) and angry at yourself for being weak.

Anyway, Anthony, hang in there. You're not alone. I bet a lot of people reading this thread are in the same situation as you and me but, after seeing the reaction, were too scared to post anything supportive. The good news is that services aimed at sugar and carbohydrate addiction are slowly becoming available. Tim Noakes frequently tweets about people who are dealing with it, but he's in South Africa and I haven't seen anything even close to Canada or the US yet.

I think you are definitely on to something
One thing I did change in my diet this month, was to start using Torq recovery shakes for breakfast instead of Greek yoghurt and nuts.
And looking at my diet, it looks like the nuts are the only sources of magnesium that I have been getting

Thank you


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This is often the problem that results when you put fake food, such as these recovery shakes, in the place of real food.
You become seriously malnourished on the micronutrient level, which is bad an an athlete you often need MORE (increased cell turnover etc.)

Why are you having a recovery shake in the for breakfast?

There is really no need for recovery drinks. It's bad enough that the sports nutrition industry has sold us the idea of training and racing nutrition. Which are pretty much nothing more than a collection of off the shelf sugars with horrible sweeteners in!
Those powerbars? You can make those yourself in 5 minutes with a food processor. I can guarantee they will be preservative free!

But, I can see the argument for convenience.

In recovery however you don't need that convenience. It's not hard to have some milk, maybe a few eggs, or even a meal. The post exercise anabolic window is really not as critical for endurance athletes as the sports nutrition industry would have you believe.

To the OP, do your body a favour. Stop having the junk shakes and go back to your Yoghurt and nuts.

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I bought a big bag of torq recovery at the cycle show, I wont be using it again

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