I have tried to eat healthy since forever but with very little luck.  It is very difficult when the fridge is almost always brimming with yummy cakes, biscuits and chocolates. I did try to give some away, but I become parsimonious when it concerns chocolates. The inner chocolate fiend in me comes to the fore, and talks me out of sharing.  Simple logic betrays me every time chocolates and sweets are involved. No chocolate, no temptations! Of course being the Silas Marner of chocolate means I have to live with the consequences. I say serves me right!

I am generally good. I eat right most times, do my exercises and have chocolates and desserts moderately.  Once I follow a routine, I am good as gold. When I fall off the wagon, which is when I have too many temptations in close proximity, I am a chocolate mess.

I can eat a family bar in one seating and a box of chocolate biscuits, especially those M & S biscuits, all 33 (each box contained more biscuits before ) mouth-watering deliciousness in a day. Because I am small and thin; nobody thinks or believes that I could possibly eat the quantity of chocolate and sweet stuff that I do. I genuinely suffer from a chocolate addiction. When I bring up my weakness, it’s almost always the same response, I can afford it or its alright or it doesn’t show.

This behaviour is condoned because I think people only half believe me. I am not seeking approval or disapproval; a little understanding would be nice. My problem may not seem big in most people’s view finder but it is still a problem for me – health wise mostly.

I want to eat healthy, be and look healthy and enjoy my chocolates and desserts in moderation, like most normal people I know.

But I falter big time in the face of chocolaty enticements.

I have read in many health-related articles that we can train our brains and taste buds to adhere to eating right and healthy in just 21 days or is that six weeks. I decided to take an oath for at least three weeks that will help keep me in the straight and narrow. I pledged the following:

1. No talking about chocolates and desserts.
2. No watching Food Network dessert challenges and programs like Unique Sweets. Already I feel my heart getting heavy and sadness creeping up on me.
3. No joining or contributing to any conversation about chocolates or desserts.
4. No looking at chocolates, cakes and anything that remotely looks like dessert.

Fingers crossed and lips sealed off chocolates and desserts.

I wonder if this will work.  I can only try. Good luck to me and here’s to eating healthy!