chocolate cravings

In the month before my surgery, I think I overdosed on chocolate and I mean the good DARK chocolate too...my husband had already had his surgery and was on soft foods at the time but I was in last supper mode.

Funny thing...now the idea of chocolate doesn't appeal to me nearly like it did pre-op and I can usually tame it with a chocolate protein drink or hot chocolate (the sugar free kind).

Our tastes do change.

tastes change and everyone is different..I know I had a serious sweet tooth before surgery..it was why I was MO. Wasn't a "big" eater even then but I did probably eat several hundred worth of calories a day on sweets..now, I still do like to eat sweets. My attitude was I didn't have this surgery to be on a diet for the rest of my life and let myself indulge every once in a while. Can't eat much and sometimes it is too sweet..but now that the letting myself eat something sweet or chocolate has been adding up and adding up I don't know if that was such a great attitude. I know someone else, on the other hand who had just as much of a sweet tooth who swore off all sweets after surgery and two years later still can't tolerate them nor would ever want to. So who knows! If you still do like chocolate after some of the things I do is drink a mocha made with protein powder, drink hot chocolate made with chocolate protein powder, eat almonds that have been dusted in chocolate...don't do sf stuff much but you could continue to do the sf pudding.

I'm a total chocaholic!  I've just learned to cook/prepare sf chocolately treats.

I made killer chocolate protein soft serve ice cream, sf fudge, protein cookies etc....

I find that baking with coconut or almond flour really helps as it makes the desserts more dense so you are satisfied with small servings and they are low carb/high fiber.