Question:
Chocolate is SCREAMING my name! This wasn't a prob pre-op but now I seem to crave it!

I have come up with a few 'tricks' but would like some additional ideas...if I have good alternatives on hand I'll have no excuses. I found I can have 2 Hershey kisses but 3 is a problem. I can also handle the sugar free candy/cookies but they give me cramps/gas :(. I love no sugar added hot chocolate (I have it every day- too much?) and 3-4 well placed sugar free candies through out the day (Lifesavers Delites-European Collection) Send me your ideas!    — Peggy N. (posted on January 16, 2002)

January 15, 2002
Peggy, I love the sugarfree lifesavers!! Try Sugarfree fudgecycles...The are really good!! I have the same problem with Chocolate!! Good luck!!
   — chance2lv

January 15, 2002
I totally understand. If you are in the midwest...there is a brand of fudge pops SF/FF called Blue Bunny. OMG are they good! Creamy, chocolately and shaped like a Dove bar. Get the ones in the package with the fudge/vanilla swirl. I am the most finicky person when it comes to artificial sweeteners. I CANNOT tell the difference! My DH even eats them and says they are good. I have also heard that Schwans (the truck delivery) SF/FF ice cream is good too. I eat one everyday. 60 cals. and about 4 0r 5 gr. protein.
   — Karen B.

January 16, 2002
And for all others reading this know that Blue Bunny brand is available on the East coast as well. I have found them at Super Wal-mart. My husband eats them too. De-lish.
   — Cheri M.

January 16, 2002
Karen, I agree.... The SF/FF Blue Bunny Fudgicles are the best. I cannot tell the difference either. I live in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and Blue Bunny is available here.
   — Laurie L.

January 16, 2002
I like sugar free hot chocolate...I add some low fat whipped cream. Yummy!
   — [Anonymous]

January 16, 2002
I like "Russell Stover's Sugar Free Pecan Delights". However although they ARE sugar free they are still very high in calories and fat! So I don't eat them often. A better alternative is "Sweet' N Low Mint Patteez". They are small, about the size of a half dollar. Two is all I want and I usually have just "one". If I were to have four pieces (which is way to many for me) that would be 100 calories, 4 grams of fat (compared to the Pecan candy with 12!) and 1 gram of protein. I love the taste of the chocolate with the mint. I find it very refreshing and satisfying. If you are interested in them, I get mine at Wal-Mart. A 3.44 oz bag with 10 pieces is $1.12.
   — Danmark

January 16, 2002
About 2 years ago, I found a wonderful choc. that I have been eating ever since. It is called 50/50 and is located in your grocery store in the diabetic aisle. They come 16 miniatures to a package and contain 0 sugar. I reccomend it to all my members at my health club who are on a low carb diet and we all swear that it tastes better than the real thing. A bag of 16 costs $2.39. I have seen them at Wal-Mart also. (By the way, the reason the company is called 50/50 is because they donate 50% of all their profits to the research for Diabetes and will continue to do so until a cure is found! Great Huh?!)
   — brndyrssll

January 17, 2002
Chocolate screams my name all the time. Even being 11 weeks post-op. I did find something that took care of those cravings, was low in fat, low in sugar and high in chocolate taste. There is a new whip cream in a can out in the markets, made by Redi-Whip, it is chocolate whip cream and I can tell you that it does the trick. If you are worried about a whip cream taste, dont be, it tastes nothing like whipped cream, more like a chocolate mousse!!!
   — Antonia D.

April 29, 2002
I am still pre-op and can only suspect the reason you are craving chocolate post-op is because your body is having caffeine withdrawls. A few years ago when I quit smoking, my tastes changed. I hated coffee and gave it up. I began to crave chocolate to replace the caffeine I wasn't getting from the coffee anymore.
   — Janet S.

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