Cupid's Chocolates!

February 14^th, only 6 weeks since the New Year’s resolution to lose weight and here comes the first holiday threat to your self-control:  Valentine’s Day.  If your sweetheart gives you chocolate, do you say, “Sorry, on a diet.”  Absolutely, not!  That is extremely unattractive.  You can stay on board with your diet but still enjoy Valentine’s chocolate. 

I recommend good quality, dark chocolates in a small attractive box or bag.   Isn’t it more romantic to share two wonderful chocolates with your Valentine with a glass of champagne than to buy a big velvet box?  Is size a measure of love?   I remember those 1 and even 5-pound boxes of chocolates that they would sell in the drug stores when I was a kid.   Not romantic!  What is the message here?  I love you, so let me help you get fat! To not have chocolate on Valentine’s Day is almost un-American.  Do it!  Enjoy!

Anyone who has read the introduction to my book, The Brown Fat Revolution, knows that I  am a chocoholic!   I am a bodybuilder who once relished a complete box of Mallomars after a hard day in the operating room.   So, I realize the therapeutic effect of a great piece of chocolate.    A piece or two is healthy.  A box, that’s another story! 

In The Brown Fat Diet I recommend eating dark chocolate in small pieces to control that occasional  and completely normal urge.   When you gotta have it, go ahead and have it.    Here is what to do:  Get a bag of dark chocolate Hershey’s kisses, put them in the freezer  and pop 3 or 4 when you get the urge.  Freezing them makes them last longer in your mouth so your taste buds can savor them and prolong the pleasure.

To ignore chocolate on Valentine’s Day is almost un-American.  Do it!  Enjoy!  But don’t eat a box!  Make it dark, make it of high quality and make it reasonable in quantity.