My name is Julie and I am a Chocaholic.<\/p>\n
Not to belitte anyone else’s addiction, but this is a serious problem for me.<\/p>\n
And it’s become virtually impossible to control, because I am not sure if you’ve noticed, but right now chocolate is EVERYWHERE!! It’s in Holiday gift boxes sent to my office, from well-meaning friends bringing over hostess gifts and perhaps most importantly and most surprisingly in EVERY SINGLE DRUG STORE AISLE IN THE FORM OF VALENTINE’S GIFTS.<\/p>\n
What did I miss?<\/p>\n
Since when does Valentine’s Day start on January 4th?<\/p>\n
Hello. We should at least have a 2-week grace period until January 15th. Right?<\/p>\n
I know retailer’s are hard up…but trust me there is just not that much love to celebrate.
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And if you really do care about someone would you really get them a box of chocolate that’s going to sit around for a least a month…or really six weeks if you buy it now?<\/p>\n
Didn’t think so.<\/p>\n
Note to my husband: don’t even think about it! A fat-free, calorie spa certificate will fit the bill quite nicely, thanks.<\/em><\/p>\n So this means there is\u00a0no way the retailers are going to sell all that candy and then there will be even more temptation at the end of February\/March as they try and get rid of it all (and start torturing us with way too early Easter bunnies).<\/p>\n What’s a girl to do?<\/p>\n Seriously, what is a girl to do?<\/p>\n Many of you that know that I’ve been following\u00a0a pretty strict Jenny Craig and exercise regime since September (which I am happy to say has been producing positive results).<\/p>\n But this omnipresent chocolate is really just too much for me.<\/p>\n I need some advice.<\/p>\n Do I 1) give in to the occasional temptation or 2) go cold turkey. Basically blinding myself to all the tempations until I reach my goal. This latter strategy may literally need to involve a temporary blinding (like those eye drops they give you at the doctor’s when they check for glaucoma or whatever it is).<\/p>\n Any suggestions? Are tempations worse when we ignore them or worse when we give in to them?<\/p>\n I’d love to hear your thoughts.<\/p>\n That’s my point of view. What’s your twist?<\/p>\n How do you deal with temptation?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My name is Julie and I am a Chocaholic. Not to belitte anyone else’s addiction, but this is a serious problem for me. And it’s become virtually impossible to control, because I am not sure if you’ve noticed, but right now chocolate is EVERYWHERE!! It’s in Holiday gift boxes sent to my office, from well-meaning […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,102,93,107,96],"tags":[60,42,45,80,149,150,52,54,151],"class_list":{"0":"post-1715","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-creativity","7":"category-finding-balance","8":"category-holidays-2","9":"category-overcoming-obstacles","10":"category-problem-solving","11":"tag-brand-school","12":"tag-branding","13":"tag-brandtwist","14":"tag-business-building","15":"tag-chocaholic","16":"tag-chocolate","17":"tag-julie-cottineau","18":"tag-marketing","19":"tag-valentines-day"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandtwist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandtwist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandtwist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandtwist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandtwist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1715"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brandtwist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16571,"href":"https:\/\/brandtwist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1715\/revisions\/16571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandtwist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandtwist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandtwist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}