I have crossed to the dark side

Yes, it's true I have crossed to the dark side...or should I say sweet side..?..?

I have always been a savoury girl. Cheese and biscuits, biscuit and dip...Yum yum yum! I love loved it all. I never really understood the love for Chocolate people would have. I rarely ate it. I could go years, yes years with out even a teeny tiny Cadbury square. When it did come to sweets, I was more of a lollie person anyway. I think I was the only person in the world who was able to keep a packet of Tim Tams in the fridge just in case people came over. I never ate them! 

When I was pregnant with Isabella, I ate really well right up until 6 weeks before she was born. I was struck down with a killer chocolate craving. IT. WAS. BAD. I tried everything to not crave it. I told my Husband to stop buying it for me. I even told him to take the keys to my car to work to stop me from buying it myself. And even that didn't work. I would hike my BIG fat pregnant butt down to the local shops. Now this might not seem like a big deal to some... well it was. I had the worst pelvic pain, I could hardly walk, and when I did walk, I walked like I needed a hip replacement badly. Me the pregnant chick who was in so much pain just laying on the lounge, walked to the shops, hills and all to get my fix. 

From this time on, I have been so addicted to chocolate, I would describe myself as uncontrollable, not all the time but most. Well, I fought off the cravings post birth and I was clean. I was clean and sober from Chocolate for a good year until I was pregnant with baby number two. I did my best to eat well when I started feeling better (I had the worst morning sickness 2nd time round - but that's a whole other story). Then same as last time 6 weeks out BAM! It hit me again. The chocolate cravings returned. I will admit that I was able to control it this time. The cravings were no where near as bad as first pregnancy. 


Even after going through this I still considered myself as a savoury girl. 

Anyway, yesterday morning I was out to brunch with some of my girlfriends. It was a choice of eggs on toast OR pancakes... I was faced with a sweet or savoury option. And I uhmmed and ahhhed over it for ages. I still hadn't made my mind up when I was in line ordering. When put on the spot I said pancakes.

When walking back to the table I then thought to myself, I am now a sweets person. No longer savoury. Pregnancy changed me. Introduced me to the sweet  side and here I am.... overweight and forever craving sweets!! Grrrrr how on earth is one able to loose weight when you always want sweet foods?

My husband he's no help. He is an out and proud Chocoholic. He will laugh and tell you how many chocolate bars he can eat in one day. He would eat it all day every day if I had it in the house. He can sniff out chocolate a mile away. This has not helped me. He is an enabler and he knows it! 'Hmmm I feel like a chocolate' he would say, 'do you want one?' How can you say no? It's chocolate.He loves the sweeter me hehehe He loves that chocolate gets bought and is consumed. Prior to all this there was never bad food in this house...never.

I want to get back to being a savoury gal. I liked it over there. I rarely ate bad foods and I was slim, much slimmer then what I am these days :(


HELP!!! Anyone know of a good sweets detox?