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Can You Lose Weight with Chocolate?


Mon 18 Jan 2021 | 09:48 AM
Yara Sameh

Weight loss is often a desire for many people, a desire that grew much more, especially after the lockdown in 2020 which led to unintended weight gain.

When it comes to a weight loss diet, everyone assumes that they must follow a strict low-carb, low-fat diet.

Many associates becoming thinner with foods that they do not like such as green vegetables, bitter detox drinks, as well as links with gaining weight with foods we love eating such as pizzas and burgers.

While it may be true for most foods out there, however, one food item that may be an exception to this rule, which is chocolate.

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Chocolate is a food preparation made with cocoa seeds. It is now prepared with sugar and other sweeteners, nuts and seeds, and many other ingredients to make different varieties of the food item. Most people associated the food with sweet desserts, however, chocolate on its own is not sweet, but in fact, bitter.

According to several studies, chocolate can activate the pleasure sensors in the brain, which helps elevate stress, as well as helps in improving metabolism and thus in weight loss.

You can get thinner with the food if you followed a diet called the "Chocolate Diet".

What is the Chocolate diet?

The chocolate diet is all about consuming dark chocolate, in moderation. The food item has many health benefits such as relieving period pain, high antioxidant levels, and more.

The diet is actually becoming popular and has also been advocated by a few nutritionists. It works on the principle of tricking your sweet tooth to get used to low levels of sugar.

Dark chocolate that consists of high levels of cocoa and less sugar is a great way to put your cravings to rest, without messing with your weight loss diet.

However, for the diet plan to working, it requires you to differentiate between good and bad chocolate.