I recently declared one up on chocolate and now I have to eat my words (which-btw-I’d eat any time over the horrific chili flavored dark chocolate I tasted the other day).  Anyway, chocolate got the better of me.  Guess how?  I gained back the pound I’d worked so hard to lose.  I know you’re thinking what’s one pound?…But I’m a very small woman, and so every pound shows.  The lesson here is that chocolate, whether or not it tastes good, has a lot of calories.  And while I’m talking about weight, this is a good...

I was so pleased with the responses that came into my post “Feed Me Chocolate.”  “Look, Mike,” I said. “People like my blog!” “No,” he answered.  “They just like chocolate.” He’s right.  Chocolate is definitely more exciting than I am.  But heh, heh, chocolate can’t blog about itself so I’ve got one up- for now…Two kind readers, however, have alerted me to an all mighty chocolate: Xoçai™.  Harder to spell, but apparently, much healthier than M&M’s, Xoçai™ is some sort of antioxidant-rich...

I love chocolate.  Chocolate is definitely one of my favorite things, right up there with cats- except that I don’t eat cats.  Actually, I don’t really eat chocolate now either, but I’ve never eaten cats.  After my type 1 diagnosis last year, I swore off sugar completely, and I try to avoid artificial sweeteners too, so basically I’ve  had A Year Without Chocolate. (I was pregnant when I received my diagnosis, and while that made many things especially difficult, it made giving up sweets easier– it...