most recent 30 from http://paleohacks.com 2013-05-23T01:29:10Z http://paleohacks.com/feeds/question/155205 http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/rdf http://paleohacks.com/questions/155205/dark-chocolate-and-weight-loss Monkeyjebo 2012-10-12T05:34:00Z 2012-10-12T23:17:17Z

<p>Someone mentioned raising carbs from VLC to LC for lethargy. It worked. Vegetables for breakfast, lunch and dinner with protein. Wanted a dessert so had a poached pear with a little cream, 1 Tbl nuts, cinnamon, raw cacao powder, and 1 Tbl. Dakota 73 percent chocolate nibs. Total dessert: probably 25 carbs. This is a lot more than I am used to. Does dark chocolate help with weight loss?</p>

http://paleohacks.com/questions/155205/dark-chocolate-and-weight-loss/155231#155231 Michael 2012-10-12T12:07:31Z 2012-10-12T12:07:31Z

<p>Dark chocolate doesn't help with weight loss. But it sure is delicious!</p> <p>Truthfully, for me I can eat a bar a day, which is bad. If you can manage a small amount as a treat, then it's part of your delicious range of healthy fats and it's fine. If it is, or becomes, a binge food, then you of course have to stay away. Even 73% has plenty of sugar if you eat too much, and if you work your way up to 100% (I have!), that still has plenty of calories. One of the joys of paleo is that many, myself included, don't need to count calories .. assuming no binging!</p> <p>Anyway, I don't think of foods as helping with weight loss. I think of a healthy diet as helping with weight loss. Some foods promote a healthy diet and some don't. A little bit of dark chocolate can be part of that, but an excess of it wouldn't. Your particular physiology and psychology will dictate whether dark chocolate would work for you.</p>

http://paleohacks.com/questions/155205/dark-chocolate-and-weight-loss/155233#155233 EnglishRose 2012-10-12T12:20:30Z 2012-10-12T12:20:30Z

<p>It is absolutely out for me. First of all it affects the brain the same way as speed/amphetamines so if you are a sugar addict etc it has an almost drug like effect on you. Hyper. Secondly if you are a chocolate addict it primes the pump and ensures your body never loses the desire for your addictive substance, like the alcooholic who could never have a tiny drink every afternoon for old time's sake. Also look at it - it's hardly something you'd pick from a tree. I've been to cacao plantations. What natural wild person would pluck that of and process it to be able to eat it? The Incas held it as a soup and gave it out as a treat because of its mental effects but it is not the sort of food which does most people much good.</p>

http://paleohacks.com/questions/155205/dark-chocolate-and-weight-loss/155255#155255 misstenacity 2012-10-12T14:42:00Z 2012-10-12T14:42:00Z

<p>I agree that eating chocolate for weight loss is a non-starter. Cocoa fat is a nice saturated fat that can be good for you, but the sugar is definitely an addition that has the addictive effect on top of the feel-good chemicals already in the cocoa.</p> <p>So.... I'd say keep it as a treat if you can moderate, and bump up the percentage cocoa as high as possible. 90% is quite delicious (Lindt makes it) and fairly low in sugar. </p> <p>I also eat a 100% bar (not the whole thing) once in a while (cuz it's expensive) made by Pralus that you'd TOTALLY SWEAR was.... 99%. :-) Really, it's awesome in the same way that excellent espresso is awesome - complex, not bitter, but definitely not sweet.</p>

http://paleohacks.com/questions/155205/dark-chocolate-and-weight-loss/155271#155271 miked 2012-10-12T15:23:14Z 2012-10-12T15:23:14Z

<p>It doesn't help. However, for most people (i.e. not bingers) it doesn't hurt either. For performance reasons, I'm fairly high carb compared to most people on here (all PWO at the end of the day, though), and I have no trouble maintaining body comp and weight at 5,000 calories including a baked potato and almost a whole bar of 90% chocolate a day. </p>

http://paleohacks.com/questions/155205/dark-chocolate-and-weight-loss/155406#155406 Robin 2012-10-12T21:53:34Z 2012-10-12T21:53:34Z

<p>Hmmm. Would have to say it doesn't help, except that allowing yourself a bit of dark chocolate every day is satisfying, and might help you avoid/crave other sweets? I eat the equivalent of a 1/5 or a 1/4 of a bar every day after lunch, and at first it seemed a tiny amount, but now it seems just right. </p>

http://paleohacks.com/questions/155205/dark-chocolate-and-weight-loss/155410#155410 Michelle 2012-10-12T22:01:29Z 2012-10-12T22:01:29Z

<p>I lost 40 lbs eating chocolate regularly. Sure didn't stop me!</p> <p>Context is also key, though. Eating dark chocolate kept me from eating larger portions of worse things. YMMV.</p>

http://paleohacks.com/questions/155205/dark-chocolate-and-weight-loss/155416#155416 Anon 2012-10-12T23:17:17Z 2012-10-12T23:17:17Z

<p>When I stop consuming both coffee and chocolate, I gain weight.</p>