Be aware: this is only the goal of this diet, not necessarily its outcome. Results vary from person to person. Consult your doctor or dietician before starting this (or any other) diet.
There are different versions of the Chocolate diet. Sally Ann Voak's version and Dr. Will Clower's version are the most well-known.
On the homepage you can compare the chocolate diet with other diets.
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When it comes to the chocolate diet, it is generally recommended to go for dark chocolate. Chocolate with 70% (or more) cacao is considered best.
Sally Ann's Chocolate diet is aimed at people with a chocolate addiction. It is a diet to lose weight (fast) and to get your chocolate addiction under control at the same time. The aim is to lose 3 kilos in 2 weeks. Please note, this is only the goal of the diet, not necessarily the outcome.
Sally Ann Voak states that chocolate should not be banned from your diet, as banning it will only make chocolate more appealing.
This version of the chocolate diet is low in calories: between 1100 and 1800 calories a day. Parts of the diet can therefore be considered a crash diet. The idea is that you lose weight because you take in less calories than you need.
Notably, the number of calories mentioned in Sally Ann Vaok's diet plans are aimed at women. Men should consume about 300 calories more per day than stated in the plans.
Sally Ann Voak describes 6 different categories of people who are addicted to chocolate. A diet plan is written for each category.
A list of low-calorie vegetables that can be eaten without restriction is given in all six diet plans. These include asparagus, broccoli and tomatoes.
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In all categories, no chocolate can be eaten during the first week of the diet in order to control chocolate craving. From week 2 you can eat chocolate again. How much depends on the category.
The diet lasts at least one month to a maximum of two months.
This category consists of people who hide their chocolate, because they don't want other people to know they are eating it.
For people in this category, the diet plan in the first week consists of a 250 calorie breakfast, two light meals of 350 calories and a 400 calorie dinner. You are also allowed one snack of 100 calories.
From the second week on, you are allowed to eat chocolate again: 150 calories per day. You are also allowed 200 calories for desserts or soft drinks (from the selection of products in the book).
So in the first week, you are allowed a total of 1450 calories a day. From the second week onwards, you can eat 350 calories more, making a total of 1800 calories.
The romantic category is for people who replace love with chocolate.
The plan for this category has a breakfast of 250 calories, a light meal of 350 calories and a dinner of 400 calories. In addition, you are allowed a snack of 100 calories.
From the second week on, you are allowed 300 calories of chocolate on 3 out of 7 weekdays.
So in the first week, you consume 1450 calories a day. From the second week onwards, it varies every day: one day 1450 calories, the next day 1750.
The comfort eater eats chocolate when he or she is tired or has a problem.
The corresponding plan includes a breakfast of 250 calories, a light meal of 350 calories and a dinner of 400 calories. In addition, 2 snacks a day of 50 calories each may be eaten.
In the second week you are allowed 200 calories of chocolate per day. After this week, the number of calories in chocolate is decreased to 50 calories a day.
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So the total number of calories in the first week is 1100, in the second week 1300 and after that 1150 a day.
People who eat chocolate mainly during celebrations (e.g. the weekend) are in the fourth category. The plan for these people includes a breakfast of 250 calories, a light meal of 350 calories and a dinner of 400 calories. In addition, two snacks of 100 calories each may be eaten.
After the second week, 300 calories of chocolate may be eaten every weekend day.
In total, the plan for category 4 therefore contains 1200 calories per day and 1500 per weekend day (after the second week).
The sugar addicts mainly eat chocolate to wake up when they are tired. Here too, the plan includes a breakfast of 250 calories. In addition, you are allowed two light meals of 250 calories each, a dinner of 400 calories and a snack of 100 calories.
From the second week on, you are allowed 200 calories of chocolate per day.
So in the first week this plan contains 1250 calories a day. From the second week on, it is 1450.
The last category is for women who eat a lot of chocolate during a few days a month. This diet plan is followed only 1-2 weeks before or during a menstrual period and consists of 5 meals of 250 calories each and 1 snack of 100 calories.
From the second week on, you are allowed 100 calories of chocolate per day.
So this plan contains 1350 calories per day in the first week and 1450 calories per day from the second week.
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With this variant of the Chocolate diet it is advised to exercise at least 45 minutes a day, for instance by walking or cycling.
In the book Eat chocolate, lose weight Dr. Will Clower describes his version of the Chocolate diet. The theorem of this diet is that dark chocolate (70% cacao or more) is healthy, but that you should not eat too much.
This variant of the Chocolate diet is based on the Mediterranean diet. So besides chocolate you mainly eat Mediterranean products.
This variant consists of 6 steps which should help you to eat chocolate in a correct way. Below are the steps in brief.
Besides the Chocolate diet of Sally Ann Voak and Dr. Will Clower, there are other variants of the diet to be found online. An example of such a diet is a chocolate diet, in which you are allowed six small pieces of dark chocolate every day: one piece before each meal and one piece after each meal. The pieces should weigh about 2.5 grams. The meals are regular healthy meals.
The idea of this diet is that the chocolate you eat gives you a feeling of fullness, which makes you eat less.
Consult your doctor or dietician before starting this (or any) diet.
Several books on the chocolate diet are available. We have listed some nice examples as ad links from Amazon, Apple and Ebooks for you below:
The Chocolate diet belongs to the mono diets. Examples of other diets that allow you to eat dark chocolate are the Sirtfood diet and the Montignac diet.
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Please take note that most diets do not have a scientific basis.
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