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Last day of my #dechox. Survived two months without chocolate. Wasn’t a easy fete, given the kids in school trying to bribe me with chocolate to see if I would break. Little do they know that I am made of a much tougher material 😉
Have to go and get a dark chocolate Easter egg today. I am planning to skip all other sweets, cakes etc for the next month and stick only to 80% dark chocolate and see if I can do it.
Happy Vishu and Tamil New Year (Belated…it was on Friday)
Happy Easter!Â
Finally, ready to have my dark chocolate egg breaking my #Dechox fast! It wasn’t as difficult as I thought it would be. It might have been if I had given up on sugar totally. Wouldn’t mind doing it again next year 😉
Last Sunday while on our way back from the St. Patrick’s Parade (Photographs will come shortly) I was feeling like having a bit of chocolate to celebrate my first St. Patrick’s Parade. (Amazing how when you think of celebrating something you always think of chocolate! ) And the weather was a bit nippy and a hot chocolate would have been amazing. We were almost frozen by the time the parade near Pall Mall East was done. But nope…I am still on Dechox! and I haven’t lapsed so far. And Mr. M is making sure that I don’t.
And then this mom and daughter hopped on the almost empty bus after a tiring shopping trip, no doubt. I wouldn’t have noticed them except that they were seated just before us and (this ‘and’ is important) the mom opened up a huge bar of chocolate and broke a huge piece of it and handed it over to her daughter. Her daughter was already looking out the window so she had to nudge her a bit to ask her if she wanted that chocolate. And when she agreed, the mom gave her not one but two huge pieces of the chocolate and started having the rest for herself. Now I was watching the chunk that the daughter had in her other hand and was wondering if I could taste it if I looked hard enough and concentrate on it. It was that close. Realizing that I wasn’t responding Mr. M saw the object of my concentration and said ‘Don’t worry, they are going to get sick later on. You don’t want that. Trust me… It isn’t really healthy to eat that much chocolate. You are better off not having that’. I burst out laughing. He was trying to get my mind off it but I told him that he was being very rude and I have been that person who had the whole bar of chocolate just for herself and I have never gotten sick, so it isn’t true. Mr. M was trying to convince me to not feel bad that I ain’t having one when another girl was boarding the bus with a huge Toblerone in her hand. It just wasn’t my day, I can tell you that. I looked at her and at Mr. M and he immediately said ‘That is an empty box…you can just tell that by the way she was carrying it so effortlessly’. I started laughing out loud.  Top marks to Mr. M for coming up with such statements at the sight of a chocolate to just ensure that I don’t feel bad about it. Then we went on to discuss how he came to that conclusion and why it isn’t true etc. etc. until our stop arrived and I bid goodbye to all those who were having chocolate that day.
At least I haven’t had days like that frequently. Small mercies.
I had already decided to do the Dechox challenge for the month of March. But since Lent is starting tomorrow (we had our pancake day yesterday evening), Mr. M suggested that I should try my first Lent and extend the dechox until the Easter. He promised to join me in that challenge (not that it is any big deal for him, coz dark chocolate doesn’t suit him anyways 😛 ) and also that he will get me my first Dark Chocolate Easter Egg on the Easter day to mark the end of this challenge. Now, all I have to do is to get through this 6 weeks. The penalty is 1 £ for every time we end up failing to do so.  It is going to be very very very tough. Wish me luck.
I was planning on writing about some movies and tv shows, even post some photos of my visit to a museum a while ago. But I think this one takes precedence.
Sounds utterly horrible and undoable isn’t? That is precisely the reason, Mr. M and I have decided to give it a go. I am trying to rope in my friends too.
I have had whole two months of hot chocolate on a daily basis (can you even imagine??!!) just to handle the confusing and chilling weather. But these days there is some Sun and some heat (in this country, sunny doesn’t mean warm…sometimes I think the Sun is just for show) so it would be an ideal time to cut down on it if I can manage that. More info on this can be found here. Let me know if you will be joining us for some dechox 😉 And I sincerely hope I don’t compensate for it the next month 😀
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