Hooked On the Weightloss Shake

If you’ve read my previous entries, you’ve probably noticed that I’m something of a chocoholic (cocoa connosoier is the polite term). I eat chocolate almost every day of my life. It’s what I do, it’s what I like. Some people watch television, I taste chocolate.

I have one strict acception, though.

I never eat chocolate on Thanksgiving.

Many people believe this is weird. Thanksgiving is the feasting holiday, it is all about eating, and why not eat the thing you love most?

I’ll tell you why: Eating chocolate is a ritual for me. I cleanse my palate beforehand. I take a moment to relax. I often research the chocolate I’m about to try. Eating the actual bar is the fieldwork of passionate research for me, I have never considered my cocoa affinity to be part of feastery.

Thanksgiving, on the other hand, is all about quantity. It is about the plenty, not the acute. The food may be good, but what’s important is that it is en masse and that we eat as much and as often as our neighbors and family. It is a day when gorging is okay. The rest of the year, such a feast might be repulsive, but not when we are giving thanks for….well for being alive I guess, maybe for living in such times when we can afford such feasts and such friendly company. But I refuse to associate my taste for chocolate with such overabundant and joyous gluttany. Besides, I’ve got 364 other days for cocoa, I’ll live without for just one day.

If you’re planning on filling your belly for Thanksgiving, you might want to get a head start on being healthy beforehand, so take a look at these links as somewhere to begin. The vitamin shop is another health blog, and damage control master formula is a new squidoo page about a multivitamin.