Giving up chocolate - has anyone ever done it?

I'm a serial chocolate eater, I can't get enough of the stuff. This Christmas, I have decided enough is enough and I'm making today the first day of my zero chocolate diet. I guess it's kind of a New Year's resolution only I'm starting it a few days early.
Has anyone ever done it before? Or given up another food item that they really love?

My New Year resolution is to go vegan (I'm vegetarian already). Although there are vegan cheeses, I'm going to miss a lot of unique flavours

Not chocolate no, but two years ago I gave up fizzy.. The first few weeks were terrible! It was so hard but I stuck at it. Then at a month, two months and three months, I felt like I had come way too far to break my non-fizzy streak..

At six or so months, I didn't even miss it..

Then a week before the next year, I said to myself I'll give myself a "fizzy week". I almost threw up! It was absolutely disgusting, way to sweet and I'd hiccup every time I drank it haha..

You'll get used to it trust me

Ah well done!!!!! I really hope so, experiences like this make me feel it's not going to be too bad, I just need to get over the first few weeks and tell myself to keep it up but glad it's been possible for you

I'm a serial chocolate eater, I can't get enough of the stuff. This Christmas, I have decided enough is enough and I'm making today the first day of my zero chocolate diet. I guess it's kind of a New Year's resolution only I'm starting it a few days early.
Has anyone ever done it before? Or given up another food item that they really love?
I've heard that after 2-4 week of going without it, you begin to forget about it and if someone offers it you, it's much easier to turn it down.
I've also been told that going cold turkey on chocolate only sets yourself up to fail and that it'll end up on a big binge, yikes!
I'm really hoping I can keep it up and as long as my family are supportive and don't shove it under my nose, hopefully I'll be able to!
Anyone done it before?

Wanna do it together?

One morning

I was chocolate free for 2months until Christmas but now I'm back on my non-chocolate streak

Ferrero Rocher has been the issue for me. It's

Sounds daft to me. Why don't you just learn to eat it in moderation? Complete deprivation hardly ever works.

Yah, it honestly is really hard.. Especially the first month or so but after, you feel as though you've come way too far to let yourself down now, and your stubbornness sort of keeps it all going for you..

The best thing is to find an alternative that you'll enjoy, maybe like a fruit or something? Mine was juice haha

Course it's possible for you too, you'll be fine whenever you want chocolate just think to yourself "that guy from tsr didn't have fizzy when he wanted to!"

I think learning to enjoy chocolate in moderation will be psychologically healthier than stigmatising chocolate and telling yourself you can't have it.

Google "flexible dieting". There's no reason you can't eat chocolate (in moderation) as part of a healthy balanced diet. If cutting chocolate out of your diet is the change that makes you lose weight and achieve the physique you want, then its highly like your diet is very poor and you need to re-evaluate your diet, exercise and way you view food.

Worked for me, didn't eat it for a whole year and when I tried it again, it didn't taste as nice, because I preferred the taste of sweet fruits like mangos etc.

Also you get less fat and spots, well for most people anyway. Cba to argue chocolate gives you spots etc.

I'm a serial chocolate eater, I can't get enough of the stuff. This Christmas, I have decided enough is enough and I'm making today the first day of my zero chocolate diet. I guess it's kind of a New Year's resolution only I'm starting it a few days early.
Has anyone ever done it before? Or given up another food item that they really love?
I've heard that after 2-4 week of going without it, you begin to forget about it and if someone offers it you, it's much easier to turn it down.
I've also been told that going cold turkey on chocolate only sets yourself up to fail and that it'll end up on a big binge, yikes!
I'm really hoping I can keep it up and as long as my family are supportive and don't shove it under my nose, hopefully I'll be able to!
Anyone done it before?

Yep, I've done it

I needed to lose weight, so I just decided to cut out all my junk food, which involved alot of chocolate.

It's a mental thing, I used to think, is 200 calories of chocolate (which is about 8 blocks of galaxy) which lasts 5 minutes, really worth it?

You don't HAVE to give it up entirely if you can control it, do you want to lose weight or just cut chocolate out a bit?