Chocolate

1. If you are getting melted chocolate all over your hands, you are eating it too slowly.

2. Chocolate covered raisins, cherries, orange slices and strawberries all count as fruit so eat as much as you want.

3. Eat a chocolate bar before each meal. It will take the edge off your appetite and you will eat less.

4. If you can't eat all your chocolate it will keep in the freezer but if you can't eat all your chocolate it may be a sign of a deeper problem.

5. Store your chocolate on the top of the fridge. Calories are afraid of heights and will jump out of the chocolate to protect themselves.

6. Equal amounts of dark chocolate and white chocolate make a balanced meal.

7. The preservatives in chocolate will make you look younger.

8. If not for chocolate there would be no need for control top pantyhose and an entire garment industry would be out of business.

9. A nice box of chocolates provides your total daily intake of calories in one place. Isn't that handy?

10. Put "eat chocolate" at the top of you list of things to do today. That way, at least you will get one of those things done.

11. Cocoa beans are in the vegetable group, so by eating chocolate you are consuming one of the food groups in a healthy diet. If you eat milk chocolate, that has dairy so you get 2 food groups in one source.