Day 19 of My Month of Gratitude

Just realised that this one isn’t on my list, and I really thought it would be up on the top of it lol!

  1. My Husband
  2. My Children
  3. My Step-Children
  4. My Step-Grandchildren
  5. My Family
  6. My Friends
  7. My Home
  8. Our Utilities
  9. Our Health
  10. Education
  11. Coffee
  12. Technology
  13. Being Alive
  14. Baby Smiles and Laughs
  15. Special Occasions
  16. Healthcare
  17. Being Irish
  18. Being a SAHM
  19. Chocolate

So, I love chocolate! And I often think about the fact that I am so lucky to have such free access to it. Yes my head does actually think like that. I sometimes think about war times, or floods or other crazy situations which hopefully will never happen to me, that would mean there was no access to the things we take for granted. And coffee and chocolate are both up there!!

I’m really trying to lose weight at the moment, and I am so motivated about it at the moment (less than two weeks until the first of our occasions of this year) and I am happily sticking to healthy eating at the moment. But I factor in having a little bar of chocolate with a cup of tea in the afternoon after the school run every day. (Actually I haven’t even had my after school bar in the past week because we have just been so so busy, that we are not even coming home in a proper routine after school!)

I want to lose weight in a sustainable and maintainable way, and I am never going to give up chocolate so I’m not going to do it for a while and then crumble altogether a little bit down the line. I also have mini bars of 85% cocoa dark chocolate bars, and I can pick at half of one of them when I’m struggling between meals, and I feel like it helps with the chocolate hit.

I love chocolate and I am grateful for the joy that eating a bar of chocolate can bring me! And I think when something can bring you happiness like that, it is important to be grateful for it!

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