How giving up chocolate MAJORLY backfired on me this year

If you woke up on Monday morning with a head that felt like you had downed multiple tequila shots on Sunday night, don't worry because you're not alone.

Having struggled through the 40 days and nights of Lent without a morsel of chocolate crossing my lips, I fell upon my Easter morning goodies with a glee normally reserved for an empty house and a hot bath.

But within 45 minutes of tucking in, I started getting a raging headache, and instead of pushing the chocolate to one side and picking up a glass of water, I concluded that it was surely the TYPE of chocolate causing the issue.

“White will always be much worse”, I reasoned before cracking into my family-sized bar of dark chocolate.

Unsurprisingly, my headache worsened and my tongue had to be peeled from the roof of my mouth as I sat glass-eyed in front of the television.

Despite feeling ever so slightly betrayed by my favourote comfort food, I refused to admit defeat and sullenly tapped the top of my third egg with the TV remote.

Watching it shatter, I sighed and shoved one of the larger pieces in my mouth before slumping back against the couch.

It wasn't until my family returned from Nana's annual Easter Egg Hunt and asked why I looked like I was suffering from the flu, did I realise my body was actively rejecting the sugar I was insisting on pumping inside it.

Sweeping the remnants of my binge off the coffee table, my husband gently reminded me that just because the chocolate was now available to me didn't mean I had to eat it.

“I mean, look. Are you even enjoying it?” he asked, with the same concern and patience he normally reserved for our children.

Mutely, I shook my head before wincing and placing my fingers to my temples.

“Maybe you should lie down,” my husband said as he guided me into our darkened bedroom.

And that's how I found myself facedown for the rest of Easter Sunday while my children and extended family gathered in the front room of my house and shared chocolate amongst each other like civilised humans.

I'm never giving up chocolate again.

 

 

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