This book makes so much sense!.

I have finished my “Chocolate Busters” book from start to finish in less than 24 hours. I must admit I haven’t done that much work during this time but each chapter spurred me on to read the next. The book explained in great detail that chocolate is a drug and the ways in which the manufacturers manipulate our minds into buying more and more. It also went into the child slave labour that is being used in the cocoa bean fields – and the way in which the manufacturers make out that they are caring for our children by providing them with schemes to get sporting equipment for their schools (by eating a huge amount of their chocolate!).

It seems that from reading this my attitude has slightly changed towards the whole industry. I always knew sugar was addictive and is known as the cocaine of the food industry but to read about the poor conditions children are put through to make some of the gooey stuff really got to me.

I know that in the clothes industry slave labour is also used. I don’t shop at gap for this principle alone – I’m pretty sure some of the places I have shopped at use cheap labour and for this I am really down about but at least I can stop filling the pockets of the greedy chocolate manufacturers by not eating it. The principle is easy – I can have chocolate if I want it… but do I really want it after reading all of the facts in this book? No. My boyfriend even brought home a bar of Dairy Milk last night but I thought “Poor guy – they’ve got him too!”. I didn’t for once want any.

I’m sure I will get a lot of abuse from family and friends about this but I’m not going to actively tell them. If I get offered, I will most likely decline. After all, there are nicer things to eat in life than sugary crap. I think changing your tastebuds really help to – who would have thought I would drink a juice with spinach in it!

Talking of spinach, I am missing my juicing plan! I am actually craving the juices I was trying out on the plan. I might be able to try it again because plans for this weekend have completely changed. Tomorrow is the day of the wedding – which we are no longer able to go to. Bf is pretty poorly with his stomach (Maybe its a side effect of the sugar who knows!) but I hope he feels better soon. We’ve had to postpone the visit to my parents too which I was also looking forward to. My mum is on slimming world, I wanted to compare notes and recipes with her hehe.

Then again maybe I should wait until I am at my mums and give her some to try too

*edit* ooh by the way, I know I’m not supposed to count days of no sugar / chocolate / sweets – but I’ve just finished day 3! Fantastic