London – You know how it goes. You start by breaking off two or three squares of chocolate. But why not have a few more? It would even things up nicely.
And now half the bar’s disappeared you might as well polish off the whole heavenly slab.
Then the guilt sets in. Just how are you going to explain where it’s all gone?
For four in ten of us the answer is simple – lie about how much you have eaten.
A study has unearthed the lengths to which people go to conceal their chocolate eating habits from their partners.
A third of the 3,000 men and women questioned get their fix on the commute home to avoid having to explain themselves.
Then there are the 13 percent who like to live dangerously, guzzling it behind the fridge door, under the covers in bed or when their partner has left the room.
And many of us have a secret stash of chocolate, with a quarter hiding their supplies in their drawer at work, a sixth in the bedside table, and a tenth well away from their person in the glove compartment of their car.
But the British Heart Foundation, which commissioned the study, is urging chocolate lovers to ditch their guilty pleasure.
The charity is launching a sponsored Dechox challenge for Britons to live chocolate-free in March to kickstart a healthy lifestyle and raise money for live-saving research.
The BHF said cutting out chocolate could help us shed up to 5kg in a year.
Daily Mail