Chocolate...the ULTIMATE self medication! | ADHD Information
I remember those pre medication days, that I would be sitting at work and LITERALLY not be able to get ANYTHING done until i had my reese's cup for the day/ or kitkat/ or snow caps/ or whatever chocolate kick I was on.
I amazed my coworkers, they could not believe how much chocolate would give me a kick in the pants to get my work done....
I think it was the caffeine in it....
but i KNOW it was not good for me, i was still like 19 years old back then, you know, i didn't care about what was good for me back then....
Any one else need their chocolate/caffeine kick to get going??
You are a woman after my own heart, Sonya!I am definitely a fan, as you can tell from my screen name! Bittersweet is my favorite. I usually have some in the morning, along with my cup of tea. Then some more midmorning. Then a little after lunch, then... Geez, this is getting kind of embarassing!
right now, I am on a dark chocolate kick, though I have not craved as much since I had started my medication.
I tend towards being the "lazy" type of ad/hder, and I could never get started on anything; now I look back on those days when I was a SUCKER for chocolate and realize that craving it was my body's way of medicating itself to get the motivation surging through my veins to get my work done.
I was like this with chocolate, but I read about other ADDers who are this way with coffee, also. I have also been this way with soda and tea. It's interesting how your body subconciously knows what gets it going and starts a craving for it.
I'm just glad it was only caffeine and chocolate that my body got hooked on and craved. Some other fellow ADDers find their bodies craving even more harmful self medicators such has illegal drugs.....
MY Dr made me promise to swear of Chocolate and Caffeine... BASTICH!!!! But, I will be damned if it didnt help....I have one hersheys chocolate milk every couple weeks as a treat. I used to be a daily imbiber of chocolate and caffeine
Well Chocolate, Coffee, and Diet Dr Pepper they are all my friends....today started off with a cup of coffee that looks more like engine oil...thats the best...I drink about 4 cups and have about 3 diet dr peppers and some chocolate late in the evening....plus my adderall....and that is self medication!
Oh my gosh I compleatly forgot my Iced TEA
...ahhhhh yes in the afternoon the biggest iced tea in the world......ok now I am done!
Love the chocolate!!!!!!!
TODAYS MISSION:
To do a google and a yahoo search for:
--DARK chocolate cadbury cream eggs...
I have been able to think of NOTHING ELSE for the past couple of days....
I WILL FIND THEM!!!!
Here ya go chocolate lovers! Order away!!!!! 
Cadburys chocolate. Buy cadburys chocolate star bar cadburys creme eggs
You would think I was a woman and one on her period the way I eatchocolate. I really crave it upon waking. I will get a hand full of M&M in
the morning. Before I lived with stairs, I would sometimes get out of the
shower for another handful. I have it at work throughout the day with my
coffee.
My current 20mg of Adderall RX has no affect on my desire for it, nor my
desire for sleeping. I am a night owl though (with or without the meds)
bcgirl....the new lady in my avatar is ME....just one of my many "faces/'people" within me.
I discovered Mocha coffee long before Starbuck, etc. all did. I was at a meeting and I wanted hot chocolate. So when I put the packet of chocolate in my cup, I mistakeningly went to the wrong urn....instead of hot water, it was the "coffee" one. Hmmmm, been hooked ever since!
GypsyWomyn38420.4518518519I've always liked chocolate of course- how could you not? but I have noticed since I went on adderall an intense craving for chocolate. Why is this?? Right now I make rich hot chocolate to drink several times a day and really not want to eat anything. I know there is some kind of substance in chocolate that effects brain chemistry somehow. anyone kknow what that is and how to get it besides chocolate? thanks.Fly away, I do know there's plenty of caffeine in chocolate, which is just another stimulant added to the Adderall, which is why you're probably not hungry. But the craving for chocolate while on Adderall I couldn't explain. Unless the more chocolate (sugar, too) you eat/drink the more you want. ???
Meanwhile, if you're concerned about the chocolate, perhaps the following will ease your mind a bit.
Chocolate is a Vegetable!!
Chocolate is derived from cocoa beans.
Bean = vegetable.
Sugar is derived from either sugar cane or sugar BEETS.
Both of them are plants, in the vegetable category.
Thus, chocolate is a vegetable.
To go one step further, chocolate candy bars also ontain milk, which is dairy.
So candy bars are a health food.
Chocolate-covered raisins, cherries, orange slices and strawberries all count as fruit, so eat as many as you want.
Remember: "STRESSED" spelled backward is "DESSERTS"
Enjoy!
Holey Moley! A chocolate and candy website!
Wooo hooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Somebody keep me away from my credit card!!!And I have a confession to make. I didnt have any chocolate left in the house yesterday (sick kids, so I havent been to the grocery) so I ate half a pack of Samoas to feed the need.
Oh, it felt good to get that off my chest!
Yes, before I recently got fired from my job at a magazine for being too disorganised...
Our office of 19 women and 1 man survived solely on Tim Tams. (That's a wonderful chocolatey chocolate biscuit loved by Australians everywhere.) Strangely I lost a lot of weight working there, while the others got fatter, because I was too hyperactive to ever eat lunch, and I lived on an unhealthy diet of coffee, tea, Tim Tams, and Cadbury Top Deck.
I tried drinking decaf tea recently but gave up because I had simply started having extra sugar in it to make up for the lack of caffeine. Have now moved to instant coffee with 2 sugars followed by chocolate.
[QUOTE=chocoholic]Say, has anyone seen those DARK chocolate creme cadbury eggs they had out about 5 years ago? I've been looking for them ever since with no luck.
I'm beginning to wish I'd stocked up and frozen them![/QUOTE]
shut yo' mouth!!!!!!
DARK CHOCOLATE CADBURY CREAM EGGS?????????
ooooo MAN!!!!
I dunno where u live at, but I WANT SOME OF THOSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If you ever find them again, tell me what store has them!!! I will order off the internet for them if I have to!!!!!!!!
sonya_h38419.5353356482Cadbury creme eggs..... droooooooooooooool..........
Man do I love those things. The mini eggs too.
Okay I need chocolate. NOW!!!
BTW, Gypsy, who is this new lady in your avatar?
hee hee hee
Sonya, you will be the first person I tell if I ever find them again!
Did someone say chocolate?
*looks around for the darkest chocolate available*
And does anyone have some Coke? 'cuz I need a can right about now.
Get all the caffeine you want, CC, then YOU can do the cleaning. And I don't mean just sweeping off to the ground!
Okay, chocolate wing, but the cats must be kept away from there! Bad stuff for them.
GypsyWomyn38419.3866666667Say, has anyone seen those DARK chocolate creme cadbury eggs they had out about 5 years ago? I've been looking for them ever since with no luck.
I'm beginning to wish I'd stocked up and frozen them!
I just wanted you all to know that I am eating from a bag of those mini robin eggs, OOOOH! I love them
, they're only out around Easter.
Well Chocolate, Coffee, and Diet Dr Pepper they are all my friends....today started off with a cup of coffee that looks more like engine oil...thats the best...I drink about 4 cups and have about 3 diet dr peppers and some chocolate late in the evening....plus my adderall....and that is self medication!
Oh my gosh I compleatly forgot my Iced TEA...ahhhhh yes in the afternoon the biggest iced tea in the world......ok now I am done!
Love the chocolate!!!!!!!
[/QUOTE]Wow, C.C. Like we can't tell you are doing your caffeine AND your meds!
Why even bother with the Adderall?! GypsyWomyn38418.9012152778[QUOTE=GypsyWomyn] [/QUOTE]
Wow, C.C. Like we can't tell you are doing your caffeine AND your meds! Why even bother with the Adderall?! [/QUOTE]
I think I am not taking a high enough dose of adderall so I make up for it with the other...I guess...I started out with 10mg then moved to 20 lately..I was scared to take more than 10, but my dr told me why be scared with all the other caffeine I add during the day ....
Oh yeah and I am sitting here eating dove easter eggs and drinking diet dr pepper...Ok a chocolate wing on my tree house...can't resist.oh gosh!!! speaking of CADBURY.............I worked nexted to a dollar store, and they HAD THE NERVE TO START CARRYING CADBURY CREAM EGGS AT EASTER!!!......oh....i was in HEAVEN!!!!
I work at the corporate office of a major discount retailer and there are always samples lying around. The buyers are always "Bribing" us in transportation with some sort of food - usually chocolate. A coworker just stocked an Easter basket outside her cube with chocolates her daughter brought back from Italy. Ahhhhhh...Thank God my Dr did not make me give up the caffeine. I don't think I can go without my Diet Dr Pepper. I did promised to try limit them to a somewhat reasonable number, but have yet to be able to keep my promise. Fortunately, I can't tell that they have interferred with my meds. 
I had to stop all of my caffeine and chocolate cuz I'm pregnant now.....plus i'm not on my medication cuz if I can go without it while pregnant, I will attempt to do so....(I"m at 23 weeks...)
but when I do have the rare, occational sweet ice tea, my child in there goes to kicking!! 
I recently got karate chopped after having a quick sip of ice tea!! so I guess quitting it was for the best......
Internal karate chops?!?!?! I'm glad I'm male!
I am glad he did ask me to five the stuff up...it helpedyou all suck( well not really) i want Nestle or Cadbury now...and i want the big bar.
