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Are you making any New Year Resolutions for 2008?
If so, what are they?

to eat healthily, to excercise more and to give up studying (at least for a year lol)  ;D

Quote from: Lauren S on December 27, 2007, 00:25:15
Are you making any New Year Resolutions for 2008?
If so, what are they?

Not to make any....... ;D ;D ;D

Dunno, it isn't New Year yet...
:-\

to stop eating sweet stuff, I've got ulcers...again  :(
still, it's self inflicted  ;D

OK - Time to 'fess up !!

My New Year's Resolution is to read people's names properly on this forum. For months I thought I was talking to 'Manic TROUSERS'!! and 'THERMOmarg'

Mind you I did go out with a fella once who had manic trousers, and who knows, maybe Marg is really hot stuff?  :)

Ray's got some trousers you might call slightly manic  ;D

Off the booze and on a diet. Third resolution not to kill anyone at all, no matter how much chocolate and alcohol they're consuming in front of me... :-[

Chocolate gets such a bad press; it's accused of all kinds of things, from being addictive and fattening to being downright harmful. The fact is that real chocolate can actually be good for you! It is packed with minerals: 100 grams of dark chocolate contains the following percentages of your daily requirements: 20% iron, 33% magnesium, 27% potassium, 13% calcium. It has to be real chocolate though: made with good quality cocoa beans, a high percentage of cocoa solids and cocoa butter as the only fat. Dark chocolate containing at least 70% cocoa solids is a good source of antioxidants â€" particularly flavonoids, which are the type that are found in green tea and red wine. While chocolate with 70% cocoa solids is still high in fat (30%), it consists of saturated types â€" including stearic and palmitic acid â€" and oleic acid, a monounsaturated fat that is also found in olive oil. A number of studies have found that chocolate's main fat, stearic acid, has a neutral effect on the LDL (or ‘bad’) cholesterol. Dark chocolate has also been shown to reduce high blood pressure, and has twice the magnesium of and more iron than milk chocolate.

You can eat good chocolate & still lose weight you just need to avoid the cheap nasty cadbury's type chocolate with the exception of green & blacks which is the only decent chocolate cadbury produces.

Sadly all I'm actually craving is Fry's chocolate cremes and Cadbury's creme eggs. Still, with any luck I'll be able to eat the stuff by Easter...