One Chocolate Bar After a Week — And My Brain Started Hunting

One chocolate bar after a week without — and I watched my brain hunt for more food like I'd flipped a switch.

📊 Today's numbers (Day 52):

Total: 2,759 calories (midweek cheat day territory)
Plants: 19
Chocolate + YOP + crisps = 1,600+ calories
Eating window: stretched from 4 hours to 10 (post-surgery pain, needed painkillers)

This isn't a failure video. It's a metabolic awareness video.

Two years ago, chocolate and a YOP would've been normal. Frequent. This time I noticed sugar was controlling me — my mind-body just wanted to eat. I was hunting for other "bad" stuff.

The 10% Rule covers days like this. I don't feel guilty about the cheese and crackers — that was the right call for painkillers. The chocolate? I noticed what it did. That's the win.

Awareness doesn't stop the behaviour — but it changes what happens next.

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