Eating chocolate helps you lose weight because small doses of chocolate in the body promote metabolism, keeping it faster and helping to reduce the amount of fat in the body.
Furthermore, some antioxidants present in dark chocolate interfere with the production of a hormone called leptin, which regulates satiety and helps you lose weight. Find out more about leptin in: How to control leptin and lose weight for good.
The properties that are in chocolate and help you lose weight are present in the cocoa in chocolate, so the ideal is eat dark or semi-sweet chocolate.
How to lose weight by eating chocolate
To lose weight even with chocolate, it is important to have a balanced diet without exaggeration, practice regular physical activity and eat only 1 square of dark or semi-sweet chocolate per day, especially after breakfast or lunch.
Chocolate brings health benefits due to its high content of antioxidant substances that protect cells, but as chocolate also has a lot of calories and fat, it is necessary not to exceed the recommended amounts.
Chocolate diet menu
The following table shows an example of a 3-day chocolate diet menu.
The ideal is to use chocolate as a dessert for a main meal that contains salad, as the fiber in vegetables causes the sugar to be absorbed slowly in the intestine, reducing the increase in blood sugar levels.
In addition to taking care of your diet, it is also important to practice physical activity at least 3 times a week, as exercise helps to increase metabolism and burn fat.
Dark chocolate nutritional information
The fats present in dark chocolate are mainly bad for your health, so when consumed in excess, chocolate can increase cholesterol.
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