Chocolate is my constant downfall

Chocolate is my constant downfall. I discovered this when I saw all of the photos I had taken of various chocolate moments and shared on Instagram! This scares me because one of my friends was a chocolate enthusiast, then a chocolate lover, then discovered that she was a chocolate addict and ate nothing else. Within a matter of months, she went from a size 12 to a size 20. When she could not fit into a size 22, she realised that she needed to do something about it. This is such a sobering thought. I am not sure what defines an addict, someone else I know would eat the very biggest Cadbury's milk chocolate bar and drink coffee, but eat nothing else for 3 days and continue to drink coffee. She would have the most horrendous headaches, but failed to attribute it to this chocolate and coffee addiction.
I read an article years ago of someone who was giving a talk about the dangers of chocolate. She literally took chocolate and smeared it on her thighs, saying "When you eat chocolate, it goes straight to your thighs!". It does scare me when I eat chocolate like this. In fact, the very presence of chocolate in my house makes me feel safe, as if chocolate were the answer to my troubles! The other day, I found myself buying a couple of bars of peanut butter Kit Kats, because I had not seen them for a very long time. I do actually intersperse chocolate-eating with food, thank God, and I exercise all the time. So I am not an addict, I think...

“ ‘Without pain, how could we know joy?’ This is an old argument in the field of thinking about suffering, and its stupidity and lack of sophistication could be plumbed for centuries, but suffice it to say that the existence of broccoli does not, in any way, affect the taste of chocolate.”

John Green, The Fault in Our Stars