Want to know a great way to add to the motivating power of chocolate? Give it up for awhile.
Every year for the season of Lent, I give up chocolate. This is both a lesson in self-control and in goal commitment.
This year, the goal was not only to give up chocolate, but to forswear enough other desserts and to exercise frequently enough that I would shed some of winter’s excess pounds.
Giving up chocolate, eating less, exercising more…these are all noble goals, with....