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Attention Guilty Snackers: Chocolate Makes You Lose Weight and Popcorn is a Vegetable

Well, almost.

According to this study, chocolate can only help you lose weight IF YOU ALSO EXERCISE. And, popcorn? Well, its only as good as the butter-less, unsalted, NON-FUN flavoring of air-popped kernels.

But still, I can totally re-rationalize it somewhere in my head and delude myself into thinking that the big bucket of popcorn I dove into at the movies was enough to fill my vegetable quota for the week. And, hey, how do you know I’m not exercising when I stroll around a mall for 2 hours in heels? This huge chocolate bar is a part of my exercise, weight-loss regimen goddammit!

Of course, I’m joking. Or not. It’s just nice to know that the reality of the matter is that we don’t have to deprive ourselves of all the things that we consider ‘guilty snacks’  in the endless pursuit of a healthy lifestyle (and a really banging bod).

So, yes, exercise and run on that treadmill until your legs start to produce cartoon-like puffs of smoke. But then have a bit of chocolate afterwards. And, you don’t have to eat like a freaking goat if you want to be healthy and filled with vitamins. Pop some popcorn, and maybe just let your sensory memory fill in for the butter and the salt and all the unhealthy, fatty additions.

Because, apparently, chocolate makes you lose weight and popcorn is a vegetable.

All my love!