I guess I won't live that down... I'd love to eat the whole bag, but I don't want to deal with the consequences! I give myself permission to have one piece, and that works for me. Maybe it might work for you too...

There are a couple of sentences in Liz Applegate's Eat Smart Play Hard sports nutrition book that really hit home here. She says she's a certified chocohalic. She also says she failed at not eating chocolate. Her solution:
Now, I eat some choloate just about every day. My chocolate fix consists of chunks of dark chocolate dipped in peanut butter. I don't even try to make it low-fat or low-calorie. (Quote from page 132 of Eat Smart Play Hard)
She goes on to recommend that you
Decide what food you really love. Whatever it might be, don't deprive yourself; eat a controlled portion of this food every day.(Quote from page 133 of Eat Smart Play Hard)
and she also says that whatever it is, eat it slowly, and enjoy. And that approach works for me. Like I said before, eating a small portion of what I really crave keeps me from eating a lot of other things that probably add up to more calories than the treat I really want.

--- Denise