Nairnejay - I'll put you down for a zero this week, please let us know how you do next week.
Chocolate is a tough one, but I trust that if you just keep at it you will figure out a great strategy for mitigating the problem. It may be ensuring it's not around. It may be limiting it to 1 square of vegan extra dark bitter once a week. It may be giving yourself permission to eat it any time you want after you eat a salad and potatoes (which could in fact satisfy you enough to get through the craving). We all have different personalities so it will take a different approach to attain success. But keep the ultimate outcome in mind, because it is the same for us all. For optimum health we need to eat an oil-free, plant based diet, with low to no sugar and salt.
(Edited to add:) Keep doing your best! That's all we can ask of ourselves. Be proud that you just keep trying.
I'm also a 0 this week, because the scale did not budge. I'm actually happy I am a zero weight loss because that was my best case scenario for the week...lol. This is a difficult time of year to navigate with so many holidays and get-togethers. My wonderful ex-pat friend had us over for American Thanksgiving on Thursday night and we indulged a bit. She made a WFPB lasagna for her and I, with a nut based sauce of some sort (MWL went out the window that night, and each day since because she sent most of the pan home with me). There was also dark chocolate and soy ice cream and some ginger cake (that I made).
That is where I am currently getting stuck, eating too high on the calorie density scale for my size and food volume requirements. Some people will identify the problem and apply the solution and BAM! Problem solved. Chef AJ is an example of that to me (as with all of the other experts who apparently do this with ease). I, tend to have to circle around the problem, attempt to identify any loopholes, test out even the most improbable of loop holes (because maybe eating fat can make you thin...right? It doesn't, BTW) and then settle into the fact that the program works, as is.
This is definitely doing things the hard way, but it seems to be my path. I danced around the issue when I quit smoking more than a decade ago, with a number of years of false starts. I trudged around the problem of following the regular McDougall plan, also taking many years to figure out that I just had to apply it as is...and now I am doing the same thing as I attempt to follow the MWL program.
I keep having thoughts like maybe I can follow the program with this modification or that tiny change. I recognize this is not the case, but I just have to cycle through enough losing suggestions to satisfy myself that there is not a better deal to be had than this one.
Eating this way is the best deal out there!
I'll tally up this week's numbers later this evening, so there is still time to post your results! Up, down, nowhere...it is what it is. Let's just keep hanging out and figuring this out together.