Dietitian recommends keeping your pantry stocked with chocolate. Her reason why may surprise you

I know I'm not alone in my love for chocolate. If there's a block in my cupboard, there's no chance it will see the light of another day and I know many others feel the same.

One square quickly becomes a row which, before you know it, snowballs into eating the whole block. It's for this reason that I tend to avoid keeping chocolate in the cupboard at all. Because "if there's chocolate in the house, I won't be able to help myself".

But what if I were to tell you that keeping several blocks of chocolate in the house could actually be the key to addressing those cravings – sounds counterintuitive right?

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Well, according to dietitian Sophie Rindfleish it's actually a very helpful strategy for helping those who feel they can't control themselves around those 'irresistible treats' like chocolate.

It's called the 'five blocks of chocolate' method and goes against the common 'out of sight, out of mind' theory we've heard before.

Instead of restricting the amount of chocolate we keep in the house, the method encourages choccie lovers to keep five blocks on hand at all times to create the illusion of an unlimited supply.

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"This method can be helpful if you feel "out of control" when you have certain foods in the house, for example, you never allow yourself to buy chocolate, then when you do you end up eating the whole block in a day," Rindfleish shared to Instagram.

"This often happens because (1) we don't allow ourselves to have the food so then (2) when we do we get too excited and overdo it OR we feel guilty for eating something we said we wouldn't and try to "get rid of it" by eating it all."

Rindfleish says this method "helps to remove the novelty of the food and allows your brain to realise it's not 'special' and you can eat it whenever you like".

In turn, this can give you back a sense of control in deciding when you feel like eating chocolate rather than eating it simply because it's there.

"For the first little while you may eat a whole block in a day, and that is TOTALLY OKAY - it's part of the process - BUT after a little while you'll get used to having chocolate in the house and forget it's even there," Rindfleish adds.

The method works by helping us switch from a scarcity mindset to an abundance mindset where we can rest easy that the chocolate will be there for when we want it rather than eating it all out of fear that it will soon be gone.

"While this is just one tool you can add to your toolkit, pairing this strategy with eating balanced meals and practising mindful eating could just change your life," Rindfleish concluded.

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