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Top 20 Chocolates under 200 calories

Top 20 Chocolates under 200 calories

Although weight loss requires a calorific deficit – to lose 2lbs a week we need to eat 500 calories less than we need each day – sustainability welcomes treats here and there, as does your sanity.

There is also an element of keeping your inner chimp happy. This chimp is your Stone Age inheritance, the part of your brain that doesn’t understand supermarkets or diets. She’s an emotional being, subject to moods, but also doesn’t like being starved or deprived for long periods. Your chimp interprets these times of prolonged or extreme hunger as threat and stress, so wants to hold on to fat. There are physiological responses to restrictive diets that make this happen in humans.

So some treats here and there will keep both you and the chimp happy. Provided you are reasonably careful for the rest of the day, and eat reasonably well most of the time, these treats will keep you sane while not derailing any weight loss quest. They will also keep up hope and sustainability.  The less calories that they contain the better too. So here’s 20 chocolates  under 200 calories for you to have…sparingly!

1. Daim bar – 138 calories in a bar
2. Dairy Milk Oat Crunch – 150 calories in a bar
3. Smarties – 178 calories in a tube
4. Maltesers – 187 calories in a regular bag
5. Nakd bar – 145 calories in a coco orange bar
6. Milky Bar – 85 calories of white chocolate
7. Toffee Crisp biscuits – 99 calories per bar
8. Penguin – 106 calories per biscuit
9. Milky Way – 94 calories per standard bar
10. Club – remember these? Only 116 calories per bar
11. Cadbury Creme Egg – 185 calories per egg
12. Drifter biscuit – 99 calories
13. Rice Krispies squares – 156 calories
14. Curly Wurly – 200 calories
15. Cadbury Mini Eggs tube – 195 calories
16. Time Out – 184 calories
17. Flake – 170 a bar
18. Galaxy bites – 197 calories a bag
19. Magic stars – 185 calories of milk chocolate
20. Crunchie – 185 calories