All very good points, actually own all 3 of the late Dale Pendell's brilliant books, the one book with chocolate is somewhere on my bookshelf, will drag it out tonight and re-read that chapter, thanks downwardsfromzero, benzyme & dragonrider for comments on possible potentiation.
On a keto diet all year round as I am a bodybuilder, so eat chicken & turkey & fish all day basically with spinach, cauliflower, broccoli (no starchy carbs) & healthy fats, and fast from 3pm till 7am next morning every day. Last meal is at 2:30pm which is a 60g protein shake with 1 tablespoon of no-carb heavy whipping cream and 15 nuts & 1 square of 100% dark chocolate. Consume 1.2g of protein per lb of bodyweight or 240g a day within an 8 hour window.
Have been doing this chocolate experiment now for 1 month straight, have been eating entire two handful's of dove's dark chocolate and milk chocolate every night when I get home, along with lots of pecans and almonds plain...keep the chocolates in the freezer, then pull out, delicious when nice and cold...still have not gained a single pound from eating all the chocolate...and the chocolate prevents me from gaining weight from the almonds & pecans. Still weigh 198, and this is with chocolate that has sugar, it's not as sweet as Hershey's, but in between on sweetness. Hershey's is too sweet for me. If I eat a butterfinger or chocolate/caramel (anything chocolate that has added carbs besides the sugar), will gain 3 to 4 lbs of water weight overnight. The pure chocolates do not phase me.
The chocolate gives me excellent mood lift and hours of relaxing energy & well being...there seems to be no tolerance to the energy, as it has been working day after day with no reduction in effects...it is entirely baffling to me. This was the best way I could have contributed to this thread for the past month as well, with chocolate energy. The Aztec king Montezuma reportedly drank 50 cups of cocoa a day.
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