who taught YOU how to diet ? LOL..
...I might be a bit too fond of chocolate myself, candidizzle, but I used to be a diet guru for quite a few of the top national (natural) competitors here in Ireland. In fact Alan Pryor won the Natural Mr Ireland under my tutelage.
I've always found that the very best way to diet (for a natural) is to change your diet to wholesome wholefoods with a roughly 35:35:30 macronutrient profile and then SLOWLY, SLOWLY eek off the fat by slight, incremental modifications of carb intake.
That takes months and months of consistent dieting... the benefits however are worth it: improved metabolism and health and you get to keep most (if not all) of your muscle.
The crash dieting espoused by steroid using bodybuilders simply doesn't work for naturals... you can get ripped, but you'll end up looking like True Adonis.
The Luke