Chocolate lovers have now been given the excuse they needed to eat their favourite food for breakfast.

A new diet now promises that eating chocolate each morning will help you to lose weight.

The ‘Big Breakfast’ weight-loss plan involves cramming your body with 700 calories worth of carbohydrates when you wake up.

It recommends a daily breakfast of a glass of milk, 30g of chocolate, two slices of cheese, 85g of lean meat and two slices of buttered whole grain toast.

Does that sound fattening to you? Apparently not.

According to Doctor Daniela Jakubowicz, who has used the diet on her patients for 15 years, a rich breakfast helps curb cravings for carbohydrates later in the day.

She said: “Very low carbohydrate diets are not a good method to reduce weight. They exacerbate the craving for carbohydrates.”

Dieters who ate a big breakfast said they felt less hungry, especially before lunch, and had fewer carbohydrate cravings than people eating a low-carbohydrate diet.

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