The chocolate is called ombar. Varying flavours, but I like the ‘milk’ chocolate. I buy the 70g one. Not cheap, but a girl has to have her treats! You can buy it in Waitrose, Ocado and Amazon (10 at a time).
It might be worth exploring food intolerances. In my 40s, I would often feel rough after eating, while the weight increased. It was subtle until one day it wasn’t. It was definitely wheat, then later I found all gluten products were a problem. That was more than 20 years ago, when wheat went by numerous weird names. You had to get clued up on various names for different forms of wheat. Now it’s easy. Wheat is highlighted in ingredient lists. And it’s called wheat! Yeah!
I think hormones or lack of do play havoc in many ways. Whereas before you could tolerate stuff, you can’t as you get older. Tough too with weight. The dreaded middle age spread. And why can some people eat whatever they want and others put weight on by looking at it?!! Not fair is it? DH has always been thin, though a bit of tummy is developing now in his 60s.
His eating habits are interesting. He takes forever to eat a meal. I leave him to it. He eats little, but often. It’s a joke in the family that he eats half of something, like half a small banana or half a biscuit! How does he do that? I can’t! But it is said if you slowly chew your food, it helps your digestion and gives it time to inform you when you have had enough. If you eat quickly, you can easily overeat. I keep forgetting to eat slowly!
Paul McKenna has written a book on eating and hypnosis. It has been reported that a lady played the accompanying cd regularly, lost weight. Her partner had no interest, but it was playing in the background. He lost weight too. How true that is I don’t know. Worth exploring maybe?