does anyone allow themselves 1 treat per day
rachylouise87
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i have allowed myself one piece of chocolate per day, i am low carb but being able to have 1 chocolate a day is really helping me get through it. anyone else allow themselves something similar?
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Not with such regularity, but it sounds like it works for you! Enjoy!0
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I enjoy pretty much everything in moderation.0
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I have a dessert every night (usually 90 -150 calories). I make sure it fits in my calories for the day.0
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I'd have killed someone and gone on a binge if I didn't work in "treats" (however you use that term) every day. I don't think of them as "treats", but I have dessert after my 2 meals.0
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I do. I have one piece of chocolate after dinner. But I always make sure it fits into my daily calories.0
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Yep. I eat what I want. Some days they don't fit, most days they do.0
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Daily, if it fits calorie wise.0
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I am not a low carb eater or anything else like that. But I have lost 138 lb eating regular treats. Daily at least. I just try to choose smarter things, like dark chocolate or a small measured scoop of ice cream. However a few times a week I do have something like pie or a big cookie. I don't have trouble fitting it in.0
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I try not to eat a lot of desserts. I treat it like a "sometimes" food. It's like a conduit to binging for me, so I try to be careful.0
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cwolfman13 wrote: »I enjoy pretty much everything in moderation.
^^^ This!!!0 -
no, I allow two.0
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Lots of folks do. I'm not one of them. I've met goal, have been maintaining for 7 months and have found I often times have no control (about 70% of the time perhaps) when it comes to the things I consider treats such as cakes, ice cream, chocolates, chips, cheese, beef stick. I'm still working on that with a goal of being able to eat anything/everything in moderation.0
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This is my theory. If it fits, it slips.
If the treats fit into your calorie allowance, then the weight will still slip off.0 -
When I am pre-logging my dinner and bedtime snack, I see what I have left and if I have enough calories and carbs leftover, I will treat myself to a beer, hard cider, or glass of wine with dinner.
I am not a big sweets eater so I rarely eat any. If I do, it is usually when I am eating elsewhere like a special occasion dinner where there will be birthday cake or at book club where there is always M&M's. I know they will be available and I plan ahead for them and don't consider them treats.0 -
I have something treat like every day. Sometimes chocolate. Sometimes wine.0
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I enjoy everything I like in moderation If it fits my calories for the day, I'm going to eat it and enjoy myself. I used to overly restrict what I eat, putting foods in "good" and "bad" categories and whenever I did that, I'd soon fall off the weight loss wagon because I was miserable.0
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thanks for the input0
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Gingerbread Oreos are my current treat favorite!!0
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Sometimes, I'll have a piece of chocolate or something. Or a Lindt truffle. (Amazing concentration of deliciousness for 79 calories!)
I'm of the fitting calories and no evil foods school.0 -
I will keep it short! The nice part about MFP is it allows you to plan ahead so you can eat in moderation. If you know that you like certain foods that might be call treats then plug those calories in first for the day. After that you then can determine what your menus will be for the rest of the day. The snack section of meal planning is the perfect place to add all those foods you call treats. Tip: One of the most successful forms of staying on track is to do meal planning the day before you plan to eat them.0
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i eat treats everyday0
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As a recovering carbaholic who is controlling type 2 diabetes with diet alone, I definitely believe simple carbs are "evil." But I eat a couple of Hershey's mildly sweet sugar free dark chocolates every day. I just make sure to leave room for them in my calorie budget. Not too hard to do -- 2 of them total only 64 calories.0
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WhoIsAmber wrote: »I enjoy everything I like in moderation If it fits my calories for the day, I'm going to eat it and enjoy myself. I used to overly restrict what I eat, putting foods in "good" and "bad" categories and whenever I did that, I'd soon fall off the weight loss wagon because I was miserable.
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I will keep it short! The nice part about MFP is it allows you to plan ahead so you can eat in moderation. If you know that you like certain foods that might be call treats then plug those calories in first for the day. After that you then can determine what your menus will be for the rest of the day. The snack section of meal planning is the perfect place to add all those foods you call treats. Tip: One of the most successful forms of staying on track is to do meal planning the day before you plan to eat them.
I agree. I often plan my day out while drinking my morning coffee.
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Up to 20% of my calories can be (treats, snacks, junk food) whatever you call it assuming that I've covered my nutritional needs for the day with the other 80% or more.
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I eat whatever the heck I want as long as it is in my caloric guidelines0
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Every day. I think id have been bored to death without it. I normally have a bag of chips/ crisps as well as an optional chocolate bar if I feel like it. I more or less earn it though.0
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I guess I am still in the left brain stage of learning a healthy eating lifestyle so the research and science that I can dig up is my treat.
My treat at this point is not having to take cancer causing meds to manage my pain so leaving off most all carbs because they act like a poison to my body (pain shoots up) is not really hard because the cravings have gone. My main treat is not being mean to my family and others due to high level of pain and or being a bear because of a sugar crash.
I did not decide/select to do LCHF because I did not know about the Low Carb High Fat eating concept. I was trying to manage my pain levels and just evolved into the LCHF world without even being aware of that fact at first.
That being said I have been into Extra Dark Chocolate for years as a health food. I was using the power in my one cup of coffee most mornings. The wife read what Hershey put on the box about their 100% Cacao Natural Unsweetened being the highest in natural antioxidants and she picked it up at WM or Krogers which I now use.
One tablespoon (5g) is 10 calories with .5g Fat, 3g carbs/2g fiber and <1g Protein.
It works for me plain especially after learning some research links the rise of Type 2 diabetes even in thin people to artificial sweeteners as one cause of the explosion of that disease.
Bottom line is we are all different so find what works best for your brain/diet and do it. I lost a lot of weight on my RC Cola diet a few years ago. My right brain likes tricks like that too.
We do not die from a bit of this or that from time to time. In my case years of massive carb abuse is what getting me. A taste of carbs is not going to kill me any more than a taste of beer is going to kill a former alcoholic. It is what a taste could do to do to drag a former abuser back into being an active abuser that concerns me. That is just my thoughts coming from a family that abused alcohol. Dad stopped drinking at the age of 16 but all of his five brothers did not and paid a high price at many levels until death.
Again if treats work for you then do it. For me at my age to do another regain would end badly and being a carb abuser I have to act on what my brain tells me to do and not to do.
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I have some dark chocolate most days, and while I do enjoy it I don't consider it a cheat. It fits in my calories, has a relatively low glycemic index, and has relatively low sugar and a lot of antioxidants. That being said, I have a few small bites...only half a serving...because it is relatively high in calories.
I think you can generally have anything you like if you either only have it once in a while ( an exception) or eat it more frequently in very small quantities as part of an overall healthy diet.0
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