Craving Christmas cookies already...

vraso1214
vraso1214 Posts: 10
in Food and Nutrition
I am really craving/ wanting to make sugar and gingerbread cookies today?? Anybody have healthier spins on these or how they overcome the holiday season temptations??

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  • SideSteel
    SideSteel Posts: 11,068 Member
    I am really craving/ wanting to make sugar and gingerbread cookies today?? Anybody have healthier spins on these or how they overcome the holiday season temptations??

    Are you capable of making them and only eating one or two, and staying within your calorie and macro allowances?
  • amonkey794
    amonkey794 Posts: 651 Member
    I am really craving/ wanting to make sugar and gingerbread cookies today?? Anybody have healthier spins on these or how they overcome the holiday season temptations??

    Are you capable of making them and only eating one or two, and staying within your calorie and macro allowances?

    ^ this, or try asking the recipe forum :) Oh and holiday teas! I had sugar cookie tea last night :) yummy!
  • cappri
    cappri Posts: 1,089 Member
    Track them first so you know how much each cookie will "cost" you in terms of calories, then decide if they do indeed work in your day and are worth it. Sometimes cookies are worth it to me and I go for it, sometimes they aren't and I choose something else. Now if it's a cupcake it's ALWAYS worth it to me! I think cupcakes are the one thing that will always taste better than skinny feels. :)
  • LoraF83
    LoraF83 Posts: 15,694 Member
    I am really craving/ wanting to make sugar and gingerbread cookies today?? Anybody have healthier spins on these or how they overcome the holiday season temptations??

    Are you capable of making them and only eating one or two, and staying within your calorie and macro allowances?

    Agree with this approach. Life is full of Christmases. There will always be cookies. I think it's better to teach ourselves how to have a few instead of a lot and to make them fit in our goals.
  • beansprouts
    beansprouts Posts: 410 Member
    This is a very hard time of the year for people who are trying to lose weight. Like you I love to make Christmas cookies...As far as I can see...There is nothing wrong with MAKING Christmas cookies...My problem has always been EATING the Christmas cookies that I bake.

    Personally...I'm not trying to have anything in my house that I can not be comfortable eating...So this year I plan to skip the whole Christmas cookie baking thing.
  • healthyinpink
    healthyinpink Posts: 87 Member
    Oh dear Lord. Cookies are the bane of my existence! ):
  • microwoman999
    microwoman999 Posts: 545 Member
    When I am craving stuff like that I make a batch and take it into work! Then I feel obligated to only eat 1 or 2 so others can eat them too! Good Luck!
  • Christine1110
    Christine1110 Posts: 1,786 Member
    Google it...I'm sure you can find alots : )
  • tommygirl15
    tommygirl15 Posts: 1,012 Member
    If you really want to overcome the holiday temptations then I wouldn't recommend baking them at all. But if you must, then it's really all about will power. Cutting out sugar from recipes is really easy, could probably get away with cutting a little butter as well.
  • clover5
    clover5 Posts: 1,640 Member
    I am really craving/ wanting to make sugar and gingerbread cookies today?? Anybody have healthier spins on these or how they overcome the holiday season temptations??

    Just say "Not today."

    We like to make sugar cookies with Ricotta cheese in the recipe. They are healthier, but I don't think that they are low calorie.
    I will make them eventually during the holiday season; and I will enjoy them. What helps me sometimes is to just say "not today." Because I know I will get to have some sometime in the next 2 months, I feel ok about postponing my indulgence.
  • marsellient
    marsellient Posts: 591 Member
    As someone else said, life is full of Christmases. Yesterday I baked ahead of time for a cookie exchange later in the season, and aside from the tastes for husband and kid, it all went into the freezer. When I have a holiday meal here, I will have some. This may work for you. I'm one of those people who can have it around, though, as long as I don't take the first one.
  • beansprouts
    beansprouts Posts: 410 Member
    Oh dear Lord. Cookies are the bane of my existence! ):

    Amen!!! There is nothing worse than waking up dazed in the morning...finding an empty cookie container and those tell-tale cookie crumbs around your mouth.
  • healthyinpink
    healthyinpink Posts: 87 Member
    Oh dear Lord. Cookies are the bane of my existence! ):

    Amen!!! There is nothing worse than waking up dazed in the morning...finding an empty cookie container and those tell-tale cookie crumbs around your mouth.

    LOL! Ahahahah! That's like the past 4 years of my life summed up! <3
  • JessicaBR0
    JessicaBR0 Posts: 256 Member
    http://www.skinnytaste.com/2011/12/low-fat-gingerbread-cookies.html
  • vraso1214
    vraso1214 Posts: 10
    Thanks everybody!!! i think I will only make them once instead of multiple times this season!! also maybe a smaller batch will not leave them lingering around!!! I went with homemade applesauce yesterday!! delicious.
  • BernadetteChurch
    BernadetteChurch Posts: 2,210 Member
    Shortbread is my weakness at Christmas. And I can't wait to start baking!

    My husband loves anything sweet so it's never a huge problem for me to do baking and only eat one or two - which I'm slowly learning to do. But I do always log the recipes on MFP and go as far as counting how many cookies go in the oven. That way I get an accurate calorie count and can incorporate them into my diet if I want.

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