Fruit Instead of Sweets? You Can't Be Serious!

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  • earlswimsuit
    earlswimsuit Posts: 63
    Unless its vegan chocolate........fruits are so much better!
  • withoutfail
    withoutfail Posts: 6
    I'm a fan of heavy whipping cream + protein powder for a nice flavored mousse with minimal carbs.
  • FloraSin
    FloraSin Posts: 188 Member
    If I really want to have the chocolate or whatever badly enough, I'll just do it. I just make sure to split it with somebody else and only eat the recommended serving size. lol. That is usually a turn off. If I'm still willing to waste 300 calories on something as empty as 12 Doritos, then I just eat them because I must really really want the damn things.

    However, if you live in an area with a good shop selling foreign snacks, There are these magic little snack bags of mixed nuts and deliciousness that are seasoned to be spicy. From India.... called.... Hairdems or something. They are a God send and usually squish any chip craving. I never even end up eating a full 50g.

    Or pocky. It's chocolate. On a stick. One pack is about 190 calories and they satisfy.

    When I decided I wanted to be healthier, I didn't say I'd break up with junk food so I've been digging around to find better options of the same or similar things. Like chocolate.

    I find North American snack foods to just be the devil though. We like it bad here. lol
  • Petef82
    Petef82 Posts: 31 Member
    do you have to include fruit in your calorie diary. I think fruit should be a free snack as encouragement to avoid sweets
  • SteveJWatson
    SteveJWatson Posts: 1,225 Member
    This sounds like a quite from my childhood....

    The answer to the question "whats for dessert?" saw usually met with "fruit or yoghurt"....

    My favourite 'candy' is peas from the pod, but they have to be from your pea vines because they aren't anything like as sweet when they have been picked for an hour or more......."country boy's sherbert".

    And yes, my wife thinks I'm nuts re: the pea thing, but they really are that sweet.
  • jb1164
    jb1164 Posts: 40 Member
    I like cake.


    in fact, I had this tonight... limoncello marscapone cake.

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    Did you make this?
    If so, could you post the recipe and calorie count, please?
  • AJinBirmingham
    AJinBirmingham Posts: 497
    Fruit is "free" on Weight Watchers. That's how I learned that I really can drink three smoothies a day . . . and that fruit isn't "free" at all. I gained weight and still wanted the Twizzlers.
  • bpn80
    bpn80 Posts: 43
    HA! I agree. Lately I have been cutting up a piece of dark chocolate and mixing it in with plan Greek yogart. Not a piece of chocolate cake, but better than fruit!
  • KristyWalker83
    KristyWalker83 Posts: 13 Member
    What happens to me is that I'll have the fruit "instead" and then half an hour later I'll give in and have the sweets too. :blushing:

    Oh man! I'm glad I'm not the only one!
  • WendyTerry420
    WendyTerry420 Posts: 13,274 Member
    When someone tells me to enjoy a piece of fruit instead of sweets, I feel like a little kid hearing, "No, you can't keep the puppy - but we'll get you a goldfish!"

    As a chocolate lover I say.... EXACTLY!!!!


    Chocolate dipped fruit


    /thread
  • Athijade
    Athijade Posts: 3,300 Member
    do you have to include fruit in your calorie diary. I think fruit should be a free snack as encouragement to avoid sweets

    One small banana is about 90 calories.

    All calories count... even fruits and vegetables.

    Yes, you can get fat from eating too much fruit because you then eat too many calories.

    And there is nothing wrong with sweets in moderation. IIFYM.
  • TheDevastator
    TheDevastator Posts: 1,626 Member
    I gave up sweets. Now I just make 7 banana or 10 apple or 8 orange smoothies (approx 800 calories) and it stops the cravings. If you are using fruit you need more to compete with sweets.
  • concordancia
    concordancia Posts: 5,320 Member
    I gave up sweets. Now I just make 7 banana or 10 apple or 8 orange smoothies (approx 800 calories) and it stops the cravings. If you are using fruit you need more to compete with sweets.

    Pretty sure you are getting more sugar from than I am from a handful of dark chocolate pomegranate candy. Sounds like fruit, really just gourmet chocolate covered jelly beans.
  • TheDevastator
    TheDevastator Posts: 1,626 Member
    Pretty sure you are getting more sugar from than I am from a handful of dark chocolate pomegranate candy. Sounds like fruit, really just gourmet chocolate covered jelly beans.

    I used to eat lbs of candy at a time like M&Ms and hazelnut chocolate bars, etc. so smoothies are a good alternative. Fruit is a powerhouse of nutrients more than chocolate although it has some nutrients. I like to eat raw cacao beans now although it's not as much fun as eating chocolate.

    I'm not really concerned about how much unprocessed (besides blending) fruit sugar I consume. I've read that fruit sugar with fiber and all the nutrients doesn't affect diabetics like sweets. And although I should have been, I never paid attention to how much sugar I was getting from those pounds of chocolate I ate.
  • torizia
    torizia Posts: 140 Member
    I'm another one who will eat the fruit then go back for the chocolate a few minutes later!

    Instead I've started having chocolate after lunch and dinner (I just can't resist), but I put it in my diary the day before and only have 100 calories for each. I live in the UK, and 100 calories is a funsize bag of malteasers, penguin, kit cat or milky way - and these satisfy my cravings :)
  • SmileyFaceGuy
    SmileyFaceGuy Posts: 201
    I eat fruit, but it is by no means a substitute for candy, in my mind.

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