Confessions of the "I'm Not Giving up Dessert Non- Diet"

Yep!! I work out so that I can get my dessert...REAL dessert! And I have no shame!

I'm in! Not strictly for dessert, but for my daily TastyKake with an afternoon cup of tea. Keeps me sane.

Nope, you're not the only one. With the exception of giving up soda and cutting way, way, way back on eating out, I haven't given up anything. I still eat something sweet, Oreos, ice cream, Reese's Cups, or dark chocolate, on a nearly daily basis. If I didn't, I'd end up bingeing on them instead of eating an appropriate portion based on my calorie goal. The IIFIYM mindset is one of the keys that have made me successful this time around.

I refuse to give up anything I can't live without forever. I'm more a cheese person than a sweets person, but I have my Queso dip splurge scheduled for tomorrow. Just saved up some calories over the week so I can really enjoy myself. It's all about working what you want into what you need to get to your goal. It's totally doable and definitely necessary (at least for me).

Definitely!! I build chocolate into my menu twice daily - I refuse to have lunch or tea without some chocolate afterwards. For me it's all about moderation - I'll now have funsize chocolate bars or one chocolate biscuit instead of several

Is it just me or am I the only one who feels no need to deprive myself of something sweet, almost daily. I mean come on, this is a life time changer right? No need restricting to the point of withdrawal. So I like to save a few hundred calories just so I can have a real dessert, not the half-assed diet desserts, because that's for diets right? and we aren't dieting, we are Life Changing. I even workout to get extra calories, and I always have left over calories. So is this a bad thing? Is there anyone else out there who does the Not Giving up dessert Non-diet besides me?

$5 says you post a success thread before any of the "I'm eating nothing but clean foods starting on Monday" crowd.

I refuse to give up anything I can't live without forever.

It's how I eat, and not just for desserts/sweets. I'm not living the next *crossed fingers* 30 years without potatoes, pasta, rice, bread, cheese, etc.; you know, all the "naughty" foods.

I just had a red velvet cupcake with cream cheese frosting and felt terrible... until I read your post. Thank you :-)

That sounds delicious. Red velvet is my favorite

I eat whatever the heck I like, within reason, and I make it work. Dessert, fast food, whatever. I have cut out my daily two diet sodas, amazing what that did to reduce migraines. And fast food is once a week at the most. I have chocolate almost every day. I have something of a love affair with dark chocolate... lol

I agree that nothing should be completely off limits. The only problem with having a dessert every day is if you were working with a pretty low-cal diet (diet as in what you eat every day) you might short yourself on important nutrients to make room for pretty much empty calories. Eating at a more modest calorie deficit gives you more room for this stuff without danger of eating too little of the good stuff. The other problem is that with anything particularly calorie dense (sugary and/or fatty foods) there is a bigger margin for error if you accidentally miscalculate portion size when tracking. After some fellow MFP members brought that to my attention, I started being more meticulous when measuring calorie dense items

Sweets aren't really my thing. Personally, I practice "cheese-ert". I love cheese but try not to eat much of it. Cheese is my dessert. :P That, or a glass of red wine... Then if it's a day where I don't have the room for extra calories, chai tea with vanilla stevia & a splash of (coconut or almond) milk.