Can I eat Snickers even if it fits my calories?

Great. Now I want chocolate and have none handy. :grumble: :sad:

yes! i tend to have whatever i want as long as it fits in my calories:)

Can you physically eat it? Yes. Should you? That's a different question.

If you're looking to lose weight and keep it off, trying to fit in Snickers, or cake, or a stick of butter, is probably not wise. It's about making better choices for the rest of your life. It's about having a sensible relationship with food and not having a binge mentality.

That's why I don't believe in "cheat" days and the like. If you want to eat something, eat it and move on. Don't binge, don't beat yourself up and don't question your choices. If you do any of the above, then you need to work on your relationship with food, sugar or whatever has a hold over you.

I completely disagree with the part in bold. I think that working foods I enjoy into my daily goal is the best way to make sure I keep off the weight I've lost. So far I've been in maintenance for 9 months. Allowing myself a wide variety of foods helps me stick to my goal. If I thought I had to eliminate ice cream, cookies, and the like forever I would not have stuck with this for the past two years. I would have just stayed fat.

I do agree with the second part, at least for me. But many people have success with cheat days and the like.

My thought was the question is just an odd one. "Can I eat Snickers even if it fits my calories?" Why are you trying a lifestyle change when you're obsessing about a Snickers bar? I guess, my view is that the person is not ready to embrace this yet and is already setting themselves up for a binge. Snickers are bad, so I can't have bad foods, so I need a cheat day where I can consume two bags of Snickers.

You can eat whatever you want. However, I would hope that this journey educates people a little more about their eating habits and behaviors that led them to this place. I guess just "conscious eating" is what I mean. That whole process of, "Why do I want this now?" and "Do I really want this or do I want something else?" or "Am I eating because I'm stressed out/worried/depressed/angry?"

I guess this is also easy for me because I have practically little or no sugar cravings (although you can't tell that from the German chocolate cupcakes on my food diary!) so I just find Snickers really repulsively sweet. I can eat an entire fresh sourdough/French baguette, though, but somehow manage to stop at a third.

Can you physically eat it? Yes. Should you? That's a different question.

If you're looking to lose weight and keep it off, trying to fit in Snickers, or cake, or a stick of butter, is probably not wise. It's about making better choices for the rest of your life. It's about having a sensible relationship with food and not having a binge mentality.

That's why I don't believe in "cheat" days and the like. If you want to eat something, eat it and move on. Don't binge, don't beat yourself up and don't question your choices. If you do any of the above, then you need to work on your relationship with food, sugar or whatever has a hold over you.

I completely disagree with the part in bold. I think that working foods I enjoy into my daily goal is the best way to make sure I keep off the weight I've lost. So far I've been in maintenance for 9 months. Allowing myself a wide variety of foods helps me stick to my goal. If I thought I had to eliminate ice cream, cookies, and the like forever I would not have stuck with this for the past two years. I would have just stayed fat.

I do agree with the second part, at least for me. But many people have success with cheat days and the like.

My thought was the question is just an odd one. "Can I eat Snickers even if it fits my calories?" Why are you trying a lifestyle change when you're obsessing about a Snickers bar? I guess, my view is that the person is not ready to embrace this yet and is already setting themselves up for a binge. Snickers are bad, so I can't have bad foods, so I need a cheat day where I can consume two bags of Snickers.

You can eat whatever you want. However, I would hope that this journey educates people a little more about their eating habits and behaviors that led them to this place. I guess just "conscious eating" is what I mean. That whole process of, "Why do I want this now?" and "Do I really want this or do I want something else?" or "Am I eating because I'm stressed out/worried/depressed/angry?"

I guess this is also easy for me because I have practically little or no sugar cravings (although you can't tell that from the German chocolate cupcakes on my food diary!) so I just find Snickers really repulsively sweet. I can eat an entire fresh sourdough/French baguette, though, but somehow manage to stop at a third.

Why are Snicker's "bad" and a sourdough baguette okay? You can make "better" choices for either one. What you are saying is that you have made a judgment call that a sourdough baguette is "good enough" but that a Snicker's is "repulsively sweet." You have done nothing more than converted your personal taste preferences into a value judgment on nutrition. I'll just skip over the cupcakes for now . . .

A regular snickers bar is:

Calories: 250
Fat: 12g
Carbs: 30g
Protein: 4g

Does this fit in your caloric and macronutrient goals?
Yes? Eat it.
No? Don't eat it.

Why not? Just fit it into your daily allowance. Everything in moderation.

I would--I think you can eat anything you want as long as you don't go over your daily allowance--don't have them every day, though.

If you don't allow yourself treats ever, you're going to end up binging on them later. I have a sweet tooth like you wouldn't believe and yeah, I do give into it often, but I've still lost weight every week since July. You just have to be smart about it.

Yes. However, if your diet is made up of bad foods on a regular occasion, your loss may be slower than someone who eats clean most of the time. You also might develop other health problems. But yes, if you have the calories, eat a snickers.

Can you physically eat it? Yes. Should you? That's a different question.

If you're looking to lose weight and keep it off, trying to fit in Snickers, or cake, or a stick of butter, is probably not wise. It's about making better choices for the rest of your life. It's about having a sensible relationship with food and not having a binge mentality.

That's why I don't believe in "cheat" days and the like. If you want to eat something, eat it and move on. Don't binge, don't beat yourself up and don't question your choices. If you do any of the above, then you need to work on your relationship with food, sugar or whatever has a hold over you.

I completely disagree with the part in bold. I think that working foods I enjoy into my daily goal is the best way to make sure I keep off the weight I've lost. So far I've been in maintenance for 9 months. Allowing myself a wide variety of foods helps me stick to my goal. If I thought I had to eliminate ice cream, cookies, and the like forever I would not have stuck with this for the past two years. I would have just stayed fat.

I do agree with the second part, at least for me. But many people have success with cheat days and the like.

My thought was the question is just an odd one. "Can I eat Snickers even if it fits my calories?" Why are you trying a lifestyle change when you're obsessing about a Snickers bar? I guess, my view is that the person is not ready to embrace this yet and is already setting themselves up for a binge. Snickers are bad, so I can't have bad foods, so I need a cheat day where I can consume two bags of Snickers.

You can eat whatever you want. However, I would hope that this journey educates people a little more about their eating habits and behaviors that led them to this place. I guess just "conscious eating" is what I mean. That whole process of, "Why do I want this now?" and "Do I really want this or do I want something else?" or "Am I eating because I'm stressed out/worried/depressed/angry?"

I guess this is also easy for me because I have practically little or no sugar cravings (although you can't tell that from the German chocolate cupcakes on my food diary!) so I just find Snickers really repulsively sweet. I can eat an entire fresh sourdough/French baguette, though, but somehow manage to stop at a third.

It sounds paternalistic to me. As if you are saying "you are not ready for the truth that you can have a snickers. It would be better if you just thought it wasn't a good idea." But I think people can be trusted to know that they can have a snickers or a baguette or whatever, as long as they are meeting their calorie and macro targets.

I also didn't get the part about the cheat day from the OP. She just asked whether she could have it if it fits. Did she say something that made you think she intended to have a cheat day so that she could eat nothing but snickers?