Do you allow yourself a treat everyday or less than that?

You betcha! I have either ice cream or chocolate every day. Unless it doesn't fit into my macros. I know myself well enough to know that cutting out delicious food is just a bad plan for me. I didn't get here for a lack of a love for food, I just am eating less of it.

Damn you people. Don't you know that healthy is synonymous with miserable?

I don't "allow" myself a treat. I'm not a dog. LOL. If I want something I eat it. If it's too much, I exercise.

Perfect. Just perfect.

For all you moderation preachers..............having a treat everyday is not moderation.

*chortle*

For all you moderation preachers..............having a treat everyday is not moderation.

Wow!
What a sad post.

When I'm craving something sweet I'll drink a sweet flavored tea. Right now I'm enjoying 'White Chocolate Frost' from Davids Tea with a splash of almond milk in there. It usually does the trick. If not, I'll go for a spoon of peanut butter.

I eat ice cream almost everyday but I always measure it out so it will fit it into my macros. By satisfying that craving, it keeps me from bingeing all day, everyday.

Oh Yes! Everyday! My go to is a Zone bar - Chocolate Fudge Graham.
But another one that really tastes like a baddie is my smoothie. I use - a banana, ice, red grapes, blueberries and protein powder - in a blender. Its awesome and definitely good for you. Amazing !
But yes - i make sure i have exercised enough to fit everything in.
Don't think i could have lasted this long without my "treats"!

I get that for a lot of people daily treats really work for them and makes dieting/living worthwhile but there's nothing wrong with the opposite and I wish people here would stop acting like there is.

I don't eat treats everyday or even necessarily every month. I'm not miserable or deprived. The food I eat everyday is delicious, full fat, flavorful food that is completely indulgent -- it's just not chock full of sugar/carbs. I save those foods for the holidays, special occasions and every once in awhile I'll have a hoagie or something just because. But it's not part of my everyday diet.

I've been eating this way for over a year and it's completely sustainable. I can maintain my weight loss without calorie counting, eat out just about anywhere, enjoy special occasions with my friends and family and the best part? I'm not starving all of the time. I'm completely full and satisfied after each and every meal even eating at a deficit. That's worth "depriving" myself of food I don't even think about or want on a daily basis.

I get that for a lot of people daily treats really work for them and makes dieting/living worthwhile but there's nothing wrong with the opposite and I wish people here would stop acting like there is.

I don't eat treats everyday or even necessarily every month. I'm not miserable or deprived. The food I eat everyday is delicious, full fat, flavorful food that is completely indulgent -- it's just not chock full of sugar/carbs. I save those foods for the holidays, special occasions and every once in awhile I'll have a hoagie or something just because. But it's not part of my everyday diet.

I've been eating this way for over a year and it's completely sustainable. I can maintain my weight loss without calorie counting, eat out just about anywhere, enjoy special occasions with my friends and family and the best part? I'm not starving all of the time. I'm completely full and satisfied after each and every meal even eating at a deficit. That's worth "depriving" myself of food I don't even think about or want on a daily basis.

You make a very valid point.

What gets people's backs up is people like Paleo who would have you believe that complete abstinence is the only route to good health.

I joined this myfitnesspal site today while brosing the web for some information. I have been on a diet now for 5 months and I have lost 80 Lbs. so far. I still plan to lose another 75 Lbs.

I have wrote my own diet plan and turning it into a book. You have to be serious about dieting or you will not succeed. Here is an excerpt from my book pertaining to snacks. You have to take dieting seriously, otherwise you will drift away from your dieting plan and you will not lose weight. , I wrote this excerpt from my book, for some Italian friends in New York. The message here is that a dieting must be done seriously, if you expect to lose weight. You cannot give in to yourself or anyone else for snacks or treats. There is no drifting off the diet for snacks and treats. See below.

Snacks? Forget about it. Wakeup, smell the coffee pal. Snacks? Are you crazy? Forget about it.

Let’s get serious pal, snack food? Don’t even think about it, capisce? You're here for a reason pal, you’re fat, you’re a walkin’ heart attack here. Have you looked in the mirror? You look like a rhino. Snacks? Get-out-a-here. You can’t live like this, it’s enough already. Oobatz! Forget the tiramisu, forget the cannolies, no cheesecake, no trifle, forget the pies and the ice creams. You gots to stick with the food in this diet, and while you’re on this diet, don’tchu ever, and I mean ever, eat anything that’s not on this diet. That means no proshut, no gabagool, and don’t be thinkin’ about some other food, more than your goomah? You mean, something, to her pal. What’s-sat guy say, that kid from Alabama? That uh, Forest kid, yeah, Forrest Gump, that Alabama kid. He said; “Life is like a box of chocolates”, and that’s right pal, but it don’t last long for fat people. You hear what I’m saying? You’re out-a-shape pal; you gots yourself a real health problem here withes the weight, pal.

Your life ain’t no look-a-like contest, you aint at the Bronx Zoo my friend, and you ain’t no, human hippo. You gots to ditch the weight, capisce? So, for snacks my friend, forget about it. You’re on a diet pal, and it aint no party with piña colada‎'s, and cake. You want to snack, you wanna nibble, huh pal? Then, you godda do this right. If you godda nibble, then you nibble on this stuff, pal.

Jolly Time Gluten Free Air Popped popcorn, dry, 1 cup = 20 calories and 0 calories from fat
Cold baby carrots, limit to 8 pieces a day
Celery stalk, plain, limit to 2 a day
Strawberries, limited to no more than 6 a day.
Cantaloupe chunks 1-inch square, limit to 6 pieces a day.
Prunes, limit to 2 prunes a day.
Green Grapes, limit to 6 a day.

Now look pal, this list don’t mean for yous to makes yourself a tossed vegetable and fruit salad. You can have some of the items shown on this list as you might feel an urge to nibble, but look pal, not all the items on the list served up in some big mixing bowl like you’re feeding some zoo animal, and certainly, not all these items at one time, capisce?

Look pal, your goomah, that beautiful little girl, she sees something in you pal, and yous gots to lose the weight, do it for her, OK pal, capisce? For a guy your size, yous stick to this diet for six-months, and ring-a-ding-ding, you’ll be down to your weight pal. Now, if anybody and I mean anybody, asks you who told you that you's gots to be on a diet? You tell them, Fat Sammy put you on this diet, capisce? If some schlemiel has something to say about yous being on a diet, you tell the clown, to come see me, yous tell the shmuck to come see Fat Sammy, OK pal?

When you have reached your target weight, don’t think that you can go back to the lifestyle you had been living, stuffing your face with everything from fast food burgers and pizza, to ice cream and cake. Those days are over pal. When you have reached your target weight, you’re going to adjust your diet with low calorie foods and meals, and you’re going to mix these into your everyday routine to balance your diet and stay at your target weight. Capisce?

I don't "allow" myself a treat. I'm not a dog. LOL. If I want something I eat it. If it's too much, I exercise.

I make myself sit up pretty for it.

It's inevitable I'll hit my goal now so have no problem having treats. For instance I've my university exams at the moment and today I had a 450g Ben and Jerry's tub of ice-cream! 1000 calories but including my dinner/breakfast I still hit my maintenance calorie weight.

I get that for a lot of people daily treats really work for them and makes dieting/living worthwhile but there's nothing wrong with the opposite and I wish people here would stop acting like there is.

I don't eat treats everyday or even necessarily every month. I'm not miserable or deprived. The food I eat everyday is delicious, full fat, flavorful food that is completely indulgent -- it's just not chock full of sugar/carbs. I save those foods for the holidays, special occasions and every once in awhile I'll have a hoagie or something just because. But it's not part of my everyday diet.

I've been eating this way for over a year and it's completely sustainable. I can maintain my weight loss without calorie counting, eat out just about anywhere, enjoy special occasions with my friends and family and the best part? I'm not starving all of the time. I'm completely full and satisfied after each and every meal even eating at a deficit. That's worth "depriving" myself of food I don't even think about or want on a daily basis.

No one said you had to follow the same plan as anyone else. What everyone appeared to be saying is that if it fits into their plan and keeps them on track to lose, then that's what they do. A few people have said they don't and no one has jumped them. Well, except for the one person who apparently didn't know the definition of 'moderation'. So, keep doing what works for you and everyone else will, too.

I joined this myfitnesspal site today while brosing the web for some information. I have been on a diet now for 5 months and I have lost 80 Lbs. so far. I still plan to lose another 75 Lbs.

I have wrote my own diet plan and turning it into a book. You have to be serious about dieting or you will not succeed. Here is an excerpt from my book pertaining to snacks. You have to take dieting seriously, otherwise you will drift away from your dieting plan and you will not lose weight. , I wrote this excerpt from my book, for some Italian friends in New York. The message here is that a dieting must be done seriously, if you expect to lose weight. You cannot give in to yourself or anyone else for snacks or treats. There is no drifting off the diet for snacks and treats. See below.

Snacks? Forget about it. Wakeup, smell the coffee pal. Snacks? Are you crazy? Forget about it.

Let’s get serious pal, snack food? Don’t even think about it, capisce? You're here for a reason pal, you’re fat, you’re a walkin’ heart attack here. Have you looked in the mirror? You look like a rhino. Snacks? Get-out-a-here. You can’t live like this, it’s enough already. Oobatz! Forget the tiramisu, forget the cannolies, no cheesecake, no trifle, forget the pies and the ice creams. You gots to stick with the food in this diet, and while you’re on this diet, don’tchu ever, and I mean ever, eat anything that’s not on this diet. That means no proshut, no gabagool, and don’t be thinkin’ about some other food, more than your goomah? You mean, something, to her pal. What’s-sat guy say, that kid from Alabama? That uh, Forest kid, yeah, Forrest Gump, that Alabama kid. He said; “Life is like a box of chocolates”, and that’s right pal, but it don’t last long for fat people. You hear what I’m saying? You’re out-a-shape pal; you gots yourself a real health problem here withes the weight, pal.

Your life ain’t no look-a-like contest, you aint at the Bronx Zoo my friend, and you ain’t no, human hippo. You gots to ditch the weight, capisce? So, for snacks my friend, forget about it. You’re on a diet pal, and it aint no party with piña colada‎'s, and cake. You want to snack, you wanna nibble, huh pal? Then, you godda do this right. If you godda nibble, then you nibble on this stuff, pal.

Jolly Time Gluten Free Air Popped popcorn, dry, 1 cup = 20 calories and 0 calories from fat
Cold baby carrots, limit to 8 pieces a day
Celery stalk, plain, limit to 2 a day
Strawberries, limited to no more than 6 a day.
Cantaloupe chunks 1-inch square, limit to 6 pieces a day.
Prunes, limit to 2 prunes a day.
Green Grapes, limit to 6 a day.

Now look pal, this list don’t mean for yous to makes yourself a tossed vegetable and fruit salad. You can have some of the items shown on this list as you might feel an urge to nibble, but look pal, not all the items on the list served up in some big mixing bowl like you’re feeding some zoo animal, and certainly, not all these items at one time, capisce?

Look pal, your goomah, that beautiful little girl, she sees something in you pal, and yous gots to lose the weight, do it for her, OK pal, capisce? For a guy your size, yous stick to this diet for six-months, and ring-a-ding-ding, you’ll be down to your weight pal. Now, if anybody and I mean anybody, asks you who told you that you's gots to be on a diet? You tell them, Fat Sammy put you on this diet, capisce? If some schlemiel has something to say about yous being on a diet, you tell the clown, to come see me, yous tell the shmuck to come see Fat Sammy, OK pal?

When you have reached your target weight, don’t think that you can go back to the lifestyle you had been living, stuffing your face with everything from fast food burgers and pizza, to ice cream and cake. Those days are over pal. When you have reached your target weight, you’re going to adjust your diet with low calorie foods and meals, and you’re going to mix these into your everyday routine to balance your diet and stay at your target weight. Capisce?

I think you'll find there are a great many very successful people on this site that would scoff at this. I'm one of them.