does anyone allow themselves 1 treat per day

rachylouise87
rachylouise87 Posts: 367 Member
edited November 9 in Introduce Yourself
i have allowed myself one piece of chocolate per day, i am low carb but being able to have 1 chocolate a day is really helping me get through it. anyone else allow themselves something similar?
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  • Tblackdogs
    Tblackdogs Posts: 325 Member
    Not with such regularity, but it sounds like it works for you! Enjoy!
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    I enjoy pretty much everything in moderation.
  • GrammyPeachy
    GrammyPeachy Posts: 1,723 Member
    I have a dessert every night (usually 90 -150 calories). I make sure it fits in my calories for the day.
  • zyxst
    zyxst Posts: 9,148 Member
    I'd have killed someone and gone on a binge if I didn't work in "treats" (however you use that term) every day. I don't think of them as "treats", but I have dessert after my 2 meals.
  • Poeticmoe
    Poeticmoe Posts: 176 Member
    I do. I have one piece of chocolate after dinner. But I always make sure it fits into my daily calories.
  • 970Mikaela1
    970Mikaela1 Posts: 2,013 Member
    Yep. I eat what I want. Some days they don't fit, most days they do.
  • Derpes
    Derpes Posts: 2,033 Member
    Daily, if it fits calorie wise.
  • seltzermint555
    seltzermint555 Posts: 10,740 Member
    I am not a low carb eater or anything else like that. But I have lost 138 lb eating regular treats. Daily at least. I just try to choose smarter things, like dark chocolate or a small measured scoop of ice cream. However a few times a week I do have something like pie or a big cookie. I don't have trouble fitting it in.
  • flabassmcgee
    flabassmcgee Posts: 659 Member
    I try not to eat a lot of desserts. I treat it like a "sometimes" food. It's like a conduit to binging for me, so I try to be careful. :)
  • Serah87
    Serah87 Posts: 5,481 Member
    cwolfman13 wrote: »
    I enjoy pretty much everything in moderation.

    ^^^ This!!!
  • SrMaggalicious
    SrMaggalicious Posts: 495 Member
    no, I allow two.
  • kpk54
    kpk54 Posts: 4,474 Member
    Lots of folks do. I'm not one of them. I've met goal, have been maintaining for 7 months and have found I often times have no control (about 70% of the time perhaps) when it comes to the things I consider treats such as cakes, ice cream, chocolates, chips, cheese, beef stick. I'm still working on that with a goal of being able to eat anything/everything in moderation.
  • KD0BIK
    KD0BIK Posts: 44 Member
    This is my theory. If it fits, it slips.

    If the treats fit into your calorie allowance, then the weight will still slip off.
  • earlnabby
    earlnabby Posts: 8,171 Member
    When I am pre-logging my dinner and bedtime snack, I see what I have left and if I have enough calories and carbs leftover, I will treat myself to a beer, hard cider, or glass of wine with dinner.

    I am not a big sweets eater so I rarely eat any. If I do, it is usually when I am eating elsewhere like a special occasion dinner where there will be birthday cake or at book club where there is always M&M's. I know they will be available and I plan ahead for them and don't consider them treats.
  • Sabine_Stroehm
    Sabine_Stroehm Posts: 19,263 Member
    I have something treat like every day. Sometimes chocolate. Sometimes wine.
  • WhoIsAmber
    WhoIsAmber Posts: 161 Member
    I enjoy everything I like in moderation :D If it fits my calories for the day, I'm going to eat it and enjoy myself. I used to overly restrict what I eat, putting foods in "good" and "bad" categories and whenever I did that, I'd soon fall off the weight loss wagon because I was miserable.
  • rachylouise87
    rachylouise87 Posts: 367 Member
    thanks for the input :)
  • Maries_wine_calories
    Maries_wine_calories Posts: 152 Member
    Gingerbread Oreos are my current treat favorite!!
  • NoelFigart1
    NoelFigart1 Posts: 1,276 Member
    Sometimes, I'll have a piece of chocolate or something. Or a Lindt truffle. (Amazing concentration of deliciousness for 79 calories!)

    I'm of the fitting calories and no evil foods school.
  • cwlsr
    cwlsr Posts: 71 Member
    I will keep it short! The nice part about MFP is it allows you to plan ahead so you can eat in moderation. If you know that you like certain foods that might be call treats then plug those calories in first for the day. After that you then can determine what your menus will be for the rest of the day. The snack section of meal planning is the perfect place to add all those foods you call treats. Tip: One of the most successful forms of staying on track is to do meal planning the day before you plan to eat them.
  • DeterminedFee201426
    DeterminedFee201426 Posts: 859 Member
    i eat treats everyday
  • DeterminedFee201426
    DeterminedFee201426 Posts: 859 Member
    zyxst wrote: »
    I'd have killed someone and gone on a binge if I didn't work in "treats" (however you use that term) every day. I don't think of them as "treats", but I have dessert after my 2 meals.
    Haha! me too!*

  • OhMaryMack
    OhMaryMack Posts: 11 Member
    As a recovering carbaholic who is controlling type 2 diabetes with diet alone, I definitely believe simple carbs are "evil." But I eat a couple of Hershey's mildly sweet sugar free dark chocolates every day. I just make sure to leave room for them in my calorie budget. Not too hard to do -- 2 of them total only 64 calories.
  • DeterminedFee201426
    DeterminedFee201426 Posts: 859 Member
    WhoIsAmber wrote: »
    I enjoy everything I like in moderation :D If it fits my calories for the day, I'm going to eat it and enjoy myself. I used to overly restrict what I eat, putting foods in "good" and "bad" categories and whenever I did that, I'd soon fall off the weight loss wagon because I was miserable.
    (*) (*) (*)

  • earlnabby
    earlnabby Posts: 8,171 Member
    cwlsr wrote: »
    I will keep it short! The nice part about MFP is it allows you to plan ahead so you can eat in moderation. If you know that you like certain foods that might be call treats then plug those calories in first for the day. After that you then can determine what your menus will be for the rest of the day. The snack section of meal planning is the perfect place to add all those foods you call treats. Tip: One of the most successful forms of staying on track is to do meal planning the day before you plan to eat them.

    I agree. I often plan my day out while drinking my morning coffee.

  • sheepotato
    sheepotato Posts: 600 Member
    Up to 20% of my calories can be (treats, snacks, junk food) whatever you call it assuming that I've covered my nutritional needs for the day with the other 80% or more.

  • amymrls
    amymrls Posts: 1,673 Member
    I eat whatever the heck I want as long as it is in my caloric guidelines
  • 999tigger
    999tigger Posts: 5,235 Member
    Every day. I think id have been bored to death without it. I normally have a bag of chips/ crisps as well as an optional chocolate bar if I feel like it. I more or less earn it though.
  • GaleHawkins
    GaleHawkins Posts: 8,159 Member
    I guess I am still in the left brain stage of learning a healthy eating lifestyle so the research and science that I can dig up is my treat. :)

    My treat at this point is not having to take cancer causing meds to manage my pain so leaving off most all carbs because they act like a poison to my body (pain shoots up) is not really hard because the cravings have gone. My main treat is not being mean to my family and others due to high level of pain and or being a bear because of a sugar crash.

    I did not decide/select to do LCHF because I did not know about the Low Carb High Fat eating concept. I was trying to manage my pain levels and just evolved into the LCHF world without even being aware of that fact at first.

    That being said I have been into Extra Dark Chocolate for years as a health food. I was using the power in my one cup of coffee most mornings. The wife read what Hershey put on the box about their 100% Cacao Natural Unsweetened being the highest in natural antioxidants and she picked it up at WM or Krogers which I now use.

    One tablespoon (5g) is 10 calories with .5g Fat, 3g carbs/2g fiber and <1g Protein.

    It works for me plain especially after learning some research links the rise of Type 2 diabetes even in thin people to artificial sweeteners as one cause of the explosion of that disease.

    Bottom line is we are all different so find what works best for your brain/diet and do it. I lost a lot of weight on my RC Cola diet a few years ago. My right brain likes tricks like that too. :)

    We do not die from a bit of this or that from time to time. In my case years of massive carb abuse is what getting me. A taste of carbs is not going to kill me any more than a taste of beer is going to kill a former alcoholic. It is what a taste could do to do to drag a former abuser back into being an active abuser that concerns me. That is just my thoughts coming from a family that abused alcohol. Dad stopped drinking at the age of 16 but all of his five brothers did not and paid a high price at many levels until death.

    Again if treats work for you then do it. For me at my age to do another regain would end badly and being a carb abuser I have to act on what my brain tells me to do and not to do.



  • MoiAussi93
    MoiAussi93 Posts: 1,948 Member
    I have some dark chocolate most days, and while I do enjoy it I don't consider it a cheat. It fits in my calories, has a relatively low glycemic index, and has relatively low sugar and a lot of antioxidants. That being said, I have a few small bites...only half a serving...because it is relatively high in calories.

    I think you can generally have anything you like if you either only have it once in a while ( an exception) or eat it more frequently in very small quantities as part of an overall healthy diet.
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