to eat candy or not?

I just eat it, if I'm well within the calories. But chocolate is my cryptonite. Haha
However, everything else I eat is totally 'clean'.

If you eat less than you expend you will lose weight. Worry more about keeping under your goal than eating .........whatever!

I think it becomes more important WHAT you eat the less you need to lose........

Personally, I eat everything and I dont mind if that's 300 cals of sweet stuff if I ate good proteins and veg and fruit for the rest of the day.........and I lose weight if I stick to my calorie goals.

Good luck :flowerforyou:

Once in a while might actually help keep you on track. Satisfy a craving and you might be less likely to binge. Best strategy is to just eat it slowly and savor every bite.
But I wouldn't do it too often. Definitely not every day. When you exercise, your nutritional needs go up - you need more that just extra calories. A candybar won't do that for you. That, and you want to train yourself to prefer healthy snacks.

Well, not exactly... There is also the issue of nutrients. A candy bar on a regular basis will blow all sorts of nutrient levels (like sugar, maybe salt, fat). If you do this frequently, your weight loss will be slowed, if not stopped. And this isn't just about weight loss but being healthy. Candy bars just aren't healthy.

JUST EAT AN APPLE!!!! lol

I am beginning to think that sugar is worse than fat. I think I wouldn't eat a candybar now more than once a week.

I have mini bars sometimes. Usually is enough to curb any cravings etc but less cals like about a third

P.S. I'm the biggest hypocrite ever. I eat candy pretty much every single day. I'm good at giving advice, but not so good at following it. Sometimes I have up to 2 full-size hershey's chocolate bars in a day. 420 calories... I hate to admit that lately I'd rather spend 400+ calories on candy than an actual meal.

If you being a hypocrite and eating candy everyday means losing 130 pounds like you, then I say keep on being a hypocrite! *on my way out to the store to buy some hershey's bars* LOL

Well, you better pick up a tub of vanilla icing while you're at it... Because that's what I ate for dinner last night. :blushing: Okay, I didn't eat the entire tub, just 5 tablespoons (375 calories). I'm such a loser.

Congratulations on over a year of not smoking

So, if I wanted to eat a candy bar, would it be okay if I did enough exercise to cancel out the calories? Or would this technique not work? and if I could get away with this, how often or how many times could I do it?

I'm thinking I could eat whatever I wanted as long as I burned enough calories to cancel the food out. Right?

THANX,
sue

Technically, yes, you can eat whatever you want and stay within your calories. From a health perspective, you're better off limiting junk foods like candy bars to occasional treats rather than making them a daily part of your diet. Especially when you are on restricted calories, you want your food to be delivering nutrition rather than just 'fun'.

Thank you for all the responses!

I have such an evil sweet tooth.......it never takes a break! Especially at night when I'm watching TV, relaxing, I eat popcorn, chocolate and pop tarts. Pop Tarts are the most EVIL of them all. 400 calories for just two of em! I cannot have those things in my house anymore (except that my husband LOVES them and of course he is skinny as Mick Jagger and can eat 10 boxes of pop tarts and not gain one little ounce).

I have absolutely NO willpower. How do I get willpower??? I suppose if I had an answer to THAT question I'd be rich. I want to be healthy and strong, my brain says "oh, a few <hundred> calories won't hurt, you can work it off later" which I do...but still...I wish I didn't love food so much.

Believe it or not, the best way to curb a sweet tooth is to simply cut out sweets and simple carbs (breads, white rice, pasta, crackers, poptarts, muffins, cakes, etc. ). In a few weeks to months, you will lose the taste for heavily sweetened foods.

When I lost this 40 pounds the first time, 27 years ago (kept it off for well over 20 years, too) I had a HUGE sweet tooth. Much to my surprise, after a few months of not eating any sweets, I had competely and totally lost my taste for them. Things I used to love are now nauseatingly sweet to me and I haven't touched them in 27 years. I'm not the only one to discover this either. It does happen!

"Willpower" is not a very helpful concept and leads people to beat themseves up. If you find it difficult to stick to your plan, it's usually one of two things: either your plan is not well-constructed or your goals are not clearly defined/meaningful enough to you. So take a look at your plan and at your goals--if you revise one or the other, you'll probably find that the issue of so-called willpower goes away.

I HAVE to have my chocolate. Craving doesn't seem to describe it! So I limit myself. I save 200 calories at the end of each day. I usually have a 1/4 cup of M&M's (I eat them slowly so I feel like I've been snacking longer.), or I'll have a skinny cow ice cream sandwich. I know if I'm going to "live" this it has to be practical.

Good luck and have a candy bar!

a small piece of high quality dark chocolate satisfies my chocolate cravings without having as much fat and sugar as the much bigger amount of low quality chocolate needed for the same effect

I might have to try that. I love the M&M's because I can stretch my "snack" out. I don't feel deprived cause I've been munching on chocolate for the last hour. But I will have to look into a dark chocolate alternative. Thanks for the idea!

try a fiber 1 oats and chocolate bar its sweet and chocolately and while its not actually good for you at least theres lots of fiber in it