How to quit dessert.

dmt4641 wrote: »

oyChihuahua wrote: »

Half chocolate fudge pop tart a la mode for me:

Ice cream over pop tart! Mind blown. Must try this.

I like the Special K pastry crisps better, personally, and they are less calories so it's easier to fit them in (you end up with 30g of ice cream between two, typically, which is 50-80 calories or something). Or I guess you can break a pop tart in 2 to save calories as well (or that's a 500-600 calorie treat right there, lol).

Anyway, yeah, I have dessert most days too, I just stick to flavored yogurt on days when I'm hungrier and can't really spend calories on things that won't fill me up.

I try to keep a variety of desert options around the house that can come in under 200 and 100 calories. I have something sweet with lunch most days as well as dessert in the evening.

Knowing I can have some every day keeps me from eating the whole bag of chocolates, carton of ice cream or box of cookies. Being limited to a smaller portion actually slows me down and I enjoy my snacks much more than I used to when I could eat as much as I wanted.

I a pinch a few semi sweet chocolate chips (10 grams is about 50 calories.) with some fresh fruit can be very satisfying.

Giving up dessert would mean giving up the longest lasting relationship I've ever had. Like the others, it's still in my life, just maybe not in the same quantities as it use to be.

suziecue20 wrote: »

I'm not allowed to eat chocolate, ice cream, pastry, cakes, biscuits because of high cholesterol....I can live without pastry, cakes, biscuits and even ice cream but CHOCOLATE and chocolate desserts....its just too cruel!

Cholesterol in food doesn't really raise blood cholesterol though if that's your concern.

http://www.cholesterol-and-health.com/Cholesterol-Rich-Foods-Raise-Blood-Cholesterol.html



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Sea Salt Caramel, I can't quit you! I may not be able to eat it everyday. When I do have it, I make sure there is room for a proper severing:

I didn't even realize that the words "quit" and "dessert" could physically go together in the same sentence unless they are bonded with other words first (e.g., "I can't quit eating this delicious dessert!").

I eat dessert and lose weight. I drink wine and lose weight. I just make room for them!

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Another dessert that we have just gotten into...probably way behind the eight-ball is to mix a tin of light coconut milk together with 1 Tbls of chia seeds, mix well cover and leave in fridge overnight.....give it a stir now and again....it ends up looking like tapioca pudding but with a lovely coconut flavour....pretty awesome over any kind of fruit, cereal, pop tarts anything you like. You could combine it with a low fat ice cream of choice for a bit of a change in flavour and texture.

YMMV but in a 400ml tin, 100 ml of the coconut milk I have is 255 kj and the chia seeds are 291 per Tbl....we get about 4-6 decent sized dollops.....

I desserts.....I couldn't imagine me succeeding with the loss and maintenance sides of life if I had to ditch dessert....Props to those that can and do. Sympathy to those here that can't through health reasons....I do hope you find something that here in this thread that may make desserts possible for you again.

Actually @suziecue20 chia seeds would be worth you investigating as a dessert option, you could use any milk or fluid you wish to make a pudding, flavour it with essences, booze etc .....prob. worth a Google.

@HippySkoppy - I will have a look at the chia seeds, thanks Coconut milk and flesh is a definite no no for me but funnily enough the worst thing I could eat is grapefruit because it causes a chemical reaction with the statins meds I am on to lower my cholesterol and badly affects the liver.

Machka9 wrote: »

ninerbuff wrote: »

ttfnweight wrote: »

ninerbuff wrote: »

No need to ditch it if you have room. I eat ice cream practically every night. And not that diet ice cream stuff. I'm talking Ben and Jerry's Chunky Monkey, Cherry Garcia, or Hazed and Confused.

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WOW!! You must be very disciplined during the day.

I'm allowed 2400 calories a day for maintenance WITHOUT exercise. And I exercise.

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For those of us who aren't on maintenance ...

It can be more of a challenge to fit the little treats in.

It was easier for me to fit little treats in while I was losing actually. I've been hungrier since I started to maintain and now 2 times out of 3, if I spend more than 150 calories on a treat, I'll go to bed hungry.

ttfnweight wrote: »

The thing I don't like about "low cal" options is by and large the u

HippySkoppy wrote: »

Machka9 wrote: »

ninerbuff wrote: »

ttfnweight wrote: »

ninerbuff wrote: »

No need to ditch it if you have room. I eat ice cream practically every night. And not that diet ice cream stuff. I'm talking Ben and Jerry's Chunky Monkey, Cherry Garcia, or Hazed and Confused.

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WOW!! You must be very disciplined during the day.

I'm allowed 2400 calories a day for maintenance WITHOUT exercise. And I exercise.

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For those of us who aren't on maintenance ...

It can be more of a challenge to fit the little treats in.

Thank goodness for low-cal options, and I wish there were more low-cal options here in Australia. I'm sure I've seen low-cal cake and muffin mixes in Canada, but I cannot find them here (maybe I just imagined them in Canada). Nevertheless, I have found a couple low-cal yogurts I like, and today I picked up some low-cal jello which I'm looking forward to. A couple weeks ago, I also noticed that a certain brand of sorbet wasn't bad for calories. And of course, there's fruit.

Unfortunately I don't think we've got all the low-cal ice cream brands people keep mentioning.


Meanwhile tonight, I'm planning to slice up a banana and fresh pineapple, and top it with vanilla yogurt and whipped cream.

@Machka9 I'm Also in Aus. have you tried making your own yoghurt from scratch. Either Easiyo or Hansells brands often on special with the whole kit and kaboodle starter package for around $20 at either Coles/Woolies etc, then yo u can make your own after that from the sachets proved in the supermarkets.

The lower fat ones are great for the calories....full fat better protein and lower sugar ratios so go with which ever suits you the best ie Hansells full-fat greek yoghurt I had last night was 68 cals for 87 grams. You can flavour them up with whatever takes your fancy, either sweet of savoury in place of dressing, spreading on wraps, dips etc.

Hope this gives you a hand.

My hubby and I made our own yogurt in a crockpot then into the oven at 150 for 12 hours. It came out absolutely delicious. Creamy just like custard not too tart or sour which I love because I'm not a big fan of sour yogurts( YUCK!) but I also heard dairy isn't good for your system so I cut back. Dairy it said create an acidic state in your body that your body fights to return to homeostasis by drawing calcium from your bones to neutralize the acidity. So I cut back on eating our delicious yogurt.

This is absolutely not true.

EmmaFitzwilliam wrote: »

ttfnweight wrote: »

ninerbuff wrote: »

No need to ditch it if you have room. I eat ice cream practically every night. And not that diet ice cream stuff. I'm talking Ben and Jerry's Chunky Monkey, Cherry Garcia, or Hazed and Confused.

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WOW!! You must be very disciplined during the day.

I suspect he is, but there are other factors which may be in play. High activity level and significant muscle density/low body fat percentage seriously "up the ante" when it comes to available calories.

Plus, how much ice cream? I just checked a handful of Ben & Jerry's flavors; average it out to 300 calories/ half cup. Sure, 300 calories is a quarter of my recommended allowance, but Ninerbuff probably has a wider margin.

And if I get in a decent amount of steps and make conscientious choices during the day, I can leave room for a 300 calorie dessert. I happen to like the individual cakes at Nothing Bundt Cakes; 1/2 of a "bundtlet" is on the order of 225 calories; that with a cup of coffee (with half and half) is <300 calories. Or I could have a half cup of Ben & Jerry's and be pretty happy about it.

You learn to "Make it work".

Ben & Jerry's is the most calorie dense ice cream out there. Check out other brands. Hood, Edy's, Friendly's, Breyers are mostly 160-180 calories for a half a cup. That's a big difference from 300 calories.

Or try B&J's froyo instead. I had a serving of Ben & Jerry's half baked froyo for 180 calories last night.