There are a lot of low carb cheese-cake recipes out there are really good. Beware artificial sweeteners though as they can trigger major cravings for some people. I personally like my baked goods to be less sweet, so I'll often half the amount of sweetener in a recipe.

I've been avoiding them. At our company Christmas party over the weekend I did have the dessert since it was an event otherwise if I'm still feeling like I need something after dinner I just have some roasted pecans. I'm just a little scared to have some sort of dessert at home

So far I've been avoiding them, aside from Fat Bombs. I've been wanting to try a LC cheesecake recipe though.

Funnily enough I noticed something yesterday. I generally don't like hot coffee. I like my cold coffee sugary. But hot, sugary coffee? gag. I decided to try a cup with heavy whipping cream instead of half and half like my fiance drinks. I put in some coconut oil, HWC, and 2 packs of splenda. I actually LIKED it! It wasn't too sweet, wasn't too black. I'm surprised the heavy cream made THAT much of a difference!

Dessert is the devil.

For me. For now.

Eventually I want to make low carb cheesecake or some such, but that will be a ways away.

Yesterday I had plain yogurt with 40 grams of mashed up raspberries and no artificial sweetener. A little bland, but I was doing it more for gut health than flavor.

I still drink diet soda, and one of those after a meal seems to satisfy the sweet tooth.

Ain't addiction grand?!?!?!?!

In my mind, I'm allowed to have one real dessert a week. In reality it only happened on Thanksgiving.

Brownilocks wrote: »

What's your dessert policy? When do you allow yourself dessert, what do you choose, and how much do you eat?

I have a fairly strong sweet tooth, which can make it challenging to be on a low carb diet, since sugar is a very dense - and addicting - carb package.

Futhermore, I love to bake!

Any tips?

If you haven't already, I highly, highly recommend taking at least a month and abstaining from all sources of sugar, including fruits and artificial sweeteners. By eating them at all, you're feeding the sugar habit and basically sabotaging yourself.

Take 4-6 weeks and abstain entirely from them, then you can consider re-introducing them. Doing this resets that "sweet tooth" and breaks the addiction habit. Once you do that, you can find your personal tolerance levels and see how they affect you.

I personally don't do "desserts," generally. It's a slippery slope, and one nearly always leads to a whole container or batch (or a good portion of it). If I do decide to indulge in a sweet treat, I usually try to get the single-serve type of thing. So, instead of buying a quart of ice cream, I go to the nearby quality ice cream place and get a single scoop. Yeah, it's more expensive, but that's part of the point -- it's a deterrent to me just getting it willy-nilly, and it keeps it out of the house, in general.

I enjoy baking, too, but now, I bake for other people. I'm actually getting ready to make half a dozen pumpkin rolls this afternoon, most of which are already sold, and some of which are going to be going into my husband's work to share with his coworkers (who might buy some more). I do the same thing with things like brownies, cookies, and cinnamon rolls.

I generally don't eat sweets because I have a sugar addiction. When I want something sweet, I typically do berries with whipped cream. I have had real desserts a few times since I started in June on very special occasions. I will have a real dessert on Christmas.

If you have access to low sugar chocolate biscuits or chocolate chip cookies then all you need is whipped cream with a little vanilla in it and for the biscuits a teaspoon each of tia maria and coffee (make up a strong coffee and use the fluid) per biscuit. Put cream on a tray. Put fluids on first cookie/biscuit and cover in whipped cream. Repeat until you create a log. Leave at least 4 hours for it to soften. Optional scatter dark chocolate on top as a decoration. Yum and low sugar.

A couple of times a week we make a low carb chocolate milkshake. This usually satisfies the sweet tooth. We have tried some low carb recipes for baked desserts but somehow the consistency seems off or something and it's not like the real thing. The shake is closer to the real thing and is easy to just whip up in the blender.

I have dessert every single night after dinner. It's like I HAVE to have something sweet straight after. I'd love to get away from from this habit as it would save me hundreds of calories every day!! My willpower seems to be nonexistent on this one thing

Christine_72 wrote: »

I have dessert every single night after dinner. It's like I HAVE to have something sweet straight after. I'd love to get away from from this habit as it would save me hundreds of calories every day!! My willpower seems to be nonexistent on this one thing

Could you cut back to small, low carb sweet things that are 100 calories or less? A square of dark chocolate, or a cookie sized crustless cheesecake won't set you back hundreds of calories.

I have a dessert every night, unless I just don't feel like it. My desserts are more like fat bombs, honestly. Favorites are
- SF jello made with a cup of HWC (orange is so yummy)
- Pumpkin cheesecake mousse (mostly cream cheese and HWC) or
- an ounce of cream cheese melted with a square of 85% dark chocolate and a packet of Truvia.

I draw the line at lowcarb breads, cookies, cakes, or anything made with nut flours or flaxmeal, because they can stall me if I eat them too often. I'm planning to have flour-based desserts on special occasions, like Thanksgiving, Christmas, or birthday. But otherwise, I'm sticking with the stuff that, so far, doesn't bog me down.

lithezebra wrote: »

In my mind, I'm allowed to have one real dessert a week. In reality it only happened on Thanksgiving.

Every other week I have this for a dessert:

In a bowl:
1 serving of sugar free jello
Sprinkle: 1/8 cup salted roasted pecans
Sprinkle a tiny amount of dark chocolate chips
Then top with extra creamy Reddi Whipping cream

It takes so good, caution though...the sugar free jello has a lot of artificial sweetener in it and may cause cravings.

I hope this helps,
Dan the Man from Michigan
Keto / The Recipe Water Fasting / E.A.S.Y. Exercise Program

Except an occasional chia pudding, in 2 months of this WOE I have had one day where I had dessert. That day I had a slice each of 2 cakes:

I made the cake I described above for a bake off at work and one of my team made a vegan cake with no eggs, no sugar, no flour. His cake had a lot of cashews and almonds and was 5 layers and took 6 hours to make, with a recipe in Polish. His won 3rd prize.

Nuts are my go to replacement for if I get hungry between meals. I mention this as for some folk that is when they look for a dessert of sorts.

Christine_72 wrote: »

I have dessert every single night after dinner. It's like I HAVE to have something sweet straight after. I'd love to get away from from this habit as it would save me hundreds of calories every day!! My willpower seems to be nonexistent on this one thing

Christine_72 wrote: »

lithezebra wrote: »

Christine_72 wrote: »

I have dessert every single night after dinner. It's like I HAVE to have something sweet straight after. I'd love to get away from from this habit as it would save me hundreds of calories every day!! My willpower seems to be nonexistent on this one thing

Could you cut back to small, low carb sweet things that are 100 calories or less? A square of dark chocolate, or a cookie sized crustless cheesecake won't set you back hundreds of calories.

Cheesecake is my weakness lol I try and stay far away. I have some dark chocolate in the fridge which I haven't opened yet because I don't trust myself to eat just 2-3 squares. But it's mind over matter, I just have to be stronger than that annoying voice in my head!!

It's actually been shown that "willpower" is, at best, a finite resource. Take willpower out of the equation (that is actually a big reason why LCHF works for so many people -- the mechanisms of action take a lot of willpower out of the equation).

In short -- stop keeping trigger foods in the house, and as I said earlier, abstain entirely from all forms of sugar for 4-6 weeks to break the habit and make new ones.

Yes, it's going to suck for a few days, but it's only a few days. You will live through it.

Also, ignore all the haters that say crap like "everything in moderation" or "it's okay in moderation" or whatever. If you are eating hundreds and thousands of calories worth, then you are incapable of "moderation" (which is a pretty meaningless word, anyway) on at least this thing, and at least until you make a drastic change. (In my opinion, the "everything in moderation" is more often a cop-out to justify maintaining old, harmful habits than anything else.)

You're doing this for your health, remember that. And no, not having the sweets all the time is not going to damage you, especially if you make sure to drop the "can't" mindset. Do not say "I can't," to things. Say "I choose not to." Say "I choose health over sugar."