How often do you allow yourself "healthy" desserts?

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  • annette_15
    annette_15 Posts: 1,657 Member
    I literally plan my day so I can have a Lenny and Larry's cookie for dessert every day. No half cookie bs
  • rsleighty
    rsleighty Posts: 214 Member
    I eat dessert as often as I have it in the house and can fit it into my nutrition range. Honestly, I would rather eat "real food" than sweets/treats at this point. I thoroughly miss potato chips though....(watching sodium)
  • 85Cardinals
    85Cardinals Posts: 733 Member
    I lost my taste for sweets in the late 90s.
  • amusedmonkey
    amusedmonkey Posts: 10,330 Member
    edited March 2016
    If you are talking about 100-200 calorie sweet snacks that would fit into any day , I have them whenever I feel like having them. Sometimes I go a whole week of daily sweet snacks, other times I don't have any for a whole month. For higher calorie ones (500+ calories) it's more complicated and often needs pre-planning. I can't just have one whenever without considering my options.
  • Serah87
    Serah87 Posts: 5,481 Member
    I have Reese's Peanut Butter cup most every day and other sweets like ice cream, donuts, etc.....lost 121 pounds and been maintaining now for 18 months now. ;)
  • mandietippets
    mandietippets Posts: 55 Member
    Serah87 wrote: »
    I have Reese's Peanut Butter cup most every day and other sweets like ice cream, donuts, etc.....lost 121 pounds and been maintaining now for 18 months now. ;)

    Wow! What an accomplishment! Good for you! I'm a sucker for Reese's. Only problem is I can't just have 1. Lol.
  • lemurcat12
    lemurcat12 Posts: 30,886 Member
    I have dessert most nights -- sometimes ice cream (had leftover ice cream with rhubarb sauce I made for Easter tonight, because I had a hard workout and relatively low cal day), sometimes a piece of fruit (pears are an amazing dessert), sometimes something non-sweet like cheese. I used to do protein shakes or smoothies sometimes, but haven't done either for a while. I've made "healthy" desserts like sweet potato pudding or a banana coconut milk pudding or chia pudding, and there's a TJ's yogurt I like that might as well be dessert, but they aren't usually much of a calorie savings over other options, and I'm lazy, so I don't that often -- more often as an experiment because I feel like cooking.

    I don't see anything wrong with having a dessert that fits into your calories, though. I tend not to have baked goods much because I find them hard to fit into my calories in satisfying amounts without sacrificing other things and enjoy them more saving them for special occasions, but I'll have a little piece of high quality chocolate if I need low cals, or any number of other things for up to around 200, which I often have left at the end of a day anyway.

    If I don't have the calories because I was more splurgy on other things earlier in the day, I will skip the dessert, no problem. However, I don't really separate out sweet splurges (like I said, my desserts aren't always sweet) from other sorts. (My biggest weaknesses aren't the sweet ones.)
  • Eleted
    Eleted Posts: 121 Member
    Strawberry jello with fresh strawberries and chocolate whipped cream is awesome and low calorie.
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