How many calories do you spend on treats?

Xxlune
Xxlune Posts: 34 Member
edited December 1 in Food and Nutrition
How many calories per day or per week, going by the 'no foods are evil/wrong' principle, do you spend on treats?
Do you have them daily or do you save them up to indulge properly once a week?

I try to keep this limited to 200 calories per day, and the rest should be "good food" or at least filling.
My go-to treat is chocolate. God I miss eating all the chocolate I wanted.

What are your experiences? Please share!
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  • Losewtforlife4him
    Losewtforlife4him Posts: 423 Member
    I think that it's important to allow those treats. I think 200 calories a day seems reasonable. Lately my little treat has been a McDonalds vanilla ice cream cone for 170 calories when the mood strikes. Chocolate is also something I make room for as well. Have you tried dark cocoa powder (1 tbs at 10 calories) mixed with oatmeal and 1 tsp of peanut butter, sweetner of choice (I use swerve), sea salt, and 1 tbs coconut? It tastes like no bake cookies. Super yummy and helps when I want chocolate but need more nutrients to fill me up.
  • CooCooPuff
    CooCooPuff Posts: 4,374 Member
    I pretty use most of my Fitbit calories on them. It's usually around 450 calories at the end of the day.

    I plan on having Pop Tarts today.
  • eldamiano
    eldamiano Posts: 2,667 Member
    For me, a salad is a treat every time....
  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,371 Member
    I try not to go over 300 calories of non filling foods - bread, cookies, cracker, even rice. But I guess what's filling and what isn't depends on the day too...
  • caseylizbeth
    caseylizbeth Posts: 112 Member
    I set aside about 200 calories for "treats" per day.
  • one1fast68
    one1fast68 Posts: 51 Member
    I only have a "treat" if I've meet my macros for the day. If so, the rest of my calories will be cookies. This only happens a couple times a week but I keep oreos hidden in a cereal box pre weighed just for those occasions.
  • tapwaters
    tapwaters Posts: 428 Member
    I usually use a treat to fill a small calorie gap, often 100 calories. I will usually eat a cookie, this week for instance I made pumpkin cookies; if I am over 30g on fat or over my sugar limit I'll eat a Dandie (vegan marshmallow) instead.
  • JeromeBarry1
    JeromeBarry1 Posts: 10,179 Member
    The only "treat" I schedule is a hot pickle. Everything else is functional for protein, fiber, starch, fat, or carbs. The pickle is fire and salt. I can only have it when everything else has been so low in sodium that the pickle becomes functional because I need salt.
  • Xxlune
    Xxlune Posts: 34 Member
    You are all eating so clean! It's inspiring :)

    It almost makes me feel bad for filling up those last 200 calories with chocolate (almost.)
  • snickerscharlie
    snickerscharlie Posts: 8,578 Member
    Xxlune wrote: »
    You are all eating so clean! It's inspiring :)

    It almost makes me feel bad for filling up those last 200 calories with chocolate (almost.)

    I lurves me some durty, durty chocolate. :D

    I make room in my allotment each day for a treat in the evening. And yes, it's usually something chocolate-y. :)
  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 25,681 Member
    All of them!! :)
  • Meganthedogmom
    Meganthedogmom Posts: 1,639 Member
    On a typical day, I'd say anywhere between 200-300 calories. This could be anything from ice cream to Greek yogurt with fruit to candy or chocolate.
  • chimaerandi
    chimaerandi Posts: 153 Member
    Hard to say, because some of the things I adore, like pickles, are low calorie and thus people wouldn't call them treats. I don't have a very big sweet tooth, but I probably spend 600 ish calories a week on bourbon whiskey, which is my 'treat'
  • fr33sia12
    fr33sia12 Posts: 1,258 Member
    I don't have treats (what you would class as a treat anyway) I have 3 meals and 2 snacks a day and I already eat whatever I want. Luckily I enjoy eating healthily and don't crave any "treats"
  • kirstenb13
    kirstenb13 Posts: 181 Member
    I'm in maintenance so it's different, but on weekends I can end up with 1000-1500 calories of treats (out of 3000 calories total if I'm active enough). During the week it's only a few hundred per day. Also greek yogurt or fruit doesn't count as a treat for me, but peanut butter does :)
  • bioklutz
    bioklutz Posts: 1,365 Member
    300-500 calories...I maintain my weight around 2000 calories a day.
  • DaisyHamilton
    DaisyHamilton Posts: 575 Member
    Depends on the day, but I try to keep it around 200-300 usually. But I mean yesterday I had two Reeses cups (210) and 1c ice cream (280), and a bag of chips for 450.

    Honestly as long as I can fit it in, I'm gonna eat it.
  • WinoGelato
    WinoGelato Posts: 13,454 Member
    I have a glass or two of wine pretty much every day, and usually something sweet as well (square of chocolate, serving of oreos, half serving of Talenti). Depends how much room I have - on the weekends I have more.

    I'd say usually 200-500 cals of what many others would call "treats".
  • robot_potato
    robot_potato Posts: 1,535 Member
    It depends on the day. Some days I have none, some days i'll spend half my calories on them. Still within my goals, every day can't be perfect.
  • stealthq
    stealthq Posts: 4,298 Member
    Way more than I should be - I don't that many calories and can't really afford nutritionally to spend more than 100-200 cals on that kind of thing on a regular basis. But I do.

    I'm trying an experiment and swapping out some of it for a mix of blackberries, strawberries, and ricotta. Maybe it'll help keep me in check :smile:
  • sun_cat
    sun_cat Posts: 114 Member
    I think the key for me was changing my vocabulary/thinking about food. I don't use words like 'treats', 'indulge' or 'save up for'. As long as I kept those words around foods, then clearly I still had the thoughts that some foods were different. It took a while, but now I eat what I feel like and nothing is a treat - unless it's expen$ive like artichokes or fancy balsamic vinegar or something like that. But cookies or chocolate are ordinary.
  • cross2bear
    cross2bear Posts: 1,106 Member
    Ninety nine percent of the time I dont use up all my daily allotment of calories, but I also have to be mindful that I want to change my eating habits for a lifetime and learn to make choices that are better for me physically and psychologically. That said, I love me some chips, and have found a marvelous product (Kelloggs cracker chips in a variety of flavours, like salt and vinegar, butter popcorn, bbq, etc) that allows me to have "chips" for less than 100 cals per serve, and seems to successfully satisfy my need for the empty calories that chips represent. I also like marshmallow squares with chocolate drizzle that come in at about 110 cals, or jello sugar free puddings at about 50 cals. They hit my sweet spot and I feel happy that I have been able to manage a little indulgence into my day.
  • ObsidianMist
    ObsidianMist Posts: 519 Member
    about 200 calories a day
  • snowflake930
    snowflake930 Posts: 2,188 Member
    128 per day, every day for almost 3 years now & I never get tired of it
    Fiber one brownie bar 90
    1 piece of dove dark chocolate caramel with sea salt 38
  • enterdanger
    enterdanger Posts: 2,447 Member
    Did I go to the gym that day? If so, whatever I earned for my workout. If I was a lazy slug then my treat consists of a medium skim latte no sugar from Dunkin Donuts(100 calories) and a 48 calorie square of Lindt's dark chocolate with sea salt. I'm pretty consistent on non gym days.
  • kay_78
    kay_78 Posts: 6 Member
    I work on my feet walking around all day (7-7.5 hours) so on work days I allow 250 calories for snacking. On days off I allow 100-150 calories.
  • janjunie
    janjunie Posts: 1,200 Member
    I eat about 500 calories of treats (actual desserts, not yogourt or fruit) a day. My calorie allowance is about 1900-2000/day. I meet all my micro and macronutrients each day, so this works for me. FWIW I'm also in maintenance.
  • NorthCascades
    NorthCascades Posts: 10,968 Member
    Xxlune wrote: »
    Do you have them daily or do you save them up to indulge properly once a week?

    It took a long time for my thinking to come around on this. It's not enough to just change my mind, my stomach had to buy in!

    I thought I used to indulge "properly" but I used to over-indulge. Now I indulge properly. I probably do it most days.
  • shank35l
    shank35l Posts: 102 Member
    270/day in the form of 1 starbucks mocha frappe. It is my great nutritional sin.
  • VegasCaveman
    VegasCaveman Posts: 10 Member
    I spend any extra calories usually on better treats. My protein shakes and oranges usually cure my sugar cravings pretty easily. I'll include things like cheese to make a meal more tasty if I have extra. I can skip the dessert aisle decently.
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