Can I eat a sweet everyday while on calorie deficit?

I mean I do it.

sathmif465 wrote: »

WinoGelato wrote: »

If it is within the context of your calorie goal, no, it won’t hurt your progress at all. Many of us eat sweets or other treats daily with no adverse effects.

With so little to lose you should be aiming for about 0.25 kg/week loss and/or focusing on a recomp..

Thank u!!!!!! Wats recomp??? Like building my body again?

Maintaining weight while building muscle and losing fat. It's basically an exchange of one for the other. It's a very slow process but highly effective if you have the patience to stick with it.

CarvedTones wrote: »

I have a serious sweet tooth. I started out restricting all sorts of things, but that's what I did in the past and always failed, so (with encouragement from other posters) I started paying attention to portions and the total. I did and do mostly eat fun size candies but some days I eat a few. Here is something interesting from my personal experience, which may or may not apply to you - the sweets were not even close to being my only problem. It was having two and a half portions of cereal, a couple of portions of fries, chunks of cheese I thought were small enough to be practically nothing, etc. When I started weighing everything else and paying attention to portions and I had more "discretionary" calories than I thought.

Yep, this! I was one of those people convinced I wasn't eating nearly enough to keep gaining so I must have a "slow metabolism". Weighing your food (not just using measuring cups but actually weighing it) is a very eye-opening - and sometimes disheartening - experience, and it really shows you where your excess calories are coming from!

I lost plenty of weight whilst still eating chocolate and other treats - just be sure that you're still in a deficit and you'll still lose.

If the "little sweet" fits your macros, you can have it. And JSYK, it is possible to set your macro display to subdivide "carbs" into separate numbers for "sugar" and "fiber".

This assumes that for YOU, it is currently possible to respect the "able to keep portions small" scenario. Different people have different trigger foods / tastes. For some it is sweets, for others it might be "salty" or "greasy" like peanuts or chips. If this is you, find something you like that is on the sweet side that you CAN control (might not be chocolate, but there are many many other options) and fit it into your over-all numbers.

That being said, as mentioned above, a $15 (or so) digital food scale from anywhere (local department store, kitchen gadget store or order on line) is your reality-check for sizes of portions you are actually eating. Match it to the information on the box.

A "nutrition-label serving" of cereal is likely NOT a "cereal-bowl full" serving. It will take time to train your eye .... and even then most people find it a Best Practice to only "eye-ball it" after plenty of experience AND even then only in a setting where weighing isn't an option AND the restaurant nutrition information isn't online / in the MFP food database. Life happens, you will eventually eat out at someone else's house once in a while ...

I saw a suggestion on "great use for a digital scale" once, from someone whose supper was more likely to be a "recipe" (say a stew or casserole) than discrete easy-to-weigh separately X oz or gm meat / veg / starch.

She had the brilliant idea of entering "total pot" amounts into the recipe portion of the Food Diary, and at the end, whatever the grand total of the ingredients was, that was her "# servings". Then she would weigh what she had served herself, and whatever the weight was, that was "how many servings" (so if a big pot of stew was 5500 gms and ladle of stew she had for her own supper was 300 gms, she would say "300 servings of that stew recipie" and the macros would be auto balanced to the recipe as a whole.

fit iit in your calorie goals and you can.

i have something sweet nearly every day. ive lost 100+ pounds.

It is okay to have something small. It is also important to know if you have the self control to have only a small amount. I definitely do not have the control around sweets, so I avoid them.

I do. Every day.

Indulging my sweet tooth with a couple of 80 cal fun size bars every night means I never feel deprived and therefore never get the urge to uncontrollably binge.