Treats... What's your take on treats?
Do you have them? If so what are your treats and how often do you have them?
No right or wrong answer more just an opportunity to see what each of us do with regards to treats and how we manage it.

Me personally I allow myself a healthy treat after lunch which usually is my high protien yougurt, I also allow myself a small treat or 2 at night. Tonight I had popcorn and a fibre one bar. I try to keep this night time treat under 20% to 30% of my daily calorie intake, sometimes I can stay under and sometimes I go over. On the weekend I splurge alot more and have cake or ice cream. I find that having a treat at the end of the day gives me something to look forward to.

In my dieting days I would be " good" for a few days and deprive my self of all treats only to rebel and binge copious amounts of treat foods. So these days i try to eat treats in moderation to avoid bingeing.

@donna25trinity - Now you're talking my language! I love treats. Your question though, made me think about how do I define a treat - are they sweet, salty, processed, high fat, high carb, "bad for you"? I realized that I think about treats as something that isn't part of my main meal and generally thought of as "bad food" in diet culture. For example, last night I had 3 squares of bittersweet chocolate and 4 very delicious and sweet strawberries for dessert, but in my head I only think of the chocolate part as the treat. I always eat some sort of treat after dinner and once in a while after lunch.

I make a lot of homemade snacky foods, like the equivalent of Whole Foods Raincoast Crisp crackers, Cheez-Its, or biscotti with my sourdough starter discard. These things last a long time without going stale since they are all double baked. If I have any of those, I tend to think of them as snacks and not treats. Weird, I know.

Snack or treat - it all gets tracked!

@victorious55 I saw your note yesterday about an out of town emergency. Glad you are back and hoping all is well now for you and whatever the emergency was.

Mon Apr 11 (yay, I am on the right day today!) Three yeses finally. And good news for yesterday, I had the weight wrong on something I had estimated. Today I had leftovers and weighed them and realized that yesterday I was only 88 calories over. Pleased that I'm starting to get back with the program.

Hmm, treats, I'm trying to get off of the treat mentality. It has led to years of thinking I deserved it for some reason or another and led to gross excesses for me (remember I was a binger). There are things I do now to feel like I'm enjoying a sweet treat but lowering the calories. A favourite is a single serving low fat coconut yogurt with 1 tbsp. each of mini chocolate chips and nuts and then adding 4 tbsp of low fat whipped cream. Another treat when I was still feeling the need to binge was popcorn with one ounce of grated cheese on it and Nothing But the Bagel Seasoning. How I stopped the treat mentality and binge cycle was if I bought something and I binged on it, then I wouldn't allow myself to buy it again. It worked lol. Now I exercise some self control or that's the last time it enters the house. Tough love, even for myself! I'm like Terri though, I don't have forbidden foods; unless I can't control myself with it. Over time, I have gotten much better at controlling the portion size.