Is it okay to eat 1 cookie or 1 piece of candy every day?

As long as you stay within your calories and meet your daily nutrition eat what you want.

Exactly! Totally denying yourself can increase the cravings so keep it within your allowance and you're all good

I have 2-4 dove dark promises every night while watching tv with my husband ... it is my treat for a day of healthier eating!

Speaking from experience, i have chocolate every day.

Packet of crisps every night before bed.

A donut on shopping day.


But, i log them, account for the cals, keep my deficit, hit my macros, exercise hard, and then eat whatever i fancy, and it's been amazingly easy for me. )

Yes. Chocolate in bed works well.

It is alright if you want to eat the candy or cookie..

When i first started on my new eating plan it was hard for me to stop eating the sweets. I read a book that said When you crave chocolate or something sweet. eat frozen grapes, After getting like that for a week. I dont even crave any of the refined sugars anymore. I don't crave sweets at all, I usually eat as many grapes i can for breakfast. it gets me thru.. If i generally have a problem where i do crave, i eat an apple during the day.. I was sharing this story because, This could be an alternative.. It worked for both me and my mom who ended up giving up soda because it became toooo sweet for her.

But by all means, Eat what you want. As long as you stay under your goal, your golden

I think it is perfectly fine

I just joined this site so I could reply to this thread. The truth is is if you remove all of the mental aspects of food and weightloss, you actually can get into an equilibrium with your body. (this is assuming you have a base knowledge that eating vegetables and fruit is better for your body than eating chips). Once you remove the mental energy away from how many calories you are burning and how many you are "allowed" to eat, you can actually reach a healthy weight.
For instance, some days I am a lot more hungry that other days. So yes, I eat more on those days. With in your month, your apatite level fluctuates with your hormones (I am a female). If you listen to your body, you will have a balance and you will not gain weight. I eat dessert every day, usually twice a day. I'm not talking a piece of cheese cake, but I have cookies, chocolate (milk or dark, what ever you like). And some days I just don't feel like it.
When you focus all of the attention on the numbers associated with food (calories, number of cookies) this can completely interfere with your bodies ability to regulate your weight. Your brain releases compounds that turn your appetite on, and ones that turn it off. This regulation goes further than just one meal. If you have been at a weight for a long time, your body is going to want to keep you at this set point. That is why losing weight becomes really difficult sometimes because your body is constantly producing appetite hormones. When you add this on top of peoples constant enumeration of everything they eat, you have a recipe for yo-yo weight loss.
So most of you will not believe a word I am saying, because why has no one up to this point just promoted having a healthier intuitive relationship with food? Well that is because soo much money can be made off of it. And people love to focus on numbers, that is our nature. But to really combat the weight issue plaguing North America, we need to promote the culture of food and enjoying it with friends and family, and take the focus off of the numbers. Once you have a more positive less number-oriented relationship with food, your body will maintain a healthy weight for you. Of course you need to eat vegetables and fruit and whole grains. We all know that by now. But try shifting the focus away from the numbers.

Only your scale can answer that for YOU.

As long as its just one!

Kidding. If it fits in your calories, have at it!

Only your scale can answer that for YOU.