anyone eat dessert?

I noticed that a lot of you eat very healthy but I dont see a lot of sweets in your meal plans. Am I wrong? Is it ok to eat sweets everyday? As I mentioned Im early on with my recovery and I really want to eat my muffins but Im still struggling.

I try to eat very healthy, but still have some fun stuff. :) Yesterday, I had some vanilla cake with chocolate icing. Yum!

try this

healthy jolly time 94 % fat free kettle corn with natural jif peanut butter

its amazing!

just dip the popcorn in the peanut butter and theres a sweet treat for ya!

candycane ofcorse is fine to eat sweets!! pesoanly i find its better to eat sweets as it gets you back to 'normal' eating.

i have AT LEAST one piece of chocolate a day :) .. its kinda like a reward for doing well! as well as any other 'junk' food. 

if you want to have a muffin have one.. or twoo.. or three.. or how ever many you want! the quicker you do it.. the quicker ull get to recovery.. and thats what we want right? so whats the point of making recovery longer than nessecary? and lets face it .. your gonna have to gain the weight regardless.. so you might as well do it eating the food you love! right?

hope this helps :) let me kno if u hav anyother questions!

YES! I MUST HAVE SWEETS EVERYDAY!

Though sweets, of course, are not healthy, it's perfectly fine to have them in moderation! I have a little chocolate (and dark chocolate is healthy with tons of antioxidants!), some frozen yogurt, or the occasional monster cookie, ice cream cone, brownie, etc. that comes along.

I also eat mini muffins everyday. Maybe it's not so good to eat so many of these at once, haha.

For the past 4 work days I've planned to have 1 pop tart pastry. Smores. I've needed one of those by 9pm every night at my desk. It may not be the best way to spend 203 calories, but I balanced the rest of my food around it and it's fine.

ya i try to go to my fav cucarna,  thats a sweet cake shop where i live and get something fantastic on the days i go to the gym.  if i did not eat sweets i would not make my cals for the day.  even when i was not eating enough i was still eating cookies and sweet cereals i amlso eat lots of fruit i dont like salty snacks though.

Not so much sweets and pastries but I eat a lot of sweet foods! Dried fruit are my weakness but they REALLY help bulk my calories out. I do like Nana's cookies, though, which're dairy/gluten/pretty much any allergen free depending on the variety you get. But I try to mix it up. If anything I'm more guilty lately of getting lots of cornish pasties! >>; But there's a really nice shop that makes them around the corner from work with a good balance of pastry, vegetables and meat, and they keep me quite full for that. Plus calories ahoy!

Saying that: YES! Eat the muffins! As long as you have your sweets and treats as a balanced part of your diet and not making up more than about 20% of your diet in general. As long as you get plenty of complex carbs, proteins, healthy fats, dairy or calcium fortified dairy alternatives and fruit and veg then yes, go for it!

Yeah, it doesn't matter what you choose to cut back on in order to save calories.

I can keep sweets, but not chips for example.

I'd be careful with muffins though, I've heard nasty stories of 350-400 calorie muffins!  Maybe make your own or find a low-cal brand?

tealparadise the OP is a) in recovery from an eating disorder and b) trying to gain weight, so 'scaring' her with stories about high calorie muffins isn't really the best way to help her.

Re the original post - I have a few squares of dark choc every night after dinner because I eat another snack shortly after, and having a 'bigger' dessert leaves me absolutely stuffed. I need to work on having more 'treat' food rather than obsessively eating healthy all the time - so thanks for bringing this up! :-)

"Sweets" really don't hold any appeal to me, but I love "sweet" fruits and naturally sweet foods. Like Lala said - dried fruits are awesome, and at least they're higher-calorie!

Original Post by tealparadise:

I'd be careful with muffins though, I've heard nasty stories of 350-400 calorie muffins!  Maybe make your own or find a low-cal brand?

 I've seen 600-700 calorie ones, but that's not the point. She's trying to recovery from an ED so it really doesn't matter.

of course it's ok!!  Personally, I'm giving up chocolate and biscuits for lent so there is probably a bit less sweet stuff on my menus but I still love having something sweet aftre my main meals - icecream or strawberries and cream etc.  Muffins are yum and this is the time when you need those babies so eat all you want :) just be sure you're getting enough of the nutricious(I can't spell) stuff too.

every meal i have feels like a treat to me (i eat very clean by the way). my taste buds have just changed i guess from my life-style change. a lot of things people consider treats i dont even consider food because of the lack of any nutritional value.

adding sugar to my coffee and or oatmeal makes it a treat to me. or sprinkling cinnamon on my apple as i bite into it :3

my most fav treat, ice cream and peanut butter!!!!!!!!!!!!!! calcium, healthy fats, protien, fiber, and sweet goodness!!!!!!!

I eat desert 2 times a week. I cannot keep sweets in the house because they are my weakness so twice a week when I have a cheat meal it includes desert. Having that to look forward to helps keep me on track. I still try to avoid the really bad deserts like cheese cake and so on.

I am actually trying to lose, not gain weight but yes I still eat dessert.  The desserts I eat are things like no sugar added jello 5 cal/ serving with 3 tablespoons of light cool whip, 33 calories = 38 calories or chocolate pudding (homemade) 80 calories with cool whip, various fruit with fruit dip made with cool whip and danone silhouette yogurt roughly 73 calories for all the dip and it makes about two servings, I also have fudgsicle minis - 45 calories each, real fruit Popsicles - 25 calories each, light ice cream 110 calories per 1/2 cup, 100 calorie oreo snack packs, and then I also bake lower calorie healthy versions of things like banana bread and muffins.  I fit one, sometimes two of these "desserts" into my diet pretty much everyday.  It really helps with my sweet/ chocolate cravings. Also, fiber 1 oats and peanut butter bars are one of my faves and I would definitely eat these over a chocolate bar any day, they are so yummy.

Your desert must be quite gritty, littleshellys. <3 Just messing with you. But dessert has two s's! x]

Sweetandbrown... it's probably not a good idea to list a load of low calorie desserts in the Weight Gain forum. That might just be me, though... most people here that are trying to gain would likely have the common sense not to eat lower calorie foods with higher calorie requirements. <__<

I love chocolate covered almonds. Pretty much every day I allow myself some sort of sweet desert. I leave enough room in my calories and it helps me to not feel deprived. Muffins are tasty, go for it!

I eat something sweet everyday. I have even had a dietician put it in a meal plan for me everyday. She just made sure that i ate a certain number of calories from fruits, vegetables, protien, dairy, etc. Then the rest she said i could eat whatever sweets i wanted.

This is good to know.  I'm glad you asked candycane because I felt like no one ate dessert here either and I have a definite sweet tooth!  I was also looking for the "okay" for eating sweets when trying to gain weight.  My favorites are no bake cookies, Edy's Loaded Cookies & Cream ice cream, Chocolate pudding w/cool whip... mmmm!  My mom makes a lot of baked goods so I am always picking at those too!  I usually allow myself to have something sweet every night.  If you are having trouble adding these food items to your diet I would suggest doing it gradually.  If you don't feel comfortable eating an entire muffin then go with just half.  Often times I won't eat an entire helping of dessert, just enough to fill my craving.  However, I now realize that it won't hurt me to eat it all so I'm going to work on it!

Everyone's already covered everything, but I know it always makes me feel better to know i"m not alone so YES YES YES!!! I eat sweet things multiple times a day! I don't go overboard and I balance it out, as Lala said, with all my other healthy foods, but you should never ever deprive yourself. Everyone, whether trying to gain or lose or maintain, deserves to eat what they like and indulge in treats. Life is short after all, no?

I have ice cream almost every night unless I happen to have some other sweet thing around, I spread pb on cookies, I love to bake so I have a steady supply of cakes and cookies on hand too, but since I bake it I can make it with healthier ingredients, dried fruits and nuts, things like banana bread, dark choc chip cookies. It's all goes back to balance, such as putting strawberries and almonds in my ice cream :) Topping fruit cobbler with ice cream, Having some yogurt but crumbling a cookie in, etc etc.Muffins are a perfectly healthy thing to include in your diet.

point: do not feel bad and enjoy your muffins!!