# How much and how often do you eat sweets and desserts?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [May 20, 2012, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-and-how-often-do-you-eat-sweets-and-desserts/622552 "2012-05-20T21:48:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![overlyverbose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/9dc877/32.png) [@overlyverbose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/overlyverbose)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2012, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-and-how-often-do-you-eat-sweets-and-desserts/622552/41 "2012-05-21T17:02:04Z")

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About once a day, a decent-sized helping. I recently started working out about two hours a day, so I’ve been losing inches anyway. I should probably cut back, though - that won’t last forever.

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**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2012, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-and-how-often-do-you-eat-sweets-and-desserts/622552/42 "2012-05-21T17:19:04Z")

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I eat one or two chocolate bars most days, as snacks at work (like a Kit-Kat, say, or a Snickers). I’m not a big one for dessert, though.

I’m pretty active (I cycle to and from work) so I feel I’ve justified some quick energy fixes. 🙂

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**Author:** ![overlyverbose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/9dc877/32.png) [@overlyverbose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/overlyverbose)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2012, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-and-how-often-do-you-eat-sweets-and-desserts/622552/43 "2012-05-21T17:25:51Z")

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FWIW, my dessert-eating days are limited. My family went a little nuts strawberry picking over Mother’s Day. To avoid spoilage, I made strawberry jam, strawberry pie, strawberry ice cream and two loaves of strawberry bread, plus strawberry cobbler. I’m getting kind of tired of strawberries, so my consumption is waning.

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**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2012, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-and-how-often-do-you-eat-sweets-and-desserts/622552/44 "2012-05-21T17:55:59Z")

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I am so jealous of you people who eat sweets every day! I wish I could get away with that. But even with exercise, it seems that if I eat sweets every day I still seem to put on weight. I know it’s just calories in vs calories out, but for some reason refined carbs really just cause me to pack on the pounds. Unfortunately, I work on a boat with no cardio equipment, so I can’t indulge and then work out and burn off the extra calories…

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