This past week, I had half a brownie on Wednesday and a small dish of soft squeeze ice cream on Friday. That was it for the week.
I’m not really a dessert person. I don’t like cake, pie, most kinds of ice cream, and all cookies save chocolate chip and Oreos. I find most things disgustingly sweet or sticky (you would have to pay me at least $10 to eat a Twinkie), and I have this weird thing where I can’t stand the sensation of chewing chocolate. So it takes me upwards of an hour to eat a bag of M&M’s because I have to suck each piece individually and let it dissolve.
I have a sweet tooth and have at least 1 thing every day. Cookies, cake brownies, Little Debbies, candy bars, most of anything sweet. I like ice cream ok, but I don’t have it very often. I otherwise have a pretty healthy diet (multiple fruits and veggies a day, not lots of fried foods or other salty foods) and I run often, so I guess it’s somewhat justified. I’d be happy if I could eat less sweets, but they’re so damn good.
I eat them a few times a year, but only because I deliberately restrict myself. When I was fat and didn’t care, I ate dessert twice a day, and that was what passed for “restriction” at the time. I’d eat them all the livelong day if I could get away with it.
That, and pasta, bread, potatoes, and cereal. I was a major carb fiend.
I generally have a little something if I feel like it, which is probably four or five days a week. Maybe a square of dark chocolate or a couple of spoonfuls of ice cream. I do have a weakness for baked goods, so I just don’t keep anything like that in the house, although I may split a brownie with someone if I’m out.
I can’t imagine thinking that “only one ice cream bar per day” was some sort of heroic restraint, but I also don’t attach morality to food choices (with the exception of competitive eating, that shit is fucked up). Everyone can do the cost/benefit analysis for themselves, and if they decide it comes down on the side of eating the ice cream bar, who am I to tell them differently?
I have dessert after dinner pretty much every day. I get plenty of exercise just so that I can indulge my sweet tooth. I’m quite healthy and have a lot of energy, so I don’t think it’s hurting me. I’m not overweight at all.
Not much at all, but I don’t really like sweets. I’m much more into salty and savory/fatty snacks like nuts and potato chips and cream cheese/chili dip. Last time was at an Indian buffet earlier in the week (gulab jamun and a small amount of basmati rice pudding). Before that… um… I can’t remember. Probably the time I ate Indian before that, which was a couple of weeks before.
I eat a pint of ice cream nearly every evening, and I also eat rather a lot of chocolate (almost every day - I work with the stuff all around me). I avoid wheat flour so that really cuts out most of the ‘junk food’ I could be eating (at work I am also steps away from a bakery full of very generous people…). I don’t usually eat non-chocolate candy, fruit, or anything else sweet.
I have always been very thin and lean, and the majority of my diet (which is rather insanely high in calories, fat and protein compared to most health-conscious people’s standards) is composed of animal products and vegetables, which I consider very healthy indeed.
I’m another person with a marginally-controlled sweet tooth. I could eat sweets with every meal, never mind once a day, but I try to limit myself to a small dessert every evening. I found some delicious sugar-free lemon biscuits that I was having at work with coffee, but now I can’t find them any more.
Actual deserts, almost never at home. But for nearly ten years, my wife and I have had one chocolate truffle every night, usually right after dinner. This puts a period on the day’s eating and has been quite effective in helping to lose weight.
I have a bowl of ice cream nearly every day after dinner. If we eat out, I order dessert. And if there’s anything good sitting around the office, I have some.
I’ve always been able to eat anything I wanted, so no regrets on that front, but it probably would have been better to raise the kids without the idea of having dessert every day.
I had a cup of ice cream (yeah - I eat ice cream out of a coffee cup, not a bowl - it stays colder longer) for breakfast and two cookies. I probably won’t eat sweets again for two or more weeks. I run kind of hot and cold on sweet things.
In the past when I’ve needed to lose weight, I’ve deliberately incorporated 100 or so calories of “treat” into my daily diet in order to avoid feeling deprived, and it was usually an ice cream bar. There are a ton that are less than 100 calories, and for me they are a lot more satisfying than other more fattening options.
As far as my current consumption of sweets, it’s not high unless protein bars count. I’ve been counting on them for an extra protein boost while I work on this whole breastfeeding thing, since I’m awake at odd hours and can eat them with one hand.
Like others in this thread, I work out regularly and use that to balance my intake of sugary junk. I definitely have something sweet every day, and I derive an unreasonable amount of pleasure from it…
I have one or two squares of dark chocolate every day.
Other than that… I probably eat something sweet, as in a piece of pie, a couple of oatmeal cookies, or a bowl of ice cream, between 2 and 4 times a week.
Lately? I probably eat something sweet 4-5 times per week. A couple of cookies, or something baked, ice cream very very rarely. I’m breastfeeding a tapeworm with vocal cords, and consequently am ravenous all the time.
Normally, I might eat sweets once per week or less. I tend to crave salty crunchy junk instead.
But I do have a lot of “sweet” stuff. Every day I have a can of Coke Zero. I have a chocolate/peanut butter protein bar. I have a home-made strawberry smoothie with Splenda and vanilla protein powder. Two or three times a week I’ll have a dessert-like protein bar on top of all that, and/or a pre-mixed chocolate protein shake. Oh and sometimes a few squares of sugar free chocolate bar.
I didn’t eat much in the way of “sweets” before low carb. I did keep a bowl of candy on my counter and would have a small handful of Reese’s Pieces every day. Every so often I’d have cookies in the cupboard. If I wanted to go crazy I’d have cereal like Peanut Butter Capn’ Crunch or Frosted Flakes.
I am not much in to salty stuff and can’t tolerate spicy so sweet’s gotta be where it’s at for me. Even if it’s fake.
Donuts, danish, muffins, just because they’re “breakfast foods” doesn’t make them not sweets.