To think having dessert daily is excessive

[adriennewillfly]

When I was growing up, dessert was a common occurance. It was served with lunch at school. At home we would often have dessert in the evening, even if it was just a piece of fruit.

Now I'm a bit older, the idea of it sounds so excessive! Does anyone actually eat dessert more than once a week? Is it possible to stay in-shape/diabetes-free with a daily dessert?

@SeaBear11 it's looking more and more likely that there's a genetic component to type 2. It runs in my female family and we've all been various shapes and sizes. My Great nan was a tiny little thing and probably had it.

We have a proper dessert maybe 2 or 3 times a month as a treat. I always have fruit in the evening, but it's not really a dessert.

It depends what you eat. I only eat breakfast and dinner anyway, so my meals for the day will be cereal/toast for breakfast, my evening meal (not a massive portion) and then dessert, which I have every night, is an activia yogurt. I don't think that's excessive, as it's quite healthy. Sometimes also chop a banana or some strawberries into it.

Then I'll have some kind of treat with a cup of tea in the evening, for example a chocolate bar, a piece of cake, or something.

It's all about what you eat and how much overall. I have a treat most days (not every day, don't have it for the sake of it if I'm not hungry) but I don't have huge amounts for my meals.

I am used to it too, where I come from dinner is soup for a starter, main dish is meat or fish accompanied by at least one but preferably 2 kinds of vegetables and potatoes/ fries / rice.
Dessert is usually yoghurt or custard. Sometimes ice cream or cake.

I eat fruit and yoghurt at home after every dinner at home and when I am out, I usually order cheese platter, icecream or chocolate mousse.

"Insert words like slurping, guzzling, gobbling etc. A few pages of I'm 5 foot 5 and weigh 6 stone, references to obesity crisis, half a tin of soup fills me up for hours, boom you've got yourself a MN food thread."

You forgot making sure that everyone knows that you make EVERY meal from scratch, never have takeaway unless it's February 29th and of course every healthy, home cooked meal is accomplished by a MASSIVE salad.

or accompanied even!

What ItsAPleasure said. FFS, get a life! Personally, now that I'm a 'bit older' I wonder how the fuck so many people arrived at adulthood and advance quite far into it but ask inane questions and waste time thinking about FA.

I hate desserts. I don't like sweet foods. I'm fat and have hypertension. I eat excessively.

Ffs only here would you get that eating a yogurt is bad for you and even fruit after a meal.
Leave us fat bastards alone you skinny boasters.
I get it, youse hardly eat...slow clap...

My child has dinner and pudding at school daily. We rarely have custard and pudding or apple pie etc. We do have abit of chocolate on an evening though. Sometimes biscuits.

Don't forget the 'plenty of veg', Slightly, but it can't be veg like corn, carrots, peas or potatoes it has to be kale, broccoli, spinach, aubergine, something acceptable.

I hate 'dessert'. It's very Pardonia.

Oh and
I don’t give a shit how little you eat.

I would class a piece of fruit as a healthy snack, not a dessert personally.
I grew up in a house where my mum baked cakes, pies, crumbles etc almost daily. None of us were overweight or unhealthy.

I eat dessert every day as does my DD. We are both on the skinny side of 'normal'.

Some people's diet on MN makes me think they're half starved, only being kept alive by their 'huge salad' or 'loads of veggies' they always have to mention.

The 'what I ate today' threads can be downright depressing "ooh bad day today, I was very naughty and ate 3 french fries".

I would hate to have that kind of attitude to food

Is this thread making anyone else hungry for apple crumble and custard?

Tirimasu would do quite nicely too.

Now that you mention it....

Haven't read the full thread but I do think a "proper" dessert every day is probably excessive for most people.
They were a cheap and carby way to fill you up after a small meal in the past and it's really not necessary nowadays on the most part in my opinion.
Coming from a fatish woman- who has unhealthy relationship with food and drink, despite not eating too badly but I can't leave a single morsel on my plate I'm trained to eat it all or no dessert/same meal for the next meal.

YABU. I personally have a small glass of wine and a bar of chocolate at the end of every day. If you find that 'excessive' I couldn't care less! I have a 10 month old, and it is something to relax me at the end of a long and tiring day when she's gone to bed. I walk miles and miles each day pushing her in the pram so it offsets itself. Plus surely it's better to have a healthy dinner and a pudding than to eat say McDonalds every night but no pudding....

Does anyone else get a pavlovian eye twitch at the mention of the phrase "healthy snack"?

(see also "cooked from scratch" and other virtue signalling MN specials)

I don't eat dessert every day because I don't have a particularly sweet tooth.

I don't have a snack after tea most days because I eat enough at that meal to not be hungry before bedtime.

If you want a dessert every day then have one. If you don't want one don't have one.

I really don't understand the investment and judgement of other people's diets tbh.

I’m with you OP, I can’t believe the hedonistic way some people live their lives! Dessert, it’s shocking . We just eat raw turnips.

Yes we do this too but we also sit on a spike whilst eating our turnips!

@Mamabear88 that's a whole bottle of wine a week - have you tried contacting Alcoholics Anonymous?

Turnips, you say?

I think it's hard to lose weight eating a dessert every day, but no problem maintaining it.

300 calorie breakfast
300 calorie lunch
600 calorie evening meal
300 calorie dessert
3x 100 calorie snacks

That makes 1800 calories which is within maintenance calories for most women, and well within maintenance calories for a man.

@GiveHerHellFromUs

Straight to rehab for that one. I've spoken to AA and they said that's too extreme even for them. Overeaters anonymous on the other hand, think that she is wholly suitable for their programme considering she has more than one chocolate bar a week.