How Often Do You Have Dessert and What?

#1

How many times a week/month/ever do you have dessert, something sweet made with Stevia or other aritficial sweetner or permitted fruit.

I do not mean having a nighttime snack of bacon or camembert cheese. I mean something sweet. Whether it is fruit, sugar free jello, whipped cream with stevia or @Brenda cheesecake (which is delicious!)

I rarely do but have been craving sweet snacks after dinner. The weird part is preketo I was fine without dessert and was fine for the first 6 months or so. I recently started ending my eating window with salad and dinner. The salad seems to help, not sure if it is the fiber or the homemade dressing.

Dinner seems to trigger it. I am really not very hungry during the day and even will forget to eat. At dinner time I range from starving to barely interested (then I will skip dinner and fast, the craving seem much better the one night that happened recently). No matter what I eat it seems to trigger the cravings (and I eat plenty of fat in the form of butter or avocado or coconut oil)

I personally cannot stand Stevia alone, would rather have nothing. I do use swerve if I making cheesecake for a special occasion, so maybe once every couple of weeks or so. I also do swerve in HWC whipped cream with other tastes mixed in, again mostly if I am desperate

Would welcome suggestions on how to stop the cravings and also what to eat if I cannot

(Ethan) #2

I have dessert too often–maybe 3 times a week when I am not fasting. Most of the time my dessert crazy stupid though:

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I mix heavy whipping cream and hemp milk with chia seeds and let them sit for 30 minutes. I add hemp seeds and truvia.

(Allie) #3

Very rarely. I may make a mug cake once or twice a year, or occasionally have low carb ice cream. Can easy live without though.

(Rebecca) #4

I end most days with a small square (or 2) of 100% chocolate with a dollop of natural pb on it. Does the trick for me!

(Banting & Yudkin & Atkins & Eadeses & Cordain & Taubes & Volek & Naiman & Bikman ) #5

I have a half cup of mixed berries with a couple tablespoons of whipped cream a few nights a week.

Scratches the dessert itch, and probably the most micronutrient rich thing I eat. Zero questions as to whether it’s working for me, given carb count and ORAC score.

(Pete A) #6

My only regular indulgence is a square or two of 90% chocolate, Lindt or Ghirardelli. With a pat of butter or cream cheese. Oddly, coconut oil seems to tickle my sweet tooth and satisfy…

#7

I noticed a weird trick that works for me.

My taste buds have definitely changed- I kind of like the protein/fat aftertaste of my meals now.

I have noticed that if I’m gonna have something sweet with my meal- diet pop, sweeteners, kind of even my veggies- I finish them before the rest of my meal. If I have anything sweet as the last thing- I feel like a craving kind of lingers for awhile then.

(Garry (Canada)) #8

I started on 90% Lindt and graduated to the 99%. It’s hard to find at a reasonable price though. (depending where you live). I found them at Metro grocery store.

–99% is only 4nc/50g bar. :+1::+1::+1:

Chocolate is my only Kryptonite, so I load up when they are on sale. $1.99/bar.

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(Mark Rhodes) #9

I had way to much lately. But after settling down I now use clotted cream and berries, sometimes a little Swerve confectioner dusting.

(Karen) #10

Was doing a 90 second chocolate muffin everyday, but currently trying to move a stall. Reducing the sweetener use you know.

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#11

I have full fat Greek yogurt with some chia and maybe a few frozen blueberries. I do this maybe a few times a week depending on whether or not I have a taste for it.

For my chocolate I get baker’s bars: 100%. I like to top them with peanut butter, homemade if I have a batch handy.
Planning to make a batch of pecan butter soon as I get another big bag of those.

(Sophie) #12

We do dessert once or twice a week depending. Sometimes it’s strawberries with double cream, sometimes jello with whipped cream sometimes it’s Bryers Carb Smart ice cream, or just plain %86 chocolate square or two. Ya never know around here. I enjoy a wide variety.

(Garry (Canada)) #13

Suggestion: Try hemp hearts instead, or in addition to the Chia. :wink: :+1:

(Sophie) #14

I just recently tried Noatmeal. It was tasty!

(Pete A) #15

This is strongly on my mind today:

(Brian) #16

Pretty much every day I have something. It’s not always much. It varies as I get tired of eating the same thing all the time. Often it’s a keto muffin of some kind, sometimes chocolate, sometimes blueberry or raspberry. Sometimes, I’ll make a flourless keto chocolate cookie. Occasionally I’ll make keto peanut butter bars, which are actually little 1.5" squares about 3/4" thick, maybe a couple of those (it takes a while to eat through the batch). Occasionally a mug cake or a tiny “cake for two” to share with my wife. Sometimes a cheesecake, usually when we’re having company over and I know we won’t have to eat the whole thing ourselves.

It’s kinda like a meal. There are certain things we have often and others just every once in a while. We like the variety.

When I make muffins, I sometimes only make a half batch of them. When I make mug cakes, I cut the recipe down so that I’m only making two, not four or six or however many the recipe may call for.

The desserts have some carbs. I plan on them. I don’t consider it cheating when they’re built in. And I don’t sit down and eat a half dozen muffins at a time or a half batch of peanut butter bars. Most of the time, the treats are at the end of a meal and just a little something to top it off, not at the beginning of the meal when I’m really hungry or to have a snack. That probably helps me not to overeat them. A little goes a long way.

If our desserts were a food group, I might be more critical of eating them. They’re more like a condiment here.

YMMV…

:slight_smile:

(Sophie) #17

Great way to look at it! Me Likey! :+1:

(Renee Slaughter) #18

I don’t crave sweets like I used to. I just kept eating keto and the cravings went away. So no answers about your situation. So sorry. However when I do want a treat ( seldom) my favorite is keto mousse super easy and now keto chocolate cake.

(Banting & Yudkin & Atkins & Eadeses & Cordain & Taubes & Volek & Naiman & Bikman ) #19

I should add that, as someone who added 25 lbs by doing the sweet/salt back and forth all day during grad school, I try very hard to avoid substitutes for the behaviors that got me to peak weight in the first place. So, squares of really dark chocolate are okay, as are my berries and cream. But I’d have to think long and hard before making stuff like keto muffins and more composed desserts. Your mileage will vary, but that’s not gonna be part of my N=1.

(Jay Patten) #20

My wife made Good Dee’s brand low carb chocolate brownies for me (it was my son’s birthday and everyone was eating cake). They were 6/10 on taste but did not kick out of ketosis, which is good. Not somthing I would eat all the time, but its nice to know I can.