Here's a interrogate from a coach colleague who is working her way clear of a few extra pounds: What sweets would be accepted after a meal for someone applying the South Beach advent to eating?
My unabridged advent to sweets regardless of the food plan one has chosen is this: buy the best and eat less.
Ice Indulgence
Products made using high potential ingredients are more satisfying than the economy variety. Is there any margarine or spread that comes close to the taste and texture of real butter? Can you love a Chips Ahoy the way you love homemade?
Having said that the interrogate still remains, what can we eat that's sweet?
What follows is my short list and it might come in handy at this time of year when sweets and customary goodies rule.
Here's an additional one tradition that rules; if you avoid having something sweet when you crave it, and it will not pass-as in "this too shall..." It simply gets stuffed and when the pressure of life or sweet cravings is turned up it will explode into what I like to call the "I just ate the whole box/bag/pint-no make that quart-and I have no idea why" tradition.
Go with your gut when it cries out for a morsel of love in the form of sugar. The world won't end as you know it and one serving won't make your butt look fat in that Santa suit.
Dark Chocolate-If you've been living in a cave then you won't have noticed the explosion of dark chocolate products everywhere. For you cave dwellers here is the short version of why. It has been discovered that dark chocolate contains fine anti-oxidants similar to those found in red wine. Flavanoids, as these antioxidants are called, are specifically helpful to the heart, contributing to lower blood pressure, flexible arterial walls and a reduced risk of clotting. The darker the chocolate the more "phenols" will be found in your chocolate of choice. If the chocolate has nuts all the better. Nuts add protein, vitamins, and fiber to your indulgence.
Chocolate dipped strawberries? Big yumm and you get the bonus of the berries' fiber, Vitamin C and other nutrients.
Not a chocolate fan? How about some velvety dried apricots. Or a dried fig? A few strips of preserved orange or grapefruit rind?
Had sufficient of fruit this morning? Low carb and no-sugar-added ice creams found in every large market never fail to satisfy the ole sweet tooth. My new find, no sugar added butter pecan drizzled with no sugar added maple syrup had me singing the praises of food scientists everywhere.
Another beloved at this time of year when it's chilly is no sugar added cocoa. I make it with water and splash in some half and half and sip it while watching the fire.
Tired of the "no this" and "non that"? Buy some prime ice cream and quantum out a portion. Come on folks do it once and you might be shocked at what a label quantum is compared to what a "damn-I've-been-good-and-my-kids-are-driving-me-crazy-I-just-gotta-have-it" quantum looks like. Wouldn't it be better to know what you are getting into before you've downed half the pint? Not so you can feel guilty but so you can frame the nutrition in for the day.
Buy one crème brulee from your local gourmand grocer and share it-with you! Eat half after evening meal tonight and desist it tomorrow for breakfast.
There is one thing you must do no matter what your pleasure-pay attention! Eating mindlessly either evening meal or dessert leads to weight loss sabotage and endless guilt. South Beach, Weight Watchers, Sonoma Diet and so on will only work if you bring your awareness to your choices.
Awareness also can mean more enjoyment of the things you've chosen so carefully.
Savor the flavor, texture, and some would say "sinful" aspects of your sweets. You may not believe in the view of sin but when you are moderately devouring a mini-cannoli from your beloved Italian bakery can't you just imagine what it's like in heaven?
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