If you eat a 500 calorie cookie every day,
that is 3500 calories week,
and that is 52 pounds of stored fat in a year.

Be strong. The temptation will pass and you will celebrate your willpower!

I live off of 80 cal pudding cups and 60 cal caramel mousse cups and lots of yogurt. Fits into my plan and keeps my sweet tooth sated :)

I make these tasty bars with almond meal, flax meal, egg, coconut oil, vanilla extract, and a leeetle bit of honey or agave. They're quite dense -- definitely not low calorie, but they're very low sugar and no refined carbs at all, which for me at least, means I can have one little square and satisfy my craving for baked goods without hopping on the carbo train to bingeville.

Sorry I don't have a recipe on hand, I just experimented with ratios until I got a texture I liked.

Wow, I can feel my arteries clogging just looking at that picture of fried chicken and biscuits!

Literally, yesterday, I had the cookie in my hand (it has a plastic wrapping) and I put it back down. The struggle for willpower was insane. I think I need to just not even go near that corner of the cafeteria, as a rule.

Ooh, where can I get 60 calorie caramel mousse cups?? Do tell!

Thank you for that. That definitely helps. Even just one cookie a week is 26,000 calories a year, which is 7.5 lbs a year. Not worth it!!

You know what I think the biggest problem is? I'm quite hungry by lunchtime (even though I have a planned snack at 10 am), and EVERYTHING looks good. I have my healthy chicken breast with veggies and I see the cookies, and the hunger gets the best of me. It's like going grocery shopping while you're hungry. A recipe for disaster!

If you are craving chocolate what about a mini candy bar. Hersey bar mini are really good for satifying a craving and only has 40 calories. I keep them on hand for a real emergency. LIke when TOM is here. I ony eat a half of one or a whole one.Its alot better than eating a reg size candy bar.

The brand is "kooll desserts" and they make little yogurt cup sized desserts.
The mousse ones are called "Mooss". I got them at my grocery store *shrug*. They have really annoying commercials :)

I make cookies quite frequently. Whole wheat pastry flour gets substituted for the all purpose and sugar can be cut down by at least 1/3 in most recipes with no difference in texture of the product. I like to find recipes that use oil versus shortening, but I will occasionally use palm shortening or butter.

The main calorie cutting that I do is to use a 1T cookie scoop. They are small, but if you look at older recipes this is the real size cookies are supposed to be. I always get the amount that the recipe says it makes when I use the scoop.

Most of the cookies I make end up somewhere in the 50-80 calorie per cookie range. I usually eat only two cookies at one time.

Of course if sugar gives you cravings then these tips won't help.

The people who sit around me are gaining weight because I feed them what I want but shouldn't have lol I do tend to share a lot. :D

Thanks for the ideas Zenor. But truth be told, me and home baked goods do NOT get along. I have no control with them and therefore are better off doing without them completely. And cookies in general. Our dear Meg passed on a quote the other week and it kind of sums me up to a T -

"One cookie is too many and a dozen are not enough."

So yeah, until a 5 calorie cookie is invented, I'm gonna have to take a pass. ;)


Jellydisney, you are amazing. You actually had the cookie in your hand and put it back? Well good for you!!!! You should be very proud of yourself. You came away from the situation unscathed :carrot:.

If you're starving by lunchtime, maybe you need to have a larger, more satisfying snack at 10:00. But for sure, STAY AWAY FROM THE COOKIE SECTION. The BIG cookie section. :hug:

:drill: Step away from the cookie! :drill:

:coach: What part about "weight loss" don't you understand?

:lol:

They are always going to look good to you. It's unlikely that you'll ever get to a point where they don't. However, as long as you don't give in to your desire, it will get easier and easier to pass them up. So, hang in there! You are making good choices! Don't let a cookie tell you what to do! ;)

Jay