Have you ever read the advice that if you want dessert to have it at restaurant so that you only have the one serving? Well here's info on why that single serving can wipe out your calorie defiicit for a week. Yikes!

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-a...astoriginalsL2

I didn't read your link -- but I can't say I've ever heard that piece of advice... Dessert servings at restaurants are GIGANTIC!! Certainly not single servings

I'll go see what your link has to say!

Yeah unless you buy those mini shooters that are two bites there is no way a dessert is "one serving" IMO at a restaurant. Usually when my husband gets dessert I treat myself to one or two bites.

WOW! We don't have a lot of those restaurant chains here in Canada but some of those items were just shocking. I mean 1600 calories for desert..really. Luckily I have never been one to order desert from any restaurant. The one that got me the most was the McDonalds McFlurry because whenever we shop at walmart we stop at McDonalds for a diet pop or coffee and I see people order an entire supersized double big mack meal then go back for a large mcflurry too! That is around 3000 calories in a meal, makes me sick to think about it.

I think the key to getting dessert out is to leave what you don't eat behind. Most of those are HUGE--really designed for two people. The trick is being willing to walk away and leave half, realizing that it's no more wasted left on the table than it would be left on your hips.

I eat a "real" dessert once a month. Even if it is 1600 calories (and I doubt it goes that high--it's usually a slice of cake from the store or a milkshake), that's not a week's deficit--especially if I also cut 500 or so healthy calories out of that one day, which is safe to do once a month.

I dunno. IME it's never one meal that is the problem: it's the spiral of binging, or "old normal" eating that is the problem, and one way to prevent that is to have one's indulgences in a different context, instead of at home.

I never have eaten the full dessert at a restaurant, unless it actually looks like a serving, which is rare.

I always either take the other half home or leave it- in fact, many times I don't even eat half!

I know the smothered chocolate cake from macaronni grill they talked about easily serves 4. yes 4. when we go we order it for my family of 5. 2 adults.... 3 kids. We all get a normal sized slice of cake. Crazy huh?


Edit: After going through the list several of these are a multi serving dessert...the domino's cinna stix and lave cakes for example. alot of the single serve icecream desserts are rather shocking though.

First I got a nasty shock about the McFlurry. Then I checked McDonalds' website for Germany... "my" McFlurry has "only" about 400kcal...

This sparked the detective inside me... the US version is nearly twice the size and contains more fat per 100g than the version we get here!

I avoid stuff like that anyway now, but it's still a) very interesting, I never thought about such differences before and b) taught me a valuable lesson to always at least double check everything.

Random fact: I saw an ad for a "snack size" mcflurry. I wonder how big that one is? I also heard somewhere that dairy queen was going to come out with *mini* sized blizzards.

I'd be thrilled if they'd do that!

I get my desserts out but make good choices. Fat free frozen yogurt is very low calorie, and you can top it with fresh fruit instead of sugary toppings. I also enjoy Mimi's cafe, for those of you near one. They have a great fit-fare menu and tasty desserts for about 100 calories.

I wasn't aware that people on diets typically ordered restaurant desserts. Not trying to be snitty to the people who wrote that article, but who on a diet ever thinks, "Surely, four pounds of cheesecake is the perfect end to a meal of grilled chicken and asparagus!"

And I think that the OP meant that she's been told not to ask for a doggie bag for her dessert. To eat a "single serving" as in eat part of the dessert and leave the rest on the table. That is how I took it, anyway. Usually after you eat you're kind of full and don't want to eat one of the cinder block sized pieces of cake restaurants give you, so most people eat part there and take the rest with them.

I'm actually psyched to see that Domino's Chocolate Lava Crunch Cakes are 690 for 2 cakes... I would never eat more than 1 anyways, and a few weeks ago I made a decision that when I get to onederland I'm having one.
Now that I know that'll only be 345 it's good news to me! I won't find that too hard to work into 1500 daily calories that day. (when I thought it was way more, I thought I'd just be way over my cals that day)

I don't know. When the dessert is the size of my head, I pretty much understand that it is 1600 calories or whatever. Why is this always so shocking to people?

Wow - those are some ginormous desserts! I still think there's a helpful element to the advice about having a treat outside of your home, though. I'm more likely to stick to plan if I get a kid-sized scoop of crazy indulgent gelato at the gelato place than if I bring home a gallon of ice cream. But that's just my issues with knowing there's something yummy in the freezer - others probably have better self-control

We only get (normal size) dessert about once a month and Hubby and I share it, about 1/3 for me, the rest for him. Works for us.