How often do you or your family eat sweets?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Every day. My family is active, healthy, and fit. We don't do disordered eating at our house.

+1
And it’s the kids that have strict rules and restrictions at their homes who come to ours and search out sweets and have zero self control. I just cleaned out the pantry and tossed tons of Easter candy. My kids have unlimited access so actually rarely eat sweet stuff.

You shouldn’t be patting yourself on the back about this. One of my kids is like yours; never would binge any kind of sweet. The other would eat as much candy as they can get access to. It’s not my parenting or your parenting. It’s their wiring.

I agree. We eat dessert sometimes depending on if the kids ask for it and what we have in the house. Never store bought sweets, but the kids and I both like to bake. For cookies we generally have some dough in the freezer so we can bake just the right amount. A fresh baked cookie or two or even three right out of the oven is so much more satisfying than days old cookies from a jar. We try to pair it with protein like a glass of milk.

My kids' Halloween candy sits around forever. Their best friends from next door who get dessert every day come over and want to eat all the candy. They weren't somehow cured of that desire by their parents willingness to serve regular desserts, popsicles, pop tarts, and sweets for snacks, sorry.

[Anonymous]

Create a scheduled for 'dessert night'.

When my kids were elementary school aged, they asked for dessert every night. We finally scheduled 'dessert night' for Sundays, Wednesdays and Fridays. They would ask on a Tuesday, 'is it dessert night?', we'd say no and move on. It helped create less angst for me as a parent.

My kids are college aged now, and don't have weird hangups about food or sweets and are active in sports.

[Anonymous]

We usually have a dessert every day, like a cookie or piece of chocolate. I have to keep it out of sight of one of my kids though, because he’ll try to sneak it for snacks all day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Chocolate, candy, cakes, chips, ice cream, cookies etc

Do you go all in once a month? Or have you mastered whatever the f ”moderation” means.

I feel like most people can eat a piece of chocolate and stop. Some need to eat the entire box.
What’s the healthy way to do it?

My skinny husband eats ice cream every day after dinner.

My skinny 15 year old son eats sweets a couple times a week. Like cookies.

I am overweight and losing weight. I substitute other things for those types of sweets, because if I start eating them, I will want them everyday. So I only eat those at family get togethers, or when we go out to an ice cream place, like York Castle, as a treat. I don't miss it at all as long as it's not a habit. I just find it to be a very difficult habit to break.

[Anonymous]

All the time. We are all very slim.

[Anonymous]

We all have a little something daily. The kids have been having a couple pieces of Halloween candy daily. Plus middle school gets candy at school most days (teachers are constantly giving candy out as “prizes” for things).

On weekends usually we’ll stop at a bakery for a
Cookie or treat while in a day trip somewhere. Then there are are the frequent birthday parties and get togethers. I don’t really buy treats for house anymore other then the occasional ice cream tub. I feel like sweets are constantly around and being eaten, even without buying. I do bake every now and then but not frequently, mostly holidays or when there is a gap in birthday parties and such

[Anonymous]

Daily for us, too. For better or worse, we all have a sweet tooth and we like baking.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Every day. My family is active, healthy, and fit. We don't do disordered eating at our house.

+1
And it’s the kids that have strict rules and restrictions at their homes who come to ours and search out sweets and have zero self control. I just cleaned out the pantry and tossed tons of Easter candy. My kids have unlimited access so actually rarely eat sweet stuff.

You shouldn’t be patting yourself on the back about this. One of my kids is like yours; never would binge any kind of sweet. The other would eat as much candy as they can get access to. It’s not my parenting or your parenting. It’s their wiring.

THIS

I have one kid that will eat unlimited amounts of candy. Very little self-control. And another kid who nibbles on candy.

They both has the same amount of Halloween candy. One still has most of it left and the other has eaten 3/4 of it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Every day. My family is active, healthy, and fit. We don't do disordered eating at our house.

+1
And it’s the kids that have strict rules and restrictions at their homes who come to ours and search out sweets and have zero self control. I just cleaned out the pantry and tossed tons of Easter candy. My kids have unlimited access so actually rarely eat sweet stuff.

You shouldn’t be patting yourself on the back about this. One of my kids is like yours; never would binge any kind of sweet. The other would eat as much candy as they can get access to. It’s not my parenting or your parenting. It’s their wiring.

THIS

I have one kid that will eat unlimited amounts of candy. Very little self-control. And another kid who nibbles on candy.

They both has the same amount of Halloween candy. One still has most of it left and the other has eaten 3/4 of it.

Thank you!! Another parent of one skinny kid with a stopping point and another who doesn't. It's not our parenting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Every day. My family is active, healthy, and fit. We don't do disordered eating at our house.

+1
And it’s the kids that have strict rules and restrictions at their homes who come to ours and search out sweets and have zero self control. I just cleaned out the pantry and tossed tons of Easter candy. My kids have unlimited access so actually rarely eat sweet stuff.

You shouldn’t be patting yourself on the back about this. One of my kids is like yours; never would binge any kind of sweet. The other would eat as much candy as they can get access to. It’s not my parenting or your parenting. It’s their wiring.

THIS

I have one kid that will eat unlimited amounts of candy. Very little self-control. And another kid who nibbles on candy.

They both has the same amount of Halloween candy. One still has most of it left and the other has eaten 3/4 of it.

Thank you!! Another parent of one skinny kid with a stopping point and another who doesn't. It's not our parenting.

Totally agree. I hate when I see parents claim their kids are soooo good at self regulation because they allow them free access to anything and everything. It isn’t about your parenting, it is 100% the kid

[Anonymous]

Pretty frequently. But we don't really do dessert after dinner because my kids (7 and 10) will just nibble at dinner because they know dessert is coming. They can have fruit after dinner and lately they get a small piece of their halloween candy. But we bake a few times per month, hit a bakery 2-3x/mo, and I regularly eat chocolate but only share occasionally. My oldest would eat sweets all day every day. My youngest loses interest.

All of us, except DH, are thin.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Every day. My family is active, healthy, and fit. We don't do disordered eating at our house.

Some would say that eating sweets, chocolate, ice-cream etc every day is disordered eating. Many people who eat this way end up with type 2 diabetes.

Really? A bite or two of a cookie, a snack-size piece of halloween candy, a few spoons of ice cream will lead to type 2 diabetes? When fit into an otherwise healthy diet? Most people with type 2 diabetes get it from excessive processed food, soda, take-out/fast food consumption IN ADDITION to sweets.

[Anonymous]

I’m a diabetic pastry chef, so we eat desserts regularly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Every day. My family is active, healthy, and fit. We don't do disordered eating at our house.

Some would say that eating sweets, chocolate, ice-cream etc every day is disordered eating. Many people who eat this way end up with type 2 diabetes.

Really? A bite or two of a cookie, a snack-size piece of halloween candy, a few spoons of ice cream will lead to type 2 diabetes? When fit into an otherwise healthy diet? Most people with type 2 diabetes get it from excessive processed food, soda, take-out/fast food consumption IN ADDITION to sweets.

Most people with type II diabetes get it from excessive weight. The extra fatty tissue is a major hormone disrupter and contributes to insulin resistance. While yes thin people can get type II also, being overweight is the biggest risk factor.