I lost about 50 lbs while having chocolate covered strawberries nearly every single night. I ate like 4-8 of them. 90-180 calories, which I budgeted for by skipping any form of snacking except sweets at night. And bananas and PB after a workout were common too, so I don’t see what the issue here is.
And there are people that have publicly lost a lot of weight while eating nothing but pizzas. Losing weight is just about consuming fewer calories than you’re expending. You can eat calorie dense foods like the OP, you just get less volume for the number of calories
From a weight loss perspective though, the OP is just a peanut butter cup and banana as a snack
Yes, all true. But 1, if you’ve worked out, banana and PB is a great protein and recovery snack, and 2, if this helps you not eat cookies or ice cream, that’s far healthier. You could even dip them in some nuts or granola after the chocolate. Also, one could use less peanut butter than this, and you’d have control over the chocolate used.
In the big picture, you made healthy choices that made you lose weight. That’s great!
You treated yourself to something that’s healthier than other sweets you could have chosen. Totally reasonable for the same reason a reasonable amount of dressing can be in a salad (makes things palatable so you’ll actually eat that healthy stuff)
But none of that makes chocolate-dipped strawberries a healthy option, just like a plate of buffalo wings and blue cheese isn’t healthy just because it’s served with a few carrot/celery sticks. There comes a point where the good is outweighed by the bad. Strawberries are pretty high sugar as it is, but being a whole fruit makes it overall a net good IMO (you get other vitamins and fiber and stuff). But that chocolate dip is pretty hard to seriously justify, and can tip the balance pretty easily.
On the other hand, having the frozen chocolate raspberries (not strawberries) curbed cravings for icecream, and cookies, thus being an overall healthy choice, because my brain pretty much considers chocolate a critical resource. And normally that would be milk chocolate, but those TruFru raspberries with the dark and white chocolate are a perfect formula.
I wish I could pin this comment. These little egos just don’t get it. I’m speaking in reality and they are speaking in fallacy. So they can’t understand my words.
I lost about 50 lbs while having chocolate covered strawberries nearly every single night. I ate like 4-8 of them. 90-180 calories, which I budgeted for by skipping any form of snacking except sweets at night. And bananas and PB after a workout were common too, so I don’t see what the issue here is.
And there are people that have publicly lost a lot of weight while eating nothing but pizzas. Losing weight is just about consuming fewer calories than you’re expending. You can eat calorie dense foods like the OP, you just get less volume for the number of calories
From a weight loss perspective though, the OP is just a peanut butter cup and banana as a snack
Yes, all true. But 1, if you’ve worked out, banana and PB is a great protein and recovery snack, and 2, if this helps you not eat cookies or ice cream, that’s far healthier. You could even dip them in some nuts or granola after the chocolate. Also, one could use less peanut butter than this, and you’d have control over the chocolate used.
In the big picture, you made healthy choices that made you lose weight. That’s great!
You treated yourself to something that’s healthier than other sweets you could have chosen. Totally reasonable for the same reason a reasonable amount of dressing can be in a salad (makes things palatable so you’ll actually eat that healthy stuff)
But none of that makes chocolate-dipped strawberries a healthy option, just like a plate of buffalo wings and blue cheese isn’t healthy just because it’s served with a few carrot/celery sticks. There comes a point where the good is outweighed by the bad. Strawberries are pretty high sugar as it is, but being a whole fruit makes it overall a net good IMO (you get other vitamins and fiber and stuff). But that chocolate dip is pretty hard to seriously justify, and can tip the balance pretty easily.
On the other hand, having the frozen chocolate raspberries (not strawberries) curbed cravings for icecream, and cookies, thus being an overall healthy choice, because my brain pretty much considers chocolate a critical resource. And normally that would be milk chocolate, but those TruFru raspberries with the dark and white chocolate are a perfect formula.
I wish I could pin this comment. These little egos just don’t get it. I’m speaking in reality and they are speaking in fallacy. So they can’t understand my words.