If you can overcome your tendency to focus on present, immediate pleasures (like having those cupcakes) and instead delay your gratification and in fact find pleasure in new healthy behaviors (
like eating dark chocolate squares instead), you will be setting yourself up, ironically enough, for more short term AND long term good health!
Not exact matches
Jasmine: Hands down I love comforting desserts
like our Sticky toffee pudding or easy Molten
Chocolate pots from our book The Art of
Eating Well, but right now, because they're in season, our
Dark Chocolate Salted Clementines.
i, personally, am not opposed to inhaling the really bad (but good) raw cookie dough with my favorite
dark chocolate chips... oh...
like, once a month but then my workouts must reflect the same reckless abandon as my
eating habits.
They are the
dark chocolate people, the ones who
eat the actual gingerbread of the gingerbread houses (rather than people
like me and most kids who would rather pick off the candy and royal icing), and those who lean towards fruit and nut types of concoctions rather than a sticky - sweet nougat or caramel.
I've
eaten these straight out of the bag and they taste just
like regular
dark chocolate chips (minus the sugar high).
For a major sweet tooth
like me it has to be said it was a bit of a challenge figuring out what to
eat, especially when it came to finding a replacement for my daily post-lunch
dark chocolate fix.
It tastes
like the best
dark chocolate sponge cake you have ever
eaten.
Eating well and living a healthy life doesn't have to mean giving up all sweets and desserts, you just need to make healthier, smarter choices when you want to indulge — Try FitFluential's Five Healthier Desserts which include amazing choices
like Raspberry
Chocolate Chips,
Dark Chocolate Nut Butter Pretzels, Fruit & Yogurt Parfaits, Pumpkin Spice Cupcakes / Muffins, and Cheesecake Stuffed Strawberries.
French Macarons, Step by Step, from Annie's
Eats Easy No - Fail Meringue Cookies, from Bakers Royale Homemade Snickers Bars, from How Sweet
Eats Italian Almond Cookies, from Barefeet in the Kitchen (be sure to use gluten free almond paste) 5 - Ingredient No Bake Peanut Butter
Chocolate Bars, from Culinary Hill
Dark Chocolate Almond Butter Cookies, from Sally's Baking Addiction
Chocolate Fruit Dip, from Cooking Classy Apple Cider Caramels, from Cooking Classy Baked Apples, from Simply Recipes Salt Water Taffy, from Our Best Bites Mosaic Heart Jello Jigglers, from Mel's Kitchen Cafe Rice Krispie Treats, from Cookies & Cups (be sure to use gluten free crispy rice cereal,
like Erewhon, and gluten free marshmallows,
like Campfire or Kraft)
Dark Chocolate Detox Bites, from The View From Great Island Fudgesicles, from Orangette
In the midst of all this fruitful procrastination — and aside from breaking into my emergency supply of Theo
dark chocolate almond butter cups in more than one moment of weakness — I've somehow managed to avoid the other stress trap of unhealthy / over
eating, partly thanks to quick and easy healthy lunches,
like these pita flatbreads.
:) I want to try baking a pan of the crust, then topping it with chopped toasted pecans and a drizzle of sugar free
dark chocolate, and just
eating it
like cookie bars.
I'm sure there are far worse things you can
eat... I didn't have chia / hemp seeds so replaced with cashews nuts & sesame seeds I also don't
like things too sweet so replaced sugar with
dark chocolate... thought this too would help bind them together — less sweet perhaps or do I just love
chocolate obviously taste is important.
So here I am at 9PM on a Tuesday,
eating dark chocolate nonpareils in bed and getting ready to binge watch start season three of OITNB (by the way, my friend wrote a brilliant piece on the show)(which I don't recommend reading unless you've started season three or thoroughly enjoy spoilers,
like me).
Sure, I still make dessert for my family, but I rarely
eat it myself, and when I do it's something that is very lightly sweetened and high in fat,
like this
Chocolate Chia Pudding recipe, sweetened with stevia, or a square of 90 % dark c
Chocolate Chia Pudding recipe, sweetened with stevia, or a square of 90 %
dark chocolatechocolate.
I don't need a lot to
eat in the a.m. but i do always
like something small with my coffee, I usually just reach for a banana and some
dark chocolate peanut butter because it seems simultaneously indulgent yet healthy if I measure out the pb.
I usually
eat a toasted, salted almond with it and I think next time I'll put almonds on the coconut layer before adding the
chocolate on top — kind of
like an Almond Joy with
dark chocolate!
These cookies are
like eating a fresh coconut doused in
dark chocolate.
«This is especially helpful around the holidays because although I still
eat my regular healthy foods most of the time, I don't feel guilty when I indulge in my favorite holiday treats
like homemade pumpkin and berry pie — my sister makes the best marionberry pie — fresh - baked gingerbread cookies, and pretty much anything involving
dark chocolate.
Try partaking in
dark chocolate infused with the Peruvian root Maca known for its aphrodisiac properties.Sensual experiences
like eating chocolate can help ground us in our physical bodies.
If you
eat plenty of magnesium - rich foods
like leafy greens, nuts, seeds, fish, beans, whole grains, avocados, yogurt, bananas, dried fruit and
dark chocolate, then cut any supplementation in half.
Nadia, is the
dark chocolate you
eat bitter
like the cooking squares?
Eat the classic antioxidant foods
like berries, green vegetables, herbs, spices, coffee and very
dark chocolate (it's true,
chocolate can be beneficial for acne).
However, I would contend that
dark chocolate can actually HELP you to burn off more body fat if you're the type of person that has a sweet tooth and
likes to
eat a lot of desserts.
I've
eaten these straight out of the bag and they taste just
like regular
dark chocolate chips (minus the sugar high).
I don't really consider it a treat because I only
eat SUPER
dark (
like 72 % +)
chocolate with very little sugar in it.
But if I were you, I would at least strongly consider drinking tea,
eating phytonutrient - rich fruits
like berries,
eating phytonutrient - rich legume extracts
like dark chocolate, and using lots of different spices and herbs in your cooking.
I sometimes
eat something sweet
like digestive biscuits or
dark chocolate (one cube) i try to drink 2 lrs water per day and i drink hot herbal drinks without sugar all day.
If you want
chocolate,
eat magnesium - rich foods
like pumpkin seeds, beans and maca powder, OR go for a high - quality, 80 %
dark chocolate bar (she suggests that you limit it to two small squares at a time and look for brands that are organic and support Fair Trade).
I you are
like me, you probably feel somewhat awesome after
eating dark chocolate — but now there's science behind it too.
Lately, I've found that drinking filtered water (to remove toxins
like chlorine and fluoride) and
eating a combination of raw kale greens, raw spinach leaves, various nuts, whole grains, various beans for protein, avocados, bananas, organic whole milk, blueberries,
dark chocolate, ginkgo biloba, and L - DOPA mucuna gives me a HUGE boot to my dopamine levels, making me feel optimistic and actually wanting to do creative things again — and that's been such a rare experience for me that it's left my head spinning.
This muesli is packed with clean
eating ingredients
like rolled oats, quinoa flakes, sunflower seeds, raisins, coconut, spices, dried orange peel and mini
dark chocolate chips.
It's wholesome, filling and packed with clean
eating ingredients
like rolled oats, quinoa flakes, sunflower seeds, raisins, coconut, spices, dried orange peel and
dark chocolate chips.
I don't need a lot to
eat in the a.m. but i do always
like something small with my coffee, I usually just reach for a banana and some
dark chocolate peanut butter because it seems simultaneously indulgent yet healthy if I measure out the pb.
I have an inexplicable urge to
eat candy when I travel, so I
like to have some antioxidant - rich
dark chocolate bark on hand as a semi-responsible indulgence.
If you can't
eat erythritol, stevia or monk fruit powder (my top picks), you can still add some sweetness by using berries or
dark chocolate (
like in this recipe - just skip the sweetener: Quick Keto Oatmeal).
In the past, I was in denial of my sugar addiction because I was
eating «healthy» sugars
like dark chocolate, honey, molasses and fruit, but sure enough, all the signs were there.
Drink tea and coffee,
eat dark chocolate, consume berries, enjoy phytonutrient - rich spices
like turmeric freely and wantonly.