No dessert on a diet right?
Wrong! you need to reward yourself and continue living?

Low Fat Dessert Advice

Each year Americans consume an average of 23.2 quarts of ice cream, ice milk, sherbet, ices and other commercial frozen dairy products per person. I used to be such an ice cream freak that I would sit down 3 times a week and eat a whole quart in a sitting, then my metabolism caught up to me.

As my success has grown over the years I have found myself eating in nicer restaurants, and they have equally nicer dessert menus. This is the tough part ,and in my opinion partly to blame for our obesity problem we as a nation face. How do you get through a dinner and not reward yourself with a nice fattening dessert loaded with Sugar, Salt and or fat?

We all have a couple of options available to us as our dinner comes to an end and it's time to order dessert.

We could have been proactive throughout the day so that we could skip counting calories at dinner, maybe an extra 10 minutes on the treadmill and a lighter lunch than usual, that would earn us special treat , and we can hope to call the day even .

We could skip dessert, but that would ruin my article and what fun is a social dinner without dessert?

We could eat our meal without a thought for our calorie counting and pop a couple of Proactol diet pills at the end, sure it would work, but we like to stress diet pills should be used to get you started, what about dessert six months from now, when you have stopped taking the diet pills and you are just trying to keep the weight off?

Astonishing one-third of the average American's diet is junk food, and the other two-thirds doesn't cut it nutritionally, according to a recent study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

Let's choose to eat dessert in Moderation

So now we need to pick an item to feast upon. Watch out for the "low fat" hype people tend to think they can eat twice as much because its low fat and although that may be true, you won't lose weight that way. Keep your servings small, if your at a really fancy restaurant you won't have a choice in this. A fresh fruit salad or sorbet will keep the fat low, but for me to feel mentally satisfied from dessert it must have some fat, or it's just not dessert, so I opt for the apple pie a la mode and pop a couple of diet pills. Nobodies perfect!

Low Fat Dessert Recipes

Quick Bread Pudding

Place the following into a microwavable bowl: 2 slices of 60-calorie bread, 1/4th teaspoon of margarine, 1/2 cup of sliced fresh peaches, 1/2 teaspoon of vanilla extract, 1/4 cup of skim milk, dash of ground cinnamon and Splenda to suit personal taste.

Microwave for about 3-4 minutes and allow to sit until cool. Makes a very generous serving for about 200 calories.

Strawberry pie

2 c. water
1 pkg. Sugar Free COOK-N-SERVE vanilla pudding
1 pkg. Sugar Free strawberry jell-o
4 c. Strawberries
fat Free cool whip (optional)

Bring water and pudding mix to boil, take off stove, add pkg. jell-o and stir up. Let cool. Clean and slice the fresh strawberries. Line a pie plate with strawberries. Pour cooled pudding  on top. Allow to set in refrigerator for at least one hour or until firm. Top with fat free cool whip.

Peanut Butter Rice Cakes

Mix 2 Tablespoons of peanut butter (any variety) with 1 crushed rice cake. Add no-calorie sweetener to suit personal taste. Divide into small balls and enjoy. Dust with a bit of powdered sugar for a few extra calories. Recipe contains about 225 calories.

1/4 cup of raw oats can be used instead of the rice cake for an additional 45 calories.