For those who are eating out during the Holidays, and become tempted to treat themselves to a dessert, the list below will give you some clues as to how many calories are in such tasty treats:

 

 

Cinnabon Pecanbon - 1,080 calories, 19 teaspoons of sugar
 

• McDonald's Large Rolo McFlurry - 830 calories,
  26 teaspoons of sugar.
   
• Denny's Oreo Blender Blaster - 890 calories,
  19.25 teaspoons of sugar
   
• Coldstone Creamery Gotta Have It Oreo Creme Ice Cream - 1,060 calories,
  22.75 teaspoons of sugar
   
• Dairy Queen Banana Cream Pie Blizzard - 1,090 calories,
  29 teaspoons of sugar
   
• Chili's Chocolate Chip Paradise Pie - 1,250 calories,
  40.75 teaspoons of sugar
   
• Applebee's Chocolate Chip Cookie Sundae - 1,550 calories,
  52 teaspoons of sugar
   
• Outback Steakhouse Chocolate Thunder From Down Under - 1,554 calories,
  33 teaspoons of sugar
  
  
   
• Cheesecake Factory Chocolate Tower Truffle Cake - 1,679 calories,
  51.5 teaspoons of sugar 
  
  
   
  The Keg Carrot Cake a la mode - 2,344 calories,
  65 teas...

For those who have trouble learning to eat slowly,
here is a lesson on how to play with your food
while observing appropriate Thanksgiving Etiquette.

Examples of One Serving.

Sometimes I read an article that interests or amuses me so much, that I just have to include it here at DietHobby. 

    Here is one such article: 

How I lost 40 lbs doing everything wrong
             by Erik Davis. 11/14/12

I’ve been on a quest to lose weight over the last 6 months. It had been a long time coming, and I’d put it off for too many years. But while I have been achieving my goals, it’s got to be a statistical fluke, because I’ve done just about everything wrong!

1. I ate wheat!

Apparently, I didn’t get the message that my “addiction to wheat” is making me “fat and unhealthy”, because I kept right on eating it. Wheat breads, pita, even the dreaded enriched-flour pasta — all of these remained part of my diet. What a dolt I was! If only I’d bought a copy of William Davis’ best-selling book Wheat Belly, I’d have known that 100 million Americans (and presumably ~10M Canadians) experience some form of adverse health effect from eating wheat — from minor rashes to high blood sugar to unattractive stomach bulges. Or I could have listened to any of the countless nutritionists and alt-health gurus recommending gluten-free diets for non-celiac sufferers like me.

But I guess I was living under a rock. Really dodged a bullet there.

2.  I ate other carbs too!

“You’ve lost weight,” friends would say. “What have you been doing — cutting out carbs?” It was a question I kept hearing over and over again, yet somehow I never clued in that I should have been on a low-carb diet. After all, everyone knows carbs are what make us fat. Yet I kept on eating them — starchy tubers, rice of all colours and hues, gluten-laden rye breads and barley. In fact, carbs made up over half of my calories — and two-thirds of my food by weight!

Had I never heard of Robert Atkins or The Zone? This cat has far more than nine lives, let me tell you.

3. I used artificial sweeteners!

Boy should I have listened to Dr. Oz — he says that artificial sweeteners are the #1 habit making me fat! He recommends “natural alternatives” like honey, agave and coconut sap syrup. Yet stupid me, I figured that because those alternatives were largely comprised of glucose and fructose, they were just as bad as sugar — I completely forgot they were natural!

 
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