Those fabulous yummy desserts once rare and small are now gargantuan lumps of calories, fat and sugar! Go out to your average restaurant, and if you look on the dessert menu, chances are the desserts are fabulous, but also fabulously large portions. Is this a bad thing? Well, not by themselves. If you were to go out and have one of these massive desserts once a month and your diet was otherwise good, then likely this is not a big problem. Unfortunately as we have it now, most people's diets are not good, a larger and larger number of people are obese, and adding a 1000 calorie chocolate brownie fudge-cake smothered in hot fudge with ice cream on the side, is just about the last thing someone needs.

    We go back to the treat mentality. It seems that we are programmed to require that after every main meal there is a need to have a high calorie dessert to kind of be the final nail in the coffin of our rather poor diet!

Can we change? Yes I think so, but it is going to be a challenge like no other. After all these blasted desserts taste unbelievably good, and we certainly feel that we should treat ourselves to them! The problem arises in exactly how often most people think that we should treat ourselves to dessert. How much should we have? How often? Our bodies, our stomach, our taste buds most certainly tell us that this is the right thing to be eating. That darn scale in the bathroom tells us something else! When we go to the doctor with obesity or diet related issues, then that dessert has told us something else hasn't it?