Quick tips to cut down on dessert calories

Guilt-free sweet treats

When you're trying to lose weight, dessert is often one of the first things chopped from your eating plan.

This often makes losing weight or eating healthier seem like some sort of unfair punishment.

The truth is, you can still eat dessert while trying to lose weight, but you need to be smart about it.

Four quick dessert tips:

• Take off the top layer of your favourite pie to save between 75 and 100 calories

• Have ½ a cup of non-fat dairy whipped cream instead of vanilla ice cream with your pie and save 85 calories

• Eat a slice of pumpkin pie instead of pecan pie and save 136 calories

• Substitute low-fat plain yoghurt for cream

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