‘I Stopped Eating Dessert For 2 Weeks—Here’s What Happened’

I ditched dessert, but no one said anything about breakfast pastries. These became my go-to. Having a carby sweet treat in the morning didn’t seem like a big deal. I was just eating a pastry in place of, say, an egg breakfast sandwich, but I should have known better. For starters, white flour and white sugar are total blood sugar spikers, causing crazy energy crashes and vicious cravings (guilty!). And even though I wasn’t downing deep-fried doughnuts, at 500 calories a pop, a banana walnut muffin or almond croissant isn’t exactly light eating. But the biggest truth of all is that calories can’t tell time, and eating a butterscotch scone for breakfast is essentially a morning dessert. (If you have a hankering for dessert, try one of these healthy desserts that actually make better breakfasts.)