It’s baffling to me the sudden boost in the popularity of cookies. Crumbl is all the rage on the social media. The Insomnia Cookies that opened near our campus is inexplicably still in business. I guess it’s cyclical: every few years a dessert item gets hyped to the moon. Before cookies it was self-serve frozen yogurt. And before frozen yogurt, it was cupcakes. We’ll have another one when this cookies fad passes. My vote is for churros.
You know what’s forever? Donuts.
I am baffled because people seem so eager to consume these hugely caloric-dense foods. You ever noticed a Costco food court menu? A large chocolate chip cookie has more calories than a slice of pepperoni pizza (750 and 650 calories, respectively). 1,400 calories in total if you eat both; even more if you consume a non-diet soda with it. That’s not a meal, that’s nearly most of a standard person’s daily caloric intake. It’s no wonder American obesity rate is so great. (No need for President Trump to solve this one.)
A hot and melty chocolate-chip cookie is excruciatingly delicious. I would love to be able to eat it often. But I can’t, and I don’t. Not because the cookie is in it of itself is unhealthy, but because of the caloric density. Consuming calorically dense foods makes it super easy to overeat, and therefore get fat. Can you really just stop at one cookie? One donut?
I’ve long resigned to the reality that dessert foods are not for me. Cookies, ice cream, cakes, milk shake, boba tea: these are not in my food group. And that’s okay! We don’t get to have everything we want in life, for there are tradeoffs. Indulging in desserts will hinder my fitness goals. I’ve simply chosen the latter to be (way) more important.
Oppa HK style.