So has this ever happened to you? You’re having a fantastically good dieting day. You’ve exercised, journaled, and made great choices all day and then bam it’s eight at night and you’re scanning the pantry for how to destroy your healthy day? If you’ve ever eaten brown sugar straight from the bag you know what we mean. You have a sweet tooth and it is a powerful thing. While Alpha Male Hunger Monster is a bad ass bully, Sweet Tooth works on you like a frienemy. Sweet tooth pours sugar on you: (Our sweet tooth today sounds like Paula Deen.)

 ”Hi ya’ll. You look good today. I just want you to have a little treat. Nobody can live without dessert. That’s what animals do. We’ll just have a little taste. How about the chocolate chip cookie morsels? It’s not like  you’re eating the entire cookie – just a little handful of morsels. Morsel means tiny in Latin. Maybe a pinch of that brown shugga? Well get a spoon you don’t want to make a mess. Now don’t even think about writing down a spoonful of shugga in your journal. I mean Dear Diary, I ate some brown shugga. That’s silly No. The shugga is medicinal. Like the song says. That sweatshirt looks really nice on you! Love how you paired it with up to the minute leggings. Now you have a good night sweety – meet ‘ya back here tomorrow afternoon kay?”

You can beat down your Alpha Male Hunger Monster but smacking a Frienemy Sweet Tooth seems rude. According to a recent survey survey* commissioned by Popsicle® nearly 80% of moms admit to breaking into their children’s arsenal of snacks and desserts. The survey revealed that the foods moms most try to avoid having in the house are candy and baked goods. But of course Frienemy Sweet Tooth can always find a way. See above brown sugar attack.

If you’re facing that Frienemy Sweet Tooth try a Popsicle®. That’s going to be our weapon today. We’re going to weild that 15 calorie, zero sugar frozen treet like Excalibur. And when that wench Frienemy Sweet Tooth sidles up to us suggesting we make frosting from scratch “for the kids” we’re going to shove a tropical orange flavor Popsicle® in her hand and tell her that her sweater set is so last decade . Yeah that’s right. (We’ve got the Tropical flavors so we can pretend it’s not January.**)

If you’d like to do violence to your sweet tooth we’re here to help. First ten comments will get a coupon for a FREE BOX OF POPSICLES®.

 *The Popsicle® Survey was a nationally representative online survey of 500 American mothers with kids under 18 living at home. The interviews were conducted between November 2 and 6, 2009. 

**Popsicle® gave us a 24 count box the other day and told us we could let 10 of our readers in on this freebie. Enjoy!