12 Healthier Versions of Your Favorite Fall Desserts

Pumpkin, apple and maple—oh my! Enjoy the flavors of fall with these delicious and indulgent fall desserts to satisfy any craving. Cozy up by the fire and have one of these seasonal, perfect treats that will bring you the taste of autumn in every single bite.

These guilt-free desserts are not only delicious, but they are also made with perfectly picked ingredients to pack in the nutrition and keep you on track, all while curbing those sweet cravings. Who said dessert has to be unhealthy? Try one of these tasty fall dessert recipes!

1. Crustless Pumpkin Pie

No need to wait until Thanksgiving to enjoy your favorite holiday dessert—and this recipe focuses on only the best part: the creamy, pumpkin filling. You bake it the same way as a traditional pie—minus the unhealthy crust. Top your slice a dollop of nonfat whipped cream and a sprinkle of pumpkin spice for the full flavor effect. This treat is sure to become one of your all-time favorite fall desserts. Click here for the full recipe! >

2. Gingerbread Freezer Fudge

Perfectly spiced and simple to make, this rich and festive treat is bursting with flavor. At only 88 calories per piece, you can pop a frozen fudge square in your mouth, or let it thaw for a few minutes so it’s creamy enough to bite. Just be sure to log it as three Extras on your Numi App journal. Click here for the full recipe! >

For your next batch of fudge, try this Pumpkin Spice version! > 

3. Air Fryer Baked Apple

Step aside apple pie: this decadent dessert is the perfect healthy alternative, made with nothing more than a whole apple, chopped walnuts, raisins, a smidge of butter and spices. Set it in an air fryer for 20 minutes and out comes a soft, baked and beautifully caramelized fruit that’s filled with healthy fats and satisfying carbs. Swap the apple for a pear, if you prefer, for an equally delicious option. Click here for the full recipe! >

4. Sweet Potato Pie Nice Cream

It’s a combo you may not expect, but one that’s worthy of a taste test. Sweet potato, maple syrup, cinnamon and nutmeg provide the traditional southern pie flavor. Nutrient-dense frozen bananas and unsweetened vanilla almond milk blend to create a thick and creamy ice-cream-like treat. Together, you get a refreshing cup of deliciousness that’s high in fiber, low in sugar, and without all fat of regular ice cream. Click here for the full recipe! >

For another autumn spin on a summer favorite, try the Skinny Pumpkin Ice Cream! >

5. 4-Ingredient Pumpkin Brownies

Need a sweet and simple dessert for a holiday potluck? These crazy-good brownies are the perfect pick. Pumpkin puree, mashed banana, peanut butter, cocoa powder and 15 minutes in the oven gets you an impressive confection that’s sure to please your party crowd. Click here for the full recipe! >

6. Berry Easy Bread Pudding Mug Cake

Have whole wheat bread left over from lunch? Turn it into a sweet, low-cal dessert that takes no time to make. Cut the slices into one-inch cubes and toss them into a mug with egg whites, almond milk, cinnamon and a handful of your favorite berries. A few minutes in the microwave and voila—delicious bread pudding for only 127 calories. Click here for the full recipe! >

7. Pumpkin Spice Mug Cake

No need to crank up the oven: You’re all set with a mug and a microwave to make this tasty cake. Just combine all the ingredients—canned pumpkin, pumpkin spice, nonfat milk, healthy whole-wheat flour, baking powder and vanilla extract into your favorite coffee cup; microwave for a little over a minute, grab a spoon and dig into your personal pumpkin-flavored treat. Click here for the full recipe! >

8. 3-Ingredient Sweet Potato Muffins

The first ingredient is the vitamin-packed, fiber-rich, naturally sweet potato. Next is some satisfying rolled oats, followed by a generous pour of delicious maple syrup. Mix together, bake until golden and enjoy for something sweet and a super-healthy treat. If you’re smart, you’ll make a lot: these are sure to disappear quick once your loved ones get a whiff. Click here for the full recipe! >

9. Pecan Pie Fall Fudge

Get all the flavors of your favorite pie, without all the effort of baking. Just combine pecans, maple syrup, coconut oil, cinnamon and extracts; then spoon the mixture into an ice cube tray. One hour in the freezer and the cool fudge squares are ready to eat. Click here for the full recipe! >

10. Slow Cooker Pumpkin Rice Pudding

It’s like a sweet bowl of comfort that is made with the best tastes of fall. There’s pumpkin puree, nutmeg, allspice, ginger and cinnamon in this version of the classic pudding; the milk is vanilla-almond, and the rice is brown and full of filling fiber. Three hours in the slow cooker, and you’ve got enough dessert for your whole family. Top each serving with maple syrup for an added touch of sweet and pumpkin seeds for crunch. Click here for the full recipe! >

11. Easy Thumbprint Cookies

Rolled oats, banana and cinnamon—that’s what’s in the cookie. Your favorite jelly—that’s what gets spooned into the center circle. Ten minutes—that’s all the time it takes to bake these tasty cookies. Make them in bulk to serve at your next gathering, or store them in an air-tight container to enjoy on your own. Each cookie counts as one SmartCarb. Click here for the full recipe! >

12. Mint Chocolate Chip Pudding

When you think of your favorite fall desserts, chickpeas is likely not the first ingredient that comes to mind, but that’s the protein-rich base of this delicious pudding. Dates sweeten the mix, cocoa powder brings the chocolate, cocoa nibs add a little crunch, and mint and vanilla provide the sweet flavor combo you’ll love. Click here for the full recipe! >

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Week 0 - Day 1 of my journey

Hi All,

I (22M) currently weigh 330lbs. This is the highest I have ever weighed and starting now, I am planning to work towards a long term goal of reaching 240lbs. I was on a similar weight loss journey last year starting at 315lbs at my heaviest around January 2023, and managed to get down to 265lbs by September. With school starting again then, I plateau'd here and ended the year around 275lbs. With motivation for a new year, I decided to continue my journey and incorporate more sports such as soccer and biking on top of my gym, cardio and diet. I sufffered a bad injury while playing soccer that left me bedridden for 3 months, and unable to exercise or cook for far more. During this time, I only ate out (think vallartas burritos and mcdonald's mcmuffins) and ballooned all the way up to 330lbs. Now, I have recovered a signifcant amount from my injury and plan to continue my exercise regime. I developed some bad habits such as vaping along the way, and have set a few goals for myself to get back on track.

• 7,000 steps a day, until end of october where I hope to increase it to 10k.
  
• 170g of protein a day
  
• Strength Training 4x a week till October, where I hope to make it 6x a week (this may seem excessive but I loved strength training and it was the only thing that motivated me during my earlier stints)-Cardio 2x a week (low intensity, to help me get used to moving more)- Weekly Check ins with reddit to keep myself accountable

-Basketball 2x a week
- no more than 1900kcals a day.
- quit vaping
-lower alcohol (ideally I want to cut out casual beers, and reduce drinking altogether, but realistically i am aiming for going out at most 2x a month and sticking to lower calorie options such as TSLs and VSLs).

I am currently a student without a part time job, so my only focus is health and academics, making this a sensible time commitment in my view.

This is just written for me to know there are people who are aware of my attempt and hence hold myself accountable, but I appreciate any advice you may have to offer. Thank you so much for taking your time out to read this!

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i’ve started to develop an unhealthy relationship with my body because my bathroom scale and scale at the doctor don’t read off the same weight

I see a doctor for weight loss so i’m always checking the progress on my weight but i started to notice that my bathroom scale and scale at the doctor read off different weights.

for example, i had to lose 2 pounds for my neurologist appointment. i weighed myself at home and it said 244 and then when i got to the neurologist it said 238.

i thought it was because the scale i had was old so i got a new scale and it still reads off the same weight as the old scale!!

this whole situation is starting to become unhealthy! i can’t accurately determine my weight and it’s messing with my mind. deep down i know i’m losing weight, as my clothes are starting to become looser but i worry that since i cant physically see the change happening on the scale that i’m not making any progress at all?!!

if someone has any advice please help! i’ve moved both scales to different rooms of the house and even OUTSIDE trying to determine if it was the floors in my house messing with the scale but it still reads 244. i dont know what to do!!

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Weighing in on the daily weigh-in

Newbie here. I'm 46f, with a modest weight loss goal of 10lbs. For years and years I have been anti-scale. I was 16 when I first began undereating and overexercising as a way to maintain a certain number on the scale. Those days are long gone, and I have been maintaining a healthy lifestyle since then. Although I am at an average weight, I could certainly stand to lose about 10 lbs. I want to use a scale but am so afraid of living and dying by the number it shows--it took me years to shake that obsession. Do those of you who weigh in daily, how does the number you see affect you?

I really want to get a scale because I think it could be an excellent motivator, but I'm a little afraid of how it could hurt my self-esteem and become something I fixate on.

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How to get the ball rolling when surrounded by things that will demoralize you?

So, I'm a bit apprehensive towards weight loss because I might cause my mother stress. I'm not really contributing to groceries, so I have little say in what comes in, nor do I have any ideas how to stretch meals for a week in order to actually make progress. This is all stressful, and I feel like I'm just making excuses on top of excuses. I'm suffering from depression, but the obvious way to fix it is to lose the weight, but other people's words just hurt me. My mother has mocked me for starving myself because I decided to try fad diets like a fool. She frequently goes to the gym, but I decline because I'm scared someone will point me out like those tiktoks. I bought a tread mill and weights I don't use for whatever reason. I know I can fix some of these secondary issues in order to procede with my goal, but I always make excuses. Whether its people "discouraging" me or "not getting results fast enough" or not "sustaining" my good streaks, I always have an excuse when I relapse.

TLDR; How do I stay consistent when I make excuses?

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How do you deal with comments from family?

SW 110kg CW 82.2kg GW 70kg 169cm 28F

I have managed to lose a good amount of weight this year! I’m over the moon with my progress in the last 8 months but I’m still firmly in the overnight category for my BMI so i set what I thought was a generous goal of just into the healthy BMI category

I’m eating around 1500 - 1700 calories a day

My general exercise routine in a week is

One x easy paced run between 5k-10k One x interval session run between 5k - 10k One x long run 15km or over

One x aerial arts class (pole dancing, aerial hoop)

Then if me and my husband have had time we’ve been going on hikes on the weekend around 20km evelvation gains around 1000m

I don’t tend to eat calories back which is starting to gain comments from family members, my higher activity days are when I eat around 1700 calories

My in laws called my husband today to say they’re worried about me, think I’m over doing it and I need to eat more

But the whole point is to not eat back the calories right?

I’m quite open about the weight loss with everyone like my in laws made a comment on the weekend saying did I want a chocolate bar I said no thank you and my husband said she’s saving her calories for dinner

Which got more comments about im not eating enough, that I should be eating back say most of the calories I lost during my hike that day

Do I just need to shut up and not be honest about what I’ve ate that day?

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Feeling some hate since weight loss

Hi all! Long time lurker, recent commenter, and this is my first post. This is more of a vent than seeking advice but any and all feedback is always welcome. Knowing myself, this will likely be long but I'll put a TLDR at the bottom.

When I was at my heaviest, I would get comments dismissing my ailments, medical conditions, or being sick. Even when I had random wounds that would keep reopening or take a while to heal. The comments would consist of my health issues being an excuse to not do better and these people diagnosing me with diabetes. The comments always felt like attacks but I did my best to just shrug them off because I knew they were wrong and my medical record at the time was proof of that.

In January of this year, I weighed myself for the first time in a long time and saw that I weighed 301 lbs. It's the heaviest I had ever been and I had always told myself that 300 lbs would be a hard limit that I can never allow myself to go over. So obviously this shocked me into wanting to take action. My mental health being in a better place, I started to do a lot of research into making lifestyle changes because whenever I'd go on a diet or strict workout regimen, I'd just bounce right back up. I didn't want that to happen again and I wanted it to be more permanent. So I knew that before I did anything else, I had to face my issues with food and over eating.

In April, I weighed in at 296 lbs and I truly started trying to lose weight. I slowly started to take things out over time and incorporating whole foods. I completely stopped eating out, which I used to do a lot, and I would keep my drinks to water, sugar free soda, and orange juice. With those slow and gradual changes (they didn't all happen at once), I had lost 40 lbs by the end of June. Some people started to notice but no one said anything. They wouldn't mention my weight at all, or that I looked different. It's not like I was fishing for or expecting compliments, I would never even mention I was trying to lose weight and I was mostly still eating whatever I wanted as long as it was home made, but I noticed the negative comments from before had somewhat stopped and I found the combo of the two just odd enough for me to notice.

At the end of June/early July, I had a medical setback. I won't mention it as it's a bit graphic. During that time I gained 13 lbs back. I got that taken care of through treatment that immediately made me lose 5 lbs the moment the problem was gone, and since I was already getting treatment for one thing, I decided to get a check up for my PCOS and metabolic syndrome/insulin resistance. Everything there was still essentially the same, but the doctor did say I needed to try to get a handle on my conditions and that I should keep losing weight because that would make it better. I got prescribed medication to help with both conditions, which came with it's own graphic side effect that is now resolved, and my blood work showed I was where expected in the areas affected by my medical conditions but that I was doing much better than expected as far as blood glucose and everything else went. The blood work did show that I was only deficient in proteins and everything else was good.

At that point, it was already nearing the end of July, so I kept up taking my treatments and I incorporated as much information on health as I had gathered into my meal planning. I started intermittent fasting, I learned about macros and paid serious attention to that, I set macro goals and have been learning how to meet them. What to eat and what not to eat. I kept a sedentary lifestyle and consumed anywhere between 600-1300 calories during my eating windows which kept me at a 1000-1500 calorie deficit. I didn't want to do more than 1000 but it's just how it happened sometimes. At first balancing macros was really hard for me because it was a lot of food, but over time, I learned what to combine to make it work and now I'm at a steady 1200-1300 calories. Which is still about a 1000 calorie deficit for me. I have not yet incorporated exercise because I wanted to make sure I could learn how to eat right before I jumped into physical fitness as I thought that would be easier for me and I wanted to get the hard part, food, out of the way first. Wanted to master a good handle on it before exercising.

Well, it's been about a month of that now. I lost about 18 lbs for a total of 55+ lbs since the start of the year. It's been a few days since I weighed myself so it could be more than 55 lbs by now.

My weight loss journey, specifically the last month, has been under medical supervision. My doctors check in on me, my progress, and how I'm feeling. Before I went to the doctor, my weight loss was due to small changes that meant I was no longer having super high calorie foods. I was so big, and eating so much fatty take out that those first few months it was very easy to drop the weight once I took those out. I still wasn't eating healthy so it would have eventually stopped. Now that I'm actually eating better and limiting my intake, the weight loss is quickly picking back up despite still living a fully sedentary lifestyle.

Now, the weight loss is a lot more noticeable. I get comments that I'm losing weight too fast and they sound kind of snotty. I'm told I'm just gonna blimp back up like before and get even bigger. From people who haven't seen me in a while and don't realize I've been losing weight since I don't really mention it, still sometimes give me the typical comment of my medical conditions are just an excuse. I do my best not to let these comments affect me and, honestly, my fiancé has been super supportive this whole time so he has been my rock when dealing with people like this.

I don't know if it's just me but they seem hateful and I don't really understand them. First they criticized me, my conditions, and being obese going as far as to diagnose me with diabetes when I'm not diabetic and they're not doctors. And now I'm losing too much weight too fast according to them, despite being under medical supervision and the doctors saying I'm good and to keep it up, and are essentially saying I'll just fail again like the times I went on fad diets and beachbody workouts in the past. The insane part to me is that I am still very much obese at 5'3" and weighing in the 240s (last weigh-in was 245.6 lbs). I'm eating a lot so it's not like if I'm starving and even if I was, I likely have over 50% body fat so my body has plenty to take from.

I don't want to waste much of my breath on these people. Is there anything quick/witty I could respond to get them to fuck off or do I just keep ignoring them? Huh, guess I did want some advice lol.

TLDR: People gave hateful comments when I was at my heaviest saying I'm diabetic, use being sick and my medical conditions as an excuse instead of doing better and working out or going on a diet. Now that I've lost about 55+ lbs and am under medical supervision during my weight loss journey that is doctor approved, but am still obese, they're saying that I'm losing weight too fast and that I'll just blimp back up like the times I went on fad diets in the past, and they keep saying I use my medical conditions as an excuse. Not sure what these people want from me but I don't understand them and their comments just seem hateful to me. Not sure if it's just me that sees it that way. Would appreciate any tips on quick/witty ways to respond to get them to back off or if I should just keep ignoring them.

Thanks for reading!!! Wishing you all the best on your own journey!

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