Thoughts on what the difference is...

collectingblues

JaydedMiss wrote: »

Icecream. Iv found that when i buy a tub of it, Its gone. ZERO control whatsoever. But when i buy like icecream sandwiches or chocolate coated fudgesicles or a drumstick for example, Im perfectly fine just eating one and can avoid the rest with pretty much no effort. I find these even more delicious thn a tub of icecream so i find it weird. Thoughts on why this is?

Anyone else have anything like this?

I'm the exact opposite. Tubbed ice cream? No problem. Serve, weigh, eat.

Ice cream sandwiches? They are a horrible temptation until they're completely gone, and I end up sacrificing actual meals to eat them. I'm pretty much at the point where I buy one box a month, so the perceived damage is minimal.

newheavensearth

I can control myself with single servings and pints of Halo Top or Enlightened. I think because those brands have less sugar and more protein I'm not as "triggered", in terms of flavor, to scarf the whole thing down. But something sweet like Ben and Jerry's? Blink and that's gone.

taziarj

I am exactly the same way. Though I am not a huge ice cream fan, but I do find I do better with novelty ice cream bars, sandwiches and cones than a whole tub. I really like the Twix and Snickers ice cream bars at 180 calories each.

I am more smitten with potato chips. I can easily down a whole 10oz bag in an afternoon for a whopping 1,500 calories. I do much better when I buy pre-portioned 1oz bags. I actually got a great deal a week ago when our local Aldi had some they were trying to clear out. A big sack of 20 individual 1oz packages of different flavored potato chips. Regular $4.49 and they were 50% off at only $2.25. I bought the last three packages. So I have 60 individual bags for only $6.75. Those will last me several months as I usually have one a day as a snack.

lemurcat12

This may be obvious, but do the people who struggle with the whole tub portion out the ice cream, put it in a bowl that fits the amount, and put the ice cream away. Or do you think I'll keep eating until I don't want more or -- doom if I were to do it -- eat out of a pint container?

I find the ice cream sandwiches similar or harder to control than the ice cream so long as I weigh or measure my ice cream portion and think of it as my final bit of food that fits in my calories.

JaydedMiss

lemurcat12 wrote: »

This may be obvious, but do the people who struggle with the whole tub portion out the ice cream, put it in a bowl that fits the amount, and put the ice cream away. Or do you think I'll keep eating until I don't want more or -- doom if I were to do it -- eat out of a pint container?

I find the ice cream sandwiches similar or harder to control than the ice cream so long as I weigh or measure my ice cream portion and think of it as my final bit of food that fits in my calories.

When i have icecream in my freezer ill repeatedly go back for a scoop...and then another...and another....repeat until empty lol

taziarj

lemurcat12 wrote: »

This may be obvious, but do the people who struggle with the whole tub portion out the ice cream, put it in a bowl that fits the amount, and put the ice cream away. Or do you think I'll keep eating until I don't want more or -- doom if I were to do it -- eat out of a pint container?

I find the ice cream sandwiches similar or harder to control than the ice cream so long as I weigh or measure my ice cream portion and think of it as my final bit of food that fits in my calories.

I do weigh out my ice cream portions. I end up using a ramekin to put the ice cream in. Mentally, the paltry amount of ice cream in a "serving" looks like a lot more in the ramekin than it does in a big bowl.

lemurcat12

taziarj wrote: »

lemurcat12 wrote: »

This may be obvious, but do the people who struggle with the whole tub portion out the ice cream, put it in a bowl that fits the amount, and put the ice cream away. Or do you think I'll keep eating until I don't want more or -- doom if I were to do it -- eat out of a pint container?

I find the ice cream sandwiches similar or harder to control than the ice cream so long as I weigh or measure my ice cream portion and think of it as my final bit of food that fits in my calories.

I do weigh out my ice cream portions. I end up using a ramekin to put the ice cream in. Mentally, the paltry amount of ice cream in a "serving" looks like a lot more in the ramekin than it does in a big bowl.

Yeah, I like using little bowls or ramekins too!

JaydedMiss

taziarj wrote: »

lemurcat12 wrote: »

This may be obvious, but do the people who struggle with the whole tub portion out the ice cream, put it in a bowl that fits the amount, and put the ice cream away. Or do you think I'll keep eating until I don't want more or -- doom if I were to do it -- eat out of a pint container?

I find the ice cream sandwiches similar or harder to control than the ice cream so long as I weigh or measure my ice cream portion and think of it as my final bit of food that fits in my calories.

I do weigh out my ice cream portions. I end up using a ramekin to put the ice cream in. Mentally, the paltry amount of ice cream in a "serving" looks like a lot more in the ramekin than it does in a big bowl.

yeah i have the cutest little icecream bowls, Pretty food containers make me happy. Making pretty food. Still cant avoid going back in for more xD

lemurcat12

I really think it's setting a habit. If you think "just a scoop" and then "just a scoop more" and so on, and have a pattern of doing that, it's hard. If you say "I don't go over my calories" and I will have an amount that fits in my calories" it starts a new habit, but might be hard to stick to at first.

I have an issue if I have peanut M&Ms at work (there's a bowl). I think "oh, just a few" and if I start doing that I go back and back and back. If I tried getting some and logging and thinking of them as "that's all," I might be able to start a new habit (although I don't really need peanut M&Ms at work, so better not to eat them). But anyway, it would be tough at first, since I had an established habit.

Ice cream was easy for me, since I didn't have a habit of going back and back and back (in the old days I'd eat ice cream somewhat rarely, but from the pint when I did, with no limits).

laurenebargar

I feel the exact same way. I can eat like three bowls of ice cream. But the Yasso ice cream bars, after I eat one I'm satisfied. I think it is a mental aspect for me at least, unwrapping one, taking the time to eat it, my mind just knows that im done I guess. I started applying that to food too. Weighing out and bringing an exact amount of food to work. Putting the food away once I've made plates for dinner.

laurenebargar

Also I've found when I go out to get ice cream, im fine ordering a baby sized. I dont miss having more ice cream at all, sometimes I dont even finish the baby. Theres definitely something about the food being portioned out that helps.

JeromeBarry1

Have you tried putting a bowl on a scale, spooning 4 oz of ice cream into the bowl. Putting the lid on the tub, and putting the tub back in the freezer before proceeding to drizzle some topping on the ice cream and then enjoying your concoction?

jennybearlv

I have that same thing. My husband gets annoyed that I insist on buying everything in snack sized portions at Costco instead of just measuring snacks out from the bulk containers or just eating straight from the container like he does. Somehow an empty bowl is always asking for seconds, thirds, etc. while once I hit the end of a disposable wrapper I am somehow done. I think it goes back to my pre-calorie counting days when I ate straight from containers and considered a half gallon of ice cream or a box of cookies to be a serving.

KosmosKitten

My husband is the same with ice cream, honestly. He will completely devour a half pint or pint in one sitting. Something that would take me days, possibly weeks or months to go through. For him, I am pretty sure it's the texture and creaminess of the ice cream (particularly with chocolate flavors) and the fact that it's in a container that suggests one should eat the entire thing in a single sitting.

He seems to have no problem only eating one Klondike bar or ice cream bar, but with things like Oreos and ice cream, he will inhale the entire box/carton. So I think it really is the packaging (or lack thereof) that triggers this "I gotta eat it all" mentality he has.

I just stopped buying him ice cream unless it was in smaller containers or came in bars or flavors I know he likes.

CTcutie

I'm one of the opposite... having to find my favorite little bowl/is it even clean??, scale, scoop, enter into MFP, put ice cream back in freezer... seems like a lot of work, lol, and I easily eat my paltry portion. But the individually wrapped ones always beg me to go open another. I can stop at one, but I know* there's more in that freezer, just waiting for me to eat them all