Junk food.

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  • magerum
    magerum Posts: 12,589 Member
    If you need to have a bowl of ice cream every night you are approaching this the wrong way. You need to have treats, not a staple diet of crap.

    I eat a pint of ice cream, yes an entire pint, every single night. You have no idea what you're talking about. It's a nutrionally valid food if you plan for it. EVERY NIGHT.

    -M
    Now r u still losing weight with that pint? I just love my ice cream and just can't give it up. But anything else I will!

    Yes I lost weight with ice cream as a staple. It's all about calories in vs. calories out. Granted when I was eating 1200 - 1400 a day I only ate 1/2 pint, but with my exercise and the rest of my diet I lose @3100 calories. For the last month I've cut my cardio from 7 days a week to 3 days a week, eating 3100 calories a day and I've dropped 3.5 lbs. I'm not trying to lose any more though so more adustments are needed. I promise my pint (2 cups) a day probably isn't going anywhere until I decide to cut again, at which point I'll just scaled it back to 1.5 cups instead of 2. Just work the fat, protein, & sugar into your equation. If you're worried about sugar, go for the no sugar added variety, they're pretty good!

    -M

    -M
  • magerum
    magerum Posts: 12,589 Member
    Triple chocolate peanut butter sundae by Dreyer's is awesome! FYI
  • mrsejennings
    mrsejennings Posts: 97 Member
    Some people make icecream with thier protein shakes!
  • tsh0ck
    tsh0ck Posts: 1,970 Member
    Ice cream? Yup. I have it regularly. And pizza. And burgers. Bacon. Whatever. Just make it fit. The only unhealthy food is the one eaten in excess.
  • tsh0ck
    tsh0ck Posts: 1,970 Member
    I buy something like weightwatcherws or skinny cow icecream and limit it to ONE bar a night that way I get my icecream and feel good that most my calories went to food while a little went to that treat.

    But one a night is enough to do damage.


    Uh ... that's crazy.
  • chevy88grl
    chevy88grl Posts: 3,937 Member
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    Eats cookies EVERY single day. Big cookies, medium cookies, little cookies.. chocolate chip, peanut butter, lemon.. .cookies, cookies, cookies!


    I've lost nearly 60lbs and kept it off for almost 2 years. As long as the majority of what you eat is healthy, a reasonably sized bowl of ice cream every night WON'T hurt you!
  • SGRhapsodos
    SGRhapsodos Posts: 47
    Why not have it once or twice a week? I just had one, so don't listen to me, but.... Completely depriving yourself leads to bingeing.
  • tsh0ck
    tsh0ck Posts: 1,970 Member
    Too much Sugar!!

    Only if you have diabetes.
  • WishfulShrinking331
    WishfulShrinking331 Posts: 244 Member
    I think it's fine if you like ice cream! Everyone has a favorite food that they like to indulge in, now a days though they have all of the double churned lower calorie options, and they taste just the same. I also like to experiment adding my own flavoring into the fat free vanilla frozen yogurt, I made my own lite Chunky Monkey ice cream once. And there are also weight watchers ice cream bars and skinny cow single serving cups. Even sugar free fudgesicles are a calorie bargin. This is a lifestyle change, so omitting your favorite foods is out of the question! Just switch it up a bit.

    (btw I am a french fry lover and hungry girl made the butternut squash swap! It's so worth it, I wouldn't give them up either)
  • SweetSammie
    SweetSammie Posts: 391 Member
    Magnum (http://www.magnumicecream.com/) has these AWESOME mini ice cream bars. 160 cals, real ice cream, belgian chocolate DELICIOUS.
    I also just tried (as in... 10 minutes ago) Ben and Jerry's Greek yogurt, it's delicious... a little higher calorie than some other yogurts (200 cals per 1/2 cup), but really really, good. As good as ice cream (and I take that seriously). I don't have ice cream every day, but I have a real dessert of some sort about 2 times a week (sometimes I split it with my husband).

    Just about every day I have at least 1 small piece of chocolate... if I am going to do this for the rest of my life... then sometimes ice cream, or chips, or french fries are part what I eat. I just really try to not go over calories TOO often.
  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 48,989 Member
    If you need to have a bowl of ice cream every night you are approaching this the wrong way. You need to have treats, not a staple diet of crap.
    You can eat "crap" if you've met your macronutrient needs and still calories left for them and still be healthy.


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  • magerum
    magerum Posts: 12,589 Member
    If you need to have a bowl of ice cream every night you are approaching this the wrong way. You need to have treats, not a staple diet of crap.
    You can eat "crap" if you've met your macronutrient needs and still calories left for them and still be healthy.


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    ^ This!
  • irisheyez718
    irisheyez718 Posts: 677 Member
    Sorry, but I have ice cream every night. It's one cup now, instead of the big bowl that I used to have in the past. Having that cup of ice cream at the end of the night, helps me to stay on track, it helps me to say no to things that I might not have during the day, just knowing that its coming later! You have to do what works for you. Ice cream every night, is working for me.
  • MoreBean13
    MoreBean13 Posts: 8,701 Member
    Here's how I see it- with a limited allotment of calories, regularly spending your calories on junk food affords you fewer calories to get all the vitamins, minerals, phytonutrients, fiber, etc etc etc that your body needs. If it fits in your macros, you'll be able to lose weight, but you're making it more and more difficult to get a nutritionally complete diet. Once in a while is fine.
  • Martin0524
    Martin0524 Posts: 59 Member
    Ice Cream Is great....And it was one of the many foods I was addicted to. Try Skinny Cow Ice Cream cups. They are 150 calories, taste great and helped me curb my craving.
  • ShemikaPerry
    ShemikaPerry Posts: 26
    Everyone is different. I eat sweets such as cupcakes and ice cream all throughout the week but i have consistently been losing about 2-3 pounds per week. I do exercise everyday to try and balance it out. I actually lost about 14 pounds last month even though i went over on my sugar intake almost every single day.
  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 48,989 Member
    Here's how I see it- with a limited allotment of calories, regularly spending your calories on junk food affords you fewer calories to get all the vitamins, minerals, phytonutrients, fiber, etc etc etc that your body needs. If it fits in your macros, you'll be able to lose weight, but you're making it more and more difficult to get a nutritionally complete diet. Once in a while is fine.
    What if you meet those macros and micros everyday and still have calories available? Taking in more of them doesn't help you to be more nutritionally sound.


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  • MoreBean13
    MoreBean13 Posts: 8,701 Member
    Here's how I see it- with a limited allotment of calories, regularly spending your calories on junk food affords you fewer calories to get all the vitamins, minerals, phytonutrients, fiber, etc etc etc that your body needs. If it fits in your macros, you'll be able to lose weight, but you're making it more and more difficult to get a nutritionally complete diet. Once in a while is fine.
    What if you meet those macros and micros everyday and still have calories available? Taking in more of them doesn't help you to be more nutritionally sound.


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    If you get everything you need on less calories I have no problem spending the rest on treats :happy:
    I'm just saying you're making it more difficult.
  • saraann4
    saraann4 Posts: 1,296 Member
    Maybe start by shifting to a) a cone or smaller bowl, b) a lower calorie ice cream or possibly a sherbet or frozen yoghurt?

    This!! And yes you can! Have a portion. Make sure it's in your calorie intake
  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 48,989 Member
    Here's how I see it- with a limited allotment of calories, regularly spending your calories on junk food affords you fewer calories to get all the vitamins, minerals, phytonutrients, fiber, etc etc etc that your body needs. If it fits in your macros, you'll be able to lose weight, but you're making it more and more difficult to get a nutritionally complete diet. Once in a while is fine.
    What if you meet those macros and micros everyday and still have calories available? Taking in more of them doesn't help you to be more nutritionally sound.


    A.C.E. Certified Personal and Group FitnessTrainer
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    If you get everything you need on less calories I have no problem spending the rest on treats :happy:
    I'm just saying you're making it more difficult.
    Lol, it would be tough if you ate the ice cream for breakfast. Anyway, I understand what you mean, I just thought you were saying that it's not likely that it could be done.


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  • taytaylynn3
    taytaylynn3 Posts: 601
    Love the tips!

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