What if i spend all my calories on ice cream.

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  • majope
    majope Posts: 1,325 Member
    Okay, I entered a day's calories worth of ice cream into a blank diary page to see what the macros come out to. This is for a particular type I had recently, Blue Bell Kentucky Dream--obviously it would be different for different brands and flavors (if you were actually going to do this, you could mix and match to tweak macros to get them to fit better).

    9 servings at 190 calories each would provide:

    1710 calories (my daily limit is 1760)

    99g fat, 54g saturated, 0g trans. Daily goal is 68, so 31g over

    225mg cholesterol, 75 under daily recommendation

    630g sodium, 1870 under daily rec

    0g potassium, 3500 under daily rec

    180 carbs (would still have 40 left)

    135g sugar, 100 over rec

    9g fiber, or not quite half of the 20 recommended

    36g protein, 30 under rec
    54% vitamin A

    0% vitamin C

    90% calcium

    36% iron

    Could be worse. That's a little over 2 tablespoons worth of butter over on fat, but gives almost all of a day's calcium. Short on protein, but not so much that you couldn't make it up the next day. That's a lot of sugar, which could give you the runs, but not necessarily--it's about the same as in 5 candy bars, and I know there are Halloweens where I easily put away that many with no ill effects. You wouldn't have to worry about either sodium or cholesterol that day, either.

    I wouldn't do it every day--okay, I doubt I'll ever do it once, mostly because it would be boring--but if I did, it doesn't look lethal, or even all that bad.
  • MyChocolateDiet
    MyChocolateDiet Posts: 22,281 Member
    This post is so ironic?/timely?/psychic?/creepy? /unnerving? Considering my ice cream truck adventure today. I mean not even the folks on my FL could have known that because I just logged 'em.

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  • kdeaux1959
    kdeaux1959 Posts: 2,675 Member
    You would lose weight if you accurately stayed within bounds (and your activity level and such were accurately assessed)... It would be hard to stay within that caloric deficit over a period of time because your body would be craving the nutrition it was not receiving. Best option.. A little of the good stuff and a lot of the good for you stuff... You will satisfy your cravings better that way. Remember, the journey is not about getting (staying) skinny.. it is about getting healthy...
  • metacognition
    metacognition Posts: 626 Member
    No, I think a person would start to look fleshy and pale though from lack of muscle tone and loss of nutrition. So they would, in theory look fatter even if their weight remains the same.
  • Warchortle
    Warchortle Posts: 2,197 Member
    You are what you eat.. you'll turn into a soupy mess at the bottom of a bowl.
  • MyChocolateDiet
    MyChocolateDiet Posts: 22,281 Member
    No, I think a person would start to look fleshy and palethough from lack of muscle tone and loss of nutrition. So they would, in theory look fatter even if their weight remains the same.
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  • weevil66
    weevil66 Posts: 600 Member
    If I went on an ice cream only diet I would probably lose a few friends (a bit lacose intolerant and ice cream is starting to make me a bit...gassy).
  • GrandmaJackie
    GrandmaJackie Posts: 36,990 Member
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    would love to have ice cream EVERY day, yay baby! I know I would look like Porky Pig, again! :sad: :sad: :sad
  • imchicbad
    imchicbad Posts: 1,650 Member
    your sugar intake would be super high and you will get fat
  • PikaKnight
    PikaKnight Posts: 34,971 Member
    your sugar intake would be super high and you will get fat

    Even if she's still at a deficit? no, not true. As long as she were to remain in her calorie goals to lose, she'd lose.
  • ghhosstt
    ghhosstt Posts: 112
    Bad food calories, especially unnatural sugar calories, are larger than calories in good food. These calories turn directly into body fat because your body cannot process them. Essentially, you enter starvation mode thus slowing your metabolism, and you gain fat from the ultra dense calories and unnatural sugars and toxins. Only a good detox cleanse to flush your fat and remove 20 pounds of fecal matter from your colon will save you now.

    you forgot to add "muahahaha".
  • GrandmaJackie
    GrandmaJackie Posts: 36,990 Member
    Ice cream is something I didn't keep in the house since its way to easy to lose control, lol! :sad: :sad:
  • katy_trail
    katy_trail Posts: 1,992 Member
    Bad food calories, especially unnatural sugar calories, are larger than calories in good food. These calories turn directly into body fat because your body cannot process them. Essentially, you enter starvation mode thus slowing your metabolism, and you gain fat from the ultra dense calories and unnatural sugars and toxins. Only a good detox cleanse to flush your fat and remove 20 pounds of fecal matter from your colon will save you now.

    can't tell if srs..........






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  • katy_trail
    katy_trail Posts: 1,992 Member
    Love mythbusters! if you didn't know i was a nerd you have been warned now lol
  • AllAboutThatTreble
    AllAboutThatTreble Posts: 156 Member
    Bad food calories, especially unnatural sugar calories, are larger than calories in good food. These calories turn directly into body fat because your body cannot process them. Essentially, you enter starvation mode thus slowing your metabolism, and you gain fat from the ultra dense calories and unnatural sugars and toxins. Only a good detox cleanse to flush your fat and remove 20 pounds of fecal matter from your colon will save you now.

    I think this covers just about everything.
  • volume77
    volume77 Posts: 670 Member
    Bad food calories, especially unnatural sugar calories, are larger than calories in good food. These calories turn directly into body fat because your body cannot process them. Essentially, you enter starvation mode thus slowing your metabolism, and you gain fat from the ultra dense calories and unnatural sugars and toxins. Only a good detox cleanse to flush your fat and remove 20 pounds of fecal matter from your colon will save you now.

    I think this covers just about everything.




    yep.
  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,349 Member
    I have the odd cookie day......

    I ate a whole container of cookies for dinner last week. Still had a deficit for the day. It keeps me sane.

    I eat an entire pack of string cheese for lunch one day every couple of weeks. Still a deficit, so all good.
  • Oishii
    Oishii Posts: 2,675 Member
    Personally, I rather liked having icecream sundaes as a meal replacement when I was losing weight (more rapidly than I would now choose to now) in France. I think that's a good way to add in the fibre, potassium etc :drinker:
  • kelly_e_montana
    kelly_e_montana Posts: 1,999 Member
    Without over-thinking it, here's what will happen. Immediately you will feel friggin bliss. You will not gain weight. Depending on your own food tolerances, you may or may not become bloated. Later, you will feel sluggish and generally cruddy. You will not do this everyday because of said cruddy feeling and the world will not end.
  • ParkerH47
    ParkerH47 Posts: 463 Member
    doing that is totally possible - but consider this:

    1 tbsp of butter = ~100cals
    1 cookie = ~100cals
    a few doritos = ~100cals
    1 banana = ~100cals
    2 cups of baby carrots = ~100cals
    10 cups spinach = ~100cals

    Whats actually going to fill you up?
    Not to mention simply losing weight "the unhealthy way" doesn't lower your risk of diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, and cancer - where as eating healthy will :)

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