Eating pizza, pop tarts, & ice cream while losing weight

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  • Jacqadactle
    Jacqadactle Posts: 62 Member
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    Like.
  • TheStephil
    TheStephil Posts: 858 Member
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    I eat some form of junk multiple times a day and have no health problems or weight loss problems. I usually have ice cream for dessert every day. I couldn't live without my sugar splurges.
  • sunnyflower1177
    sunnyflower1177 Posts: 212
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    I get angry when im hungry!
  • kjm_723
    kjm_723 Posts: 66 Member
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    If my calorie goal was 3250 I'd eat whatever I wanted also but when you're calorie goal is much much less than that then it's a lot harder to fit treats in! I try not to think of any foods as good or bad but 380 cals for poptarts just isn't worth it, I would still be hungry and then I would eat something else and I'd be way over before I knew it. So I can understand why some people must have a stricter approach.
  • SanteMulberry
    SanteMulberry Posts: 3,202 Member
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    For me what it boils down to is "everything is permissible, not everything is beneficial". I have not demonized any foods except a couple I don't seem to be able to exercise self control with in terms of portions. Everything else is up for grabs. But I have to admit I have tried to change my mindset about food so that I'm eating to live, not living to eat. Which means not every day is a treat day. I don't have specific treat days either. I just sorta wing it.

    But as I've said on here a million times, if it works for you, go for it. If I ate what you're eating my reactive hypoglycemia issues would be off the freakin' charts. But that's obviously not your issue. So carry on...

    Oh. And for the record. Not treating reactive hypoglycemia with dietary changes will eventually lead to insulin resistance, which coupled with other risk factors previously mentioned, WILL lead to type 2 diabetes. So the Pop Tart Diet would definitely be no bueno for me.

    Thanks for the civilized and polite response. Thank you. :flowerforyou: Welcome to the forums. :smile:
  • sunnyflower1177
    sunnyflower1177 Posts: 212
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    So i have a SNICKERS!!!!!!!!!
  • SanteMulberry
    SanteMulberry Posts: 3,202 Member
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    If my calorie goal was 3250 I'd eat whatever I wanted also but when you're calorie goal is much much less than that then it's a lot harder to fit treats in! I try not to think of any foods as good or bad but 380 cals for poptarts just isn't worth it, I would still be hungry and then I would eat something else and I'd be way over before I knew it. So I can understand why some people must have a stricter approach.

    Reasonable and accurate. :flowerforyou: Welcome to the forums! :smile:
  • magerum
    magerum Posts: 12,589 Member
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    I'm shocked this thread hasn't gotten locked yet from all the butthurt going on.

    Who wants to join me for chicken alfredo and tiramisu tonight?

    It better not get locked.

    ETA: I'm the OP. Which can get lost in threads like this.
  • WinnerVictorious
    WinnerVictorious Posts: 4,735 Member
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    This seems appropriate

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    don't forget...

    pizza_wrogt.jpg

    or...

    cat_ice_cream.jpg
  • JulesAlloggio
    JulesAlloggio Posts: 480 Member
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    I get angry when im hungry!

    Me too!!! ARGH!!
  • _SABOTEUR_
    _SABOTEUR_ Posts: 6,833 Member
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    How did you people who eat so perfectly all the time end up here in the first place? Just wondering.

    Through eating the way OP promotes. Do you realize that 100 calories extra (not even a half-cup of ice cream) over what your body requires (and my body happens to use calories very efficiently apparently) over the course of 10 years is a 100-pound gain. And dieting only exacerbates the problem. So we cleaned up our act and got serious about making healthy changes. And here we are---loving our healthy new way of achieving our goals. :smile:

    You forgot to add: "loving our healthy new way of achieving our goals... while trying to prove to others that I am better than them by nagging in a thread specifically titled Eating pizza, pop tarts, and ice cream while losing weight...SMILEY FACE."

    Not at all, dear. I do NOT consider myself superior in any way. If you got that out of my posts, it was likely your inference. It is not nagging to suggest that what the OP advocates will not necessarily work for everyone. Sorry that my posts seem to have made you angry, but there was really nothing in them that should have done so. When you are around here a bit longer, perhaps you will see that this is an old ongoing discussion that apparently has no end in sight. If they are happy with what they are doing---more power to them. I am merely pointing out that it simply will not work for some people and that those who are watching and not participating would be wise to tread cautiously on their advice as they should tread cautiously on all advice from every source.

    Sweetie, darling, I have just bolded one of your statements. :flowerforyou:

    The reason being, dearie, that this clearly shows you feel superior to others who lose weight whilst incorporating treats. :heart:

    If we turn this statment around, lovie, what you're saying is you believe we are not serious about weight loss and improving our health because we eat foods you disapprove of. :flowerforyou:

    I find it strange dear, that you are able to contradict yourself so regularly, but with the amount of posts you have clogged up this thread with it must be difficult to keep up with what you have previously said. :heart:

    Live and let live, sweetie. :flowerforyou: :flowerforyou: :flowerforyou: :flowerforyou:
  • cosmic8o8
    cosmic8o8 Posts: 131 Member
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    It REALLY is calories in/calories out.

    BUT!!!!!

    I can have 1 pop tart or a BUCKET of salad with a couple oz of grilled chicken (no really… a gallon bucket FULL to the top).

    Nutrition is another animal.

    Honestly, I'd take the poptart over a bucket of salad. If I'm going to eat a bucket of something, it's going to be the Colonel's best.
  • Crankstr
    Crankstr Posts: 3,958 Member
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    Then why you keep coming back to argue? If you don't care then why debate it! Geesh........ I said live and let live. about a hundred times throughout this thread. You just want to argue. I don't know why you chose me though. I didn't create the controversy.

    Indeed.

    One might say that you've been preaching it throughout this thread. Incessantly, even...

    ...in a thread titled, "Eating pizza, pop tarts, & ice cream while losing weight"...



    How are you unable or unwilling to grasp the hypocrisy in this?

    ^this

    THIS^
  • Pinkylee77
    Pinkylee77 Posts: 432 Member
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    Weight loss is to become healthy. So why eat like a slob?

    How am I eating like a slob?

    Diary from yesterday:

    Kirkland Signature (Costco) - Premium Performance Multi 31 Vitamins & Minerals, 1 tablet
    Nature's Bounty - Fish Oil 1400 Mg/980 Mg Omega-3, 1 Softgel
    Body Fortress - Super Advanced Whey Isolate - Vanilla Creme, 2 scoop (35g)


    Lunch
    Kirkland Signature - Almonds, Dry Roasted and Salted, 28 g (1/4 cup)
    Barilla Plus Multigrain Pasta - Farfalle (Bowtie) Noodles, 1 oz
    Generic - Broccoli, 3 oz.
    Cauliflower - Raw Floweret, 3 ounce
    Coca-Cola - Cherry Coke Zero 12oz Can, 12 oz
    Bybee Organic Mixed Vegetables With Shelled Edemame (Costco) - Organic, Frozen Corn, Carrots, Green Beans, & Edamame, 2 cup (100g)
    Lawry's Marinade - Lemon Pepper, 1 tbs
    Kirkland Chicken Breast - Boneless skinless chicken breast, 8 oz
    Knudsen - Cottage Cheese - Lowfat Small Curd, 1/2 cup

    Dinner
    Coca-Cola - Cherry Coke Zero 12oz Can, 12 oz
    Red Brick Pizza - Pizza Bufalo, 1 small pizza
    Gold Coast - Salad Spinach (Premium Select), 200 g
    Kirkland Chicken Breast - Boneless skinless chicken breast, 7 oz

    Upper Crust Bakery - Mini Cinnamon Rolls, 2 rolls (37 g)
    Kellogg's - Pop-Tart - Frosted Red Velvet, 2 pastry
    General Mills Cheerios Plain - Plain Cherrios, 56 g
    Milk Walmart Great Value - 1% Milk, 0.75 cup (240ML)
    General Mills Cereal - Fiber One 80 Calories Honey Squares, 2 1/4 cup (30g)
    Edys - Slow Churned Mint Cookie, 2 cup 63g

    It's not McDonald's, but there is still a lot of bad stuff on your diet. Lots of high fructose corn syrup, artificial sweeteners and GMO-food. Also soy is estrogenic (edamame). Once in a while, it might be ok to indulge (yes, I do it), but don't kid yourself! Every day like this isn't healthy.
    Soy is now bad for you really? the billion of Asians that eat it daily are all dieing of cancer. What makes burns my backside is not poptarts but people that don't know squat about real food science and believe garbage junk studies. I work in the cancer field cancer and disease do not know the difference of a healthy eater and an unhealthy eater. The people that are the most upset when they get sick are the health nuts that thought they can prevent cancer with their diet. Eat and be happy life is too short!
  • BamaBreezeNSaltAire
    BamaBreezeNSaltAire Posts: 966 Member
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    I'm adding BEER to the pop tarts, pizza and ice cream! Carry on.
  • Crankstr
    Crankstr Posts: 3,958 Member
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    HEY! When did they start showing the day we started instead of just the month and year?

    this week i think
  • Zumaria1
    Zumaria1 Posts: 225 Member
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    are you still trying to lose weight? you have alot of calorie intake and your pottasium and sugar is pretty high. are you just trying to maintain?

    I lose a bit more than a pound a week at this caloric intake (3250)


    Since you can lose weight at that high of a caloric intake, I can see why you are able to keep eating pizza, pop tarts, ice cream, McDonald's etc.

    While I definitely am not an extremist about not eating sugar, or absolutely no fast food EVER, I cannot comprehend you and some others who take the other extreme, IMO, of actively promoting eating high sugar, high fat, high sodium foods. I certainly could never lose weight at a calorie intake of 3250, the average person probably could not do so, therefore its most attainable for me, to eat lower calorie, healthier foods, and save things like ice cream, pizza, for treats every once in a while. Pop tarts I gave up 18 years ago and never looked back, those things are gross in my opinion, Toaster Strudels are so much better, lol.
  • magerum
    magerum Posts: 12,589 Member
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    Hmm they moved it to Chit-Chat...
  • Sarauk2sf
    Sarauk2sf Posts: 28,072 Member
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    I finished 2 talenti gelatos my first month and still lost 9 pounds.

    Mmmm....I just discovered Talenti gelatos. Soooo good!!

    *nods*
  • pastryari
    pastryari Posts: 8,646 Member
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    are you still trying to lose weight? you have alot of calorie intake and your pottasium and sugar is pretty high. are you just trying to maintain?

    I lose a bit more than a pound a week at this caloric intake (3250)


    Since you can lose weight at that high of a caloric intake, I can see why you are able to keep eating pizza, pop tarts, ice cream, McDonald's etc.

    While I definitely am not an extremist about not eating sugar, or absolutely no fast food EVER, I cannot comprehend you and some others who take the other extreme, IMO, of actively promoting eating high sugar, high fat, high sodium foods. I certainly could never lose weight at a calorie intake of 3250, the average person probably could not do so, therefore its most attainable for me, to eat lower calorie, healthier foods, and save things like ice cream, pizza, for treats every once in a while. Pop tarts I gave up 18 years ago and never looked back, those things are gross in my opinion, Toaster Strudels are so much better, lol.

    I have a lower cal limit and I eat ice cream daily.

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