Eating Pop Tarts and ice cream daily.

pop tarts are not on the menu for me this month, but i will be buying some Red Velvet pop tarts at the store tonight.

i think i'm going to make a fortune selling them to MFP'ers.

op, this thread is dangerous to the average person who is struggling with their weight. u run 30 miles a week and lift weights so u can get away with these kind of snacks. the average moderately active person trying to loose weight cant do this. it would be more responsible to post why you are able to eat 800cal snacks daily. Are u just showing off?

This is 100% false. I am currently sedentary (recovering from surgery), and I eat ice cream and other snacks daily also. I fit them into my calorie allotment for the day, and I'm still losing.

The OP's point is that you don't have to demonize food that you enjoy eating to be successful. He didn't say that one should eat junk all day every day. It's not an "all or nothing" thing here.

u r right. but this site is to help people who have problems eating too much. people who lack self control with food. i like to have a couple of beers after work. would it be responsible for me to post that on an alcoholics wed site. no. we all know about calories in vs. calories out. but people struggle with that. this post is not helping anybody.

This site is called My FITNESS Pal, not my diet pal, or my weight loss pal, my FITNESS pal. There are people here that are bulking, maintaining, cutting, training, just getting started, and don't even track anymore, just participate in the forums, etc. This site is not just for those who eat too much.

op, this thread is dangerous to the average person who is struggling with their weight. u run 30 miles a week and lift weights so u can get away with these kind of snacks. the average moderately active person trying to loose weight cant do this. it would be more responsible to post why you are able to eat 800cal snacks daily. Are u just showing off?

This is 100% false. I am currently sedentary (recovering from surgery), and I eat ice cream and other snacks daily also. I fit them into my calorie allotment for the day, and I'm still losing.

The OP's point is that you don't have to demonize food that you enjoy eating to be successful. He didn't say that one should eat junk all day every day. It's not an "all or nothing" thing here.

u r right. but this site is to help people who have problems eating too much. people who lack self control with food. i like to have a couple of beers after work. would it be responsible for me to post that on an alcoholics wed site. no. we all know about calories in vs. calories out. but people struggle with that. this post is not helping anybody.

Given that it has provided the opportunity for knowledgeable people to explain that moderation combined with exercise is a much more successful path than blatant restriction....yeah, it helps anybody who cares to actually read the information given.

but why do that? why replace necessary nutrients with sugar and why feed your sugar addiction at all?

Maybe the OP doesn't HAVE a sugar addiction ...

oh she surely does or she wouldnt eat that stuff everyday

So why feed yourself Girl Scout cookies and McDonald's Angus Burgers?

You don't have to have an addiction to something to enjoy it. Right?

Also, from looking at your diary you consume a moderate amount of alcohol close to daily. Does that make you an alcoholic?

op, this thread is dangerous to the average person who is struggling with their weight. u run 30 miles a week and lift weights so u can get away with these kind of snacks. the average moderately active person trying to loose weight cant do this. it would be more responsible to post why you are able to eat 800cal snacks daily. Are u just showing off?

This is 100% false. I am currently sedentary (recovering from surgery), and I eat ice cream and other snacks daily also. I fit them into my calorie allotment for the day, and I'm still losing.

The OP's point is that you don't have to demonize food that you enjoy eating to be successful. He didn't say that one should eat junk all day every day. It's not an "all or nothing" thing here.

u r right. but this site is to help people who have problems eating too much. people who lack self control with food. i like to have a couple of beers after work. would it be responsible for me to post that on an alcoholics wed site. no. we all know about calories in vs. calories out. but people struggle with that. this post is not helping anybody.

re-read this thread from the beginning. i think you will find that there is a very positive message running through it that is being reinforced by 98% of the respondents. newbies will see that message as well. for many of them, it will help them see that they don't need to demonize certain foods. in fact, those foods can be enjoyed in moderation while losing weight.

2 pop tarts = 400 calories. that can easily be fit into anyone's diet once or twice a week. if they want pop tarts, the message here is they can have pop tarts. just don't eat a whole box of 12 or 16 in one sitting.

op, this thread is dangerous to the average person who is struggling with their weight. u run 30 miles a week and lift weights so u can get away with these kind of snacks. the average moderately active person trying to loose weight cant do this. it would be more responsible to post why you are able to eat 800cal snacks daily. Are u just showing off?

This is 100% false. I am currently sedentary (recovering from surgery), and I eat ice cream and other snacks daily also. I fit them into my calorie allotment for the day, and I'm still losing.

The OP's point is that you don't have to demonize food that you enjoy eating to be successful. He didn't say that one should eat junk all day every day. It's not an "all or nothing" thing here.

u r right. but this site is to help people who have problems eating too much. people who lack self control with food. i like to have a couple of beers after work. would it be responsible for me to post that on an alcoholics wed site. no. we all know about calories in vs. calories out. but people struggle with that. this post is not helping anybody.

I say this as someone used to binge and hide junk food in my house that being able to still enjoy the food I used to binge on as part of a reasonably balanced diet instead of an attitude of, "I must never eat chips again" worked. Expecting people who have problems with self control to give up their vices cold turkey is a recipe for complete failure for most folks. It just is not realistic at all.

Self control can and SHOULD be taught and learned. Without actually learning it, success is short-lived anyway.

I got flamed in a thread apparently for my love of Pop Tarts the other day, it is nice to see I have friends among the masses!!! Red Velvet Pop Tarts are my go to but I am trying to track done the last of the Pumpkin Pie pop tarts but I am thinking I might have to turn to Amazon to give these bad boys a try.... Chocolate chip cookie dough though is running a close second to the Red Velvet....

^^This guy right here has the results to back it up, just like the OP.

Apparently you can lose over 311 lbs and not deprive yourself of poptarts!

Fine, I'll be the guinea pig and eat nothing but pop tarts and gummi bears for the week while staying in my calories and see if I still lose.....I'm only doing it for everyone here though. Not because I want to...

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

We only have boring flavoured pop tarts in the UK, no cinnamon or red velvet ones :sad:

Not true. The first place I saw Red Velvet PopTarts was in a mall in Leicester in January. There was an "American food" store of some kind, and they had an entire wall of PopTarts in various flavors, including Red Velvet. Since we were on our way home after being out of the States for six months, we didn't buy any--but that's how I knew to look them up when I got home.

Sadly most places in the uk do not have an "American Food store" Those babies doesn't even appear on Amazon

Geez< i go the post office and this thread explodes.

op, this thread is dangerous to the average person who is struggling with their weight. u run 30 miles a week and lift weights so u can get away with these kind of snacks. the average moderately active person trying to loose weight cant do this. it would be more responsible to post why you are able to eat 800cal snacks daily. Are u just showing off?

This is 100% false. I am currently sedentary (recovering from surgery), and I eat ice cream and other snacks daily also. I fit them into my calorie allotment for the day, and I'm still losing.

The OP's point is that you don't have to demonize food that you enjoy eating to be successful. He didn't say that one should eat junk all day every day. It's not an "all or nothing" thing here.

u r right. but this site is to help people who have problems eating too much. people who lack self control with food. i like to have a couple of beers after work. would it be responsible for me to post that on an alcoholics wed site. no. we all know about calories in vs. calories out. but people struggle with that. this post is not helping anybody.

I say this as someone used to binge and hide junk food in my house that being able to still enjoy the food I used to binge on as part of a reasonably balanced diet instead of an attitude of, "I must never eat chips again" worked. Expecting people who have problems with self control to give up their vices cold turkey is a recipe for complete failure for most folks. It just is not realistic at all.

Self control can and SHOULD be taught and learned. Without actually learning it, success is short-lived anyway.

again u r right. but some people cant control themselves, that is why there is a site like this. food addiction is real. i just hate the show off on this site. Oh look at me i got a six pack, oh look at me i bench 400lbs. oh look at me i run marathons. just my 2 cents. good luck on ur fitness journey.

I didn't read this as a show-off kind of thread, though I think the OP could've been phrased a bit better. I, and most others here, read it as an attempt to offer some help to those struggling to try to be "perfect" in their diet all the time instead of just being reasonable and consistent. Perception is everything.

Thanks. Good luck to you too.

op, this thread is dangerous to the average person who is struggling with their weight. u run 30 miles a week and lift weights so u can get away with these kind of snacks. the average moderately active person trying to loose weight cant do this. it would be more responsible to post why you are able to eat 800cal snacks daily. Are u just showing off?

This is 100% false. I am currently sedentary (recovering from surgery), and I eat ice cream and other snacks daily also. I fit them into my calorie allotment for the day, and I'm still losing.

The OP's point is that you don't have to demonize food that you enjoy eating to be successful. He didn't say that one should eat junk all day every day. It's not an "all or nothing" thing here.

u r right. but this site is to help people who have problems eating too much. people who lack self control with food. i like to have a couple of beers after work. would it be responsible for me to post that on an alcoholics wed site. no. we all know about calories in vs. calories out. but people struggle with that. this post is not helping anybody.

This site is called My FITNESS Pal, not my diet pal, or my weight loss pal, my FITNESS pal. There are people here that are bulking, maintaining, cutting, training, just getting started, and don't even track anymore, just participate in the forums, etc. This site is not just for those who eat too much.

^^^ this

and it's for people who are in a perpetual cycle of eating too little, self deprivation, even self punishment, followed by rebound overeating or even bingeing, that makes them obese because they lose lean body mass doing crash diets then pile the fat on again when overeating and/or bingeing... realising that you actually can have pop tarts and ice cream (just keep it within your calories and macros and nourish your body properly with everything else that you eat) and still lose weight can potentially liberate a lot of people from that cycle. No-one has to give up foods that they love in order to lose weight. What they have to learn is what size portions they can have those foods in so as not to go over their daily calorie goals. A lot of people also need to realise that they can eat a few hundred calories more than they're actually eating, and not only still lose weight, but actually have better body composition and better health from doing so.

op, this thread is dangerous to the average person who is struggling with their weight. u run 30 miles a week and lift weights so u can get away with these kind of snacks. the average moderately active person trying to loose weight cant do this. it would be more responsible to post why you are able to eat 800cal snacks daily. Are u just showing off?

This is 100% false. I am currently sedentary (recovering from surgery), and I eat ice cream and other snacks daily also. I fit them into my calorie allotment for the day, and I'm still losing.

The OP's point is that you don't have to demonize food that you enjoy eating to be successful. He didn't say that one should eat junk all day every day. It's not an "all or nothing" thing here.

u r right. but this site is to help people who have problems eating too much. people who lack self control with food. i like to have a couple of beers after work. would it be responsible for me to post that on an alcoholics wed site. no. we all know about calories in vs. calories out. but people struggle with that. this post is not helping anybody.

This site is called My FITNESS Pal, not my diet pal, or my weight loss pal, my FITNESS pal. There are people here that are bulking, maintaining, cutting, training, just getting started, and don't even track anymore, just participate in the forums, etc. This site is not just for those who eat too much.

^^^ this

and it's for people who are in a perpetual cycle of eating too little, self deprivation, even self punishment, followed by rebound overeating or even bingeing, that makes them obese because they lose lean body mass doing crash diets then pile the fat on again when overeating and/or bingeing... realising that you actually can have pop tarts and ice cream (just keep it within your calories and macros and nourish your body properly with everything else that you eat) and still lose weight can potentially liberate a lot of people from that cycle. No-one has to give up foods that they love in order to lose weight. What they have to learn is what size portions they can have those foods in so as not to go over their daily calorie goals. A lot of people also need to realise that they can eat a few hundred calories more than they're actually eating, and not only still lose weight, but actually have better body composition and better health from doing so.

No. This site is for people who want to monitor their food and/or exercise. For whatever reason.

op, this thread is dangerous to the average person who is struggling with their weight. u run 30 miles a week and lift weights so u can get away with these kind of snacks. the average moderately active person trying to loose weight cant do this. it would be more responsible to post why you are able to eat 800cal snacks daily. Are u just showing off?

This is 100% false. I am currently sedentary (recovering from surgery), and I eat ice cream and other snacks daily also. I fit them into my calorie allotment for the day, and I'm still losing.

The OP's point is that you don't have to demonize food that you enjoy eating to be successful. He didn't say that one should eat junk all day every day. It's not an "all or nothing" thing here.

u r right. but this site is to help people who have problems eating too much. people who lack self control with food. i like to have a couple of beers after work. would it be responsible for me to post that on an alcoholics wed site. no. we all know about calories in vs. calories out. but people struggle with that. this post is not helping anybody.

This site is called My FITNESS Pal, not my diet pal, or my weight loss pal, my FITNESS pal. There are people here that are bulking, maintaining, cutting, training, just getting started, and don't even track anymore, just participate in the forums, etc. This site is not just for those who eat too much.

^^^ this

and it's for people who are in a perpetual cycle of eating too little, self deprivation, even self punishment, followed by rebound overeating or even bingeing, that makes them obese because they lose lean body mass doing crash diets then pile the fat on again when overeating and/or bingeing... realising that you actually can have pop tarts and ice cream (just keep it within your calories and macros and nourish your body properly with everything else that you eat) and still lose weight can potentially liberate a lot of people from that cycle. No-one has to give up foods that they love in order to lose weight. What they have to learn is what size portions they can have those foods in so as not to go over their daily calorie goals. A lot of people also need to realise that they can eat a few hundred calories more than they're actually eating, and not only still lose weight, but actually have better body composition and better health from doing so.

No. This site is for people who want to monitor their food and/or exercise. For whatever reason.

did you read what I wrote? Or think I was saying it was *only* for people who are in that cycle? I was pointing out how this thread would benefit those particular people. Not saying it was only for them. I use this site to track calories while bulking or cutting.

I got flamed in a thread apparently for my love of Pop Tarts the other day, it is nice to see I have friends among the masses!!! Red Velvet Pop Tarts are my go to but I am trying to track done the last of the Pumpkin Pie pop tarts but I am thinking I might have to turn to Amazon to give these bad boys a try.... Chocolate chip cookie dough though is running a close second to the Red Velvet....

FFS... now you guys are telling me there are pumpkin pie pop tarts??!!??!! Where besides amazon are you all getting these from? I want to try these but I"m not sure about the 'freshness" of ordering food from amazon.

Yea, I know... the chemicals will keep them good... but I've had stale pop tarts, and those things are NO BUENO!! Does Kroger, Meijer, or something like that carry these magical flavors???

This whole thread is ridiculous. People get so emotional over their junk food. No wonder we have an obesity epidemic in this county. Food has no emotions. Food will never love you back.

Also, I had some girlfriends who never loved me back, but that didn't stop me from loving them!! The judge and restraining order made it harder for me to love them...but I still love them...I still love them with an undying love...well..them..and Pop Tarts.

ahhhh unrequited love LOL