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

Nothing wrong with enjoying those things once in a while but we should all be aiming for the majority of our calories to be higher quality real food. Try eating real unprocessed food 90% of the time and save the other 10% for treats like poptarts and ice cream or anything else that you don't eat daily.

Maybe if the OP took your advice he could lose a ton of weight and have excellent body composition, health, and fitness.

Oh, wait.

Enjoy your CVD and diabetes

Some people just want to lose weight.

Some people want to actually be healthy.

Enjoy your crappy processed foods.

Enjoy the view from your high horse.

^this

Some people DO need to severely limit or cut out the junk food entirely in order to serve their health. On 1,360 calories (my MFP allotment) I must be VERY careful to avoid empty calories. If I didn't care about my health, I would eat 1,350 calories worth of cheesecake every day (maybe save 10 calories for a couple of carrot sticks). But, you see, I do care about my health so I don't eat junk food.

Look at my diary for today.

1327 kcals, TONS of veggies, 117 grams of protein, 60 grams of fat, under 2k sodium, and a massive salad for lunch so satiety should be ok.

Oh look, space for 3/4 cup of ice cream.

There's a lot of angry people on these forums due to their misery that other people can indulge and maintain their goals whilst the "healthy" elitists eat tasteless kaka and have to pretend they like it. I even see this at my gym. Sometimes I'll have a Snickers bar as my post-workout snack and some people will act like I killed their pet. If these people were actually happy with their healthy lives, they wouldn't get so offended.

Look at it this way - if they're all eating the 'healthy' foods, that leaves more tasty food for the rest of us. It's a win-win.

Weight loss is to become healthy. So why eat like a slob?

Weight loss is to become healthy. So why eat like a slob?

Just because YOU can;t have these things without eating like a slob, doesn't mean other people can't. Projection much?

You could easily fit things like ice cream and cheesecake into 1360 calories a day and still hit quality macro goals.

Your excuse that you just can't fit it is invalid.

Right now I have my goals set at 1800 calories and my favorite ice cream is 1,040 calories for a pint and let's just say a pack of poptarts is 400 calories...On a 1360 intake, I would be over just from those two things.

Yes it is very possible to fit a serving of ice cream into 1360 calories and still hit your targets but it seems like the implication of this post is "I can eat a pint of ice cream and a pack of poptarts every day and still lose weight" and for most of us, that isn't true.

Love this post because I feel the same way. In fact, I was reading it while I was eating some doritos. I refuse to deprive myself of foods because I will only want them more. Everything in moderation...I have been steadily losing as well Good for you!

Pop tarts are so disgusting to me but I am with you on the pizza and ice cream (well, except I don't crave them daily) but I didn't give it up. I simply don't eat an entire pizza by myself anymore.

I don't eat pop tarts. I've never liked the taste. I have ice cream or pizza about once every 2 or 3 months. I don't have a problem with someone eating that sort of thing every once in a while.