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Originally Posted by Johnnny
I was wondering if 2 or 3 scoops of say Baskin Robbins 2 or 3 times a month for enjoyment really that bad?...
...Oh what's your favorite ice cream flavor & place to get it or brand? Mine is Baskin Robbins chocolate peanutbutter. It's great. Thanks. |
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There is nothing wrong with an ice cream treat 2 or 3 times a month. I like to have a cheat day once a week where I will eat a whole tub of ice cream. If you live too "spartan" of a lifestyle you will go nuts. My favorite flavor is Keylime Pie. |
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Originally Posted by Johnnny
...What company is this Keylime Pie from?
Do you ever get Baskin Robbins or Ben & Jerry's? |
. Premium ice cream usually contains more fat.
| Keylime pie is made by Scotsburn. I will go for the Ben & Jerry's if I am feeling extra naughty . Premium ice cream usually contains more fat. |
| I see no harm as long as your diet is in line during the rest of the time.. ie. clean, healthy foods. Myself, Im allowing one day per week, saturday, as a free day to enjoy such foods. |
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I think that's just dandy; nothing wrong with it at all. However, just FYI: one scoop (as officially dished out) of a typical Baskin-Robbins premium flavour typically has from two hundred to over three hundred calories. So with three scoops, you may be looking at over a thousand calories. If that matters to you, though if done that rarely and your diet is clean otherwise, it shouldn't. http://www.baskinrobbins.com/about/...ory=Ice%20Cream |
| If You Can Achieve Your Goals Eating Icecream, Go For It. Personally, Anything I Eat Has To Be Conducive To My Goals. UNFORTUNATLY SUGAR ISN'T ON THAT LIST |
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Originally Posted by Johnnny
All week I don't eat any sugar except for citrus fruits with fructose not glucose. So several hundred calories & some sugar I don't think will hurt me. It's not like I eat it every day or several times a week. 2-3 times a month tops.
We are only human & we need to indulge ourselves sometimes. |
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Originally Posted by SPIKE1257
If You Can Achieve Your Goals Eating Icecream, Go For It. Personally, Anything I Eat Has To Be Conducive To My Goals. UNFORTUNATLY SUGAR ISN'T ON THAT LIST
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That depends, I suppose. A lot of people say "cheat day" and then go out and pack in as much as possible of every single item of non-healthy food they've ever enjoyed. That's a "binge day" and it is ridiculous. (And I've done it, I regret to say.) Having a "cheat day" in which one just does an entire day of "normal" stuff in moderate amounts, though -- have breakfast with the family, same kind of breakfast they have, have a lunch that maybe doesn't have the optimal amount of protein but tastes good, maybe go out for an ice-cream cone that night -- basically, not worrying too hard about calories and macros for a day -- can be nice, both for you and for any of your friends and family who don't happen to be hardcore fitness nuts. |
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Originally Posted by Akateros
And some of my goals include "occasionally enjoying the more decadent pleasures food has to offer."
And sugar is on that list. |
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Originally Posted by KataMaStEr
Wouldn’t it be easier on you to just cheat one meal a day than picking one whole day of the week to eat like crap all day long?
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it sounds like you're in control of that. When your cheats are planned, and you stick to them, then you know you're doing something right. When my diet's right I can stare at all the great food and desserts I serve at work and not be fazed. When it's not, I can't control myself. If you know you're going to go out to a restaurant or to eat with family/friends, then make a note to not care about how much protein might be in that cut of meat. You sound like you know what to eat already, so just eat what looks like the right portion size and do it as slowly as possible so you can enjoy every bite As far as your last question, how many calories you burn is very much independent to your metabolism and the intesity with which you do the exercise. Someone can do 40 leg raises without concentrating on the negative and positive contractions and get very little out of the workout. Others might have a 3 second negative and squeeze at the top every rep... and like I said, then there's your own metabolism to take into account |
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Originally Posted by madden player
Yeah it would probally be easier to have a little something everyday but I like to reward my week of hard training and diet every sunday. This keeps me motivated to diet and I have something to look forward to.
Also I think when I deprive myself of anything sweet and tasty all week that I catch a pretty decent buzz from endorphins/dopamine/seratonine when I over indulge. Has anyone else gotten high from food before?? |
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Originally Posted by KataMaStEr
...You can have a healthy life and a great body without getting too crazy.
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not an ice cream fan here, i don't have that dreaded sweet tooth, i mean the taste of an apple is far superior to me than a bowl of ice cream. I guess that i have conditioned myself so well that i really don't ever want that stuff. Back in the hayday though it was all about the mint chocolate chip and the snickers blizzard from dairy queen |
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Ben and Jerry's Chunky Monkey!!!!! For me stuff like that is about once a month |
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So true. I have 10 years training experience and it is very hard to get that into some 16 yr olds head. They post questions what to eat/when to eat/when to lift...sometimes I think they acutually want you to workout for them. They should just keep it simple in the beginning and eat what there mothers feed them. |
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I think it's okay to have ice cream 2-3 times a week just kidding Personally, I have to stay away from sugar pretty much all the time or I go on a three day binge. I usually have pasta or pizza or something similar for a cheat. Or low carb chips. BTW Ben and Jerry's Phish Food is my all time favorite flavor that I "never" eat. |
| Im so lucky, im 15 and have such a high metabolism that on my cheat days I have eaten just so much food and never gained any weight at all, one day a week on my cheat days is the only time i can actually enjoy being my age. I know i could eat what ever i want every day and not worry about getting fat, but I enjoy the way I feel eating healthy and exercising. But one day I week I eat like a normal teenager. = |
cheat meals are also good because it gives you something to look forward to and reward yourself with.
| You are very right, but like i said, I HAVE eaten eaten like that and i dont plan on doing it any more because i have actually wanted to throw up i was so full. today is my cheat day and i really dont think im going to even have a full day, i had a big breakfast of some breakfast items ive been craving and for lunch i am going to a chinese buffet and imagine that will be my last junk food. or mabey i will just continue in moderation. |
| i usually dedicate saturday to my cravings. this past saturday i just cheated on 1 meal though (chinese buffet also.) if you dont take 1 day to get the cravings out of your system, you will want them all week cheat meals are also good because it gives you something to look forward to and reward yourself with. |
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I try not to cheat on my real food so that I can cheat on dessert and I usually do it three times a week. But cheats for me are like reduced fat Snackwells and fat free frozen yogurt. I extremely rarely eat any full fat stuff and I never eat fast food (unless you include Subway.) But I believe in a "no deprival" method of dieting. Eat what you want. |