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The
Ice Cream Diet
Theory:
This weight loss program has
worked out everything calorie-wise, providing optimum nutrition but
building in wiggle room for ice cream every day.
Once you start the Ice Cream Diet, you will be eating three
healthy, balanced meals every day, plus a midafternoon snack. Ice cream
– when it’s part of a healthy, balanced eating plan – appears to
help melt away fat, taking off pounds faster than when it’s banished to
bad-food oblivion. Its fat
fighting capacity seems to have some connection to its calcium content.
You’ll be getting a total of 1,500 calories a day if you’re a woman,
2,000 if you’re a man. That’s
still 300 to 500 calories below the normal intake – enough for a woman
to drop up to 30 pounds, and a man up to 50 pounds, with in a year.
The Ice Cream Diet also provides
eight servings of fruits and vegetables daily, along with lots of fiber
and not too much fat.
To
maintain a reasonable daily intake of calories while enjoying a good-size
portion of ice cream, you will need to find a reduced-calorie variety that
supplies 125 calories or less in a ½-cup serving.
It also should provide about 1000 milligrams of calcium, 10 percent
of the Daily Value, to help meet your daily requirement for the mineral.
Top 10
Low Calorie Ice Cream/Frozen Yogurt
- Breyer’s
All Natural Light Vanilla Ice Cream
- Healthy
Choice Premium Low-Fat Vanilla Ice Cream
- Eskimo
Pie Vanilla/Chocolate/Strawberry Ice Cream
- Healthy
Choice Low-Fat, No-Sugar-Added Chocolate Fudge Brownie Ice Cream
- Tropicana
Chocolate Dipped Orange’n Cream Bar
- Good
Humor Fat-Free Fudgsicle Bar
- Healthy
Choice Low-Fat Cherry Chocolate Chunk Ice Cream
- Edy’s
Frozen Yogurt Black Cherry Vanilla Swirl
- Healthy
Choice Low-Fat No-Sugar-Added Mint Chocolate Chip Ice Cream
Good
Reasons to Eat Ice Cream
- Build
bones that last
- Slash
points from your blood pressure
- Drop
your risk of colon cancer
- Take
control of PMS
Ice
Cream Diet Pledge
“I
will never, ever, ever eat ice cream straight out of the carton. Ever.”
Follow three steps:
- Ice
cream goes in a dish
- Container
goes back in the freezer
- You
get out of the kitchen
Once the Ice Cream Diet –
including that 1-cup serving of ice cream or frozen yogurt – you’ll be
getting the following:
- 1,500
calories
- 36
grams of total fat (21 percent of calories)
- 11
grams of saturated fat (7 percent of calories)
- 220
grams of carbohydrates (59 percent of calories)
- 75
grams of protein (20 percent of calories)
- 205
milligrams of cholesterol
- 2,400
milligrams of sodium
Breakfast
- Aim
for about 330 calories
- Include
two servings of fruit
- Also
include 1 cup of milk, yogurt, or calcium-fortified soy milk, or 1
ounce of reduced-fat cheese
Lunch
- It
should supply about 365 calories
- It
should allow for two servings of vegetables
Afternoon Snack
- Aim
for 165 calories
- Include
2 servings of fruit
- Also
include 1 cup of milk, yogurt, or calcium-fortified soy milk, or 1
ounce of reduced-fat cheese
Dinner
- Should
supply about 390 calories
- Include
two servings of vegetables
Sample
Menu for Women
- Breakfast
– top 1 cup shredded wheat with 1 cup of fresh or frozen sliced
strawberries and 1 cup nonfat milk
- Lunch
– Roast Beef sandwich (2 slices of whole wheat bread, 2 teaspoons of
reduced-fat mayonnaise, 2 slices of lean roast beef, 4 slices of
tomato, and a piece of romaine lettuce), 6-ounce can of V8
- Afternoon
Snack – 1 cup nonfat yogurt, 1 apple
- Dinner
– Have 1 slice of a large pizza topped with two vegetables, such as
mushrooms and green pepper. Use only medium- or thin-crust pizza,
serve with a salad (1 cup mixed greens, ½ cup chopped vegetable of
your choice, such as tomatoes, peppers, carrots, etc., with 2
tablespoons reduced-calorie dressing.
- Treat
– 1 cup of favorite low-calorie ice cream
Holly McCord, M.A.,
R.D. 2002.
New York
:
St. Martin
’s Press
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