An Ice Cream Diet

Not too long ago, I read an article about this person eating nothing but ice cream for 10 days. This ice cream is known as Halo Top and it is low in calories, low in carbs and loaded with proteins but is it too good to be true? 

Halo Top is made by a little-known L.A. creamery with a staff of 10 and they distributed this ice cream in health-food joints around the United States. The cartons boast "240 calories per pint" in large letters on the front. For context, that is 1/4 of what is in Ben and Jerry's and 1/5 of Haagen-Dazs. Halo Top also claims 1/6 the fat and carbs and 25% more protein than typical ice cream.

It is known to be tasted like your typical ice cream. Not simply like a frozen protein shake or like Arctic Zero brand "frozen dessert", which is about as satisfying as eating snow. This stuff was real. This person then decided that for 10 days, she would eat nothing but ice cream. 

In the end, after 50 pints of ice cream over the course of 10 days, he managed to lose 10 pounds and 3% of body fat. He also lost some water weight but no discernible muscle mass. Half and inch of muscle was added to his chest and it slimmed his waist from 1.5" to 29.5". 

The Nutrition Twins said they do not recommend eating ice cream all the time. This is because "If someone does do this long term, the saturated fat is pretty high," the Twins pointed out. "[And] you are missing all those vitamins and minerals and everything you are missing in whole grains, all those nutrients that you find in whole foods."