[Tl;dr at the bottom]
Yep, I fell for the diet food trap. Two traps actually. And what lured me into it? It was Halo Top. I like Halo Top. It’s relatively low cal, it’s tasty (to me) and it’s just what you need when you’re feeling an entire tub of ice cream for dinner.
BUT it’s still a trap that I fell for. I bought lots, and I ate lots. Because it’s low cal ice cream, I can eat lots of it, right? No. My liking for Halo Top went to a point where I’d go on to have 1/4 - 1/2 a container every evening. And it’d fuck up my calories for the day. But in the end, I didn’t feel bad about it because I was still eating at deficit and it’s low cal so it’s healthy. Lies. It’s all lies.
After enjoying the Halo Top Life for about two months, I started noticing that none of my housemates would eat ice cream every day, even though some of them have Halo Top as well. They’d eat it once a week or even once a month. One of my housemates got regular ice cream and we were eating ours together (each their own). She stopped after having a few spoonfuls, while I had half a tub. It’s not that bad, right?
That was the first trap. I realised that even though I was eating at deficit, I wasn’t building healthy habits. It’s good to have the possibility to have an entire tub of ice cream for dinner if you really feel like it. But the way I was doing it was not healthy.
The real shock came when I went to visit my parents a few weeks ago. I was gonna stay there for a while, so the first thing I did was buy Halo Top. At that point, I still wanted my nightly ice cream, or at least the option of having it. So of course, my brother wanted ice cream as well, but not the diet kind. He went out and bought five boxes of mixed popsicles and ice cream cones.
Oh no, the temptation. My skinny af brother would eat three popsicles in one sitting, and I kept wondering how he keeps his metabolism so high. One day I caved in and had a ice cream cone. It was delicious, but 200kcal. I felt bad, until I realised that half a tub of Halo Top can come out to 180 just as easily.
Still, that’s not the actual shocker. That happened when I saw my bro bought the mini version of my absolutely favourite popsicle (Langnese Twister if you’re wondering) and I HAD to have one. I ate extra little that day, so I could have one after dinner. The freezer is in the basement so I didn’t bother going there to check the calories but I guessed it to be about 150.
Cue me wandering downstairs after dinner to get the popsicle. I grab the box, and right on the front I see the calories per piece. 41. Fourty one fucking calories. For my favourite popsicle. I had one, and because licking a frozen block is slower than shovelling a gooey mess in your mouth, it took me way longer to eat than my usual half tub of Halo Top. It was so satisfying. It was sticky, and yummy and so good. And at that point I realised it’s not all about diet foods. It’s about moderation.
Now I just regret the small fortune I spent on the two tubs of Halo Top that are still sitting in my freezer. I can’t even look at them without feeling disappointed. Please don’t make the same mistakes I made!
Tl;dr: 1. Moderation is key. 2. Know your foods. Diet food isn’t necessarily lower in calories than regular food.
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