GREAT NEWS!

Ice cream, is good for you.

I know you don't believe me, but while I sat at my desk today debating on whether or not I should run to Wendy's and get a root beer float for an evening snack after having a peach milkshake for lunch, I decided to do a little research to make myself feel better about the decision.

Here is what I found during my diligent search for whether or not ice cream is a health food...don't judge me.

According to the newest diet featured in Prevention magazine, you can lose weight and eat ice cream once a day, too. The trick is moderation, and eating healthy meals the rest of the day. While on the diet, women may have 1 cup of ice cream, and men may have 1½ cups per day. (You should use low-fat ice cream that contains 125 calories or fewer calories per half-cup serving, for a total of 250 calories for women, and 375 calories for men.) The secret to the diet is the calcium. A recent study found that overweight people who took a calcium supplement lost 26 percent more body weight, and 38 percent more fat than those who ate the same reduced-calorie diet, minus the supplement. Another group in the study received calcium by eating three or four servings of dairy products totaling 1,200 or 1,300 milligrams of calcium a day, and lost 70 percent more weight, and 64 percent more fat on a high-dairy diet.
Experts say calcium helps people lose weight because when your body doesn't get enough calcium, it triggers fat cells to store fat and get bigger. In addition, ice cream helps satisfy dieters' cravings, so they do not feel as strong an urge to binge.

I don't know what it has been about this summer, but ice cream has been on my brain day in and day out. Oddly enough, I weigh less this summer than I did last year before I got pregnant with Jamyn - I know right!? So maybe there is some truth in this? Let's give it a go - everyone eat ice cream once a day!