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Original poster

To think eating a whole tub of ice cream isn’t normal?

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LaurenBrye · 02/03/2018 20:12

I don’t like the word normal but I couldn’t think of anything else.

Now I can have my piggy moments and binge.

We were talking about takeaways and a friend said she could easily and does eat an entire tub of ice cream with her dominos pizza.

Do other people do this?

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Emma198 · 02/03/2018 20:20

Ben and Jerry? Absolutely. Chocolate brownie. Probs not after a pizza.

My friend once told me she makes a whole pack of old el Paso fajitas to herself - a family's worth!

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LaurenBrye · 02/03/2018 20:20

I wouldn't worry about it, it's her life and she knows her own body.

Confused I’m not worried and never said I was?

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MotherofDinosaurs · 02/03/2018 20:21

It CAN be done if you really focus and commit. Although obvs you shouldn't attempt it more than once in a blue moon because health and safety etc. Well done for being so shocked about it though. You are obvs super healthy and therefore morally superior to the ice cream trougher so a big gold star for you!

Arapaima · 02/03/2018 20:21

Not these days, but my friend and I used to do this when we were in our 20s Blush

NotUmbongoUnchained · 02/03/2018 20:22

I don’t like ice cream, but I have eaten 12 Krispie Kremes to myself once.

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Steeley113 · 02/03/2018 20:24

Yep, easily. In fact, on the rare occasion I have ice cream, it’s always an entire tub of Ben and Jerry’s.

CountFosco · 02/03/2018 20:24

A tub of Haagen Dazs cookies and cream contains 1080 calories, 83g sugar and 43g saturated fat. Normalising this sort of binge eating is why we have so many overweight and obese people in this country.

And yet you're not commenting on the fat and calories in the pizza? Sure it's not healthy to do it regularly but feasting is part of human culture. For most of our history humans have struggled to get enough calories, is it really so surprising that we struggle to consciously restrict calories now?

I feel like I should put a disclaimer that I'm a healthy weight now!

Feathersapphire · 02/03/2018 20:24

Dare I ask...
Is she "overweight"?

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LaurenBrye · 02/03/2018 20:24

I’m just so stuffed after the pizza that I honestly think I’d be sick if I ate a whole tub of ice cream as well. Like every week as well.

The ice cream alone is 1000 calories minimum

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Tawdrylocalbrouhaha · 02/03/2018 20:24

Well I couldn't exactly eat a whole tub, but I have been known to burrow and mine all the good bits out (caramel seams/praline bits/etc) and then abandon the corpse of the tub.

Maybe not after a pizza though.

BattleaxeGalactica · 02/03/2018 20:24

Only not normal if it's not Salted Caramel.

LadyMonicaBaddingham · 02/03/2018 20:25

I could do it as a challenge... (like a Friday)

Fuckoffee · 02/03/2018 20:25

“A tub of Haagen Dazs cookies and cream contains 1080 calories, 83g sugar and 43g saturated fat. Normalising this sort of binge eating is why we have so many overweight and obese people in this country.”

Thanks for the public shaming, much appreciated Hmm

PurpleDaisies · 02/03/2018 20:26

I’m snowed in and now have the bigger cracking for ice cream. Damn you op!

DalekDalekDalek · 02/03/2018 20:26

A tub of Haagen Dazs cookies and cream contains 1080 calories, 83g sugar and 43g saturated fat. Normalising this sort of binge eating is why we have so many overweight and obese people in this country.

Food police have arrived.

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LaurenBrye · 02/03/2018 20:26

Dare I ask...
Is she "overweight"?

She is.

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ihatetosay · 02/03/2018 20:26

just finished one salted caramel lovely could easier eat another straight after

CountFosco · 02/03/2018 20:26

The ice cream alone is 1000 calories minimum

But it's concentrated, much easier to eat 100 calories in icecream than 100 in lettuce.

Tawdrylocalbrouhaha · 02/03/2018 20:26

Feasting is part of human culture

I'm having that on my gravestone!

IncyWincyGrownUp · 02/03/2018 20:27

My daughter can, if given a run up and enough PMT to power through it.

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LaurenBrye · 02/03/2018 20:27

I’m snowed in and now have the bigger cracking for ice cream. Damn you op!

Sorry! I went to order a dominos with ice cream and they’re not delivering so I’m screwed as well.

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APontypandyPioneer · 02/03/2018 20:27

You mean those tubs aren't single portion size then? I clearly didn't get the memo....

BeesAndChiscuits · 02/03/2018 20:28

CountFosco I can also comment on the pizza if necessary, and how dominos have normalised huge portion sizes, but I find the concept of eating an entire tub of ice-cream revoltingly greedy in itself, without even considering that the person doing it had also consumed pizza beforehand.

Feasting was normal when food was scarce in between times. These days we have a huge proportion of our children and teenagers headed for the misery of obesity-related health problems later in life, added to the lack of self esteem they currently experience due to being fat.

PorkFlute · 02/03/2018 20:28

People have different appetites op. Does that genuinely surprise you? I’m pretty sure my dh could put one of those away after a large pizza to himself!

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LaurenBrye · 02/03/2018 20:28

The ice cream alone is 1000 calories minimum

But it's concentrated, much easier to eat 100 calories in icecream than 100 in lettuce.

I don’t understand your point? (Not being rude btw)

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