Hi. My name is Cheryl. I am addicted to ice cream.
I don’t think I realized it until last Saturday when I talked myself out of cutting back. Earlier in the day, my husband and I had agreed that we will no longer have ice cream every evening. Instead, we will save the frosty treat for Wednesday afternoons when we walk to the West Side Tasty Treat from work. We shook on it.
Yeah. That didn’t last long. Knowing that I wouldn’t have ice cream that day made me crave it all the more. I yearned. I ached. I needed. Within hours, I had devised a scheme to convince my husband that we should amend our previous resolution.
“It’s too hard to just quit cold turkey. We should start tapering off, say every other day for a couple weeks, then every third day, etc. We could have ice cream tonight, and then again on Monday, and then our date on Wednesday.”
After a great deal of eye rolling, he acquiesced. We went to Briq’s.
Our weight has stabilized at a forty-pound loss since January. We exercise occasionally, and overall, we eat better. I can only guess that the weight would keep dropping off if we would just stop eating the ice cream.
Chris loves chocolate, I favor simple vanilla. If it’s an option, we both love mint chocolate chip. What’s your favorite flavor? Where do you get your icy indulgences in town? If it’s not ice cream, what is your guilty pleasure?
oldwoodchair said:
Cheryl: I feel your pain. When my daughter & I joined Weight Watchers a year ago we embarked on a hunt for something, ANYTHING, like ice cream that we could eat that would give us the same kick. Closest we’ve come is the double packs (2 small cups) of WW ice cream…the mint chocolate chip is totally satisfying. However, I’ve yet to kick the Dairy Queen Buster Bar habit…every Friday night. I live for Fridays.
June 25th, 2008 at 7:49 pm #
erik said:
I loves me some good ice cream as much as the next person, but it sounds like you guys take it to a whole new level :P
For me it’s soda/energy drinks. I do it sugar free, so it’s not as horrible as it could be, but I have an energy drink a day and for usually one meal a day it’s a soda. I just love the bite, the carbonation and the caffeine. Try as I may have I can’t shake it so I guess I’m stuck with it.
I’m the guy that for lunch has peanut butter and jelly sandwiches on twelve grain bread with natural peanut butter and organic jelly… and a diet coke.
June 26th, 2008 at 8:29 am #
Jim Sisko said:
In the words of the great Don Kardong: “Without ice cream, there would be chaos and darkness”…
June 26th, 2008 at 9:01 am #
Mohawk Matt said:
I’m a fan of Butterfinger Blizzards, myself. I’m not addicted, though, as I only have them occasionally. The girlfriend, on the other hand, is an ice cream/popsicle/sorbet/slushie fiend……
June 26th, 2008 at 5:36 pm #
Melissa Sullivan said:
My name is Melissa. I am also addicted to ice cream. Cheryl, my life is a glimpse into your future if you don’t do everything you can to lick this terrible addiction. No pun intended.
I’m no longer satisfied with mere ice cream — that’s for amateurs. My cold creamy goodness must have toppings, mix-ins, syrups. Shawn wants to go to Briq’s, and I laugh at him. They don’t have mix-ins there, silly man! Oooooh, crunch coat! Big flippin’ deal. I spit on your crunch coat!
When I need a hit, I go to Coldstone for a love-it sized chocolate devotion (gotta-have-it sized if no one is looking). It’s chocolate ice cream, brownie bits, chocolate syrup, and chocolate chips. At Culvers, I get a Concrete Mixer with brownie bits & Andes Candies. Sometimes, I get it to go and add my own chocolate syrup when I get home. At Dairy Queen, I get a Chocolate Extreme Blizzard, but I ask them to make it with chocolate ice cream because otherwise it’s just not chocolatey enough. Once, when I asked for chocolate ice cream, the DQ cashier said, “Are you sure? That’s a lot of chocolate?” Silly woman, just do as I say!
Shawn has wisely restricted our ice cream intake lately, but I am always thinking about how I can score another trip to Coldstone, Culvers or DQ. Ask him about my involuntary giddy giggles when he actually suggests an ice cream run. It scares him to the core.
Dang, now i’m hungry and it’s too late at night for an ice cream run.
June 26th, 2008 at 9:30 pm #
Dino Corvino said:
My name is Dino, and I am not addicted. Though I have some firm ideas about ice cream. I do not eat much ice cream, but I tend to limit it to Edy’s Grand Vanilla Bean.
A woman named Dede Dresser turned Jackie and I onto it in college. And we knew it was perfect. We fought the perfection, thought Healthy Choice would get us through.
But now, when I reach, I reach for Edy Grand, Vanilla Bean.
June 27th, 2008 at 12:22 am #