(2017-05-04) This Guy Lost32 Pounds On The Ice Cream Diet

This Guy Lost 32 Pounds On the ‘Ice Cream Diet’. 2,000 calories a day of ice cream, 500 calories a day of protein supplements, and a bit of recreational alcohol. Nothing more. Nothing less. For 100 days.

he lost 32 pounds, and saw improvements in his blood work.

He was barely halfway through the project when he began to lose interest in everything

He even quit going to the gym for the final month of the diet.

“I was moody, and just generally unenjoyable to be around,” he says. (vs Bright-Eyed And Bushy-Tailed)

His goal was to show that calories matter more than anything else for weight loss

Still, whether he meant to or not, he showed that in some respects the ice cream diet wasn’t entirely unhealthy. For example, his blood lipids all improved, with higher HDL cholesterol, lower LDL, and dramatically lower triglycerides. Even his blood glucose declined slightly, despite eating enough sugar to put Buddy the Elf into a diabetic coma.

Spencer Nadolsky, D.O., a weight-loss and obesity specialist, isn’t surprised that all those blood markers moved in a healthy direction. “With weight loss, a lot of these things improve regardless of the underlying issue,” he says. “But it’s interesting that he got so tired.” Nadolsky has been there, in a way. While getting down to mid-single-digit body fat for a bodybuilding contest, Nadolsky found himself increasingly tired

But the scariest part, Anthony Howard-Crow says, was seeing how much muscle he lost. The 32 pounds he lost included a lot of muscle. “I was still not extremely lean,” he says. The muscle loss was due to three factors: First, and possibly most important, he quit working out when his energy and ambition cratered. Second, he was eating below his maintenance level—which was of course the point of the experiment.