This guy Shane ate nothing but five pints of Halo Top a day for 10 days straight. While researching potential diets I happened upon this article from GQthat was published in January 2016 about one man’s journey to death by Halo Top ice cream. For some context, the average woman is supposed to get 46 grams of protein a day which means this miracle ice cream is providing half of that, given that you shamelessly eat the entire thing. A single pint boasts a mere 240–320 calories depending on the flavor, with anywhere from 20-24 grams of protein. In fact, it tastes really, really, good, which makes it a dream come true for people who want to stay in shape but actually enjoy life once in a while. Some background for those of you who aren’t hip on the diet dessert scene: Halo Top is a low-calorie, low-carb, high-protein ice cream that doesn’t taste like shit. Because how bad could it actually be, right? So with rose-tinted memories and a new bathing suit that I needed to lose about two pounds to comfortably fit into, I agreed to attempt another fad diet in the hopes that people would read about it, laugh, and then never follow in my footsteps. Except instead of being fat, happy and in the possession of a baby at the end of this journey, I am sitting here thin and angry with a bag of Cheetos that I can’t open until tomorrow morning. When I was asked to return for another installment of the Fad Diet Diaries, I thought about my previous experiences in the way I’m assuming mothers think about past pregnancies: a little nostalgic and blissfully remiss about the suffering that I’d incurred because time has a funny away of glossing over severe trauma.

It may have taken me two years to recover from the debacle that was the Cabbage Soup Diet, but I only came back stronger, more stubborn, and single-mindedly dedicated to destroying my body by any means necessary. Nineteen pints and a frightening amount of spoons later, here’s how they each hold up.Just when you thought I might have learned my lesson about dabbling in fad diets for the sake of creative expression, I’ve made my miraculous return to the stage of questionable eating habits. Halo Top’s Keto and dairy-free lineups has been excluded from this ranking because we're talking ice cream here. Its brightly designed labels beckon with flavors like Blueberry Crumble, Chocolate Cake Batter, Mango, and Sea Salt Caramel.īut how does Halo Top really stack up against itself? As the resident, self-proclaimed ice cream connoisseur, it seemed only fitting that I sample each flavor.

Halo Top shares shelf space with pint pioneers Häagen-Dazs and Ben & Jerry’s, and is undeniably everywhere now, amassing adoring followers at every corner of the freezer aisle. And, thanks to an ever-growing keto-friendly line with two new flavors, even the diet-abiding can dig into Halo Top. Pints clock in between 240 and 360 calories. We’re leaving that trope behind and, in this decade, embracing Halo Top’s light ice cream for what it is: a low-sugar, protein-packed treat that is legitimately great-tasting. When Halo Top unleashed a roster of low-calorie ice cream packed in colorful pints in the early 2010s, the “joke” was that the newly single set could have their sad frozen dessert without guilt.

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