I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream for Ice Cream

* disclaimer: today's post is not about health food, but rather my love of ice cream - we all have to splurge sometimes *

Today was an absolutely beautiful day! My plan of getting a lot done yesterday was so successful so I got to sit on the beach with friends for most of the day today. At one point I left the beach to go exercise and then went back to the beach and just laid down in the sun. Heaven. 

This weather is definitely ice cream weather and that was very clear by the amount of people at the ice cream store all day, my trip to get fro yo with friends, and my sister's mupload of an ice cream truck in New York City. I was also thinking of ice cream this morning because when I woke up this morning and read the articles on Mashable, I found this infographic about "what women and mean really want" according to social media. Check it out!

The most interesting thing for me were the Top 10 Social Wants List

Female:

Ice Cream

Car

Pizza

Chocolate

Cake

Cookie

Coffee

Phone

Sushi

Pancake

Male:

Car

Pizza

Ice Cream

Cookie

Cake

Phone

Pancake

Chicken

Bacon

- Note that the TOP 3 are the same

70% of the lists overlap

and 80% of the items on both lists are food -

The infographic also goes through the most popular brands of ice cream in case you are curious about what you should be buying!

All treats are fine every once in a while. My big thing about "dieting" is that you can't make yourself feel like you're being restricted. You just have to find healthy food that you like and enjoy eating them, and them make that more of your habit so you're actually choosing them. At any rate, if you want to minimize sugar/calories but love ice cream as much as me-- try fro yo or sorbet or real fruit popsicles :) or just have ice cream every once in a while. You can also try Veggie Ice Cream

p.s. finding pictures for this blog was torture. Now I just want more ice cream