Like most fad diets, this too-good-to-be-true diet plan was created by Kippy Miller who perhaps, not surprisingly at all is an ice-cream shop owner in Venice, California.
She wasn’t the only one though, as the plan was formulated with the help of Yogi Guru Jagat who owns a yoga studio right next to Kippy’s Ice-cream shop.
The plan costs 240$ for four days of eating Kippy’s icecreams and doing yoga at Kundalini yoga studio. Sounds more like a business partnership and less like a healthy diet plan.
The Ice-creams however, are not just your regular sugary treats. At Kippy’s, you are offered five pints of delicious raw coconut-based, unsweetened, dairy-free, organic ice-creams, five times a day. The only sweetener in these ice creams is the local organic honey.
Explained below is how you can lose weight by following this Ice-cream based diet and what are the cons associated with it.
How Does it Work?
This is a calorie-restricted diet, except that it is based around food you would otherwise crave while on a calorie-restricted diet, Ice Cream.
The plan involves eating different flavours of ice cream throughout the day. You start with coconut cream, followed by orange ice cream. Later during the day, you’ll have Dark chocolate and Himalayan fire salt. And last but not the least, Kippy’s special cleanse ice cream is more like the lemonade in the lemonade diet.
Kippy claims that this is a master cleanse plan so by the end of this diet your body will get rid of all the metal ions, plastic and all other toxic minerals, and of course, those extra pounds form around your waistline.
However, we found no scientific evidence of that.
In an estimate eating five pints of this natural, organic ice cream a day will restrict your calorie intake to about 1200 calories. These are the bare minimum calories your body needs. So within a few days, you will reduce a few pounds.
The plan also involves doing yoga-based exercises, so with such restricted calorie intake and yoga, you are bound to shed pounds.
However, the questions that still remain are, Is it Healthy? Is it Sustainable? What can be the possible cons of this diet?
Keep reading and we’ll answer all your queries.
Are there Risks?
Eating ice cream 5 times a day can never be healthy, no matter how organic and raw the ingredients may be.
Here is a list of what can possibly be the risk factors of this diet:
- The severe calorie restriction will result in an immediate drop in fluid levels, creating an illusion of weight loss when actually it is just the water weight you lost.
This will backfire as soon as you start eating normal food. In fact, some people gained back a few extra pounds after resuming their old diets. So, this plan is not sustainable.
- Secondly, although this ice cream has no unsaturated fat and added sugars yet it is high in saturated fats and sugars (natural honey).
What is to be considered here is that there is no proof of saturated fats clogging the arteries just like unsaturated fats however, no one has ever researched what can happen if you only eat saturated fats for four days. So it is still a huge risk to consume so much ice cream.
- With such a limited nutritional value of this ice cream, you will experience severe malnourishment as for normal, healthy functioning your body requires a lot of minerals and vitamins, proteins and carbs from other organic food like fruits, veggies, meat legumes etc.
- The dieters have reported severe, bowel dysfunction, nausea, sickness, headaches, bad breath, trouble with the sleep cycle, and cravings for other types of food.
So overall, this diet is nothing but a horrible technique to develop food aversion towards ice cream.
Because let’s be honest, no matter how much of an ice cream lover you maybe but if you are given icecreams 5 times a day for four consecutive days, even ice cream will lose all its novelty.
Such a cruel way to give up your love for ice cream.
Final Verdict:
The worst thing about such diets is not that they are unhealthy, expensive and ineffective, but it is the fact that these diets nurture the false concept of gaining a better body without any effort.
You have to understand that those extra pounds are not half as harmful as the consequences you’ll have to face after following such horrible meal plans.
Those extra pounds can easily be put off by regular physical activity and a conscious effort to eat healthy whole meals.
But the side effects of sticking to such ridiculous meal plans will not only ruin your relationship with food but will also put you at risk of developing problems such as cardiac issues, diabetes, and blood pressure-related issues.
So don’t even bother, these are just fad diets with no healthy outcome.
Oo and as for Kippy’s ice cream they are a delicious once-in-a-week treat. Duh! Organic coconut ice cream with natural raw, organic honey, is simply DELICIOUS!