“No amount of exercise will overcome a high-calorie diet,” says Brian Quebbemann, MD, a bariatric surgeon in Newport Beach, Calif.
Even if you walk for an hour at 4 mph – a very brisk pace – you’ll only burn about 360 calories.
Trouble is that a mere half-cup of Costco’s Kirkland Signature vanilla ice cream contains 280 calories.
And let’s be honest here: Would you really eat just half-a-cup?
In real life, a serving of ice cream is typically an entire cup. That means you’ve taken in 560 calories, 200 more calories than you burned.
Would it be better to have an ice-cream cone?
“Most ice cream scoops are about 1/2 of a cup,” says Answers.com. “Some places (like Baskin Robbins) try to get as much ice cream as possible into one scoop and they can get closer to one cup.”
Probably not a good idea. Now you’re not only getting the calories in the ice cream, you’re adding the calories in the cone itself.
See “14 Ways You Lie to Yourself About Your Weight”
https://www.health.com/health/gallery/0,,20941260,00.html
See also:
https://www.answers.com/Q/How_much_ice_cream_is_in_a_scoop