Follow up on Ice Cream PWO

So, it's been a while, but I guess I've sufficiently experimented with ice cream enough to come to the conclusion that it's not for me (at least for PWO applications).

The first time I ate one 14oz container of Häagen Dazs Five mint flavor, and it was pretty hard to finish it off. I felt pretty full after eating half of the container, but pushed through to the end (years of dysfunctional eating came into play there). The ice cream itself was fairly disappointing, being that I remembered ice cream tasting better. I guess I wasn't missing much. I had the other 14oz container PWO later in the week, with both ice cream eatings following a heavy lifting session.

I've recently been doing some sprinting work, and eating a little ice cream after that, primarily just to get rid of some ice cream I bought thinking that I would do more PWO ice cream, but today was that last day I'm doing that. I haven't been lifting regularly, which kind of feels weird, as I moved off of campus, and I don't have easy access to a gym. I'm also traveling a lot, which doesn't help.

I'd say that my body can now handle influxes of carbs better than it used to, since post-ice cream I didn't get any bloat going on, and my weight stayed relatively constant. I don't think I will use ice cream as PWO normally, as I might just save it for when I want to get a couple heavy lifting sessions in, and I will probably use it in conjunction with some higher intensity cardio too.

Ice cream for the first time in a year

Right now there's two half-quarts of Häagen Dazs Five in my freezer (one mint and one lemon - I love mint). I've been seeing some general buzz around about people adding in some ice cream to a weight training diet, with most people citing Ray Peat as why they did it. I eventually decided to add some in as a PWO carb source after reading a paleohacks question about adding back in dairy (in this case ice cream) and noticing recovery of a soft tissue injury.

I've got some good old manual labor tomorrow, and once that's done I'll be off to the gym to lift, so I figure that having 100g of fast absorbing carbs PWO will help my recovery. Also, since I never seem to recover from lifting as fast as everyone else does, I'm hoping that I'll recovery faster with the aid of ice cream.

One thing that I've thought about is that this whole Ray Peat-induced ice cream craze in the paleosphere might just be paleo people looking for an excuse to eat ice cream. I've been wanting some ice cream for a while, so there's that motive in there. Nonetheless I've only got two, and that's for two PWO meals, and after that I'll see how it affects me.