Well I am finally back amongst the living following surgery and the liquid diet. Things kind of got harry there for a while but all is fine now. Except...... Ice Cream. Who in their right mind at the grocery store came up with this stupid 10 for 10 sale on half the things in the store????? That person ought to be drawn and quartered. OK Here's what happened. I am at the store with my DW and we're in line getting ready to use the God-Awful self-pay thing. (Another great invention) She says she has to grab a loaf of bread and runs off like the wind. OK, That's fine. I'll just run these things through and she'll be back in no time. Well about 5 minutes (an eternity when someone is behind you tapping their foot) go by and she returns with 10 (count'em 10) pints of Blue Bell Ice Cream. "They're 10 for 10!!!", She said. "That's lovely.", I said. I think I can safely attribute 50 pounds of my excess weight to Blue Bell Ice Cream. I don't know about the rest of the USA but I am sure you folks from the south can relate. There was a time when you could only get Blue Bell in Texas but it has since moved into OK, AR and I think LA. If you haven't had this demonic concoction then I say to you, Never start. If you have been to outback steakhouse and had the chocolate thunder from down under it's too late. They use Blue Bell Homemade vanilla in all of their chains. This stuff is addicting. So much so that people make pilgrimages to Brenham, TX to tour the creamery and to see the happy singing cows in the pasture. That's why the Ice Cream is so good, because it comes from singing cows. I know it's true, I saw it in a commercial. :-) And get this. Their motto is, "we eat all we can and sell the rest." From the dutch chocolate to the Cookies and cream. From Rocky road to chocolate chip. From Homemade vanilla to tin roof. I am in ice cream hell!!!!!! Now Luckily enough for me my Wife and kids have no weight problem and I am fairly sure that with a 16 and 14 year old in the house I can eliminate this overstock of ice cream before too long. However my wife did say she had to go back to the store this afternoon and I know for a fact she can resist everything EXCEPT temptation. she may come back with a new freezer to hold the overstock. So in the meantime I shall continue to repeat MY motto which is, "Success is seldom permanent but failure can be." To all my fellow banded brothers and sisters remember to just say no to singing cows.

But if the temptation is too much check out their website at www.bluebell.com and see what I'm talking about. No I don't work for these people but I am quite sure I have sent some of their children to college.

OMG!!! You are hilarious!!! You should be a writer!!! how about for the Slim Fast or Atkins commercials??? Then Blue Bell would not stand a chance!!!

I am with you too..ice cream is only ONE of the many things I absolutely CANNOT bring into the house.....!!! And won't....ask me in a year....see if I feel the same...if I do....then I consider this surgery a total success!!!....which i feel it is anyway!!!

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Who in their right mind at the grocery store came up with this stupid 10 for 10 sale on half the things in the store????? That person ought to be drawn and quartered.......demonic concoction ....... This stuff is addicting. ........ "we eat all we can and sell the rest." ....... just say no to singing cows.

I was so GLAD to see this post. I love ice cream, but it seems to me that since I've been banded, there's an ice cream or a Pringles dealer lingering around every freakin corner I turn. I SWEAR I've probably eaten MORE (in smaller quantities with more frequency) of both post op than I EVER did pre-op. I could go literally months and months without thinking of either...and now....oh HELL no....there they are AGAIN. "hey baby, I got what you need....just a taste sugar, take a lil lick, who's it gonna hurt darlin?"

BOOM - next thing you know I'm turned out on corner working for bowls or cones. I could be a freakin after school special "The Downfall of Dori: How a lick and a crunch led to life on the streets"

Have you ever eaten so much ice cream the roof of your mouth is covered in an "ice cream film" that is a dickens to get rid of?? Now THAT is dedication my dear friends!

Just call it Jenna Bell ice cream cuz that is what I look like!! A damn bell because it all sinks straight to my a$$!!!

Well I finally put my foot down last night after she came home with 10 more. I told her she had to get that out of the house immediately. So She took it to the freezer in the garage. Figures, eh? Well it really is par for the course. I usually have the last word in our arguments. They usually end with me saying, "Yes Dear." :-)

i have a friend who was banded a year and a half ago, she is at her goal and she eats icecream for dinner atleat 4 nights a week.. she says she feels like she lost 80 pounds so she deserves it...she is maintaing her weight and enjoying her icecream!!

MMMMMMMMMMM Blue Bell is sooooooooooooo good! I love the Moo-llennium! DH eats ice cream all the time, I try to buy the kinds that I don't dearly love, although there aren't many of them!

Blue Bunny has sugar free kind made with Splenda. Which is better...but doesn't help when one eats the ENTIRE container. Evil I tell you. Evil.

Ice cream is, in fact, one of the things my Dr. told me to look out for. "It slips right through" he said. Yeeks!!

hey everyone,

here in canada we have a brand of ice cream called chapmens. they have a flavor called apple pie......hella good!!!

major downfall...

Oh...it really makes me want the blue bell special edition with brownies chopped up in it! It was soo good. Luckly they don't make it here anymore

well chocolate is officially on my evil list. It is evil and aware. I was at a party last night and had on a white T-shirt. Someone mad a cake which had chocolate sauce dripped on it. So I took a very small bite. Pea Sized, in fact. I then went into the main party room and the first thing my wife said was, "So you've been in to the cake!?!?!" Sure enough, there on my white shirt was a drop of chocolate 3 times bigger than the piece of cake I had. It's just not fair....... boo hoo.......:-)

this northerner eats ben and jerry's- no blue bell up here...yet...is it as good as you say??? mmmm

It's that good. We have Ben and Jerrys here and I will admit it is very good also. However you can only get it in the little pint sizes so it never has sold here as well as Bluebell. It kind of ticked off quite a few people here when Bluebell went to surrounding states. I guess some of us wanted a monopoly on the stuff. I guess they won't ventire to extremely far as they deliver their own product with their own trucks. But heck, thise 18 wheelers can leave Texas and be in New York in 2 days these days. So it may show up there real soon. Meanwhile Ben and Jerrys will suffice just as well. Especially Cherry Garcia.