Same meal everyday.will it work??

janiep81

I think its different for everyone. I am a lover of variety in all things, but that also makes me feel a little crazy sometimes. When I'm really focused on losing weight, eating the same thing frequently really helps. I try to make it something really balanced, like brown rice/quinoa, grilled salmon, and broccoli... Another poster mentioned refrigerator oatmeal. I do that, too, almost every day and I love it!

iLoveMyPitbull1225

I eat the same things everyday for a week. It doesn't bother me but many people who know about my food prepping habits are horrified by the idea of eating the same lunch, even, 5 days in row. I do change it up based on seasonal/sale ingredients but I also have my common favorite foods (oatmeal, chicken, eggs, Greek yogurt and fruit, etc.) It works great for me, makes planning and prepping very easy. I've lost and kept off 30 pounds.

kazminchu

sixxpoint wrote: »

I don't understand how people can eat the same thing every single day. like sheep in a pasture. Maybe it is due to a lack of creativity in the kitchen, but that type of monotony would drive me crazy.

Eating like this can also restrict nutritional variation in a diet or lead to a build up of contaminants or an overdose of certain vitamins and minerals depending on the foods you consume, e.g. liver, brazil nuts, canned tuna, etc.

kazminchu wrote: »

8 months of the year I will have tuna salad for lunch every work day.

Yikes! Congrats on your Mercury contamination goals of 2015!

Or, I'm perfectly happy to eat the same things all the time, so why should I force myself to eat something else that I don't enjoy as much for the sake of "creativity"?
I eat a perfectly balanced diet, I'm not deficient in anything that I know of, and I've lost 90lbs. I think I'm doing okay to be honest.
Oh, and I'll let you know how the mercury goes.

kazminchu

Queenmunchy wrote: »

kazminchu wrote: »

I think it depends on the person. For example, 8 months of the year I will have tuna salad for lunch every work day. The other 6 I have soup. I still really enjoy my tuna salad every day, but my colleague is horrified because she gets bored after eating the same thing for 2 days running.
Do what works for you. You can always try having prepping the same thing for a week's worth of meals and seeing how you get on. If you get bored, try something else.

Your years have 14 months!

I get bored easily, so I make a lot of one pot dishes (soups, stews, chili, curry, beans, burritos, stuffed peppers, etc) and separate them and freeze them in portions labeled with the date and calorie count. That way I can eat something different everyday without much effort, but I also don't have to cook everyday.

Damnit, I thought something was off! Can I blame it on it being Friday?
I do one pot things too and freeze them, love having easy quick things to fall back on when I'm feeling lazy.

jgnatca

@sixxpoint and @kazminchu I looked up the mercury levels of fish and even a frequent diner has little to worry about...unless they are eating Swordfish or Tilefish out of the Gulf of Mexico.

http://www.fda.gov/food/foodborneillnesscontaminants/metals/ucm115644.htm

kazminchu

jgnatca wrote: »

@sixxpoint and @kazminchu I looked up the mercury levels of fish and even a frequent diner has little to worry about...unless they are eating Swordfish or Tilefish out of the Gulf of Mexico.

http://www.fda.gov/food/foodborneillnesscontaminants/metals/ucm115644.htm

Thanks! To be honest I was completely unphased anyway, I've eaten tuna for years and nothing bad has happened to me. I trust my shops!

sixxpoint

jgnatca wrote: »

@sixxpoint and @kazminchu I looked up the mercury levels of fish and even a frequent diner has little to worry about...unless they are eating Swordfish or Tilefish out of the Gulf of Mexico.

http://www.fda.gov/food/foodborneillnesscontaminants/metals/ucm115644.htm

Possibly. I admit not knowing much on the topic, but every single piece of scientific research I've read reported significant differences in mercury levels from those who eat canned tuna regularly vs. those who do not. I imagine the amount of mercury is minimal, but over time it can build up. I'd rather err on the side of caution than eat canned tuna everyday and have a failed organ at age 50 and wonder why.

sixxpoint

kazminchu wrote: »

sixxpoint wrote: »

I don't understand how people can eat the same thing every single day. like sheep in a pasture. Maybe it is due to a lack of creativity in the kitchen, but that type of monotony would drive me crazy.

Eating like this can also restrict nutritional variation in a diet or lead to a build up of contaminants or an overdose of certain vitamins and minerals depending on the foods you consume, e.g. liver, brazil nuts, canned tuna, etc.

kazminchu wrote: »

8 months of the year I will have tuna salad for lunch every work day.

Yikes! Congrats on your Mercury contamination goals of 2015!

Or, I'm perfectly happy to eat the same things all the time, so why should I force myself to eat something else that I don't enjoy as much for the sake of "creativity"?
I eat a perfectly balanced diet, I'm not deficient in anything that I know of, and I've lost 90lbs. I think I'm doing okay to be honest.

Congratulations on the weight loss! That amount is huge! However, I would not credit it toward eating the same foods every single day. It's strictly a calories in, calories out concept.

On the topic of forcing yourself to eating something else that you don't enjoy... I'm not sure what you mean. There are thousands of foods and food combinations. Limiting yourself to the same breakfast, lunch, and dinner every single day is obviously a lack creativity or lack of knowledge issue. That's fine. I was like that at one point, too. My whole point was for other folks to realize the beauty in food possibilities. You don't have to eat the same thing every single day to lose weight. There is an entire beautiful world of food out there... you just have to know how to harness it!

Feel free to ask anything here: http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10163772/i-am-a-chef-who-is-into-nutrition-and-fitness-ask-me-anything

Kalikel

sixxpoint wrote: »

jgnatca wrote: »

@sixxpoint and @kazminchu I looked up the mercury levels of fish and even a frequent diner has little to worry about...unless they are eating Swordfish or Tilefish out of the Gulf of Mexico.

http://www.fda.gov/food/foodborneillnesscontaminants/metals/ucm115644.htm

Possibly. I admit not knowing much on the topic, but every single piece of scientific research I've read reported significant differences in mercury levels from those who eat canned tuna regularly vs. those who do not. I imagine the amount of mercury is minimal, but over time it can build up. I'd rather err on the side of caution than eat canned tuna everyday and have a failed organ at age 50 and wonder why.

Albacore has a lot more mercury than regular. Even kids can safely eat up 12 ounces (about 2.5 cans) of light tuna in a can. Albacore (because they're bigger, they have more mercury) is about half that. Albacore is like 6oz. I don't know about tuna steak because I don't like it much and don't remember what kind of tuna it is (if my life depended on it, I'd guess albacore, but I dunno.)

MakePeasNotWar

I tend to make one or two types of stew/soup/chili and one salad dressing each week and use them throughout the week (salad for lunch, stew for dinner), but I make something different each week so it isn't as dull. I often spice my stews at the table so they don't necessarily have to taste exactly the same each time.

I used to make a little extra each week and freeze it, so I would have a variety of frozen foods to choose from, but I found everything was getting freezer burn so now I try not to freeze anything for more than a week or two.

sixxpoint

Kalikel wrote: »

sixxpoint wrote: »

jgnatca wrote: »

@sixxpoint and @kazminchu I looked up the mercury levels of fish and even a frequent diner has little to worry about...unless they are eating Swordfish or Tilefish out of the Gulf of Mexico.

http://www.fda.gov/food/foodborneillnesscontaminants/metals/ucm115644.htm

Possibly. I admit not knowing much on the topic, but every single piece of scientific research I've read reported significant differences in mercury levels from those who eat canned tuna regularly vs. those who do not. I imagine the amount of mercury is minimal, but over time it can build up. I'd rather err on the side of caution than eat canned tuna everyday and have a failed organ at age 50 and wonder why.

Albacore has a lot more mercury than regular. Even kids can safely eat up 12 ounces (about 2.5 cans) of light tuna in a can. Albacore (because they're bigger, they have more mercury) is about half that. Albacore is like 6oz. I don't know about tuna steak because I don't like it much and don't remember what kind of tuna it is (if my life depended on it, I'd guess albacore, but I dunno.)

Most canned tuna is Albacore.