Eating the same thing every day

RoseTheWarrior

Just two of us at home so we eat a lot of the same things day in and day out. When we cook, we'll make a crock pot full, or double or triple the recipes, so we only have to cook maybe 2 or 3 times during a week.

ltworide

I make my breakfasts & lunches for the week on the weekend to make my life easier. Breakfasts are 1 hard boiled egg plus overnight oats mixed into plain Greek yogurt, add some kind of healthy fat (hemp, flax, chia seeds, almonds, walnuts, etc), almond milk, kefir, berries & spice (cinnamon, nutmeg, etc.).
I mix up my lunches but consist of protein, lots of greens & may or may not include a carb such as rice or potato.
Dinner again I vary with lean protein, lots of veg & complex startch.

akboy58

I got in the habit of eating the same thing every day when I was in weight-loss mode, and now that I'm in maintenance I can't seem to shake it. I usually mix it up for dinner, but my standard breakfast is natural PB on a low-carb pita, and my standard lunch is a kale salad with chicken. I never get tired of either of these -- not so far, anyway! -- and I appreciate the control it gives me over my daily calorie intake. Something's working, because I lost 80 lbs this way, and have kept it off ...

callsitlikeiseeit

my breakfast is pretty much the same but not the rest of my food!

how boring would that be?

but if you like it, go for it....

CaffeinatedConfectionist

I am this way with snacks, but it tends to go in cycles; recently my snacks tend to almost always be yogurt, peanut butter banana toast, and a protein bar. Almost every day for like two weeks. But pretty soon I'll get sick of those things and find a new three for or four snacks to eat every day for a couple weeks - jerky, nuts, cottage cheese, tuna, whatever. I always eat different dinners, though. I have no idea why I tend to have this habit with snacks, but I do. I think I'm just lazy. It doesn't seem to have hurt anything, tho.

GymRatSF

I pretty much eat the same thing every week. Breakfast is generally eggs/bacon/toast, lunch is generally one of three things and my dinners are mixed up some.

Athijade

I can't. I get bored of the same thing after a couple days. I need to mix it up!

Diana_GettingFit

I tend to do that for breakfast. I alternate between Weetabix and oatmeal. For dinner I have maybe 6 or 7 dishes I alternate around. It works for me.

ninerbuff

Melmo1988 wrote: »

Does anyone find it easier to eat the same things every day? For example for a week eat the same thing for breakfast and lunch every day and 2/3 dinners for the week? Or do you have to have a lot of variety?

It's called systematic eating and it's easy for a lot of people to do. Lol, I at PHO for lunch everyday for like 5 years.

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LiftandSkate

I've done this for years, as it makes meal planning and preparation, as well as calorie tracking and logging, so much easier. I dont mind eating the same thing for a while if it's nutritious and delicious!

pirate_john_75

I was able to do that in college when I was an athlete, but now I find i do have to mix things up.

swimmchick87

I definitely need variety. I don't eat breakfast, so that's not a factor. For lunch, I tend to buy things in such a way that I'll have the same thing for about a week, just because it's cost effective, and since I'm at work and busy anyway I don't tend to care as much about what I'm eating. I try to make my lunches more healthy and then my dinners more enjoyable but still fit into my daily calories. For example, this past week I had a bento box style lunch every day with carrots, a hard boiled egg, two halos, a string cheese, and an ounce of honey sesame almonds. I do eat different stuff for lunch on the weekends. This week I'm going to bring a meal salad every day, and then the week after I'll probably go back to the bento box thing, but with some different fillers.

For dinner I may very occasionally have the same thing two nights in a row, but I really try to avoid leftovers whenever possible. If someone is trying to eat the same thing all of the time only for the ease of calorie counting, and is not really enjoying it, that sounds like a recipe for failure to me. I'd think long and hard about if you're really wanting to do that for the rest of your life. I personally feel like it's important to figure out how to fit calorie counting into "real life" and I don't start things I don't think I can do forever. That said, I do have a coworker who has eaten the same thing every day for breakfast, lunch, and dinner for at least the ten years that I've known her. She's an extremely picky eater and says that's all she has interest in eating. So there are certainly people out there who can do it forever!

VegjoyP

I pretty much have the same foods daily with periods of variations that ultimately go back to a "norm" I have done this for years. When I feel best and leanest my food choices are the biggest factor with exercise. I have specific foods that I stay with- leafy greens, broccoli, cauliflower. tofu. plant protein powders, unsweetened almond milk, avocado, lemons, herbs, organic coffee, herbal tea, steam bags of mixed vegetables, green powders, chlorella, plant based dip, sunflower lecithin, Brazil nuts, chia seeds, sesame and sometimes cashews, pistachios and walnuts.

I like plain rice cakes, Alyssa's Healthy Vegan Oatmeal bites and Garden of Life Weight loss Fit bars but only have them in phases.

It is probably a VERY small group to most but these are the things that work for me. I am extremely nourished and always well with nutrient levels. The foods have changed over the years a lot. I am WFPB and Vegan now, I used to be into figure competitions and ate tons of egg whites, fish, chicken , steak, oatmeal, bananas, whey protein, broccoli and peas. Definitely not there now!