Hard Boiled Egg Diets
binkydriver
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The Hard Boiled Egg Diet may be boring, but its very successful. Plus, you can do a ton of food preparations with the hard boiled egg. Pop out the center, and then you can fill the holes with other food items, to perk up the taste. Plus, it's the egg yolk that has all the fat in the hard boiled egg, not the eggshell aka "whites".Cost. This is one of the cheapest diets around, with proven results. Cost is one reason people quit other commercial diet programs, it starts to become too expensive with minimal results. If it's expensive, its hard to maintain long term.
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Using the tools here to log your regular foods and hit your calorie goal is also free. No eggs required.12
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Yes it is cost not the monotony of eating eggs and not foods you like that you can eat within your calorie. lol1
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yeah, no. I prefer the eat the foods I enjoy at a calorie deficit diet. Works great.1
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Eggs are my favorite food, scrambled though, with some bacon thrown in occasionally. Maybe some salsa. But I don't love them enough to JUST eat eggs. OP you can eat whatever you'd like, and still lose weight. As long as you are in a calorie deficit. Don't fall for the woo.2
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I see you are 59 years old. Please consult a doctor before going on any strict diet with limited foods. Such a diet could cut out vital nutrients. No vitamin C, niacin, vit K, but most important NO FIBER.
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My mother did that diet in the 1980s and started having major heart palpitations 3 days in. No thank you.2
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MidModJenn wrote: »My mother did that diet in the 1980s and started having major heart palpitations 3 days in. No thank you.
Could have been that eggs have very little magnesium and potassium. Minerals essential for good heart health. Extremely dangerous to go on "one food diets".0 -
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Wait, is this person suggesting that we eat eggs and NOTHING BUT eggs?!1
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Losing weight just fine eating different food while staying in a calorie deficit.2
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Give me all the egg yolks. Lost 15 lbs so far eating whole eggs. And... other things.4
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thewindandthework wrote: »Wait, is this person suggesting that we eat eggs and NOTHING BUT eggs?!
With stuff in it. Hold up - I'm getting the rocky road ice cream.
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Okay, clearly I didn't read this post thoroughly enough the first time. You should perhaps tell us what the diet is so we can have opinions on the matter. I'm pretty sure I know what my opinion will be, but God knows I've been wrong before.binkydriver wrote: » The Hard Boiled Egg Diet may be boring, but its very successful. Plus, you can do a ton of food preparations with the hard boiled egg. Pop out the center, and then you can fill the holes with other food items, to perk up the taste. Plus, it's the egg yolk that has all the fat in the hard boiled egg, not the eggshell aka "whites".
Cost. This is one of the cheapest diets around, with proven results. Cost is one reason people quit other commercial diet programs, it starts to become too expensive with minimal results. If it's expensive, its hard to maintain long term.
You don't seem to be saying we should eat only eggs, since you suggest putting 'other food items' in egg whites. So what is it about this diet plan that makes it an egg diet?
Also, and this is just me being pedantic, there's a very big difference between egg whites and eggshells. The shell is the actual shell, which I don't think I've ever heard of people eating. The white is the albumen.
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I'm not sure I could cope with the farts, let alone the utter tedium...6
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Diets are ok, Lifestyle changes are better and more permanent
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binkydriver wrote: » The Hard Boiled Egg Diet may be boring, but its very successful. Plus, you can do a ton of food preparations with the hard boiled egg. Pop out the center, and then you can fill the holes with other food items, to perk up the taste. Plus, it's the egg yolk that has all the fat in the hard boiled egg, not the eggshell aka "whites".
Cost. This is one of the cheapest diets around, with proven results. Cost is one reason people quit other commercial diet programs, it starts to become too expensive with minimal results. If it's expensive, its hard to maintain long term.
Why do you not want to eat the yolk? Fat is not to be avoided. Fat does not make you fat. Excess calories make you fat.
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I love eggs so much I eat 2-6 (whole) eggs every single day, but I like a lot of other foods too and would hate to limit my diet in any way. I find ( and I think most people here would agree) that eating a wide variety of foods in moderate amounts works just fine for health and weight loss.1
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scarlett_k wrote: »I'm not sure I could cope with the farts, let alone the utter tedium...
apparently the egg yolks cause the farts. No yolks, no problem!0 -
scarlett_k wrote: »I'm not sure I could cope with the farts, let alone the utter tedium...
apparently the egg yolks cause the farts. No yolks, no problem!
I've read the "eggs cause gas" thing in other threads, but it's not something I've ever experienced. I didn't even know it was a thing until a thread about eggs a few months ago.2 -
@aeloine She's right - from googling egg yolk farts
“With an egg intolerance, the undigested components of the egg enter your colon, and bacteria form around them, which can lead to gas. ... “The sulfur content of the eggs enhanced the odor of the gas caused by another food, making your gas more noticeable.
So combine the eggs with some brussell sprouts and you've got a party.6 -
binkydriver wrote: » The Hard Boiled Egg Diet may be boring, but its very successful. Plus, you can do a ton of food preparations with the hard boiled egg. Pop out the center, and then you can fill the holes with other food items, to perk up the taste. Plus, it's the egg yolk that has all the fat in the hard boiled egg, not the eggshell aka "whites".
Cost. This is one of the cheapest diets around, with proven results. Cost is one reason people quit other commercial diet programs, it starts to become too expensive with minimal results. If it's expensive, its hard to maintain long term.
Why do you not want to eat the yolk? Fat is not to be avoided. Fat does not make you fat. Excess calories make you fat.
I eat boiled egg whites, not the yolk because I might have 2-4 in a day and that would go over my cholesterol. That's why I do it. but I don't just eat only eggs.
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Enter: Google.
The Boiled Egg Diet – Lose 24 Pounds In Just 2 Weeks!!
1st week:
*Monday*
Breakfast: two boiled eggs and fruit
Lunch: two slices of meal bread and fruit
Dinner: cooked chicken and salad
*Tuesday*
Breakfast: two boiled eggs and fruit
Lunch: cooked chicken and green salad
Dinner: orange, salad and two boiled eggs
*Wednesday*
Breakfast: two boiled eggs and fruit
Lunch: one tomato, one slice of meal bread and low fat cheese
Dinner: cooked chicken and salad
etc. etc.
I literally just clicked on the first Google search result.
It doesn't sound... bad? I mean, it sounds pretty tasty but also SUPER low cal. I don't think that eggs have some miraculous way of making you lose 12 pounds/week. There's not much room for salt on there, so you're probably just losing a ton of water weight. This sounds more like a Whole 30 diet with a REALLY high calorie deficit. This makes me hungry just thinking about how hungry I'd be!
I'm not sure what the point of calling it the hard boiled egg diet is, when there's chicken involved. Maybe the point is to have several hard boiled eggs every day.
OP, I'm not trying to tear you down, just giving the other folks on here something more concrete to work with. Let me know if this is not the diet you had in mind.
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And the OP has left the building2
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VioletRojo wrote: »scarlett_k wrote: »I'm not sure I could cope with the farts, let alone the utter tedium...
apparently the egg yolks cause the farts. No yolks, no problem!
I've read the "eggs cause gas" thing in other threads, but it's not something I've ever experienced. I didn't even know it was a thing until a thread about eggs a few months ago.
OH MY GAWD are the egg farts a thing! I love a good hard boiled egg in my salad but don't come near me after lunch!0 -
Thanks for Googling that for me, @aeloine , I didn't have the nerve.
So this is a boring but not horrible meal plan. Maybe useful for people who have literally no idea what or how to eat.1 -
binkydriver wrote: » The Hard Boiled Egg Diet may be boring, but its very successful. Plus, you can do a ton of food preparations with the hard boiled egg. Pop out the center, and then you can fill the holes with other food items, to perk up the taste. Plus, it's the egg yolk that has all the fat in the hard boiled egg, not the eggshell aka "whites".
Cost. This is one of the cheapest diets around, with proven results. Cost is one reason people quit other commercial diet programs, it starts to become too expensive with minimal results. If it's expensive, its hard to maintain long term.
Why do you not want to eat the yolk? Fat is not to be avoided. Fat does not make you fat. Excess calories make you fat.
And isn't the yolk where the iron is? I know eggs actually have less iron than I thought (just 5% of the RDA), but why deprive yourself when you're already falling short on other micros?0 -
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Boiled egg whites plus whatever might taste good that can fit in the center, and you are wasting the yolk. How healthy it is depends on what you put in the center, as does whether it works for weight loss or not (that and how much you are eating).
Just egg whites is a good source of protein, but not much else, plus boring. Also, wasting the yolks would make me sad -- I could never do a diet designed around wasting perfectly good food.3 -
estherdragonbat wrote: »binkydriver wrote: » The Hard Boiled Egg Diet may be boring, but its very successful. Plus, you can do a ton of food preparations with the hard boiled egg. Pop out the center, and then you can fill the holes with other food items, to perk up the taste. Plus, it's the egg yolk that has all the fat in the hard boiled egg, not the eggshell aka "whites".
Cost. This is one of the cheapest diets around, with proven results. Cost is one reason people quit other commercial diet programs, it starts to become too expensive with minimal results. If it's expensive, its hard to maintain long term.
Why do you not want to eat the yolk? Fat is not to be avoided. Fat does not make you fat. Excess calories make you fat.
And isn't the yolk where the iron is? I know eggs actually have less iron than I thought (just 5% of the RDA), but why deprive yourself when you're already falling short on other micros?
Because farts.0 -
VioletRojo wrote: »scarlett_k wrote: »I'm not sure I could cope with the farts, let alone the utter tedium...
apparently the egg yolks cause the farts. No yolks, no problem!
I've read the "eggs cause gas" thing in other threads, but it's not something I've ever experienced. I didn't even know it was a thing until a thread about eggs a few months ago.
Yeah, not an issue here either. I eat 2-4 per day. When I don't have eggs for breakfast I tell my husband that I am in an egg deficit and need one as a snack
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