Hard Boiled Egg Diets
Replies
-
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.
1 -
And the OP has left the building2
-
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 -
-
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
2 -
lemurcat12 wrote: »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.
Same. Gimme all the yolks!1 -
TheWJordinWJordin wrote: »@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.
I love a warm Brussels sprouts salad that has hard boiled eggs in it and...yeah, it's funkytown afterwards, lol1 -
except you get the stinkies?0
-
You're yolking right?4
-
fixed it for youbinkydriver 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. Plug your stats into MFP, set to one pound per week loss, eat the foods you like, get adequate nutrition, keep protein high, use a food scale, log accurately and move more.
9 -
TheWJordinWJordin wrote: »@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.
or a WWII gas chamber....1 -
estherdragonbat wrote: »
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?
And like half the protein and all the rest of the nutrients. Seems really silly to throw away the part of the egg that has all the good stuff in it.1 -
I'm glad I can afford to lose weight without living on hard boiled eggs. What happens when you lose the weight and start eating not hard boiled eggs? This is just another fad diet that you lose weight on because you are eating less calories than you burn, but the arbitrary rules make it seem like something special.0
-
Is this a long term plan?0
-
Sounds good. Can't wait to crop dust everyone.6
-
RuNaRoUnDaFiEld wrote: »You're yolking right?
Eggscellent! My favorite part of these threads are the puns. They crack me up.1
Categories
- All Categories
- 1.4M Health, Wellness and Goals
- 392.9K Introduce Yourself
- 43.7K Getting Started
- 260.1K Health and Weight Loss
- 175.8K Food and Nutrition
- 47.4K Recipes
- 232.5K Fitness and Exercise
- 415 Sleep, Mindfulness and Overall Wellness
- 6.5K Goal: Maintaining Weight
- 8.5K Goal: Gaining Weight and Body Building
- 152.9K Motivation and Support
- 8K Challenges
- 1.3K Debate Club
- 96.3K Chit-Chat
- 2.5K Fun and Games
- 3.6K MyFitnessPal Information
- 23 News and Announcements
- 1.1K Feature Suggestions and Ideas
- 2.5K MyFitnessPal Tech Support Questions