Eating the SAME thing everyday.

afia233

I was speaking to a friend recently who has lost a tonne of weight since he moved here from him home country.

i asked him what his secret was and he told me "I eat the same things everyday without fail" so i asked him, What do you eat?

Breakfast: Hot chocolate

Snack: chocolate (snickers)

Lunch: Hummous and carrots / Sandwich and crisps.

Dinner: Some sort of ready meal or pizza you put in the oven + Yogurt

+ Tea whenever he wants it.

Now looking at that diet it seems pretty unhealthy, i mean small sugary breakfast and starchy stodgy dinner, but apparently its worked wonders for him. Now hes convinced its because he eats the SAME thing everyday.
I eat pretty regularly, most people do - but does never deviating from your restricted diet help one lose weight?

I personally dont think their is any logic to it - mayby its the fact that his body knows exactly what its going to get and so his metabolism works more efficiently or mayby its the quantities......

LittleMissDover

It will be because he's at the same calorie deficit consistently, that's all.

sunsnstatheart

Yes, it's just that he's eating at a consistent calorie deficit. That diet doesn't provide much protein and few micronutrients so it's certainly not advisable.

THExNEKOxCHAN

I'd advise that guy to start eating some real food. Nothing about that is healthy (plus, it's boring. Who the hell wants boring food every day? I mean, does he plan on eating that crap for the rest of his life? ugh!)

krithsai

Even if I could drop a lb a day, I couldn't do such a thing. I couldn't eat the same thing for dinner twice in the same week, let alone repeat meals like that.

I was once successful in dropping nearly 20 lbs by doing something similar. It was more nutritious but I had a schedule for Monday to Friday and wouldn't change it for like 4 months. I was eating all of 900-1000 calories a day. At the end of it, I got frustrated enough to gain 10 lbs back in 2 months.

jenniferwren

High sugar, high salt, high fat not to mention dull as dishwater and so unheathy yuck

strikerjb007

I eat almost the same everyday aside from weekends. Food is fuel as far as I am concerned. If I am in one of my exploratory adventure around the world, then it's a different story. But at home, I don't get any love back from food. Just fuel. I don't eat snickers though.