same food everyday

margie_77
margie_77 Posts: 693 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
Hello, I'm just getting back on the wagon, starting my final push, just over 50lbs to go. woo hoo
Anyways, I find it really easy to get in a rut of eating the same thing for breakfast and lunch everyday. Do you eat the same things everyday or do you find a way to switch it up?

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  • TimeWarp9
    TimeWarp9 Posts: 91
    Both. I know that doesn't help! When I had a lot to lose, I found it easier to have a handful of 'go-to' meals that were healthy, filling, and the right amount of calories I needed for that particular meal. Knowing what I was going to have made it so much easier. After awhile, though, it does get old so I would mix it up. I would find several 'go-to' meals that could be interchanged.
  • shellbatronic
    shellbatronic Posts: 193
    I eat the same breakfast every. single. day. And have for the past year. I may change it up on a weekend, but by and large it always the same. Other than that I tend to have the same lunch and snacks for a week at a time, and then change it the next week. But that's more me trying to use groceries I have on hand than anything. So, like, I'll do salads for lunch and then greek yogurt and fruit for snacks, then the next week mix grilled chicken with a veggie/rice blend for lunch and then do a savory cottage cheese for snack. But breakfast is always the same (honestly just because I really like it and it's a good ratio of macros and keeps me satisfied).
  • AllTehBeers
    AllTehBeers Posts: 5,030 Member
    Both. I know that doesn't help! When I had a lot to lose, I found it easier to have a handful of 'go-to' meals that were healthy, filling, and the right amount of calories I needed for that particular meal. Knowing what I was going to have made it so much easier. After awhile, though, it does get old so I would mix it up. I would find several 'go-to' meals that could be interchanged.

    This. For the work week, I eat the same breakfast and lunch every day. Then I usually eat some variation on eggs, bacon, chicken, green vegetables, salad and pasta.
  • BigBrunette
    BigBrunette Posts: 1,543 Member
    I eat the same breakfast every day so I don't have to do much planning. Lunch, dinner and snacks are a free-for-all.
  • MysticRealm
    MysticRealm Posts: 1,264 Member
    I often eat similar things everyday but I do switch it up too. Just the other day I found a ground turkey recipe to try and that will be worked into my regular schedule. I also have several different slow cooker chicken recipes, I have multiple kinds of snacks I switch in and out too.
  • CaroleLynn65
    CaroleLynn65 Posts: 9
    I work from 8-5 M-F so it is easiest for me to eat the same basic breakfast, lunch & snacks...routine just is my thing. However, if I want to change it up, I just schedule the change and carry on.
  • dfonte
    dfonte Posts: 263 Member
    Egg Whites, Cheerios, Chicken, Broccoli, Protein Shake, Salad, Broccoli (or Cauliflower), Fish (Or Other Protein),

    Errday
  • links_slayer
    links_slayer Posts: 1,151 Member
    Breakfast is usually coffee and an English muffin w/ peanut butter or a bagel w/ lite cream cheese
    Lunch is usually a medium-ish salad w/ dressing and a small portion of leftovers from dinner earlier in the week
    Dinner (lately) has usually been a recipe from Skinnytaste or Emilybites, "breakfast foods," or leftovers.
  • SDHudgins1976
    SDHudgins1976 Posts: 140
    Same breakfast every day except Saturday (which is usually a ham and cheese omelet)
    Same lunch or leftovers for lunch (I'll have a taco salad the day after we have tacos for example)
    and then We have a week long menu we rotate. I occasionally get tired of something but not often. We've found 7 dinners we all really enjoy and just stick with that!
  • lisab0864
    lisab0864 Posts: 154
    I pretty much eat the same thing for breakfast and lunch every single day (except on vacation - have more variety then). Breakfast is one of three things: 95% of them are eggs, meat, and toast. The other 5% is oatmeal or cream of wheat (now that I found a whole grain version). I have about 3 lunches that I eat -- my favorite thing is chicken taco chili/soup. I eat that pretty much every single day and miss it when it runs out (which is when I'll eat one of the other two). Surprisingly I'm not tired of eating like that (been doing that for most of my maintenance time 2 years). Heck my dinner is pretty much the same thing (meat and veggies - rarely a potato) everyday also but only cuz hubby pretty much only eats meat (prefers grilled w/no added seasonings or sauces unless bbq) and potatoes (prefers french fries or american fries). Kinda get tired of the lack of variety for dinner though..
  • difabu
    difabu Posts: 143
    I've found that I'm most successful when I keep it the same/similar for the week. It's easier to plan and cook once, then divvy it up through the week.
  • HeidiCooksSupper
    HeidiCooksSupper Posts: 3,833 Member
    I have some go-to breakfasts and snacks I choose among but for supper, it's almost always some new combination -- often from familiar ingredients or whatever vegetable needs using before it spoils. So last night was a spinach/tuna/mushrooms/etc. sandwich spread because that week+ old bag of spinach needed using ASAP.

    The web is the bomb for this. There was freshly baked whole wheat bread smelling up the kitchen so we had a hankering for a sandwich supper for a change. The bag of spinach needed using so I googled "spinach sandwich" and perused what showed up and then created from there. The other day I had a leftover baked sweet potato and an eggplant needing to be used. I googled "eggplant sweet potato" thinking nothing would come up and it turns out there are both Thai and Indian eggplant and sweet potato curries. We had Thai eggplant and sweet potato curry on rice noodles and hubby, visiting friend, and I all pronounced it yummy -- unlikely but surprisingly yummy.
  • margie_77
    margie_77 Posts: 693 Member
    What is your breakfast?
  • Aktyrrell
    Aktyrrell Posts: 2 Member
    Having 50 lbs left to lose, it would be good to change up your menus to avoid a plateau. That could even mean switching what you normally eat for lunch to eating it for supper. Same with exercise routines. Doing same thing every day will reduce its benefits. Which you can even alter time of day you exercise and it will make a difference.
  • SabrinaLily
    SabrinaLily Posts: 121
    I switch it up but usually, that means I have to adjust my calories accordingly for the other meals. For breakfast today I had Special K High Protein cereal with a cup of soy vanilla almond milk. That was 150 calories. Tomorrow, I want to get a small iced caramel latte lite and 3 munchkins from Dunkin Donuts. That will be (surprisingly) only 185 calories but of course I need to skim 35 calories off another meal. Well today, I am eating a 100 calorie pudding cup for a snack. To compensate for those 35 from DD, tomorrow I'll eat a 10 calorie Jello cup instead and actually be ahead of the game! Sometimes a snack may be a 50 calorie egg white patty or a 55 calorie apple on another day. Today for lunch I had Healthy Choice Top Chef's ricotta and spinach ravioli with chunks of chicken meat for 260 calories. Maybe tomorrow I'll pack a spinach salad with grilled chicken, mandarin oranges and a sesame seed dressing for 250. I DEF have to switch up what I eat because I'll get bored and fall off the wagon very quickly when something new and naughty crosses my path! :)
  • RawMomma10
    RawMomma10 Posts: 89 Member
    I do a rotating menu..... breakfast lunch and dinners...... this allows me to shop for more meals at once..... then every week or two I will switch them out and rotate the meals.... I have them all writtten out on a calendar too... so I can just swap pages... It makes it easy for grocery shopping as I dont have to wander I get exactly what I need for those meals and Im done....
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    My breakfast is pretty routine except on weekends...but that's always been the case. Lunch is often leftovers from the night before or I'll make a big Pearled Farro and Tuna Salad on Sunday and have that a few times during the week, or just one of my regular salads. It's not super diverse, but some variation. Dinner is pretty much always different. Dinner is very near and dear to my heart...it is my favorite meal, so I do it up right.
  • Thorbjornn
    Thorbjornn Posts: 329 Member
    I'm a creature of habit and eat pretty much the same things and same ways everyday. Except weekends when all bets are off.
  • Jedil
    Jedil Posts: 62
    During the work week I eat the same thing for breakfast, lunch, and snacks. I do change it up for dinners but always have some items that are mainstays to my dinner, such as a nice salad with home made dressing to control the calories and sodium, and vegetable chicken soup. With the soup I do not add a lot of spices when I cook it. Instead, I add different spices to it when I heat it up for dinner to change the taste from one day to the next. It keeps it interesting. I recently discovered spaghetti squash and home made marinara sauce....pretty stoked about that little find!

    I find also that if I can control my calorie intake before dinner I can throw in an occasional craving item and still be under my daily allowance.
  • clover5
    clover5 Posts: 1,640 Member
    I do eat oatmeal for breakfast most days, but other than that, I like a lot of variety.
  • Toddahlie
    Toddahlie Posts: 116 Member
    I eat the same breakfast every day so I don't have to do much planning. Lunch, dinner and snacks are a free-for-all.

    +2

    I do the same thing!
  • Lunarokra
    Lunarokra Posts: 855 Member
    Yes my menu is almost the same everyday. very monotonous!!:laugh:

    Brkfst: Eggo waffles a lil cream cheese, milk ( my day is not complete without some type of milk), mulitgrain cheerios, toast w pb & banana, oatmeal w blueberries (no sugar added). Sweet mexican bread.


    Lunch: I buy salad pckgs to eat for the week. Frozen Tyson chicken breasts, brown rice, grilled veggies: eggplant, sweet potatoe, green peppers. Multigrain flour tortilla turkey wrap or sandwich, lentils.

    Dinner: It depends i cook once for the family mostly mexican (not restaurant type). I am trying to not eat that many corn tortillas at night.

    ~Brenda
  • RepsnSets
    RepsnSets Posts: 805 Member
    I eat the same things day in and day out but sometimes might change things up on the odd weekend.

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