Myth or not?

Myth, Myth, Myth, Myth.


Eat what you want, when you want, just hit your goals.

Thank you, it always sounded daft to me too :blushing:

The one that gets me every time is "muscle weighs more than fat" I know what they're trying to say but they are still so adamant that it "weighs" more. Now I just smile and nod :huh:

Weight-loss wise that doesn't matter, but there are some problems that might arise:

1. Having the same food all the time may cause a decrease in the diversity of your intestinal flora that is associated with all sorts of problems (including obesity).
2. Along the same lines, you might (at extremes) actually lack a certain vitamin or have an excess of some minerals if you keep eating the same thing over and over.

The last meal she consumes changes, and there is vegetables in her diet and it sounds fairly balanced.

As for #1 - just stop, you're trying to worry people for no reason, its unneeded.

It does sound balanced which is why I added as many "softeners" as I could. I said it might, in extreme cases. You can never know for sure, which is why if it's not too much trouble, diversity can't hurt.

As for worrying people needlessly I really don't see how that could be true. By principle, not mentioning certain facts because they're deemed irrelevant by a certain person doesn't make them "unneeded". It's every individual's right to decide what's relevant to them and what is not.

Myth. Especially if your staying within your macros and eating the same good food. Great job on that! Your body will thank you!

On a side note:
I think people when people run into problems are when they focus just on the calories and not on all the other macros though.

Lets say, you eat 2k worth of fruits, veggies, complex carbs and you lose weight. Then after a while you start eating 2k worth of sugar, fat, bad carbs, and processed foods. Its not going to have the same affect on your body because you have all the extra crap along with that food. So, its about macros, not just calories.

What they are saying is actually true....

You said: if you ate the same thing - all the time, would your weight loss stop.

Yes of course it would.
You cannot keep on losing x weight eating x amount of calories for ever.
At some stage you have to change your diet regime, your caloric needs would change after x time with the change in your metabolic rate.

That's why every so often you have to change your intact values you plateau
so yes they are correct in the statement ..

She said " I would have the same thing for breakfast every morning and the same thing for lunch and my dinner would vary between chicken or fish and veg"
Changing your protein from chicken to fish in one meal ok still , you will plateau.

The term breaking down the same food is incorrect

the same food all the time and then would mean that I would stop losing weight. Is this true?
Yes it is in the long term...

Your goal posts keep moving but you know how to score every time they do

Now we all work under the umbrella IIFYM so we have a lot more fun than minor protein changes in one me.
We all just hit our Macros.....
I know where ritchiebulk is coming from so were on the same page bro IIFYM.
Im with Dauntlessness where on the same page also staying within your guide lines on intake amount