Eggs per week?

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  • runbyme
    runbyme Posts: 522 Member
    :laugh: Love it! Have fun with eggs! LOL!
    Yaaaaaay! I'm so happy. IS there a limit to how many eggs I should be eating, though?

    I rarely eat more than six at a time. Mostly because I need room on my plate for the Bacon.

    lol. awesome.


    and thanks for this. i'm going to make like, 8 hard boiled eggs tomorrow for the week. great on the go snack.
  • MaximalLife
    MaximalLife Posts: 2,447 Member
    This is one of the first lessons I learned here.
    Eggs = good!
  • CanuckTracy
    CanuckTracy Posts: 245 Member
    LOL...love your reply koosdel :)
  • NiciS72
    NiciS72 Posts: 1,043 Member
    It goes back to the low fat diet craze. It's total crap. We eat e eggs a day every day some weeks and DH was able to get OFF his cholesterol mess through exercise while eating 21 eggs a week!
  • rdzilla
    rdzilla Posts: 113 Member
    I eat about 40 egg whites and about 8 whole eggs a week. What can I say.... they're filling and taste good.
  • AZKristi
    AZKristi Posts: 1,801 Member
    I eat 5-10 eggs per week (organic, free range) and my bad cholesterol is below the detection limits of the test. That is kind of freakish, I think it is genetic because my family trends the same way.

    My husband's cholesterol was quite high but has decreased tremendously since we started living together. Last month, his doctor was saying that he's never seen anyone's cholesterol levels improve so much simply by modifying their diet.

    The biggest change? Significant reductions in the amount of processed and fast foods he consumes. This used to be a huge portion of his diet (90% easily) and is now less than 5%. Seems like a strange thing since all of these places advertise no cholesterol, no lard, only canola oil, etc.

    He still eats tons of cheese (although I discourage that) and several eggs each week when I prepare them. I use real butter when it counts (toast, popcorn, certain sauteed veggies). Other than that, I stick to grapeseed oil and olive oil. Nuts and avocados are also frequent parts of our diet.

    So, honestly, I don't think eggs are a big deal unless you see some evidence that they are causing cholesterol problems for you. Also, be sure to incorporate healthy fats into your diet. The ratio of good to bad cholesterol is a big thing doctors look at.
  • rachmaree
    rachmaree Posts: 782 Member
    I usually eat 3-4 whole eggs per day, and extra whites (I like eggs, but like to get cals from other places). We buy 100+ eggs at a time... my husband keeps saying he should get his cholesterol checked (he eats more yolks than I do), but so far so good :)
  • Contrarian
    Contrarian Posts: 8,138 Member
    Yaaaaaay! I'm so happy. IS there a limit to how many eggs I should be eating, though?

    I rarely eat more than six at a time. Mostly because I need room on my plate for the Bacon.

    lol. awesome.


    and thanks for this. i'm going to make like, 8 hard boiled eggs tomorrow for the week. great on the go snack.

    Just don't eat them on the bus. They smell.
  • tammyc00per
    tammyc00per Posts: 22 Member
    Eggs are amazing!
  • Articeluvsmemphis
    Articeluvsmemphis Posts: 1,987 Member
    Yaaaaaay! I'm so happy. IS there a limit to how many eggs I should be eating, though?

    I rarely eat more than six at a time. Mostly because I need room on my plate for the Bacon.

    :drinker: lol, hard boiled eggs and bacon are perfection
  • strbryt
    strbryt Posts: 488 Member
    Yaaaaaay! I'm so happy. IS there a limit to how many eggs I should be eating, though?

    I rarely eat more than six at a time. Mostly because I need room on my plate for the Bacon.

    Haha I love it that was funny- on a side note I usually eat 2 eggs a day and I have no issues
  • psmd
    psmd Posts: 764 Member
    Hmmm, eggs with yolk have about 200 mg cholesterol in them and it's recommended to stay under 300 per day if you're healthy. And Mayo Clinic recommends 4 eggs or less a week. (as do other sources)

    http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/cholesterol/HQ00608

    I'm being serious when I ask how all these people are eating so many eggs. Personally I eat only 3-4 per week, and extra egg whites which have no cholesterol. Any evidence that says its okay to eat more than this???
  • brittanyjeanxo
    brittanyjeanxo Posts: 1,831 Member
    I ate like, 7 eggs just today. Some for breakfast, some lunch. (Well, 5 whites, 2 whole eggs). I'm a new lover of eggs! If you have pre-existing cholesterol problems, you may want to make sure it's okay with your doctor before you go egg crazy. Other than that, go nuts!
  • ishallnotwant
    ishallnotwant Posts: 1,210 Member
    I like mine over medium, with fried potatoes, corn tortillas and a nice grilled steak. I have eggs almost every day. The whole, natural egg. We have an egg ranch in the city next to us that sells them SO fresh-they gathered from the chickens on the morning you buy them. They're yummy!
  • loganamanda01
    loganamanda01 Posts: 1 Member
    There IS a limit to eggs. I had high cholesterol, ONLY changed my diet to ELIMINATE egg yolks and my cholesterol went down by about 15% and is now normal.
  • LassoOfTruth
    LassoOfTruth Posts: 735 Member
    My boyfriend and I ate a total of 36 eggs since Sunday night. I only know this because I wanted to make 2 eggs this morning, and we didn't have any. Waaahhhh!
  • asdowe13
    asdowe13 Posts: 1,951 Member
    I eat 10-12 eggs a week - for most of my life.

    No issues here medically/physically because of eggs!
  • seltzermint555
    seltzermint555 Posts: 10,740 Member
    Check your blood work the next time you visit the doctor. If there's an issue, make changes.
    Otherwise, do what feels right for you!

    This!

    I typically eat somewhere between 6-12 eggs per week and that includes eggs that are cooked or baked into other things.
  • novasparkles
    novasparkles Posts: 4
    It's the incredible, edible egg! Perfect food!
  • Carnivor0us
    Carnivor0us Posts: 1,752 Member
    Hmmm, eggs with yolk have about 200 mg cholesterol in them and it's recommended to stay under 300 per day if you're healthy. And Mayo Clinic recommends 4 eggs or less a week. (as do other sources)

    http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/cholesterol/HQ00608

    I'm being serious when I ask how all these people are eating so many eggs. Personally I eat only 3-4 per week, and extra egg whites which have no cholesterol. Any evidence that says its okay to eat more than this???

    300mg per day for cholesterol consumption is really low. I think the US is one of the few countries that actually has a recommendation for cholesterol. Dietary cholesterol hasn't been shown to be bad for healthy individuals.

    That being said, I go through 2 dozen chicken and 1 dozen duck eggs a week.
  • Strokingdiction
    Strokingdiction Posts: 1,164 Member
    I eat nearly 30 eggs a week, occasionally going higher than that. Sometimes I take the yolks out but only because I'm going for higher protein intake. When my macros allow it though, it's whole eggs, baby.
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  • Confuzzled4ever
    Confuzzled4ever Posts: 2,860 Member
    I eat 10-14 large eggs per week and anywhere from 10-20 egg whites.

    I'm a huge scrambled eggs for lunch fan :love: :heart:
  • JoRocka
    JoRocka Posts: 17,525 Member
    upwards of 2 dozen or more a week.
  • bcattoes
    bcattoes Posts: 17,299 Member
    General medical recommendations are usually based on medical data. Recommendations are set at the point where people generally start to have problems with a food, based on available information. The information available may or may not show that the food was the actual cause of the rise in disease, but more often there is simply a correllation (multiple studies exist showing the trend, but the exact cause is not proved).

    On an individual level, your body may or may not react as the data suggests. The best way to know how your body will react is to eat the eggs and have regular medical check-ups.
  • PaleoPath4Lyfe
    PaleoPath4Lyfe Posts: 3,161 Member
    upwards of 2 dozen or more a week.

    We do too.
  • brenannn
    brenannn Posts: 19
    Maybe this is a dumb question, but if you're just eating egg whites, what do you do with the yolks?
  • Mangopickle
    Mangopickle Posts: 1,509 Member
    I eat at least a dozen a week, never had an LDL over 74.
  • jbaerbock
    jbaerbock Posts: 85 Member
    I eat 2 eggs every morning [so i guess that's 14 eggs a week?]. I scramble them and have some low sugar jellied toast. If we have hard boiled eggs around I'll sometimes pop one of those when i get home from work as a snack.
  • Strokingdiction
    Strokingdiction Posts: 1,164 Member
    Maybe this is a dumb question, but if you're just eating egg whites, what do you do with the yolks?

    My dog loves me when I run out of fat macros.
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