oatmeal challenge

Beautifullymadetoday
Beautifullymadetoday Posts: 36 Member
edited November 9 in Food and Nutrition
eat a serving of oats for breakfast every day for a year. whole grains are an important part of a balanced breakfast.
A balanced breakfast has 1 tbs nuts or seeds, 1/2 cup fruit, and 2 whole eggs.
Whole grains have a good source of fiber, and start your day with some good carbs, insoluble fiber that will keep you fuller longer. Anyone want to do this with me. I need some encouragement.
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  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
    Why would you want the same breakfast EVERY DAY for a year...? No thanks!
  • flabassmcgee
    flabassmcgee Posts: 659 Member
    But... But bacon!
  • Nicola0000
    Nicola0000 Posts: 531 Member
    bmm7414 wrote: »
    eat a serving of oats for breakfast every day for a year. whole grains are an important part of a balanced breakfast.
    A balanced breakfast has 1 tbs nuts or seeds, 1/2 cup fruit, and 2 whole eggs.
    Whole grains have a good source of fiber, and start your day with some good carbs, insoluble fiber that will keep you fuller longer. Anyone want to do this with me. I need some encouragement.

    Think I'd go mental!!! Why do you want to limit yourself to the same meal every day? there are sooooo many other foods with good nutritional value that you can have, keep it different :p

  • ryanhorn
    ryanhorn Posts: 355 Member
    I love oatmeal but variety is the spice of life! :)
  • BigGuy47
    BigGuy47 Posts: 1,768 Member
    edited December 2014
    bmm7414 wrote: »
    I need some encouragement.
    You'll also need a plunger.
  • katsiavac
    katsiavac Posts: 9 Member
    bmm7414 wrote: »
    eat a serving of oats for breakfast every day for a year. whole grains are an important part of a balanced breakfast.
    A balanced breakfast has 1 tbs nuts or seeds, 1/2 cup fruit, and 2 whole eggs.
    Whole grains have a good source of fiber, and start your day with some good carbs, insoluble fiber that will keep you fuller longer. Anyone want to do this with me. I need some encouragement.

    I stick to 30g traditional oats, 80g natural yogurt with about 10 blueberries, morning tea & coffee,
    An egg if feeling hungry. I vary on weekends but find the oats are fantastic and long lasting.
    My breakfasts equate to approx 1100kj's and keep me going to lunch.
    Good luck and wish you every success!! You can do it!!! Happy New year!!!! May 2015 be a memorable year, full of possibilities!!
  • Therealobi1
    Therealobi1 Posts: 3,262 Member
    furioushummingbird wrote: »
    But... But bacon!
    put the bacon in the porridge. problem solved.

  • lishie_rebooted
    lishie_rebooted Posts: 2,973 Member
    Eating breakfast isn't a requirement to lose weight or be healthy. And the same goes for whole grains.

    And your example of a balanced breakfast doesn't even include the oatmeal. Or whole grains.

    Measuring nuts, or anything else really for that matter, in cups and tablespoons will lead to wildly inaccurate calorie counting. Liquids belong in cups and tablespoons, solids should be weighed with a food scale.
  • lishie_rebooted
    lishie_rebooted Posts: 2,973 Member
    Also OP, your profile says you're 18 but in your picture you look 15.
  • bsracer
    bsracer Posts: 35 Member
    Oatmeal does me no good because I have to load it with butter abd suger to eat it sooooooooooo, pass lol
  • prestigio
    prestigio Posts: 181 Member
    I eat oatmeal on the daily, though not always as breakfast ;)
  • Lilymay2
    Lilymay2 Posts: 2,525 Member
    You can do it... I have for the past 2 years. One serving of oatmeal, cinnamon, 3 tbsp. hemp hearts, 1 cup of frozen blueberries, 1 cup of frozen mixed berries - 450 calories...holds me from 7 a.m. to 12 noon. the only thing that changes - the fruit I add... on weekends when I am home - I will use fresh berries and rarely a banana. Berries because they are lower in sugar.
  • FitnessTrainer69
    FitnessTrainer69 Posts: 283 Member
    I've been eating oatmeal for the past year and it gets old fast. Had to change peanut butters for flavoring. Today was the first day that I changed my breakfast, changed to ezekiel bread with 2% cheese. Good luck on your challenge
  • lemurcat12
    lemurcat12 Posts: 30,886 Member
    bmm7414 wrote: »
    eat a serving of oats for breakfast every day for a year. whole grains are an important part of a balanced breakfast.
    A balanced breakfast has 1 tbs nuts or seeds, 1/2 cup fruit, and 2 whole eggs.
    Whole grains have a good source of fiber, and start your day with some good carbs, insoluble fiber that will keep you fuller longer. Anyone want to do this with me. I need some encouragement.

    I like oatmeal, and eat it for breakfast from time to time for variety's sake, but do much better with a vegetable omelet or even sometimes leftovers from dinner. This morning I wasn't in the mood for an omelet/eggs so had some veggies, some fruit, some smoked salmon, and some cottage cheese. Why these kinds of breakfasts tend to work better than oatmeal for me is more protein and fat. I'm also not sure why whole grains for breakfast are important or why you think a balanced breakfast must be something so specific. Are the other meals also required to meet so many requirements, or just breakfast?
  • jyogit
    jyogit Posts: 280 Member
    ive been on the porridge for above 7months now.every day except when on holiday .. all the new flavoured varieties make it less daunting than the normal every day stodge it used to be :)
  • Fuzzipeg
    Fuzzipeg Posts: 2,301 Member
    Count me out because I'm Salicylate Sensitive, (its a toxin) and the fruits you mention and spices mentioned by another in those quantities would have me curled up in pain or on crutches before one day was out.
    Good for those who can, may be.
  • karyabc
    karyabc Posts: 830 Member
    :D now that is truly the ultimate challenge that i have seeing in a while in MFP LOllllll , eating the SAME for a year! bravo to you i guess if that's what you want i guess butttttt i will just say No, but thanks No.
  • Laurend224
    Laurend224 Posts: 1,748 Member
    I love oatmeal, and I eat it regularly, but if I signed up for a 'challenge' to eat it for a year straight and got tired of it after 6 months and wanted to eat something else, well, I would feel like a failure, even though it's not really a failure.

    Setting up a program where you 'must' eat x for xxx many days to me is a prescription for a wounded self esteem.

  • Ninkyou
    Ninkyou Posts: 6,666 Member
    I love oatmeal, but this would get old, very fast. Especially in the summer.
  • helenarriaza
    helenarriaza Posts: 517 Member
    Yeah, no.
  • graciiekim
    graciiekim Posts: 72 Member
    I actually do eat oatmeal nearly everyday for breakfast and have been doing so for the past few months! I don't add any additional sugar or butter, but I do add cinnamon, bananas, or any other fruits so it doesn't get boring ever!
  • ydailey
    ydailey Posts: 516 Member
    Variety is the spice of life, and all that. Also, I like eggs but two eggs a day would be overboard for me.
  • karyabc
    karyabc Posts: 830 Member
    graciiekim wrote: »
    I actually do eat oatmeal nearly everyday for breakfast and have been doing so for the past few months! I don't add any additional sugar or butter, but I do add cinnamon, bananas, or any other fruits so it doesn't get boring ever!

    hey so do I, i loveeeee oatmeal, i eat it quite often, you eat it because you like it and have being doing it now for a while but i suppose when you start to do it , you didn't label as a challenge and said you know im gonna eat this for the next 365 days :s , if it happens great but that extra mental pressure from having to do it everyday believe me it's may get boring
  • missemmapeel
    missemmapeel Posts: 69 Member
    I eat oatmeal almost every day for breakfast. I add protein powder so it keeps me full until lunch, and I've started adding some Qia to make it more textureful and interesting. I vary the berries and sometimes add cinnamon to change it up a bit. I've also switched up for steel cut oats in the past to get over the gruel blahs. For a real treat I'll add raisins or dried apricots cut up.

    I've never tried adding bacon, and the thought of bacon sprinkles is making my mouth water a little.

    Happy New Years!
  • squatsanddeadlift
    squatsanddeadlift Posts: 117 Member
    603reader wrote: »
    Also OP, your profile says you're 18 but in your picture you look 15.

    What does that have to do with her post?
  • sizesixorbust
    sizesixorbust Posts: 114 Member
    lol i have my own version of the oatmeal challenge where whenever i'm hungry not around meal-time, i have a bowl of oatmeal. mostly just to train myself to not mindlessly snack so much hahaha i don't like oatmeal enough to eat it regularly but when i need to stop over-eating this helps if i do it for a few days.
  • Lasmartchika
    Lasmartchika Posts: 3,440 Member
    Oh God no... Everyday?! I love oatmeal and eggs, but everyday?! Oh God no!! I'd be so bored of the same thing every morning... besides, wouldn't having eggs everyday give me cholesterol or something like that? NO THANK YOU!! Having so many different kinds of food in the world, and you want to be stuck to just that? Ok, enjoy it. Ni modo, que se puede hacer? ¯\(°_o)/¯
  • squatsanddeadlift
    squatsanddeadlift Posts: 117 Member
    No eating eggs every day would not give you cholesterol.
  • Liftng4Lis
    Liftng4Lis Posts: 15,151 Member
    I need diversity.
  • Lasmartchika
    Lasmartchika Posts: 3,440 Member
    squatsanddeadlift wrote: »
    No eating eggs every day would not give you cholesterol.

    OMFG... out of the whole post that's what you focus on? Please... move on. If you wanna eat eggs everyday, be my guest. If you want to follow her challenge, be my guest. I don't know you, and I don't wanna know you. That post wasn't about you or for you. So scat. :noway:
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