Eating the same thing every day

It's soooo much easier to make the same food for the entire week. I make a lot of chicken breast, but use different seasonings to give a slight variety.

I have a breakfast rotation, something different almost everyday, the same dinner, and cook one or two different meals for my lunch every week (I go on Pinterest or something and find something new everyweek). My meals have never been super exiciting. Even when I was obese, all I ate for breakfast every morning were the same strawberry Pop Tarts.

I can eat the same thing 3-4 days out the week - it's easy and I don't stress about it. I sometimes change the time of the day that I eat those same foods, which kind of makes it feel like variety. Changing up my snacks adds a small bit of variety, as well. Really, as long as my body is sufficiently fueled (as I'd like to think of it), I don't care too much about how it gets there.

Creature of habit here so identical breakfast and lunch on workdays, it varies on rest days and the evening meal is my time to experiment. That being said I do have a few fall-back recipes that I always have the ingredients for if I'm not in the mood to get creative.

I did a muffin for breakfast for years, losing, gaining maintaining... I've also done sausage and eggs, oatmeal for a shorter period, but nowadays I'm doing three boiled eggs. I'll sometimes have something else and then it's like..... O-oh, didn't even feel that much different, the meal wasn't this amazing spectacular thing

Lunches maybe the same thing a couple days in a row but then I want to play with it a little. Due to occasionally doing lunch with people, it's not as easy to eat the same thing all the time. I try to vary dinner, but it's me pretty much deciding right there and then, wellllll what do I feel like right now?

Just two of us at home so we eat a lot of the same things day in and day out. When we cook, we'll make a crock pot full, or double or triple the recipes, so we only have to cook maybe 2 or 3 times during a week.

I got in the habit of eating the same thing every day when I was in weight-loss mode, and now that I'm in maintenance I can't seem to shake it. I usually mix it up for dinner, but my standard breakfast is natural PB on a low-carb pita, and my standard lunch is a kale salad with chicken. I never get tired of either of these -- not so far, anyway! -- and I appreciate the control it gives me over my daily calorie intake. Something's working, because I lost 80 lbs this way, and have kept it off ...

I am this way with snacks, but it tends to go in cycles; recently my snacks tend to almost always be yogurt, peanut butter banana toast, and a protein bar. Almost every day for like two weeks. But pretty soon I'll get sick of those things and find a new three for or four snacks to eat every day for a couple weeks - jerky, nuts, cottage cheese, tuna, whatever. I always eat different dinners, though. I have no idea why I tend to have this habit with snacks, but I do. I think I'm just lazy. It doesn't seem to have hurt anything, tho.

I can't. I get bored of the same thing after a couple days. I need to mix it up!

Melmo1988 wrote: »

Does anyone find it easier to eat the same things every day? For example for a week eat the same thing for breakfast and lunch every day and 2/3 dinners for the week? Or do you have to have a lot of variety?

It's called systematic eating and it's easy for a lot of people to do. Lol, I at PHO for lunch everyday for like 5 years.

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