Does eating same foods every day help?

i will get the motivation to eat the same things.. even if its my favorite meal and i somehow cant do it. I need to break it up. Im not a good candidate for meal prep.

I'm a vegetarian who relies heavily on dairy for my protein, so yeah, I eat a lot of the same things on a daily basis. I might be able to get creative and come up with other ways to get my protein, but I'm not tired of it. So yeah, I suppose it helps me because I can hit my goals without a lot of fussing or planning. I like to change things up too, but my staples are my staples.

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So I'm kind of picky, well, I'd say pretty picky. When it comes to healthy things like vegetables there's really only a few that I actually enjoy eating, ( broccoli carrots and cauliflour) is there any downside to eating a large amount of these? I know carrots turning your skin orange but that takes a LOT of carrots supposedly? I'll switch it up if I need to, this is just what I've been eating currently when something calls for veggies.

For me It just makes life easier. It takes me hardly anytime at all to pack my lunch and snacks because it’s the same thing most days. I open my fridge and know exactly what things to pull out and which Tupperware containers I need lol. Logging is also easy because I can just click “copy yesterday”. I tend to get on kicks where I’m really into something, I’ll eat it every day for a long time, then get sick of it.

I often eat the same things over and over for dinner because I have food prepped (have a lot of the same thing pre-cooked) and it's just easy to grab from the freezer if I am eating differently from my family. I do try to make sure my precooked meals will have a variety of vitamins and nutrients.

It wouldn't help me. I need variety, and depriving myself of certain foods can lead to binges for me.

I think we all have some go to meals. Though, there is some research on the repetition helping desensitize people to food. Basically food loses some of its reward value and you eat less. Kind of like living next to the train tracks. They keep you up for a while but over time it stops bothering you.

I have a couple of standard go-to meals for breakfast and lunch because these are what I enjoy. Logging is neither harder or easier if I were to have 1 or 10 though. I just add my common food combinations to meals and add from there, adjusting individual amounts if I need to.

FitFunLosAngeles wrote: »

I like to look at the diaries of people who have maintained their weight, and I notice many of them tend to eat the same thing every day - particularly weekday breakfasts and lunches.
I wonder - does the time-consuming aspect of logging food in MyFitnesspal encourage people to eat the same things, or do people tend to do it because it is just easier?

My main breakfast item is cereal, but we usually buy a variety of them. I may use one box every day until it's finished and then move on to something else, or maybe two different boxes are opened and I alternate on different days. I have a boiled egg nearly every day, and that's easy because it's on the stove boiling while I'm eating the cereal or doing other stuff. Sometimes toast with different spreads - jam, marmalade, butter, etc.

In our house cooked meals are not measured, therefore leftovers come back every day until all gone. Slight variations if the meat runs out before the veg, or the starch isn't enough to go with the meat by the time we reach the third day.

People who buy most of their meals in restaurants will perhaps have more variety to log on MFP if they're trying different menu items from different places over a period of time.

For meal prep, it's just easier. I have a variety of dinners and mix it up on weekends. It also saves money to be repetitive.