Egg fast

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  • missmagnoliablossom
    missmagnoliablossom Posts: 240 Member
    Tacklewasher wrote: »
    missmagnoliablossom wrote: »
    Tacklewasher wrote: »
    Been doing an egg fast for decades. Can't stand the things. :)

    Blasphemy.

    ;)

    I'm a picky eater. If there is one thing I regret not liking, it's eggs. If I could teach myself to like them, I would. I cook them for my wife on weekends and even that is tough some time. Just the smell can turn me off.

    Sounds rough! What about like, quiche or something similar to http://allrecipes.com/recipe/20917/egg-and-hash-brown-pie/?
  • Tacklewasher
    Tacklewasher Posts: 7,122 Member
    missmagnoliablossom wrote: »
    Tacklewasher wrote: »
    missmagnoliablossom wrote: »
    Tacklewasher wrote: »
    Been doing an egg fast for decades. Can't stand the things. :)

    Blasphemy.

    ;)

    I'm a picky eater. If there is one thing I regret not liking, it's eggs. If I could teach myself to like them, I would. I cook them for my wife on weekends and even that is tough some time. Just the smell can turn me off.

    Sounds rough! What about like, quiche or something similar to http://allrecipes.com/recipe/20917/egg-and-hash-brown-pie/?

    Quiche. Bleh. Taste too much of eggs. :)
  • lemurcat12
    lemurcat12 Posts: 30,886 Member
    mkdkqbek4 wrote: »
    I have been on a egg fast for four days now and I think I;m going yo do it on the weekends of every week . Would that be ok to do?

    You are a grown up and can do it if you want to. I don't think it sounds very healthy, though -- do you have a plan to get in extra vegetables on the other days to make up for going vegetable free two days of the week?
  • ThatUserNameIsAllReadyTaken
    ThatUserNameIsAllReadyTaken Posts: 1,530 Member
    People seem to be referencing gas from eating eggs. Is this really a wide spread thing? I have never had that happen to me from eating eggs. At any rate you may want to reconfigure this plan. Throw in a side of fruit and a vegetable and maybe a slice or two of bread and you will have a wonderful fast. ;)
  • priyamvada_k
    priyamvada_k Posts: 27 Member
    Lack of fiber, lack of nutrients except for protein and fat - if whole eggs, very high dietary cholesterol; if only egg whites, more lack of nutrients except for protein.
  • Chef_Barbell
    Chef_Barbell Posts: 6,644 Member
    Tacklewasher wrote: »
    Been doing an egg fast for decades. Can't stand the things. :)

    Me neither... Well my stomach can't stand them in their pure form. Intolerance is a bish.
  • toxikon
    toxikon Posts: 2,383 Member
    Egg fasts are popular in the keto/low-carb world for reasons beyond me. I guess they work as a fast way to get your body into a state of ketosis - since you're literally eating zero-carbs. So you will get a big whoosh of water weight leaving your body, but as soon as you reintroduce carbs, your weight will go back up to its normal range.

    If you want to eat low-carb, eat low-carb. I personally love eating this way - but limiting myself to eggs or fat bombs or bullet-proof coffee is baffling. I don't see the point.
  • ThatUserNameIsAllReadyTaken
    ThatUserNameIsAllReadyTaken Posts: 1,530 Member
    priyamvada_k wrote: »
    Lack of fiber, lack of nutrients except for protein and fat - if whole eggs, very high dietary cholesterol; if only egg whites, more lack of nutrients except for protein.

    Eggs are very nutrient dense.
  • Afura
    Afura Posts: 2,054 Member
    All I can think of are the horrid egg farts....

    At one point I was eating 2 hard boiled eggs for breakfast, eventually I got sick of them and it was quite a time before I could stand to eat one again.
  • lemurcat12
    lemurcat12 Posts: 30,886 Member
    edited March 2017
    I don't know that they cause more farting (2 eggs are very commonly part of my breakfast and I haven't experienced it, but then I often eat broccoli at breakfast and haven't experienced any ill effects from that). I do think there's a smell to gas that I associate with eating lots and lots of eggs -- not really sure why, but I know what is being referred to, I think.

    My feeling about an egg fast (in addition to that I expressed above) is that it's very likely to put one off eggs, and that would be a huge shame.
  • SueSueDio
    SueSueDio Posts: 4,796 Member
    VioletRojo wrote: »
    Afura wrote: »
    All I can think of are the horrid egg farts....

    At one point I was eating 2 hard boiled eggs for breakfast, eventually I got sick of them and it was quite a time before I could stand to eat one again.

    Several people have mentioned gas from eating eggs, but I've never experienced this. Both my husband and I eat at least two eggs every day and haven't experienced "egg farts". Is this a thing?

    Maybe it doesn't affect everyone, and I'm not sure if it actually causes MORE gas than usual, but I know for sure when my husband's been eating more eggs because of the delightful sulphurous whiff that starts emanating from his vicinity...
  • fitmom4lifemfp
    fitmom4lifemfp Posts: 1,575 Member
    WinoGelato wrote: »
    RunRutheeRun wrote: »
    you what? never heard of it... I would be so sad if I couldn't eat eggs :/
    you're not eating eggs right? or did I misinterpret...?

    It's actually the opposite... pretty much nothing BUT eggs, and fat. Oh the smells!

    Smells? What kind of eggs are you eating??
  • fitmom4lifemfp
    fitmom4lifemfp Posts: 1,575 Member
    VioletRojo wrote: »
    Afura wrote: »
    All I can think of are the horrid egg farts....

    At one point I was eating 2 hard boiled eggs for breakfast, eventually I got sick of them and it was quite a time before I could stand to eat one again.

    Several people have mentioned gas from eating eggs, but I've never experienced this. Both my husband and I eat at least two eggs every day and haven't experienced "egg farts". Is this a thing?

    I was wondering what people were talking about! I love eggs, have them every weekend and sometimes during the week (although just eggbeaters during the week). Never have any issues at all with "smells". :) Nor does my BF.
  • estherdragonbat
    estherdragonbat Posts: 5,283 Member
    I made a dairy-free frittata with three of them last night.
  • macchiatto
    macchiatto Posts: 2,890 Member
    I don't know that I'd do it that frequently. Last year there were 2 times when i did a modified egg fast for 1-2 days that seemed to help me break out of a plateau for some reason (I eat keto anyway so it wasn't a giant departure). I personally wouldn't do it more than 1 or 2 days a month. (And no, I had no extra gas. Maybe since I wasn't also eating carbs? That seems to be what causes bloating/gas for me.)
  • nevadavis1
    nevadavis1 Posts: 331 Member
    lemurcat12 wrote: »
    I do think there's a smell to gas that I associate with eating lots and lots of eggs -- not really sure why, but I know what is being referred to, I think.

    I don't personally eat eggs but I really don't like the smell of them cooking and someone told me it was becuase eggs contain sulfur.... so I imagine if you ate a lot of them and that sulfur got concentrated in your digestive system... That's all I can really say

  • rhiawiz57
    rhiawiz57 Posts: 906 Member
    are eggs jealous? do they hate to share the plate?

    just kidding.

    if you really like eggs, and you like these egg days, then keep it up. if you don't like eating nothing but eggs for two days a week, then stop. i see no other benefit to these egg days other than you really like eggs and you don't care to eat other foods!
  • Christine_72
    Christine_72 Posts: 16,049 Member
    I'm thinking the OP is a low carber. I've read of people doing the egg fast to speed up weight loss or break a plateau. I've never done it, so cant confirm what effect it has...

    http://www.ibreatheimhungry.com/2014/07/egg-fast-diet-menu-plan-low-carb-keto.html

  • ccsernica
    ccsernica Posts: 1,040 Member
    Where do people even get all these ideas from?

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