Can I live off of protein powder, rice cakes and walnuts
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diogomello12
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Rice Protein Powder and Soy milk for my shakes. Rice Cakes for my carb levels and walnuts for fat levels.
Can I?
Can I?
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Why do you ask?
Is your goal simply to survive or to thrive?11 -
A varied diet is a healthy diet. Limiting yourself to a few things will most likely cause more harm than good.4
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Sounds so terrible3
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Have fun getting scurvy 😂😂😂9
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paperpudding wrote: »
and night blindness.5 -
And pellagra!3
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I would die of boredom.6
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Why would you want to?2
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probably live, but be malnourished, as you are not getting all your vitamins and minerals with that diet.3
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No.
You clearly haven't thought about micronutrients at all; as others have said, such a diet is pretty much guaranteeing scurvy and anaemia, among other deficiency diseases.
Why on Earth would you want to live on such a monotonous and bland diet? But if you're all set on it, I suggest you get advice from someone who understands human nutrition. Your first pass suggests that you don't have nearly enough knowledge to embark on this for yourself.5 -
In one sense: No law against it.
In another: Not for long.1 -
I would ask if you were stranded on a deserted island but apparently you have internet access.
The human body is not as fragile as the anti-processed must have healthy all the time people would have us believe. However if you take it to the other extreme for a long enough period it could be quite terrible. It could involve an extended stay at a hospital and it could even kill you.
You can lose weight, if that is your aim, without ridiculous diets. You may not think it is possible because you have unreal expectations and/or you don't understand body weight fluctuations and you misunderstand bathroom scale results.2 -
I would argue that something that bland, boring, and repetitive is not "living".4
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To paraphrase the words of the great poet Selena Gomez "I mean you could, but why would you want to?"
Could you survive on that diet short term? Certainly. But it wouldn't be a very nutritious one. You will hear stories every once in a while of someone with a crazy monodiet due to either very rare food allergies or extreme eating issues (like cheese pizza guy, although cheese pizza is probably more nutritionally complete than what you are proposing). Sometimes these people end up generally healthy, but any sort of diet that just revolves around a few foods that don't provide complete nutrition certainly raises the risk for malnutrition related diseases. Some of which are mentioned above.
On top of all of that, it just sounds like a miserable way to eat. I'd be confused as to why you wanted to do this. It's fine to have some of those things be staples of your diet, but including more variety in your diet can only be good for your health, both mentally and physically.6 -
OP has another thread asking how often people cook and that he is struggling to shop and cook to keep up with his gaining weight goals, so I'd guess that's the reasoning.
OP, all of those items are fine as PART of your diet, so if you need to use them to bump up your calories, that's fine. But as the only things you were eating every day, they would not be remotely nutritionally complete.
I don't know whereabouts in the world you are, but try stocking up once a week on frozen veggies and fruits, dried grains like rice barley pasta oats, dried beans and lentils, a big pack of chicken parts or chops. Cook big batches of any of these things and store then in the fridge or freezer. Then you just have to heat them up. And then feel free to have a calorific protein shake and some rice cakes every day too. Heck, have some ice cream or cookies while you're at it
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I don't understand how anyone who is trying to gain weight would think this diet is adequate. Rice cakes are heavily associated with people trying to lose weight and don't mind eating the equivalent of packing material.
If there is an aisle with walnuts and rice cakes where the OP lives how is there not other packaged food items?
This whole thing seems odder now.4 -
I mean, if it's all about convenience, why no go all out food replacement like Soylent or Huel? At least that way you're getting something nutritionally balanced and intended to keep you alive and in decent health.6
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diogomello12 wrote: »Rice Protein Powder and Soy milk for my shakes. Rice Cakes for my carb levels and walnuts for fat levels.
Can I?
Ya kinda need some fruit and veg for micro-nutrients.1
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