Eating the same thing every day

I definitely need variety. I don't eat breakfast, so that's not a factor. For lunch, I tend to buy things in such a way that I'll have the same thing for about a week, just because it's cost effective, and since I'm at work and busy anyway I don't tend to care as much about what I'm eating. I try to make my lunches more healthy and then my dinners more enjoyable but still fit into my daily calories. For example, this past week I had a bento box style lunch every day with carrots, a hard boiled egg, two halos, a string cheese, and an ounce of honey sesame almonds. I do eat different stuff for lunch on the weekends. This week I'm going to bring a meal salad every day, and then the week after I'll probably go back to the bento box thing, but with some different fillers.

For dinner I may very occasionally have the same thing two nights in a row, but I really try to avoid leftovers whenever possible. If someone is trying to eat the same thing all of the time only for the ease of calorie counting, and is not really enjoying it, that sounds like a recipe for failure to me. I'd think long and hard about if you're really wanting to do that for the rest of your life. I personally feel like it's important to figure out how to fit calorie counting into "real life" and I don't start things I don't think I can do forever. That said, I do have a coworker who has eaten the same thing every day for breakfast, lunch, and dinner for at least the ten years that I've known her. She's an extremely picky eater and says that's all she has interest in eating. So there are certainly people out there who can do it forever!