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People Who Eat the Same Meal Every Day

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Post by analog31 »

refurb wrote: post #263
analog31 wrote: post #245

When I was in grad school, I lived on oatmeal for breakfast, a cheese sandwich on homemade bread for lunch, and a small stir-fry on rice for supper. I never got sick of it. Now my spouse is vegetarian, and the kids don't eat beef (long story). If we eat meat, it's just a nice little bit of chicken or pork that the kids and I can put on our portion. And due to a health scare, I have replaced the cheese sandwiches with…

That hilarious, we had a very similar meal plan. I used to have oatmeal for breakfast since I was a teenager. A simple sandwich for lunch and a stir fry for dinner. I would cooked 5 portions of the stir fry on the weekend and have dinner for M-F. I did vary it up with different types of meat and vegetables, but otherwise it was the same. Never got sick of it.

My daughter went to college this year. But I still cook the same amount for supper, meaning that I get a nice lunch for the next day!

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Post by abakker »

gugagore wrote: post #214
MrMoenty wrote: post #192

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I believe the statisticians would call this heteroscedasticity. But meta-variety certainly easier to remember ;)

Meta-variety is like the variance of variances. Heteroscedasticity is like changing variance. Nice! I hadn't thought about that.

Right, so this is like having autocorrelation, right? Or at least having a confounding variable correlated to your error term?

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Post by aviv »

ArrayList wrote: post #132
charlesju wrote: post #109

I'm on a low carb diet for both losing weight and better budget. I've tried so many things over the years, but having a consistent routine every day seems to be the easiest for me to follow. I've found that having a "yes" list is WAY easier to manage mentally than having a "no" list. For those interested in my diet plan, I eat the following: 7am 3 cups of water followed by 3 cups of coffee. 10am 1 cup bone broth + 1…

Keto diets are sketchy science at best. I can't believe anyone still falls for it.

I agree. Keto is the most dangerous dietary trend today.

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Post by jwally »

I eat the same thing for lunch everyday because it’s one less thing I have to worry about.

I used to be religious about what I ate and would weigh everything, calculate ratios, make adjustments, and making the same thing (grilled chicken, brown rice, black beans, steamed veg) was just easier. I did this for 4 years straight until I changed jobs and started working near a chipotle.

For the next 5 years I’d get the same thing from chipotle for lunch (burrito- white rice, black beans, double chicken, side of salsa) because it was kind of healthy, cheap, the staff got to know me, and I learned what times to avoid. One more thing I put on Auto pilot.

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Post by perilunar »

MrMoenty wrote: post #192
pradn wrote: post #115

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Meta-variety is a novel concept. Perhaps we should look out for that more in our lives.

I believe the statisticians would call this heteroscedasticity. But meta-variety certainly easier to remember ;)

That's weird. Never heard the word heteroscedasticity before and now I see it in two different HN threads within the hour. (the other being https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19337466).

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Post by adrianN »

lambda_lover wrote: post #114
0xbadcafebee wrote: post #92

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As an aside, I save ~$1300 a year by bringing in lunch, and ~$550 per year in breakfast, in addition to controlling portions and nutrition. If I had been doing that for the past 10 years I could buy a new car by now, or put a pretty decent chunk into retirement. I now find it absolutely bizarre how many people at work go out for lunch.

As an aside, I could save $XXXX a year by having a roommate/living in a worse house/having a crappier car/never going out for drinks/etc. The list goes on. There is an incredible number of things your average first world worker could give up to save money per year. The reason people spend money on these things is that they spend 40+ hours a week working so they CAN afford to spend those unnecessary dollars a year on…

In my experience, there is a good chunk of people who have to eat out every day because they have no time for cooking, because they work 40h/week and have a one hour commute (, to pay for the lunches and the car).

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Post by bpye »

jniedrauer wrote: post #54
izzydata wrote: post #19

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I do something similar and after 7 years I discovered I was severely Vitimin D deficient. Thanks to an article that was posted recently about UV not penetrating glass.

Vitamin D deficiency has a lot to do with your climate. It's not realistic to get all of your vitamin D from food no matter what. I'm guessing you live in Seattle or some other place where you forget what the sun looks like sometimes?

Is there any easy way to know if you suffer vitamin D defeciency? I'm in Vancouver, and especially at this time of year you end up inside for pretty much all the daylight hours Monday-Friday.
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