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Re: People Who Eat the Same Meal Every Day

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Post by RobertRoberts » Sat, Mar 09, 2019, 9:17 AM UTC

appleiigs wrote: post #198

elagost wrote: post #162

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Even though it must have been very difficult, living a harder life seems to have given you a super power to transcend the silly little things that everyone else seems to care so much about. Personally I find I get wrapped up in the little things quite often, and only after do I really understand I wasted so much effort on something meaningless. I'm not suggesting trauma tourism, but I am interested in a way to broade…

I flog myself by hiking and running long distances. You gain a bit of toughness when pushing yourself to the limit (exhausted and a bit hurt), while in a thunderstorm, and you are still 1 hour away from finishing. (And while we are talking about food. Intermittent fasting is a similar experience. Going hungry for a while makes you appreciate food in a different way.)

I agree, I've had the same experience with exercise and food.

I consistently eat one meal a day right now. The reason is that I simply don't need that much, and I am really hungry by dinner time. But if I want to eat lunch I do.

The "appreciate food" angle was what really helped get into intermittent fasting. The fact that my food tasted _so_ much better (the same food as always) made me appreciate feeling hungry for an hour or more before meals.

If I am hungry, I know full well that dinner is going to be good, no matter what it is.

Thanks for the reminder on this topic. I have taken a year off of running as an experiment for weight control. I found food intake was the primary mover for weight control, not exercise. I've lost a lot of weight with no exercise. Looking forward to start running again this spring. :) (got a little giddy from the reminder your comment gave me)

Re: People Who Eat the Same Meal Every Day

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Post by zemvpferreira » Sat, Mar 09, 2019, 9:23 AM UTC

ux-app wrote: post #247

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…

>his is about 1,800 calories a day which puts me at a steady pace to lose about 1 lb of fat a week assuming I don't cheat. A pound of fat is 3500 calories, so you've really got to be hitting a 500 calorie a day deficit to get there. 1800 cal a day seems a bit high to achieve a lb of weight loss per week (2k/day recommended intake), unless of course you're very tall in which case your baseline might be 2300 cal.

2k/day might be the total caloric expenditure for the average woman. I’m a somewhat active 190 pound man and my daily maintenance calories average between 2600 and 3500 (depending on how much I surf).

Re: People Who Eat the Same Meal Every Day

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Post by KozmoNau7 » Sat, Mar 09, 2019, 9:43 AM UTC

SirLuxuryYacht wrote: post #211

KozmoNau7 wrote: post #15

My view on food is relatively simple: Life is way too short for boring food. I could not imagine eating the same thing every day. That's not to say I eat a completely new-to-me meal every day. When I was single, I would cook and then eat the same meal 3-4 days in a row, but I would change it up every week. Now, what we (my girlfriend and I) usually do is cook and bake on Sundays, then freeze about half and eat the re…

Just curious as to why you say bread with 'minimal yeast', particularly after listing sourdough?

What I mean is bread with long rising time, ideally 20-24 hours. The improvement in flavour and structure is well worth it.

I rarely use more than ~20g of sourdough or 4-5g of yeast for a full-sized loaf with ~1kg flour. Sometimes a tiny (~0.1g) bit of yeast to help out the sourdough if the current batch is slightly lazy.

Re: People Who Eat the Same Meal Every Day

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Post by rogy » Sat, Mar 09, 2019, 10:01 AM UTC

Growing up in the north of the UK I had the same 2 lunches every day at primary school (4-11) without even batting an eyelid, cheddar cheese, sliced between white bread, packet of crisps. Or the same sandwich with a slice of processed ham if it was a good week.

It was only once i got to highschool (11-16) and students started taking notice of how bland, unbalanced and repetitive this was. In my world it was totally normal.

Re: People Who Eat the Same Meal Every Day

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Post by ulfw » Sat, Mar 09, 2019, 11:27 AM UTC

0xbadcafebee wrote: post #92

munificent wrote: post #78

When my daughter was born during the recession, my wife and I went through a stretch where money was pretty tight. One obvious expense to cut was eating out for lunch every weekday. So I switched to bringing in lunch. For several months, I brought the same thing: granola, yogurt, and chopped melon. I love food and love variety, so I was really surprised to discover that I simply didn't get tired of it or resentful. E…

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.

Maybe there is more to life than buying a new car every ten years? Maybe some people enjoy variety and a nice proper good sit down meal? I am really NOT questioning your choices. Totally cool if it works for you. But please don't call people who live a different life style "absolutely bizarre"

Re: People Who Eat the Same Meal Every Day

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Post by mark_l_watson » Sat, Mar 09, 2019, 1:38 PM UTC

I get this. I am a food enthusiast (I maintain my own cooking web app Cookingspace.com) but there are two meals that I eat very often, find the food soothing, and never get tired of them: Ramen soup with a ton of vegetables and some extra seaweed, and whole wheat pita filled with beans, humus, and chopped Romain lettuce. For some reason those two meals are ‘comfort foods’ for me that I keep eating many times a week.

Re: People Who Eat the Same Meal Every Day

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Post by Noumenon72 » Sat, Mar 09, 2019, 2:01 PM UTC

RobertRoberts wrote: post #299

ip26 wrote: post #179

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FWIW humans need more than potato & soy sauce in their diet to be healthy long term, so at least for that part wanting more doesn't seem like snobbery. (You can subsist on potatoes, and you can even do it for a while- but for example young children develop deformities if they lack certain vitamins, which potatoes do not have)

If you haven't ever lived at subsistence level you may not understand what you are facing in reality. Food is food, better to have a deformity than to be dead. There are tons of greens in everyone's backyard in America right now that you can eat. Half the weeds in your yard are editable and would fill in all the missing nutrients. Education is the problem here, maybe not so much resources. (unless famine?) But also,…

You can't subsist on greens, they're 8 calories a cup (47 grams). You would need to eat thirty pounds a day of lettuce out of your back yard. That's polluted urban soil so it would probably poison you whilst you starved.

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Post by nswest23 » Sat, Mar 09, 2019, 2:18 PM UTC

can of sardines + homemade hummus and pita. every. damn. day. i never have to think about what I'm having for lunch.

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Post by gugagore » Sat, Mar 09, 2019, 3:37 PM UTC

abakker wrote: post #273

gugagore wrote: post #214

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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?

Sorry, I'm not sure what you mean. But I think the answer is no.

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Post by defterGoose » Sat, Mar 09, 2019, 5:01 PM UTC

manigandham wrote: post #243

Variety in taste is just a luxury, it's a few seconds of pleasure while eating that your body doesn't care about. People spend way too much time deciding, cooking, eating, and usually choosing unhealthy meals because of this. As many comments here show, you realize just how unimportant it all is when finding your next meal is a struggle.

Found the robot. No seriously, maybe we should all just be eating bachelor chow. Actually, just hook me up to one of those feeder tubes like in the matrix. Yeah.