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I'm a simple young adult who doesn't really need a special made meal on my way to whatever I was doing each morning, so I make myself a bowl of Rise Krispies so I can eat something I like fairly quicky. For like the past 5 years that pretty much how it's been. So like, isn't eating that same thing for too long kinda bad for the bod? I feel fine and all but what do I know.. thoughts?
 
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darkswordsman17

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Well you do eat a variety of other food other than for breakfast? Rice Krispies and milk every morning wouldn't be bad for you. If all you ever ate was rice krispies then it'd be a problem, but as long as you do eat other food throughout the day you should be fine.
 
IronWing

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Marry someone who wants more variety. That way, your spouse will cook it.
 
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I have eaten burger king. For a week. a different burger each day.
 
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No, you won't die. I have been eating a fixed diet (each meal the same, every day --the meals themselves vary but each day it is the same set of meals) for the past five or so years because I watch VERY carefully what I do and it makes it simple to calorie count. My reasoning is simple--I used to weigh 425lbs, and now weigh 152. I ate 1800 calories a day to lose over a four year period, and now eat 2400 a day to maintain--have been maintaining for over a year now and have an extremely rigid routine. On Saturday night I eat dinner out and have whatever I want, including the most extravagent dessert I can find. Works for me.

So, no, you will be fine. Just be sure to take a good multivitamin or include at least one good energy/nutrition bar per day into your diet and you will remain fine.
 
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Originally posted by: ChiPCGuy
No, you won't die. I have been eating a fixed diet (each meal the same, every day --the meals themselves vary but each day it is the same set of meals) for the past five or so years because I watch VERY carefully what I do and it makes it simple to calorie count. My reasoning is simple--I used to weigh 425lbs, and now weigh 152. I ate 1800 calories a day to lose over a four year period, and now eat 2400 a day to maintain--have been maintaining for over a year now and have an extremely rigid routine. On Saturday night I eat dinner out and have whatever I want, including the most extravagent dessert I can find. Works for me.

So, no, you will be fine. Just be sure to take a good multivitamin or include at least one good energy/nutrition bar per day into your diet and you will remain fine.
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What is your menu?
 
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Originally posted by: MikeyIs4Dcats
Originally posted by: ChiPCGuy
No, you won't die. I have been eating a fixed diet (each meal the same, every day --the meals themselves vary but each day it is the same set of meals) for the past five or so years because I watch VERY carefully what I do and it makes it simple to calorie count. My reasoning is simple--I used to weigh 425lbs, and now weigh 152. I ate 1800 calories a day to lose over a four year period, and now eat 2400 a day to maintain--have been maintaining for over a year now and have an extremely rigid routine. On Saturday night I eat dinner out and have whatever I want, including the most extravagent dessert I can find. Works for me.

So, no, you will be fine. Just be sure to take a good multivitamin or include at least one good energy/nutrition bar per day into your diet and you will remain fine.
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What is your menu?
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that's uncanny!
 
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Originally posted by: MikeyIs4Dcats
Originally posted by: ChiPCGuy
No, you won't die. I have been eating a fixed diet (each meal the same, every day --the meals themselves vary but each day it is the same set of meals) for the past five or so years because I watch VERY carefully what I do and it makes it simple to calorie count. My reasoning is simple--I used to weigh 425lbs, and now weigh 152. I ate 1800 calories a day to lose over a four year period, and now eat 2400 a day to maintain--have been maintaining for over a year now and have an extremely rigid routine. On Saturday night I eat dinner out and have whatever I want, including the most extravagent dessert I can find. Works for me.

So, no, you will be fine. Just be sure to take a good multivitamin or include at least one good energy/nutrition bar per day into your diet and you will remain fine.
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What is your menu?
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Yes please elaborate!

 
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Originally posted by: MikeyIs4Dcats
Originally posted by: ChiPCGuy
No, you won't die. I have been eating a fixed diet (each meal the same, every day --the meals themselves vary but each day it is the same set of meals) for the past five or so years because I watch VERY carefully what I do and it makes it simple to calorie count. My reasoning is simple--I used to weigh 425lbs, and now weigh 152. I ate 1800 calories a day to lose over a four year period, and now eat 2400 a day to maintain--have been maintaining for over a year now and have an extremely rigid routine. On Saturday night I eat dinner out and have whatever I want, including the most extravagent dessert I can find. Works for me.

So, no, you will be fine. Just be sure to take a good multivitamin or include at least one good energy/nutrition bar per day into your diet and you will remain fine.
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What is your menu?
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Breakfast:

Yogurt (240 calories/low fat fruit on bottom type)
Banana (120 calores)
Zone Nutrition Bar (210 calories)
3 pieces of 12 grain whole wheat toast with Brummel and Brown (total 370 calories)

Approximate breakfast calories is 980. I slant the largest calorie meal first thing in the day.


Lunch:

Usually Subway 12" foot long on wheat turkey sub with American Cheese, no mayo only yellow mustard and all veggies. Approximately 680 calories. I will also do sandwiches I make myself from the same 12 grain bread/provolone cheese/turkey lunch meat/low fat mayo that is an approximation of the Subway. I eat Subway when I travel for the most part.

Dinner:

Stuffed chicken breast (cranberry walnut stuffing)
Mashed potatoes

Approximate calories in dinner is 720.

Approximate total calories for the day is 2380 to 2400. I say approximate because you will get a little more or little less. Nothing is exact.

When I cannot find a Subway when on travel, I will substitute in on an emergency basis the same number of calories I would have eaten at any one meal with Zone/Clif/Balance bars. This is a last resort option, but once I went three days eating nothing but Balance bars!
 
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change breakfast. and go outside onece in a while
 
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Let me also say that what works for me may not work for you. I am active in the sense that I live in Chicago and although I drive to work in the suburbs, I park my car when I get home during the week and over the weekend and walk everywhere from there. I live in a fourth floor apartment. I always take stairs--never the elevator--unless I am trying to go past 10 floors or am carrying something heavy like a new PC case. My basal metabolic rate might be higher or lower than yours. You can find out what your basal metabolic rate is for your current weight, and then you can find out what it is for what your weight SHOULD be. If you want to maintain your current weight, eat what your current metabolic rate is and you will need to count calories to do it. If you want to lose, then eat less than your current weight-related metabolic requirements. When you reach the weight you should be at, eat the amount of calories for that metabolic rate and you will maintain at that weight. It will take some experimentation, everyone is different. The tools do work, I am living proof.
 
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I have a current digital pic of me, but only hard copy pics of what I used to look like and no scanner. I wish I could post them up as proof for any doubters.
 
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Originally posted by: ChiPCGuy
Originally posted by: MikeyIs4Dcats
Originally posted by: ChiPCGuy
No, you won't die. I have been eating a fixed diet (each meal the same, every day --the meals themselves vary but each day it is the same set of meals) for the past five or so years because I watch VERY carefully what I do and it makes it simple to calorie count. My reasoning is simple--I used to weigh 425lbs, and now weigh 152. I ate 1800 calories a day to lose over a four year period, and now eat 2400 a day to maintain--have been maintaining for over a year now and have an extremely rigid routine. On Saturday night I eat dinner out and have whatever I want, including the most extravagent dessert I can find. Works for me.

So, no, you will be fine. Just be sure to take a good multivitamin or include at least one good energy/nutrition bar per day into your diet and you will remain fine.
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:shocked:

What is your menu?
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Breakfast:

Yogurt (240 calories/low fat fruit on bottom type)
Banana (120 calores)
Zone Nutrition Bar (210 calories)
3 pieces of 12 grain whole wheat toast with Brummel and Brown (total 370 calories)

Approximate breakfast calories is 980. I slant the largest calorie meal first thing in the day.


Lunch:

Usually Subway 12" foot long on wheat turkey sub with American Cheese, no mayo only yellow mustard and all veggies. Approximately 680 calories. I will also do sandwiches I make myself from the same 12 grain bread/provolone cheese/turkey lunch meat/low fat mayo that is an approximation of the Subway. I eat Subway when I travel for the most part.

Dinner:

Stuffed chicken breast (cranberry walnut stuffing)
Mashed potatoes

Approximate calories in dinner is 720.

Approximate total calories for the day is 2380 to 2400. I say approximate because you will get a little more or little less. Nothing is exact.

When I cannot find a Subway when on travel, I will substitute in on an emergency basis the same number of calories I would have eaten at any one meal with Zone/Clif/Balance bars. This is a last resort option, but once I went three days eating nothing but Balance bars!
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Jared? Is that you? :) I'm just kidding, I applaud you for your discipline in losing so much weight.
 
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Jared? Is that you? I'm just kidding, I applaud you for your discipline in losing so much weight.
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Thanks. No, I am not Jared. From what I have heard from folks who have met him, he is a total a$$hole now that he is rich.

My life revolves around structure and discipline when it comes to food. You see, I will be fighting this the rest of my life. I am a compulsive overeater. It is the same as an alcoholic--one beer, and off the wagon it is. I have had people give me a real hard time about my strictness--I have actually been made fun of, and I have encountered some pretty nasty jealousy as well. Jealousy to the point of making enemies for nothing else than doing what I did. I actually had a boss that told me that I could not go and eat "out of the box" and grab nutrition bars from gas stations when in an emergency and instead to eat a salad at McDonalds instead (it is cheaper, I guess). I replied that I was not a rabbit, and that *I* determine my needs for nutrition--not him. He disagreed and I actually had to file a formal complaint with HR. HR did nothing. It was not financial--I was able to spend up to $25 a meal according to policy. I never spend more than $10 at any one meal, even if it is four Zone bars and two Diet Cokes. He was insanely jealous--he is about 100 lbs overweight himself. I finally felt forced out of my job, and left.

What caused me lose the weight? I turned 30. Then the light bulb went on. It was not the doctor telling me that I would be dead in five years or less as I was starting to "snow ball" and gaining 25+ lbs per year. It was not the fact I could not fit in a aircraft seat. It was not that I could not fit into a Subway restaurant booth or even my own car for that matter. It was the desire to make myself more attractive to find a long term companion.
 
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Originally posted by: ChiPCGuy
Jared? Is that you? I'm just kidding, I applaud you for your discipline in losing so much weight.
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Thanks. No, I am not Jared. From what I have heard from folks who have met him, he is a total a$$hole now that he is rich.

My life revolves around structure and discipline when it comes to food. You see, I will be fighting this the rest of my life. I am a compulsive overeater. It is the same as an alcoholic--one beer, and off the wagon it is. I have had people give me a real hard time about my strictness--I have actually been made fun of, and I have encountered some pretty nasty jealousy as well. Jealousy to the point of making enemies for nothing else than doing what I did.

What caused me lose the weight? I turned 30. Then the light bulb went on. It was not the doctor telling me that I would be dead in five years or less as I was starting to "snow ball" and gaining 25+ lbs per year. It was not the fact I could not fit in a aircraft seat. It was not that I could not fit into a Subway restaurant booth or even my own car for that matter. It was the desire to make myself more attractive to find a long term companion.
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congratulations! I can't find enough willpower to lose 30 pounds OR stop chewing my fingernails.
 
EvilYoda

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you never have anything else, even for when you're not working, etc? I wouldn't care about my health, unless it was my mental health...that'd drive me nuts.
 
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Originally posted by: ElFenix
ah, what men will do for tail

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Same sex tail, in my case. But yes, gay guys qualify under this statement as well! We are also typically extremely vain, and I know this innately. You think it might be hard to be 300 lbs overweight and straight? Try being 300 lbs overweight and gay. I would not have dared to even walk into a club.
 
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