Weight Loss Through Monotonous Eating

What do you want for lunch today? You scour the office cafeteria, looking for the healthiest options. Unfortunately, the cook in the kitchen doesn't seem to care that many of the office workers are on diets or are watching what they eat. On the table lay piles of grease-laden burgers and cheesy clumps of lasagna. Sighing, you give up as you walk out of the cafeteria, still hungry. Your office doesn't even have a salad bar for crying out loud! What are you to do? Bring a lunch from home, you conclude.

Home lunch brings with it problems of its own, though. Do you really have time to pack a lunch in the morning. If you can manage that, what do you pack? Well, here's a simple trick I have used in order to keep track of what I eat. It makes meals simple. For those on diets, this method of eating also helps control the amount you eat.

I call it monotonous eating. It involves eating the same foods in the same amounts everyday. Say that cheerios is your favorite breakfast food. If you are to follow the monotonous eating method, you would eat the same amount of cheerios every morning, day after day. One apple, a tuna sandwich, a bag of carrots, and a small carton of apple juice could be your lunch for weeks on end. This is how the monotonous eating method works. Eat the same foods everyday at about the same time. Why would you want to do this? Well, there are a few reasons.

First, your body will grow accustomed to the amount of food it knows it will receive at specific times throughout the day. It will adjust its hunger cues accordingly. The body will also send the its satisfied cues toward the end of your meal. It knows when the end is near, so it prepares for the wait to the next meal time. For those who count calories, this method of eating makes counting calories a snap. Since it's the same food everyday, the calories remain the same. Very helpful for those who want to lose weight.

Second, it makes preparing a meal a snap. Since you don't have to worry about what you're going to eat, you can have breakfast, lunch, etc. already prepared at meal time. This saves on time, worry, and effort.

Fruits are great for monotonous eating

Credit: Tyler Cash

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