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How Eating The Same Thing Every Day, Helps You Lose Weight
Can you eat the same thing day after day, week after week?
When I was a kid, I resisted breakfast. I simply didn’t want to eat it, and in fact I didn’t want to eat lunch either. Often (when I could get away with it) the first food I ate in a day was when I got home from school at between 3 and 4 PM. I would eat the sandwich, raw veggies, apple and cookie I was supposed to have eaten for lunch! Forty years later I discovered that I was “naturally,” following what today is called Intermittent Fasting.
I was lucky to be able to do this. Both my mother and father worked. My mother left for work at about 6:30 AM which was when I was rousted out of bed. My father pretty well never paid attention to us kids … so if he asked if I’d had my breakfast, I would smile, say nothing, and that would be that.
The weekends were a problem. When my Mom insisted, I would always eat the same thing. A slice of toast topped with a healthy layer of peanut butter and some of my grandmother’s home made jam or jelly. It was pretty well the ONLY breakfast food I could force down my throat.
I noticed my parents both had the exact same breakfast, day after day, month after month, year after year. It never varied. I never even thought to question it because I…
