Is my egg-eating okay?

[nevets150lbs]

Hi All! First post on these forums and would really appreciate your feedback/tips on my egg-eating diet.

As a background , I'm male with a desk-job, 5'6" in height weighing 170lbs approx. I want to go back to 150lbs, which was my weight coming off of a varsity college-life 4 years ago. I got my Fitbit Flex around 2 weeks ago and am actually having a lot of fun putting effort to reach my 10k steps everyday (achieved 11k everyday for the past 7 days 😄 ; don't even make 5k based on my mobile phone before that).

Anyways, to save money and eat healthier I've been bringing lunch from home to work everyday. Lately, I've been having 2 chicken eggs and a piece of fruit (usually a banana or a mango but not both) for lunch every work day and skip on any egg during the weekends. I do this since I prefer the eggs (taste-wise) to boiled vegetables, which is my alternative. Although it is a lot less than a regular meal, I like how the eggs make me feel full and not in a groggy/sleepy way (compared to a meaty/carby lunch) throughout the afternoon. My breakfast and dinner (usually eaten at home) is the usual homecooking (carbs+some meat, with veggies for dinner). I limit myself to 1,400 calories per day and am usually below 1,400; except Saturdays when I usually eat out with my SO or friends.

I feel my research off the internet have so far been inconclusive, and would like to ask you guys whether you think my daily egg intake is too much or actually hampering my weight loss. Any article is much appreciated. 

Thanks in advance, and I wish everyone a good time losing weight 😄

[SunsetRunner]

Eggs are my favorite thing to eat for breakfast.  I eat at least 2 every single day and have been for years and years.  Not only have I maintained my (~60 lb) weight loss for 4+ years but my cholestrol is A-OK..

[kelleyg]

some of the latest i've heard is that high Cholesterol is hereditary more than dietary...  Things like this change all the time... eating a protein with a food from another category (in your case fruit) sounds healthy to me!  I eat 1 of 2 eggs in the morning and I have high cholesterol!  I do not believe it is from egg eating.  both of my children had high cholesterol as babies....  they didn't eat eggs

A dietician i saw suggested that for a meal, you eat 1 thing from each of 4 categories (protien, fruit, low carb veggie and grain) and for snack you eat 1 thing from two separate categories.

[SunsetRunner]

Here is an answer from the Mayo Clinic:

http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/high-blood-cholesterol/expert-answers/cholesterol/faq-...

[HelenaFitbit]

Eggs are your friends! Enjoy them everyday 

They are super versatile, you can check some egg based recipes here.. 

[SunsetRunner]

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@helenarriaza wrote:

Eggs are your friends! Enjoy them everyday 

They are super versatile, you can check some egg based recipes here.. 

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Eggs (plural) are not your friends, and you should not enjoy them (plural) every day.

They're good for you (many things are), but in moderation (for eggs, a limit of 1 per day).

Refer to the article from the Mayo Clinic, that was provided.

[SunsetRunner]

"Eggs Thrice a Day, at Least!" - Ozzie from Land Before Time

I, too, eat a lot of eggs. I actually had an omelet this morning and am having an egg salad sandwich for lunch. They are my favorite for any meal! There was a time when people said that eggs were bad for you (the yolks were too faty or something, blah blah blah). I love eating an egg for breakfast because it helps me feel full and awake and they just taste so **ahem** good!

Egg in an omelet, sunny-side-up egg, poached egg, scrambled egg. I love putting an egg on a hamburger. Oh boy, eggs are great!

I don't think an egg or two a day is bad for your health. Of course anything can be unhealthy if you have too much. If your worried maybe cut down to 1 egg a day or 2 eggs every few days. 

[SunsetRunner]

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@Emchuw wrote:

"Eggs Thrice a Day, at Least!" - Ozzie from Land Before Time

I, too, eat a lot of eggs. I actually had an omelet this morning and am having an egg salad sandwich for lunch. They are my favorite for any meal! There was a time when people said that eggs were bad for you (the yolks were too faty or something, blah blah blah). I love eating an egg for breakfast because it helps me feel full and awake and they just taste so **ahem** good!

Egg in an omelet, sunny-side-up egg, poached egg, scrambled egg. I love putting an egg on a hamburger. Oh boy, eggs are great!

I don't think an egg or two a day is bad for your health. Of course anything can be unhealthy if you have too much. If your worried maybe cut down to 1 egg a day or 2 eggs every few days. 

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Read the article from the Mayo Clinic (these are medical experts).

Anything more than one per day is excessive, and can cause health problems.

Of course, it's your life, and no one can stop you from whatever you want.

[nevets150lbs]

@SunsetRunner thanks for the article! 

For those that won't read/can't open the link, it basically says that allowable egg intake is based on a person's health, and what food accompanies your egg. Consider the amount of cholesterol you get from egg yolks for that matter. After reading this article, I might consider removing the yolk on my second egg and see if that would work the same magic 😄

Other than that, I think I've read a couple of conflicting articles with good basis for each, hence some debate on the idea 

[Raviv]

Read the Mayo Clinic article, but I'm still not convinced.  It's trying to straddle the line between "research shows that dietary cholesterol has no impact on blood cholesterol" and "we've been telling people for decades that dietary cholesterol will kill you, so we can't just throw it into reverse now."

Two eggs a day is not going to harm you.  And yolks are good for you.

[SunsetRunner]

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@Raviv wrote:

Read the Mayo Clinic article, but I'm still not convinced.  It's trying to straddle the line between "research shows that dietary cholesterol has no impact on blood cholesterol" and "we've been telling people for decades that dietary cholesterol will kill you, so we can't just throw it into reverse now."

Two eggs a day is not going to harm you.  And yolks are good for you.

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No one is telling you what to eat - do whatever you want to your own body.

However, please refrain from giving health advice that can damage others.

[Raviv]

And you do the same.

Have a wonderful day. 

[SunsetRunner]

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@Raviv wrote:

And you do the same.

Have a wonderful day. 

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Cute response, but I was quoting world renowned health care experts.

You can find about everything to justify just about anything, on the Internet.

Hope you remain healthy, with your somewhat unorthodox dietary habits.

You have a wonderful day too 🙂

[Raviv]

Okay, fine then.

Your expert article, which you referred to three separate times when people did not respond by immediately shouting their agreement, also stated that the cholesterol in eggs were not a problem and that consumption was only potentially an issue for people with diabetes.  And even that wasn't a done deal, needing more research.  The article you linked to stated:

"The risk of heart disease may be more closely tied to the foods that accompany the eggs in a traditional American breakfast — such as the sodium in the bacon, sausages and ham, and the saturated fat or oils with trans fats used to fry the eggs and the hash browns."

So... yes, they're still clinging to the idea that saturated fat is automatically bad, and they're worried about reversing decades of "Eggs are the Devil!" statements.  In other words, they're trying to straddle the line, not completely ignoring scientific studies while not saying they were wrong all along, for several decades.  But yeah, the evidence is there.

In that same vein, here's a study showing that two eggs a day have pretty much zero negative impact on your health, and yet they STILL say to just eat one a day.  Old ideas die hard.

PubMed - A prospective study of egg consumption and risk of cardiovascular disease in men and women

Caveat - excess consumption among diabetics still needs to be studied.

[SunsetRunner]

Here is an in depth article from the American Heart Association, with tons of MD's and Ph.D.'s:

http://circ.ahajournals.org/content/102/18/2284.full Good luck with your nutritional program.

[Raviv]

Please cut the snark and the dogged insistence on this one idea being Gospel Truth.

I merely said two eggs per day was not going to kill the poster.

If you must post in disagreement, please find recent studies that show two eggs per day are the known cause for someone's death.  Anyone's death.  Otherwise, maybe realize that this is something where rational people disagree and your view is not the only valid one.

I, on the other hand, will have another egg, just to prove my point.

[DominicJ]

Nevets

Its best just to ignore yard dog, he's leart his mantras and never wavers

[SunsetRunner]

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@Raviv wrote:

Please cut the snark and the dogged insistence on this one idea being Gospel Truth.

I merely said two eggs per day was not going to kill the poster.

If you must post in disagreement, please find recent studies that show two eggs per day are the known cause for someone's death.  Anyone's death.  Otherwise, maybe realize that this is something where rational people disagree and your view is not the only valid one.

I, on the other hand, will have another egg, just to prove my point.

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It's not "my point of view", but that of eminent scientists and scientific study.

My point of view is that you can do whatever you want with your own body.

[SunsetRunner]

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@DominicJ wrote:

Nevets

Its best just to ignore yard dog, he's leart his mantras and never wavers

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Arn't you the one that believes in the Atkins Diet nonsense ...

[Raviv]

Ah, I see.

I'm new in the neighborhood so I didn't know yet.

I think I'll just move on then.  Thanks for the tip.