Kefir Kommunity

We have a friend who has eaten the same exact thing for lunch for the past 12 years or so: A can of salmon, a Natural Ovens bagel, and a slice of Laughing Cow cheese. It never wavers. She doesn't add an apple on Mondays or a bag of Sun Chips on Fridays. She's never tempted by Chipotle or McDonalds and she never gets sick of her special triple combo.

It looks like she’s in good company: Jennifer Aniston and Courteney Cox recently told the LA Times that they both ate the exact same lunch every day for 10 years: a Cobb salad.

"But it wasn't really a Cobb salad," Cox described. "It was a Cobb salad that Jennifer doctored up with turkey bacon and garbanzo beans and I don't know what. She just has a way with food, which really helps. Because if you're going to eat the same salad every day for 10 years, it'd better be a good salad, right?"

iVillage diet and nutrition expert Madelyn Fernstrom, RD, says Aniston and Cox are on to something. "Consistency and structure are both key to successful weight management," Fernstrom says, “and eating the same meals every day can be a great support. It takes the guesswork out of the daily challenge of 'what to eat,' which can be mentally fatiguing."

One key to success, according to Fernstrom, is choosing a meal that can easily be modified with different proteins, like turkey, shrimp, chicken or garbanzo beans. Or you can escape the boredom of the same old breakfast of Greek yogurt and fresh fruit by picking mango one morning, watermelon the next, or swirling in honey and banana one day and layering it into a parfait with berries the next.  "While 10 years is a long time for a single meal, even a few months of the same meal can help... You can actually be more consistent with nutrient balance when you keep the same routine."

Obviously, we want to take this opportunity to encourage people to drink Lifeway kefir seven days a week! Packed with calcium, protein and a special blend of 10 strains of live and active cultures, it’ll help you stay trim, satisfied, strong and healthy.

Repetition -- it does a body good.