Soon after graduating from college, Bishoi Khella decided to become a businessman. It only took five years for the online business he co-founded featuring watches made of natural wood to become a really big success.

And for Khella to become a really big man.

Always a bit overweight growing up, he now weighed 352 pounds.

Two years later, however, he told a Newsweek reporter his weight was 187 pounds. Today, he tells the world via his website his weight is “sitting at 200 pounds at 10 percent body fat.”

Reading about Khella must have you wondering two things: “How did this guy lose so much weight?” and “Why in the world are you writing about him now?”

Second answer first: Because as Khella’s body has shrunk, his business ventures have expanded.

Those daily weight-loss selfies he posted on Instagram and TikTok over a two-year period have led to more than nearly 800,000 followers and the Newsweek interest. He now trains others interested in weight loss or getting in better shape either one-on-one or via his personalized workout app.

Moreover, in the world of social media Khella’s now considered a “content creator,” as Korin Miller notes in an article for Health, “Is It Bad to Eat the Same Thing Every Day?” In that article, she cites what he’s posted on TikTok about the dietary practice now trending on all platforms, the same one that allowed him to lose all that weight.

To eat the same thing every day.

Khella says he does so to “put [eating] on autopilot. I don’t want to think about what meals I’m going to be eating.”

Which is all well and good. But is it safe?

After all, Khella acknowledges on his website he’s “just a regular dude,” doesn’t have any sort of a degree in health or fitness, and that what he has his clients do “isn’t based on theory.” It’s just exactly what he did to lose over 160 pounds.

That made me want to know what a professional medical association thinks of the movement Miller calls “meal uniformity.”

While The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics doesn’t necessarily see eating the same thing every single day as a telltale sign of an eating disorder like bulimia or anorexia nervosa, it does warn the practice could be a sign of “disordered eating,” which can lead to either. But what if your decision to eat the same thing every day is not rooted in a mental struggle, but, as Khella explains in the Newsweek article, a desire to “stop planning, not overcomplicate things,” and keep eating simple?

Can such a plan also benefit your physical health?

I’d say it’s possible albeit unlikely — but Miller didn’t ask me. She asked Deborah Cohen, DCN, an associate professor in the department of clinical and preventive nutrition sciences at Rutgers University School of Health Professions, who calls the prospect “very difficult.”

“Even those who eat the healthiest of diets,” Cohen emphasizes, “may not necessarily consume all of the vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, fiber, and phytochemicals for good health on a daily basis.” She says the best way to ensure receiving an optimal intake of nutrients is by consuming a variety of foods.

Metaphorically speaking, she believes while eating on autopilot may not transform the airplane you are into a blimp, it does make an eventual crash — whether you’re a narrowbody, a widebody, or a UFO — a near certainty. But there is a way for you to steer clear of eating-on-autopilot mishaps.

With it, you still get what Khella wants, not to think about meals. But instead of eating the same thing every single day, you limit yourself to eating one of three healthy breakfasts, lunches, suppers, and snacks to create the variety Cohen calls for.

It’s the way I’ve been eating about 85 percent of the time for the last 30-plus years.

Currently, I eat the same day’s worth of meals on Saturdays and Sundays, a different set on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays (with a single-meal change on Thursdays), and a third set on Wednesdays and Fridays. Written this way, I suspect, the process comes across as confusing.

But my grocery store list is as simple as can be. Unfortunately, sharing it here along with why each item is purchased would turn this 800-word newspaper article into a 1,600-word magazine feature.

Suffice to say, the foods purchased lead to each day’s set of meals being loaded with antioxidants and phytochemicals — because each set is loaded with whole grains and vegetables. All these whole grains and veggies not only fuel my workouts, but also enhance my recovery from them.

Yet every set keeps my protein ingestion between 30 and 42 percent and my fat intake minimal while providing some healthy fat from eggs and cocoa powder.

So if the idea of eating on autopilot appeals to you, feel free to do so. Just do so over a series of days.