Healthy eating kinda sucks....
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I disagree because my children think "kids' food" is gross. It's my husband who eats the crap...and, sadly, it shows.0
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caseythelab wrote: »Try sprinkling Bragg's amino acids on your food. No sodium, but it tastes salty, kind of like soy sauce, and it's good for you! Remember to do it before eating, the flavor gets lost if it's cooked.
This made me think of nutritional yeast - a salty, kind of cheesy taste. Might be something for OP to try as a seasoning.
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This thread haunts me because when I get that feeling, bored with it all and not enjoying my food, is just before I fall off the wagon. If I can't enjoy myself in this life-change, what's the point? When I get bored of it all, I spend some time analysing my feelings, where it is coming from, and change up my strategy. The last time I got this feeling I went off tossed salads for a month and experimented with different cooking methods, vegetables.
Boredom is my bugbear.0 -
I don't understand this.So, this is more of a rant than anything else, but am I the only one that doesn't actually like 'healthy' food? I hate most veggies. There are few that I'll eat and kinda sorta like if cooked right, but mostly I do not like the taste. Yogurt? If it's not frozen, no. I have yet to try a variety of regular or Greek yogurt that actually tastes good to me. Fruit? I like some fruits ok, and if I have them I'll eat them, but I don't crave them. So telling me to eat fruit when I crave something does NOTHING for the cravings I have. I know that part of getting healthy is eating healthy, but I have no desire to do much in that direction since it's mostly foods I don't like. And the 'eat them often enough and you will like them' doesn't actually help. I've been eating sweet peas for a lot of years since it's about the only cooked green veggie I don't mind eating. Doesn't mean I like them, just means I don't notice them. So, am I just a freak, or is this something a lot of people deal with? What's the point of eating healthy when it makes you not want to eat because you don't like any of the meals?
A grown adult with the eating preferences of a kid. What's scary is that this isn't abnormal, as I wish it were. That's why just about every packaged item in the market has added hfcs.
I think the OPs post was probably inspired in part by posts like this. Many people who actually enjoy the taste of most fruits and vegetables are often quick to offer the "grow up and do it already" solution when it really is not that easy. Most people on this site are quick to support not giving up anything that you love, like sugar, fat, "junk food", etc., but for a non veggie/fruit lover, there's not as much support.
Sometimes, it has nothing to do with exposure and sometimes it does. If you grew up never eating fruits and vegetables, the solution may be as simple as trying new things in a variety of ways and learning that you like them. Yay, simple solution!
If you grew up constantly being served these things you hated and were told to eat or go hungry and regularly went hungry instead of eating them, it may not be quite that simple. My mom and brother love fruits and vegetables of all varieties cooked in all kinds of ways. My mom cooked what she liked and I often had very little to eat at dinner time because I just couldn't learn to like the vegetables she served. I am an adult now and I do eat more fruits and vegetables (much, much more than the average person does), but I don't love them and I never will. My kids love them. The way some people look at people who say they don't like vegetables is how I look at my kids sometimes. Yay, steamed broccoli! Yeah, what's wrong with you and who do you belong to?
It's taken me years of learning and growing and experimenting to get to the point where I get a good amount and variety of fruits and vegetables, but I don't love it. I eat them because they are nutritious and help fill me up at meal times. They are also usually lower in calories, which means that I can fill up at dinner time on these and some protein and fat and then have a good portion chocolate and cheese for a snack in the evening instead of a single square of chocolate or something as equally depressing.0 -
No.
It's that easy.
It's called growing up.0 -
I'm sorry you're finding yourself in this situation! One thing you might want to consider is how your current diet is effecting what you crave. How your current environment is effecting what you crave.
sugar is my lifelong food craving. I love it. Used to eat a ton of it. I ate so much sugar, so frequently, that I didn't even realize how much I are. I did a sugar detox that was as horrible as any caffeine or nicotine withdrawal I've ever seen - and I'm so happy I did it.
One I got the sugar out of my body, I stopped craving it. Also, I learned that if I don't drink enough water, or have enough protein, my go to craving will be sugar. It's take me about 15 years to lead allow that about myself, but now if I have a sugar craving, I usually know why.
Not sure what you're carving, but I bet there are similar things you could do to help stop the cravings. I found that once I stopped craving buttercream frosting (yes!) I started liking healthy foods more. It was like all the sugar was altering my taste somehow, and I couldn't like other foods till I got it out of my system.
Now to the environmental. If you, like I was, get in the habit of say, having a snickers bar every day at a particular time, or a fun coffee drink every time I pass a particular restaurant, you're conditioning your body to want a certain food in a certain situation.
Try creating a new pattern for yourself.
Hope this is useful to you in some day! Good luck. You don't have to like all healthy foods - only enough to have a balanced diet- I still won't eat eggplant, and that's ok:)0 -
I don't know if anyone said this yet but, salt cravings could be the sign of Adrenal insufficiency or a rare kidney disorder called barter syndrome. I'm assuming these have been ruled out by a Dr.?
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No.
It's that easy.
It's called growing up.
Growing up is not learning to love the taste of something you don't. Growing up is knowing that you don't like it but do it anyway.
OP posted a rant that she doesn't care for some healthy things but eats them anyway. She said she doesn't want to snack on them. That's not acting like a kid, that's being an adult and doing what she feels is the right thing but wanting alternatives so that her whole day isn't filled with things she doesn't enjoy. Thinking that your whole day has to be filled with things you don't like is about as depressing as thinking that you have to eliminate carbs or sugar or fat or whatever other fad you want to post here.
I consume more fruits and vegetables than most people do - probably an average of 8 or more servings a day, and that's not usually comprised of iceburg lettuce, cucumbers, apples and bananas, either. I do it because I feel that it's the best choice for long term health. That's being a grown up.0 -
Most people don't like paying bills and would rather do something else with their money, but in the grown up world, they budget their money, pay their bills and then hopefully have some to spend on what they love. How is this any different?0 -
You really just asked that?
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This thread haunts me because when I get that feeling, bored with it all and not enjoying my food, is just before I fall off the wagon. If I can't enjoy myself in this life-change, what's the point? When I get bored of it all, I spend some time analysing my feelings, where it is coming from, and change up my strategy. The last time I got this feeling I went off tossed salads for a month and experimented with different cooking methods, vegetables.
Boredom is my bugbear.
I think this is a good point, though I admit when I first read it I thought "bored with all"? "bored with what all"? Food? Eating in balance? But I have noticed that a high number of people on these forums seem to eat the same things day to day. I could easily see getting bored with that.0 -
I would suggest you think long and hard about why you fail to see a difference.
I can't help you, sorry.0 -
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Is not to worry you or anything, is just that if the cravings are a lot, or very often it might be nothing, but it might be a medical condition. Is your blood pressure normal or actually low? do you have any other symptoms like muscle weakness and/or cramps, constipation, nausea, or fatigue? Cravings also might mean deficiencies. Like people who crave chocolate a lot it is often magnesium deficiency, or if you crave for ice when your are pregnant it is an iron deficiency. Cravings for salty things might also be due to stress. I ask because I've had experiences, and I've heard from experiences that doctors say is nothing and they don't check what they have to check. If it really bothers you, you can check for this things. But if you trust your doctor and you are feeling well then everything is fine.0
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I hear you... I mean, I eat healthy food all the time. But some of the suggestions for snacks that I hear the most are pretty boring. Carrot sticks and hummus? Maybe once or twice a quarter, but I won't enjoy that as a regular thing.
Maybe you just need to experiment a little bit? I have to put a little more effort into my snacks to make them appetizing, just because I have fairly unreasonable standards for food.
Fruit as a snack isn't filling to me. So I'll usually have cheese and fruit together - like goat cheese with strawberries and balsamic reduction. And for something salty, I'll eat half an avocado with a dash of lemon juice, parmesan, salt & pepper.
Putting a little more effort into my meals and snacks makes them much more interesting, and I can't really grind out my days gnawing on celery.
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I was a lifelong veggie hater until age 42, and would only eat raw lettuce, carrots, celery and cucumbers, and cooked potatoes and corn. I thought I was one of those supertasters who only tasted the bitter. Five years ago, I started keeping track of my food intake and kind of forced myself at the time to try new foods that I thought I didn't like. I needed more bang for my caloric buck and more veggies fit the bill. What I learned: canned and frozen veggies taste like crap and are just limp and lifeless. I buy fresh and in-season only now, and that is where the taste lies. I love to ask the produce people about foods I've never tried. They are always happy to cut something open, tell me about it and let me try it. Starfruit, chayote, jicama, rutabagas, jackfruit, kohlrabi. WTH are these and what should I do with them? I didn't know, but I tried and learned and discovered that I loved.
I refuse to eat foods that I don't like, so you'll never see me anywhere near cottage cheese or oatmeal. Blech. Life's too short. But I do have to get out of my comfort zone and try new things. One of my goals is to try two new-to-me foods per month, and if I don't like them, I need to try them one more time in a different way. I absolutely despised spaghetti squash the first time I tried it, but I gave it a second shot and followed a casserole recipe with it in it. That's now a running staple in our household that even my 5-year old loves. Get creative, try new recipes. Check out all the delicious-looking stuff you can do with cauliflower for example. http://www.buzzfeed.com/christinebyrne/cauliflower-not-carbs#.brEmVeJDL.
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A lot of people hate veggies. They weren't my favorites either, but I went and looked up some recipes for vegetables I've never eaten before, and tried them. Some of them I liked and was willing to eat. Also, I tried cooking vegetables I was used to eating the same old boring way, a new way and I found I liked them better. Using fresh vegetables instead of canned stuff helps too. I took fresh broccoli, sometimes cauliflower, and broke them up into the little florets, tossed with olive oil and some garlic herb spice blend. Put them in the oven until they are crunchy and they are great to pop in your mouth like popcorn and hey it's a healthy snack! My daughter hates fruit but she will eat a almond butter and banana sandwich. And now they make pasta with veggies in the pasta. You don't taste the vegetables but they're in there and every bit helps right?0
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So being picky about food has a cut-off age? Good to know. Will you make an I.D. for me so I can order off the kids' menu at restaurants?
I don't understand this.So, this is more of a rant than anything else, but am I the only one that doesn't actually like 'healthy' food? I hate most veggies. There are few that I'll eat and kinda sorta like if cooked right, but mostly I do not like the taste. Yogurt? If it's not frozen, no. I have yet to try a variety of regular or Greek yogurt that actually tastes good to me. Fruit? I like some fruits ok, and if I have them I'll eat them, but I don't crave them. So telling me to eat fruit when I crave something does NOTHING for the cravings I have. I know that part of getting healthy is eating healthy, but I have no desire to do much in that direction since it's mostly foods I don't like. And the 'eat them often enough and you will like them' doesn't actually help. I've been eating sweet peas for a lot of years since it's about the only cooked green veggie I don't mind eating. Doesn't mean I like them, just means I don't notice them. So, am I just a freak, or is this something a lot of people deal with? What's the point of eating healthy when it makes you not want to eat because you don't like any of the meals?
A grown adult with the eating preferences of a kid. What's scary is that this isn't abnormal, as I wish it were. That's why just about every packaged item in the market has added hfcs.
Oh no, I have no problem with you having poor taste. You don't need a little badge for your sleeve.
Obviously you have poor taste if you are upset with me generally calling out people with the palate of a child.
Nice assumption that I have poor taste because I don't eat every food on the planet and that I'm upset with you. All I want is an official-looking document that will allow me to order grilled cheese sammiches off the kids' menu.
Enjoy your sannakji and kale
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So being picky about food has a cut-off age? Good to know. Will you make an I.D. for me so I can order off the kids' menu at restaurants?
I don't understand this.So, this is more of a rant than anything else, but am I the only one that doesn't actually like 'healthy' food? I hate most veggies. There are few that I'll eat and kinda sorta like if cooked right, but mostly I do not like the taste. Yogurt? If it's not frozen, no. I have yet to try a variety of regular or Greek yogurt that actually tastes good to me. Fruit? I like some fruits ok, and if I have them I'll eat them, but I don't crave them. So telling me to eat fruit when I crave something does NOTHING for the cravings I have. I know that part of getting healthy is eating healthy, but I have no desire to do much in that direction since it's mostly foods I don't like. And the 'eat them often enough and you will like them' doesn't actually help. I've been eating sweet peas for a lot of years since it's about the only cooked green veggie I don't mind eating. Doesn't mean I like them, just means I don't notice them. So, am I just a freak, or is this something a lot of people deal with? What's the point of eating healthy when it makes you not want to eat because you don't like any of the meals?
A grown adult with the eating preferences of a kid. What's scary is that this isn't abnormal, as I wish it were. That's why just about every packaged item in the market has added hfcs.
Oh no, I have no problem with you having poor taste. You don't need a little badge for your sleeve.
Obviously you have poor taste if you are upset with me generally calling out people with the palate of a child.
Nice assumption that I have poor taste because I don't eat every food on the planet and that I'm upset with you. All I want is an official-looking document that will allow me to order grilled cheese sammiches off the kids' menu.
Enjoy your sannakji and kale
Most restaurants will make you whatever you ask, within reason. If you want a grilled cheese, and the waitress is being a little dense - ask for a manager. She might not know how to bill that in the POS system, but that doesn't mean it's impossible. If it's on the kids menu, you can ask for an adult version.
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Truth, that's why I said a few more miles, not a few more years.FatFreeFrolicking wrote: »
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I have issues with bitterness, too. I work so hard on overcoming it, but it's difficult to convince yourself you like food that you really don't.I had unsophisticated tastes well in to my maturity. I hated bitter foods. I think coffee is disgusting. My tastes are slowly changing however as I age. About 25% of the population have more receptors for bitterness and are called "supertasters", and I think I might be one of them.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/body/articles/senses/supertaster.shtml
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/004013.htm
Considering everyone does it, the idea that it is childish to eschew foods you don't like in favor of foods you do like is a little off. But if it's childish, then okay. I'll cop to it. Who cares. I'm not going to argue the subject, lol.
Like you, coffee is just not something I can like, no matter how much sugar they throw in there. It smells so good, though. I want so much to add all those greens to my salads. I like getting different nutrients! But I'm having a hard time adjusting to them and don't know if I will ever be happy with them. They're not like coffee, though.
I don't know why I can't stand bitter things, melons or yogurt. I just know that I hate them and don't eat them. 0 -
CObluegrass wrote: »I was a lifelong veggie hater until age 42, and would only eat raw lettuce, carrots, celery and cucumbers, and cooked potatoes and corn. I thought I was one of those supertasters who only tasted the bitter. Five years ago, I started keeping track of my food intake and kind of forced myself at the time to try new foods that I thought I didn't like. I needed more bang for my caloric buck and more veggies fit the bill. What I learned: canned and frozen veggies taste like crap and are just limp and lifeless. I buy fresh and in-season only now, and that is where the taste lies. I love to ask the produce people about foods I've never tried. They are always happy to cut something open, tell me about it and let me try it. Starfruit, chayote, jicama, rutabagas, jackfruit, kohlrabi. WTH are these and what should I do with them? I didn't know, but I tried and learned and discovered that I loved.
Well done. I like reading stuff like this.
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So being picky about food has a cut-off age? Good to know. Will you make an I.D. for me so I can order off the kids' menu at restaurants?
I don't understand this.So, this is more of a rant than anything else, but am I the only one that doesn't actually like 'healthy' food? I hate most veggies. There are few that I'll eat and kinda sorta like if cooked right, but mostly I do not like the taste. Yogurt? If it's not frozen, no. I have yet to try a variety of regular or Greek yogurt that actually tastes good to me. Fruit? I like some fruits ok, and if I have them I'll eat them, but I don't crave them. So telling me to eat fruit when I crave something does NOTHING for the cravings I have. I know that part of getting healthy is eating healthy, but I have no desire to do much in that direction since it's mostly foods I don't like. And the 'eat them often enough and you will like them' doesn't actually help. I've been eating sweet peas for a lot of years since it's about the only cooked green veggie I don't mind eating. Doesn't mean I like them, just means I don't notice them. So, am I just a freak, or is this something a lot of people deal with? What's the point of eating healthy when it makes you not want to eat because you don't like any of the meals?
A grown adult with the eating preferences of a kid. What's scary is that this isn't abnormal, as I wish it were. That's why just about every packaged item in the market has added hfcs.
Oh no, I have no problem with you having poor taste. You don't need a little badge for your sleeve.
Obviously you have poor taste if you are upset with me generally calling out people with the palate of a child.
Nice assumption that I have poor taste because I don't eat every food on the planet and that I'm upset with you. All I want is an official-looking document that will allow me to order grilled cheese sammiches off the kids' menu.
Enjoy your sannakji and kale
Have you ever just asked for something off the kids menu?
I do it from time to time when I want a little snack to go with my beer. I doubt Denny's or something like that would do it, but that just means don't frequent places like that.
I'll see your sannakji (I had that in mexico.) and kale, and raise you fiddleheads and huitlacoche. I'll be honest, all I really hope out of people is the sense of adventure to try something new, and the maturity to maintain decorum. I watched a woman have a fit over not liking the texture of okra once. She took a bite of fried okra, stood up, ran around while making loud gagging noises, and waving her hands around in the air.
I went over to her extremely embarassed husband, and said... "You guys have kids, surely she's had that texture in her mouth before?" He spit his drink out he was laughing so hard.0 -
Truth, that's why I said a few more miles, not a few more years.FatFreeFrolicking wrote: »
Sneaky, sneaky.0 -
FatFreeFrolicking wrote: »
Truth, that's why I said a few more miles, not a few more years.FatFreeFrolicking wrote: »
Sneaky, sneaky.
Diction can be a b sometimes. lol.0 -
one thing i've learned is that protein has to be a part of a snack for me, or else i feel like i didn't eat anyhting - that's why you hear people do carrots and hummus - the protein in the beans helps you feel full; same for things like apples and peanut butter - cheese and strawberries do it too, and avocado is always great because of the good fats. Great snack ideas!HardcoreP0rk wrote: »I hear you... I mean, I eat healthy food all the time. But some of the suggestions for snacks that I hear the most are pretty boring. Carrot sticks and hummus? Maybe once or twice a quarter, but I won't enjoy that as a regular thing.
Maybe you just need to experiment a little bit? I have to put a little more effort into my snacks to make them appetizing, just because I have fairly unreasonable standards for food.
Fruit as a snack isn't filling to me. So I'll usually have cheese and fruit together - like goat cheese with strawberries and balsamic reduction. And for something salty, I'll eat half an avocado with a dash of lemon juice, parmesan, salt & pepper.
Putting a little more effort into my meals and snacks makes them much more interesting, and I can't really grind out my days gnawing on celery.
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one thing i've learned is that protein has to be a part of a snack for me, or else i feel like i didn't eat anyhting - that's why you hear people do carrots and hummus - the protein in the beans helps you feel full; same for things like apples and peanut butter - cheese and strawberries do it too, and avocado is always great because of the good fats. Great snack ideas!HardcoreP0rk wrote: »I hear you... I mean, I eat healthy food all the time. But some of the suggestions for snacks that I hear the most are pretty boring. Carrot sticks and hummus? Maybe once or twice a quarter, but I won't enjoy that as a regular thing.
Maybe you just need to experiment a little bit? I have to put a little more effort into my snacks to make them appetizing, just because I have fairly unreasonable standards for food.
Fruit as a snack isn't filling to me. So I'll usually have cheese and fruit together - like goat cheese with strawberries and balsamic reduction. And for something salty, I'll eat half an avocado with a dash of lemon juice, parmesan, salt & pepper.
Putting a little more effort into my meals and snacks makes them much more interesting, and I can't really grind out my days gnawing on celery.
It's boring because they have it backwards. It should be apples with hummus, and carrots with peanut butter.0 -
one thing i've learned is that protein has to be a part of a snack for me, or else i feel like i didn't eat anyhting - that's why you hear people do carrots and hummus - the protein in the beans helps you feel full; same for things like apples and peanut butter - cheese and strawberries do it too, and avocado is always great because of the good fats. Great snack ideas!HardcoreP0rk wrote: »I hear you... I mean, I eat healthy food all the time. But some of the suggestions for snacks that I hear the most are pretty boring. Carrot sticks and hummus? Maybe once or twice a quarter, but I won't enjoy that as a regular thing.
Maybe you just need to experiment a little bit? I have to put a little more effort into my snacks to make them appetizing, just because I have fairly unreasonable standards for food.
Fruit as a snack isn't filling to me. So I'll usually have cheese and fruit together - like goat cheese with strawberries and balsamic reduction. And for something salty, I'll eat half an avocado with a dash of lemon juice, parmesan, salt & pepper.
Putting a little more effort into my meals and snacks makes them much more interesting, and I can't really grind out my days gnawing on celery.
If not protein, at least some fat. If it's just all carbs, I'll be starving again in less than an hour
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