Picky Eaters

sweetgrlms

I am trying to just lose a few pounds but being a picky eater all my life is hurting me now. If anyone has any ideas on how I can lose those few extra pounds PLEASE help me!!!

sweetgrlms

I am trying to just lose a few pounds but being a picky eater all my life is hurting me now. If anyone has any ideas on how I can lose those few extra pounds PLEASE help me!!!

jenken99

I'm a very picky eater, i just eat what i like but watch the calories it is all one can do when being so picky.. Good luck:flowerforyou:

catlover

I think the tendency might be to eat less, when you actually need to eat more. I have a daughter that is a fairly picky eater but she still eats. Find things you like and make sure you're eating enough. What does it mean when you say "picky eater." I'm always looking for ways to improve my daughter's choices so your experience might be helpful here.

sweetgrlms

When I say picky eater, I mean that I love meat, can't eat a salad (tried that and I guess it was the no taste thing in the lettuce), and only eat very few veggies which I mean like three besides fried okra. I love pasta which I limit how much and how often I eat it. Losing just a few extra pounds is VERY tough in this situation!!!

jesusgrl14

I am also a picky eater but I have the opposite problem. I rarely eat meat and I don't like most of it. I love salad and veggies :flowerforyou: and can (and usually do) eat a salad for lunch every day. My biggest frustration is that I get bored with eating the same foods and have to change up my choices. I have found that I have the most success when I have taken pretty much nothing away from myself, then I am not pining away for the things lost. I just really watch the portions that I eat. So I would say, stick to what you DO like just make sure you are tracking the amounts you eat. Good luck!

calatibo

When I say picky eater, I mean that I love meat, can't eat a salad (tried that and I guess it was the no taste thing in the lettuce), and only eat very few veggies which I mean like three besides fried okra. I love pasta which I limit how much and how often I eat it. Losing just a few extra pounds is VERY tough in this situation!!!

This sounds very, very familiar. I also find/found myself loving meat, i have difficulty eating salad (but can do so with a really good dressing which adds flavour) and have to be in the mood to eat vegetables (meaning i quite like a few more veg than you, but i can only eat any of the veg i like if i really want to). I also love pasta, and bread is my major sin.

I was advised a long time ago (when i was still relatively fit and on a diet prescribed by the doctor to maintain/gain my sports weight) that soup was a good way of introducing veg i did not like into my diet. So, when i am buying a joint of meat for roasting i look for one with a bone in so i can make stock (or i use the carcass of the roasted chicken, or the boiling liquid from boiled hams) and then i know exactly what is in the soup i am making and can control the veg and calories etc. Now i am trying to get fit again after a long lay off from sports, i am finding that a good thick broth as a meal "substitute" (and i make them thick, so not really a substitute) helps to get veg and flavour into my diet.

catlover

I find this interesting. My daughter eats only chicken and turkey and some fish (like salmon and tuna). She would not eat veggies at all as a grade schooler, she is in high school now. Just from practice and trying it different ways, I have discovered she loves carrots, tomatoes, snow peas, celery, cauliflower, green beans in a can, and sweet red peppers. She'll tolerate salad occassionally. She loves pastas and bread and potatoes but eats them in moderation. Her weakness is really the high fat, high sugar snack foods like chips, fruit juice, granol bars, cookies, etc.

Okay, so in an effort to help her eat better, I take what she likes and work from there. I make the meat item with seasoning only, very simple yet flavorful. Then I make salad with romaine or baby lettuce (never plain only iceburg) and I ask her to eat 1 cup, loosely packed. I make sure I include one of the vegetables she enjoys as a side dish, sometimes I put it on the counter as our "dinner making snack" and she loves that. We only have one starch at a meal, either potatoes or corn or a roll, but never all of them. I do pasta often as I can steam any kind of vegetable I want, including brocolli and a bunch of other things she would normally not eat, and then I blend them and put them into the sauce with a small amount of ground turkey.

I've been a preschool teacher for years and what we found was that when we cooked things different ways we often hit on something kids would eat. For myself, I don't like cooked veggies at all, prefer them raw, will tolerate them lightly steamed. I would not eat a combination food like pizza or even a soup or stew or casserole until I was 25 as I could not stand the flavors to mix. Keep trying, your tastes may change as time passes.

jenken99

When I say picky eater, I mean that I love meat, can't eat a salad (tried that and I guess it was the no taste thing in the lettuce), and only eat very few veggies which I mean like three besides fried okra. I love pasta which I limit how much and how often I eat it. Losing just a few extra pounds is VERY tough in this situation!!!

OMG thats sounds like me to a tee,,
let meknow how things go