I hate veggies!

I don't know that this would work, since you don't like vegetables. But, you can get low sodium V8 It might not made you gag so much and 1 serving of it is the equivalent of 2 servings of veggies. But, I do think it would be better for you to just eat them. If your wanting to lose weight you're going to have to do things you don't like and eventually your body will get used to it. You said you never ate them growing up except like once a week. So, let your body get used to them and well as you and your mind. But, like I said you could try V8 and I always get the low sodium because it's better for you. BUT, the sodium one does taste better and if it helps you get your veggies then it might be worth the sodium. As for fruits. I don't know. I don't know anyone who hates all fruits. Fruits are sweet. Play around with them. Try different ones.

I thought I hated vegetables, too, but it turns out I just hated the way they were being served to me.

Now that I cook for myself, I have fallen in love with roasting or grilling vegetables. Roasted asparagus is absolutely my favorite, and I also love roasted zucchini, broccoli, cauliflower, and green beans (yes! you can roast green beans).

You need to try vegetables prepared in a variety of ways to find a method that is appetizing to you.

This.

Try something new... new spices add new flavors and give veggies a whole new life.

Good Luck!

I thought I hated vegetables, too, but it turns out I just hated the way they were being served to me.

Now that I cook for myself, I have fallen in love with roasting or grilling vegetables. Roasted asparagus is absolutely my favorite, and I also love roasted zucchini, broccoli, cauliflower, and green beans (yes! you can roast green beans).

You need to try vegetables prepared in a variety of ways to find a method that is appetizing to you.

^This!

You totally nailed it. I grew up with veggies .... so I have always liked them. But now that I make them ...... I still try different cooking methods.... just to see what's out there.

Keep trying a different variety of veggies ..... some raw, some steamed, some grilled. Use different spices. Grilled asparagus with soy sauce & sesame oil ..... yum. Roasted veggies with garlic or ginger root ... yum.

Start with fresh veggies, start with frozen .... the textures will be different. Some frozen veggies have a terrible textures .... others not. I

I think you will find veggies you like ... just keep an open mind.

Why don't you try some recipes from Jessica Seinfeld's book, "Deceptively Delicious". It is aimed toward getting kids to eat more healthful things, like pureeing cauliflower and adding it to mac & cheese. Maybe you should try this approach as a way to ease yourself into eating veggies. If you really dislike them, there is no way that I am going to sell you on a celery and fennel salad right out of the gate.

This is my first post in here, I joined a few months ago and lost 6lbs right away but then stopped trying. Now I am back as of today and determined to get down at least 25lbs. My ultimate goal would be to get down 35lbs but I haven't been that since I was 15 so I'd be happy with 20-25lbs. Now here's my problem, I hate fruits and veggies. I always have, I grew up in a house where they were never served except with dinner on Sunday nights. Even as I got older and I knew I should be eating the
I can't seem to force myself to. The thought of eating them disgusts me and if I try I honestly gag and gag until I have to spit it out or throw up. It is so hard to keep under calories when it seems like I am not having anything healthy. Is there anyone else like me or am I the only one. Other then taking vitamins and just eating less does anyone have any healthy suggestions? Has anyone ever been able to force themselves to eat something they don't like? I have even been thinking about hypnosis but am worried about it not working and just being a waste of money. Any advice would be appreciated.

When I was a kid, my family had veggies with every meal. Some of them, I hated. But my parents had a rule:

I had to eat 3 bites of everything on my plate without making any faces or noises. If I made an icky face or noise, then I had to start over! Make a face again... and well, the consequences got stiffer but ultimately still involved "politely" eating 3 bites of whatever it was.

I hated it at the time but I'm grateful now. It's a handy skill for eating other people's cooking when they aren't very good cooks. And what's more, I've slowly grown to tolerate and even like some of the things I used to hate.

Even as an adult, when visiting others for dinner I'll put 3 bites worth of a food on my plate when I think it doesn't look appetizing. Three bites and no icky faces or yuck noises later, even it it wasn't the best food, I can at least know what I wasn't a rude dinner guest. My family never made me clear my plate because "starving kids in 3rd world countries" but I did have to politely try everything. The axiom in our house was instead, "And what if you're invited to eat dinner with the president someday? You wouldn't spit out his green beans or avoid the first lady's casserole I hope!"

Of course how something is cooked matters a lot in how far I enjoy it. I'd rather have raw crunchy green beans than soggy cooked and over salted ones any day.

But as to the basics of the question, yes, you can force yourself to "like" things over time.

Sometimes I think a lot of picky eaters just had parents who didn't teach proper dinner manners or expose their kids to new food experiences. Contrary to popular opinion, most foods that people hate will not in fact cause them to vomit. (I've only had one truly come close and that was a jelly fish sushi thingy--which is like attempting to eat rubber bands as far as I'm concerned. Even then, I spit it in my napkin and did not, in fact, puke. My BF and I had ordered it because it was the one item on the menu neither of us had ever tried. If It had been a smaller mouthful, I might have been able to do it, but the texture got the better of me as I tried to eat it and I just couldn't recover. He wasn't a fan either and we've never ordered it again. I've also had a piece of anchovies + garlic + pinapple pizza and survived; although the waitress thought our table was nuts. Foods that I've tried and surprisingly liked include brussel sprouts, chopped liver, asparagus, collard greens with vinegar, fried shrimp brains, sea urchin, boiled peanuts, and steamed oysters--which are one of my favorites now.)

I'm similar to the original poster, not a big fan of veggies in general so what I do is make vegetable soup, throw bit of everything in a pot, boil away and then puree, can eat them that way. Same thing with the fruit-make smoothies and much easier to eat them that way. Works for me anyway!

I thought I hated vegetables, too, but it turns out I just hated the way they were being served to me.

Now that I cook for myself, I have fallen in love with roasting or grilling vegetables. Roasted asparagus is absolutely my favorite, and I also love roasted zucchini, broccoli, cauliflower, and green beans (yes! you can roast green beans).

You need to try vegetables prepared in a variety of ways to find a method that is appetizing to you.

^This.

You'd be surprised how good certain fruits and veggies taste when you're REALLY HUNGRY. I mean hungry hungry. Not just "it's time to eat" hungry. Stomach growling- been overdue for some sustenance for awhile. Try it and you might find a handful of fruits and vegetables you can incorporate.

This is my first post in here, I joined a few months ago and lost 6lbs right away but then stopped trying. Now I am back as of today and determined to get down at least 25lbs. My ultimate goal would be to get down 35lbs but I haven't been that since I was 15 so I'd be happy with 20-25lbs. Now here's my problem, I hate fruits and veggies. I always have, I grew up in a house where they were never served except with dinner on Sunday nights. Even as I got older and I knew I should be eating the
I can't seem to force myself to. The thought of eating them disgusts me and if I try I honestly gag and gag until I have to spit it out or throw up. It is so hard to keep under calories when it seems like I am not having anything healthy. Is there anyone else like me or am I the only one. Other then taking vitamins and just eating less does anyone have any healthy suggestions? Has anyone ever been able to force themselves to eat something they don't like? I have even been thinking about hypnosis but am worried about it not working and just being a waste of money. Any advice would be appreciated.

So you would rather eat food that was cut up by an unsanitary factory that adds hundreds of chemicals not meant for human consumption? Think about it... What you're putting in your gut right now is FAR worse than a living plant that was made with the intentions of our consumption or someone else's in the circle of life.