Help! I'm an adult and hate veggies!

You can try to get your veggies in by blending them (food processor or blender) into a sauce and use it in your cooking.... Just a thought. If you blend it and add it to a bunch of other ingredients you'll still have the benefits but not the texture and the taste will maybe enhance the flavor of your food.

I used to blend onions, garlic and tomato for turkey ground beef... you can add other veggies to this also.

You've listed a lot there that you can eat so it's definitely a good starting point! Based on what you've got there - spinach salad with a good and healthy dressing is great for you - i use olive oil, lemon, and a bit of garlic and maple syrup the spinach tastes awesome! Also roasting veggies with a bit of kosher salt and tossed in olive oil or sprayed with pam works for me and definitely makes the veggies taste like anything but. I do this with kale, cabbage, carrots, zucchini (call these chips) as well as with cauliflower which I toss with grapeseed oil, bit of salt and pepper and call popcorn. You can dress up broccoli as a salad with greek yogurt based dressing (YUM). Beets are really yummy when roasted, you can cut them up and put them in a salad with goat cheese. What else...cabbage slaw with tahini, garlic, lemon is AWESOME, healthy, low fat and very flavourful. There are TONS of ideas of how to dress up your veg on PINTEREST if you use, or you can msg me and I can give you some recipes. What veggies are you trying to eat more of; the ones you have there sound good if you can manage a couple portions per day.

Vegetables are so varied in taste and texture that this doesn't really make much sense to me. A tomato is as different from a carrot as broccoli is from an apple. I think, since you acknowledge its mostly mental, you should try conditioning yourself to eat them. Once you acquire the taste for something your brain will learn to enjoy it.

I never liked veggies either, I started adding garlic salt to them, can't now due to blood pressure, but I like them now so it is easier. It really helped me get them in. I must say my tastes have changed the older I get, now they are yummy before I couldn't barely eat any of them. Just keep trying them and maybe yours will change too. Good luck

It's all in your head.

Try this: Eat 3 bits of a veggie (steamed, cooked, raw, whatever). As you eat it and prepare to eat each bite, think " Good" or "Fine" or "Neutral". Don't think of your fear and don't think it will taste bad. Don't make a bad face or a gagging noise. You'll only psych yourself out.

(As a child this was my parents' rule. One must eat 3 bites of everything on the plate with no complaining, no nasty faces, and no icky noises. Screw up and I'd have to start all over. I hated it but it worked. Eventually, you get used to them and learn to like many of them. It's a good life skill too. Go out for dinner with friend, family member or coworker and don't like the food? At least you can appear to like it enough to try a bit without rudely spitting it back out.)

Perhaps start off small -- each week, try a new veggie. Try different ways of cooking them (boiled, steamed, roasted, etc). Try different flavourings for it -- garlic, herbs, spices, little salt.
Now, I LOVE most veggies but have to find ways to mix it up so it doesn't get boring. My fave is roasted veggies with a little olive oil, chilli and different herbs.

Maybe try in a smoothie, curry, soup, etc? Since giving up meat, I've grown to LOVE vegetable curries (spinach works great is these, such as chickpea and spinach -- super simple but tasty, it's one of my staples). I also make home made veg based soups, right now a firm favourite is Thai butternut squash/butternut squash and chilli.

Make tomato based sauces with hidden veggies -- works great with pasta.

I've been very fortunate in my weight loss journey that I love veggies, so that wasn't an obstacle I had to overcome.

Seriously, I love vegetables.

My best friend however, does not. He is a meat and chocolate bar kind of guy. Actually, no, just salmon and chocolate bars. He doesn't like much else.

I've known him for a bit over a year now. Shortly after I started losing weight, he decided to join me. So for the past year, I've been sneaking more and more veggies into his diet.

But this is a tactic I learned from my mom. When my brother was a baby, he hated a lot of fruits and veggies. So my mom would hide them in things he did like.

I did the same kind of thing with my best friend. Discovered that he likes ceasar salad, so I added some spinach and swiss chard to it when I'd make it for him.

Or I'd take things he loved and build on them. He loves garlic and likes chicken. So I made him spaghetti squash with pesto and ground turkey. He loved it. He had never tried pesto before, now it's one of his favorite things.

Soon, he started to do this on his own. Sometimes he forgets to take the tomato off his burger. He eats salad now. He calls me with healthy food questions. "Uhhh, I'm standing in front of the yogurt section and I'm lost. What do I buy?"

Hopefully this helps a little bit.