I HATE VEGETABLES!!!

I hate most veggies too. I bought a juicer awhile back and this is honestly one of the only ways I love vegetables. I'm eating (drinking) vegetables I never had before, beets, kale, cabbage! I even juiced a clove of garlic. Juicers are expensive, so maybe if you know someone you can experiment with theirs to see if you like it. Don't get me wrong, I'm not on a juice fast, but I do like it and it makes me feel really good.

Hmmmm, maybe you could find recipes with vegetables added, like pizza, spaghetti sauce, stew, soup, etc. Plus try different ways of preparing vegetables. Tossed in oil with your favorite spices and roasted can be divine!

When I was a child, my mother used to open a can and boil the vegetables. Ick! I thought I hated vegetables too. Turns out that I like quite a few of them. Garlic green beans with lemon is one of my favorites, and green beans used to be my absolute most hated vegetable.

I so agree! Preparation and freshness are key! My hubby now loves several vegetable that he used to snear at, the most memorable being asparagus. No one in his life had ever fixed it properly, so he thought he hated it. He is now an asparagus lover. Asparagus season is right around the corner, people! I can't wait! Yum!

As a mother to be (hopefully) .. let's look at what are you going to teach your child(ren) with food and diet. Leadership by example! (it's truly a monkey see - monkey do world.. I'm a mother!) They will mimic everything you do!

I know it's tough if you don't like it .. but bacon and garlic can become your best friend with some veggies! Yum yum! In and over time .. gradually try different things .. as others have stated.. make the adjust gradually and first start with eating at a sensible calorie deficit :flowerforyou: don't worry about your veggies at first .. work on living within your calorie goals first!

Walk for exercise if you don't like exercise .. at least a little stroll is better than no exercise at all. start off for 15 minutes and work up.

You're having to make a lifestyle change .. and it should be permanent and easy for you and your family to follow for the rest of your lives.

I'll be happy to be your friend here if you want :flowerforyou:

I wish you the best of luck!

I can totally relate! I can't stand most veggies either, when I first started out potatoes, corn, and lettuce were pretty much it. Seriously my idea of a salad was a piece of limp lettuce in my bacon cheeseburger. And ketchup totally had tomato ya know? Speaking from my own experience, changing your entire way of eating too quickly is just setting yourself up for a binge later on. Eat the foods you like trying to incorporate healthier choices as you go along such as baking your french fries instead of frying them, using 93/7 lean meat for your burgers etc. To get in some form of greens I make homemade smoothies consisting of 1 cup of frozen fruit such as mixed berries, pineapple, mango, or strawberries (whatever you like really), a small banana, 4oz of Trop 50 orange juice, 1 cup of spinach, 1/2 cup kale, and ice. The smoothie is a booger green color (depending on the paleness of your fruit) and isn't exactly aesthetically pleasing but the taste of the fruit COMPLETELY overpowers the taste of the veggies, and it really is quite delicious. For the past 11 months I've been trying to find ways to hide veggies in my food or exploring my own recipes to figure out what I like and how to make them taste less like *kitten*. Low calorie dips also help as well, and make it a little more bearable.

Good luck!

Or, you know, just get over it and eat them because they're good for your body and you love your body because it's the only one you're gonna get.

This^^^^ - your body will get used to it. I can't go a day without having several serves of fresh vegetables. If i miss a day, I don't feel myself and get all lethargic and yucky.

You can do it!

Take the things you like and make them healthy to begin with?

You want pizza? Too bad.

Grab a whole wheat english muffin, put some pizza sauce, low fat cheese on it. If you want something else, try ground turkey instead of sausage etc.

You want a burger? Make it a turkey burger.

Breakfast sandwich? skinny wheat bagel and egg whites.

Find things you like and make them healthy.

Food is medicine. When you start thinking about it that way, vegetables become so much more appealing. I eat mostly vegan, so the idea of hating vegetables is foreign to me these days, but it wasn't always. I was raised eating junk food and if I ever even had vegetables, they were out of a can. I transitioned slowly. I thought I'd never like mushrooms, and then I started grilling and frying them. Kale sauteed is one of my favorite things. Sweet potatoes, steamed asparagus, grilled corn, roasted root vegetables (carrots, potatoes, etc.) – this stuff was all weird to me at once but these are now my comfort foods. Use the internet to your advantage! If you don't know how to prepare something, look it up. Preparing something the wrong way, especially a vegetable, can definitely leave a bad taste in your mouth.

Well said

They are either slimey or rubbery.

It really sounds like you need to look at some recipes on baking/roasting vegetables. If you like potatoes, I HIGHLY recommend for you (based on your other comments) roasted rutabega, turnip, parsnips, carrots and sweet potato. Not only are these often EXTREMELY cheap to buy, they also last a long time in the cupboard or fridge.

Here's a recipe
http://allrecipes.com/recipe/oven-roasted-root-vegetables/

Almost any vegetable can be oven roasted and will not come out slimey or rubbery. Asparagus, brussel sprouts, sweet onions, sweet peppers, broccoli also roast well.

But it sounds like you're not ready for roasted eggplant, summer squash and zucchini, so stay away from those ones in the oven, because I could see someone calling them slimey and rubbery once they're baked.

Try preparing them different ways.
I do not like a lot of vegetables but I try my best to include the ones I do like in my diet. I add garlic and pepper to them for more flavor.