How do you picky eaters eat good and lose weight?

I pick good food to eat

And eat it

Weight comes off

Two things - First, there ain't nothing wrong with a good burger, if it fits your macros.

Second, as aforementioned, if the burger doesn't fit your macros, put on your big boy pants and eat your veggies.

I have to say that I thought the same thing about myself, until I started to try to eat the healthier food. I realized I love those healthy foods- it was all in my mind that I did not like them. There have to be healthy foods that you like so start exploring some things you haven't tried before and you will find some you like.

I pick the foods that I like and have found ways to prepare it that are still healthy. The way I see it is there are a wide variety of fruits and vegetables. There's no need to force yourself to eat the ones that you don't like, but that shouldn't turn you off to ones you might like.

My pickiness makes it easier to eat healthily. I have expensive tastes, and I'm gluten intolerant. It can make it difficult to find food at all sometimes. I don't like most packaged foods at all, and I never liked fast food.

What do you do?

I cook, and I take my own food when I travel.

There is nothing wrong with burgers, except the big fluffy bun. They're good made with ground chicken too, for variety.

Probably your eating habits will change. Your tastes in food is not a set thing.
You can eat a McDonald's hamburger, or you can make one at home, with a slice of cheese, on a whole wheat bun, with a fresh slab of onion, tomato and crunchy lettuce....which one tastes better and is healthier?
Just higher quality ingredients will make things healthier.

Keep trying things.. even those that you have previously not liked. Your taste buds change after a while. I used to hate "healthy" food but as I started eating more and more of it I began to enjoy it.

Try cooking things differently. Maybe you don't like certain veggies because they were either cooked too much or not enough... or they were cooked with seasonings you didn't like.

You can also make your favourite foods healthier. Get portabello mushrooms.. take out the steam and gills and than put sauce and some cheese on top for a healthier pizza... or make your own crush. I love pizza on whole wheat pitas. Try loading your pizza with veggies to make it healthier.

For mac and cheese, make your own sauce and make it healthier. Use lower fat milk/cream... lower calorie cheese. Add in some veggies. I love mac and cheese made with pasta, a can of tomato soup, half a can of milk, some low calorie cheese shredded (or get a good regular cheese so you have to use less of it).. add in some peas, corn, etc. Super yummy!

Bake fries instead of fry. Or cut up potatos and make your own. Sweet potato strips and carrot strips baked like fries are amazing. If you like things like chicken fingers make your own. Take chicken breast, cut into strips and bake.

Burgers are great made with ground turkey. Chop veggies like onion, garlic, peppers, etc really small (or puree them) and mix in. My husband loves a burger salad. He will cook a burger, cut it into small pieces and mix it in with chopped lettuce and tomato.

Keep trying things and make changes to your favourite foods. You can eat the "unhealthy" foods and lose weight. A burger can fit into your macros.. as can pizza... just make changes to them.

You can try and make your food choices work for you, but you will be disappointed in the long run.

Make new food. Try new things. If you stick with what you have been doing then you will continue to get the same results.

No one will be able to make you change, so be a man and do it yourself!!

Try new recipes, buy new things, endulge once in a while with the things you love, but it is time to get a new appreciation for things you refuse to enjoy. You will be surprised.

I agree with everyone. When I was a teen I hated my veggies, but as an adult I understand that I need vegetables in my diet for not only my weight, but skin, for water, for vitamins and minerals. Now I love them. Just grow a pair and get them eaten. Or if you really want to act like a child, put a peg on your nose.

Hi there, I am probably the most pickiest eater there is on this planet. I don't eat seafood, any asian food, mexican, pretty much the only italian i will eat is pizza, (no spagetti, no lasagna or pasta) i don't like a lot of things. Pretty much the only foods that I like are really unhealthy. Since I was young, i've only liked food such as burgers hot dogs fries, macaroni and cheese, ham, and just a few other things. I don't have much variety in my diet and when a google healthy foods they all look discusting.

So what i do is i try to make the same foods i use to eat but make them healthier. like for instance, i bake french fries, use lean meat for burgers and such.

What do you do?

I would say that unless there's some sort of medical issue (allergy, lactose intolerance, etc) or a psychological one (in which case addressing it would require the advise of someone other than a random internet poster). You should work on broadening your palette. There's a world of good, healthy, flavorful food that you're missing out on because you are habituated to a very narrow selection of food.

You don't have to like everything. No one does. But you should try foods (often more than once) and broaden your choices. There's probably some things that you would like. Plus, it broadens your experiences. Why unduly limit yourself? There are things that can enrich your life from a flavor profile and from a health viewpoint.

It is and alway will be up to you.

If you're satisfied with what you're eating, fine. If changing is 'too difficult', well, only you can tell what you have motivation to do. It's really a question of what do you want and what are you willing to do... and no one can answer that but you.


(And what do I do? First, I'm not 'picky.' I was as a child, but as I grew up I learned to eat a variety of things. Besides that, I also know how to cook and enjoy doing so.)

They probably pick what they want to eat. Following picking activities, they eat it.

Some people have legitimate picky tastes, but most just have bad habits, some going all the way back to childhood.

My TODDLER has a more varied palate, because we experiment and try new things. She doesn't always like it, but she will always try something. She always spits out mushrooms, but we keep trying. She loves curry and octopus and will take broccoli over oreos, even when offered both.

Be braver than my 2 year old, and you'll be fine.

Its time to grow up and eat like an adult. Little children are picky eaters. Adults do it to get attention.

I love mac and cheese, and ham. I just don't have all my not-entirely-healthy foods at the same time, and I do eat the super healthy foods I love, including the vegetables that I've learned to love. Again, I cook, from scratch, and that gives me a lot of control over what I eat.

Its time to grow up and eat like an adult. Little children are picky eaters. Adults do it to get attention.

I disagree. I think that eating is a wonderful pleasure in life. I don't go out of my way to eat things that I don't like, however I like to experiment with new foods, and with ingredients that I haven't liked in the past. That doesn't mean that I don't like attention. However the reason that I'm a picky eater is that I like to have control over what goes into my body and what kind of experience I have when I eat. I want the enjoyment to be worth the calories.