HELP! I'm a picky eater, and I need to loose weight!

You can still be a picky eater and lose weight, just eat less of what you do like, or figure out how to make still-satisfying lighter versions of your favourites.

I love pizza and regularly make pita bread pizzas now, for between 300 and 400 calories. I love pasta but now eat it less often, and have less of it when I do. You can keep your favourites and make it work, I am sure. It's all about calories, don't worry too much about becoming a veggie lover right away (if ever).

This has nothing to do with weight loss, but I do recommend trying new things over time though, and new ways to prepare them. Without putting pressure on yourself, you might be surprised:)

It's impossible to give you recipes since we don't know what you like. Try searching online. Allrecipes is a good place to begin.

If you eat healthier food, you can eat a lot more of it. Work in as much as possible. Keep trying new things.

Stick to your calorie goal.

Exercise.

Good luck!

As has been said we have no idea what you like and dont like except you don't like whatever your idea is of healthy food.
If so then you can go with what alicedark says and just eat smaller portions of whatever you are eating now as long as you are at a deficit.

To decide what you will eat then you are just going to have to google some healthy recipes.

You can try this site.

http://www.tasteofhome.com/recipes/healthy-eating

Before you start worrying though id get things like your mindset, plan, intended deficit and understanding of dieting , nutrition and exercise sorted out. You are looking for a diet that works for you and is long term sustainable. It usually involves a change in lifestyle.

I also am a picky eater. I eat what I like and don't worry about the rest. As long as I come in on calorie goals - I'm a happy girl! You can do it!

Definitely log in everything. I am an extremely picky eater too. I went to my campus's Wellness center and talked with a nutrionist to see what do-able changes I could do. For instance: I am not a big veggies girl. I can do carrots, corn, green beans, and spinach (on pizza, so damn good). Since I have a "texture" issue, I like things mushed up for consistency. She suggested adding some butternut squash (which is amazing, look at butternut squash tortellini recipes. They are so good), and trying cauliflower. I am big on grains, so I just switched to whole grains for my pasta, cereal, and bread (fills you up more, and doesn't give you sugar spikes like "white" can).
I also took dairy almost completely out of my diet (except cheese). Found out from restraining from dairy that I actually was lactose-intolerant, and that dairy instantly made me bloated, gave me swollen breasts, and all around bad times. I love Silk as a non-dairy option. Honestly cereal just tastes better with Silk than milk ever did.

So what types of food do you like? Lets focus on what you like about them, and we can start slowly expanding your experience with new ingredients.
I like this recipe, but I add carrots to it:
http://allrecipes.com/recipe/healthier-oven-roasted-potatoes/

It is not what you eat, it is how much you eat. Of course, you can eat a lot more volume of veggies and fruit for the same calories as like, pizza.

You either have to change what you're eating or change the amount you're eating.

I'm going to vote for changing what you eat. Prepare healthier meals. You can lose weight and your son will learn to eat healthy things, so this cycle of fat people in your family will end.

If you don't really want to make the changes, then don't. But you cannot have your cake and eat it, too.

Be obese, don't be obese, whatever...but make a choice and enjoy being the thing you chose to be.

Like they've been saying, you can go a long way with portion control and eating what you currently do.

But here's one benefit you have: Most of the "picky eater" horror stories are about Person A who's trying to feed Person B while trying to figure out new foods. The big headache tends to come from finding, buying, and cooking new kinds of foods and still not knowing if the picky eater will even try it.

But, because YOU are the picky eater, it's simply a matter of you looking at something you haven't eaten before and then you, yourself, get to say "hey, I'll give it a try" or "no, I'll pass" before you buy it. If you see it in the store and say "no way am I trying that", then at least you don't waste money and time on it.

I'd still say that you might help yourself if you make yourself open to trying new things. I'm not talking about major dietary changes, just give it a try. Then, if you try it and like it, that's one more food you can use. More options helps keep things from getting boring, especially when you're already working with the limitation of watching caloire levels. If you try it and don't like it, then you don't have to force yourself to eat it. Just don't get it, again. No harm, no foul.

I'm similar to a poster above. I'm incredibly picky and weird about texture. I'm also very sensitive to spices and bitter food. As everyone has mentioned, portion control is very important and where you should be starting. However, I also recommend making healthy switches in your diet wherever you can along the way. I would not recommend just right out overhauling your diet, that will lead to you rebelling against yourself. There are likely healthy foods that you already like, you just don't eat them very often. Identify those and try to squeeze those into your diet somewhere. For me it was apples and nuts, which I eat everyday now. Be willing to try new foods, prepared in different ways, and be open to liking them and including them in your diet. There are foods I hated 10 years ago that I like now. There are also foods that I still hate. The above poster mentioned cutting out a lot of dairy. I did something similar, not dairy (which I didn't consume a bunch to begin with), but meat. It happened naturally, I didn't do it on purpose. I just realized at some point that there are some days I don't eat meat at all.

I've also found learning to cook and preparing things myself really helped (like the basics, if it's more than 5 or so ingredients or takes longer than 25 minutes, I want nothing to do with it).

With few exceptions, I HATE HATE HATE veggies. Feel free to check out my diary though I've only been back at it for a week and a half. I've been pretty good about my 1,200 calories of food, it's the alcohol that I'm working on (and making progress).