Clean eating when you HATE vegetables

If you haven't lost a pound in 233 days I don't think the issue is your lack of veggies.

However, yes- smoothies!

I'm not big on veggies either (depending on the week). If I'm working out & eating in my calorie range- i still lose with or without eating the proper amount of vegetables.

it is not a matter of what you eat but how much you eat - you can eat as clean and healthy as you want but if you eat too much you will still pile on weight.
All this to say - you dont like vegetables? don;t eat them, it won't have any side effects on your weight loss (possibly on your colon but that's a different topic all together...;))

If you haven't lost weight in 233 days, then you are not in a deficit and/or you have a medical issue.

Everyone who says it's not what you're eating but how much you're eating is probably right. Are you weighing everything? Is your calorie input accurate?

I didn't know Welbutrin worked as a weight loss aid, but would advise against a doctor putting you on antidepressants for weight loss!!

When people say, "CICO doesn't work", have you tried not eating for a few days? You didn't lose any weight? See a doctor.

If you did, then you are eating more than your calorie burn. (CI >= CO).

Drop some calories from your daily total, log that stuff you are ignoring (creamer, fruit), maybe try IF.

If you are exercising a lot, try not eating back your calories....

zumbalover523 wrote: »

Thanks for the ideas. I will definitely try adding some spinach or other veggies to into my smoothies. My weight has been stagnant for about a year. I am thinking that its not the number of calories I am eating, but maybe what I am eating since counting calories doesn't seem to be working. I have spoke with my doctor and have had my thyroid checked and it was fine. She basically told me that metabolism is slowing as you age and it gets harder to loose weight. She actually suggested going on fen-phen or welbutrin as a weight loss aide. Not sure I want to go that route because of the side effects and I think that may be a short term solution. I basically feel great, I just can't loose any weight! Ugh!

You are eating more than you think you are, plain and simple. 1200-1400 calories for a year, even with a "slow metabolism" should have resulted in your 40 lbs being gone.

There's no issue with WHAT you eat .. just with how much of it you are eating. This is most likely due to errors in or flaws with your food measuring methodology.

zumbalover523 wrote: »

Thanks for the ideas. I will definitely try adding some spinach or other veggies to into my smoothies. My weight has been stagnant for about a year. I am thinking that its not the number of calories I am eating, but maybe what I am eating since counting calories doesn't seem to be working. I have spoke with my doctor and have had my thyroid checked and it was fine. She basically told me that metabolism is slowing as you age and it gets harder to loose weight. She actually suggested going on fen-phen or welbutrin as a weight loss aide. Not sure I want to go that route because of the side effects and I think that may be a short term solution. I basically feel great, I just can't loose any weight! Ugh!

If you have been logging that long: you are not in a deficit. Get. A. Food. Scale: finding out I was drastically underestimating meals completely changed the game for me...and pre-packaged individual serving sizes are off as well: Finding out that MARS bar I was having at 1 bar = 49g 170 calories..actually weighed 54g: those tiny differences add up through out the day and unfortunately this may be keeping you in a maintenance level for calorie counts.

quote <I am thinking that its not the number of calories I am eating, but maybe what I am eating since counting calories doesn't seem to be working.>

I'm sure you have heard this before, that there is no magic "solution" to losing weight. It's just the science of calories in/calories out. While you may be staying within a certain calorie range, please review your food diaries and see where the bulk of your calories are coming from.

I am not making any judgment against you, but when someone says that they haven't lost any weight in a really long time but are faithfully journaling, I have to question if there is total honesty in the journaling, i.e., really accurate amounts. When you eyeball things, many times, the amount is greater than what you think it is. Take butter, for example. There isn't that big of a difference between a teaspoon and a tablespoon when looking at it, but the calories are much different.

My suggestion is, if you are not already doing so, get a good digital food scale, get out your measuring cups and spoons, and use them. Also, if you really won't eat vegetables, then clean eating may not be the wisest choice for you, personally. Perhaps a lower carb eating plan may be better for you. I certainly advocate eating organic as much as possible, but that's feasible for everyone.

One tip to get in vegetables is to cook and puree them, and then add them to tomato sauce. This works really well with summer squash, eggplant, spinach, kale, etc.

Good luck!

Lasmartchika wrote: »

When you say you track your food, how do you do so? Do you weigh your food, use measuring cups, or do you just eyeball it? Most likely you are eating more than you think.

If you're not weighing your food, get a food scale and weigh everything you eat. Make sure the entries you choose are also correct with the calorie amounts. Then you know you're being more accurate and after several weeks see the results.

Eat foods you love. It's more about how many calories you're eating by the end of the day than about what you're eating.

This is exactly what I was going to say. You'd be surprised how quickly "healthy" food adds up calorie wise if you don't make sure to measure EXACTLY what you're eating. A good example is nuts. I eat them everyday but 30g (roughly a handful to give you a visual although I prefer to actually put them on a scale) is 200 calories! You can go overboard pretty quickly if you're just eyeballing it.

There are somethings I do not weigh (lettuce, celery, water obviously, etc.) but for the most part if you want to really know what's going in your body you need to log it as accurately as possible.

thatdesertgirl777 wrote: »

SoDamnHungry wrote: »

Everyone who says it's not what you're eating but how much you're eating is probably right. Are you weighing everything? Is your calorie input accurate?

I didn't know Welbutrin worked as a weight loss aid, but would advise against a doctor putting you on antidepressants for weight loss!!

Everyone I know on Wellbutrin GAINED weight. That's so bizarre that they suggested that.

And OP, yes, open your diary and let us look. And get serious by buying a food scale and measuring EVERYTHING, even packaged foods.

I've been on it for a year or so and I've gained 8 or 9lbs; granted I've also started lifting weights 4-6x a week in the last year and upped my caloric intake to support that so I'm thinking it's not so much the medicine that caused my weight gain. I know people that have lost weight from taking it however I wouldn't recommend it for weight loss unless you're a heavy snacker. I find myself snacking and mindlessly eating a lot less than I did before I was on it but come meal time I'm still eating just as much. I think for people that have a habit of sitting in front of the TV and eating a whole bag of chips or whatever it works in the short term.

zumbalover523 wrote: »

She basically told me that metabolism is slowing as you age and it gets harder to loose weight. She actually suggested going on fen-phen or welbutrin as a weight loss aide. Not sure I want to go that route because of the side effects and I think that may be a short term solution.

Metabolism does tend to slow down as we age, but I agree with several other posters who said that you're probably eating more than you think you are. Digital food scales can definitely help if that's the case.

As far as fen-phen, I also agree with someone who said that the drug is no longer legal in the US, though there are a couple variants that are legal now. I had initially thought it was likely just Phentermine, which my husband was put on by a "weight loss doctor" last year. (Don't even get me started on that nonsense... They were making him come in for B12 shots & other shots, eating one time per day, taking the drugs for 30 days at a time, etc... He lost weight but he was VERY irritable, and of course, put most of the weight back on after "finishing" the program... Sigh...) But, after Googling, I came across this article (https://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/articles/pph_class_action/pph-fen-phen-primary-pulmonary-hypertension-18-18412.html?utm_expid=3607522-13.Y4u1ixZNSt6o8v_5N8VGVA.0&amp;utm_referrer=https://www.google.com) which says "The Fen-Phen of today, so to speak, is the weight-loss drug Qsymia (Topiramate-Phentermine)." Either way, I would agree that this is probably not the road you want to go down with "just" 40 lbs to lose (my husband could lose 100 and still be in the "overweight" category).

Welbutrin, though, I took bupropion (generic form) once upon a time for depression. I *gained* weight while on it. I found forums where others experienced the same thing. It also seemed to initiate anxiety in many people. I wouldn't recommend it at all.

Get a food scale, make sure you're logging everything, and go from there. Also, consider trying vegetables again,maybe in different ways than you have in the past. As I've gotten older (I'm 43), I periodically try new foods, to include vegetables that I never liked before, and have found that my taste buds indeed HAVE changed over time. It's opened me up to a whole new world of things to try. You may find some that you actually *like.*