What 'healthy' foods did you ultimately give up on?
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I am so sick of oatmeal. I've given up on it for the time being. I decided to make healthy breakfast burritos and have one with fruit in the mornings.2
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Sweet potatoes.
Chicken (when I cook it myself).
BCAA's.2 -
This hasn't really been any one big thing for me, but I tried to learn to like a few meat substitutes and ultimately said forget it. Seitan, tempeh, Boca burgers, Gardein "chicken" and the like. gag. I'd rather just have beans, lentils, or more veggies instead of those! Seitan is the worst to me. I've tried it several ways. Just no.
I really do like tofu, Morningstar veggie patties, and TVP, though!
(I'm not vegetarian or vegan, maybe "flexitarian" which I think sounds silly...but my husband is pescetarian and cooks all of our meals)
Early in my years on MFP, I made an effort to eat WAY more salads. I don't really love salad, it's just okay. Now I'm more likely to just eat a ton of different vegetables (different ways) than putting them together raw in a salad.
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I used to juice like crazy! I loved it while I did it, I even blogged about it! Lol! But then one day, bam! I had enough! I never juiced again.
Also, I tried the vinegar-cayenne pepper-water mixture and I HATED it. Yuck!
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Kale. Kale is the most vile and disgusting tasting thing I ever intentionally and voluntarily put in my mouth.
Beets. I've tried them every way possible but unless I buy prepared beet chips ( which I think are quite delicious) I can't figure out what people are talking about when they say beets are sweet. Because to me they taste like mud. Not even good mud, but like sewer sludge mud.
On the flip side, because of the healthy reputation, I have added baby spinach and fennel to my regular diet. Yumm.5 -
Courgette spaghetti. Not worth it.6
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1. Liver (unfortunately because it has such an awesome nutrition profile!)
2. Kale and rocket. Love spinach raw or cooked but cannot stomach either of these!
One that actually I used to hate but have come to enjoy over time is avocado! I seriously used to dispise it but over time I've been slowly incorporating it to up my fats and now I have it a few times a week1 -
cwolfman13 wrote: »Going to see the in-laws this weekend...they're British and will more than likely make kidney pie at some point this weekend...I will be respectfully requesting a PB&J...
My husband is British and he detests kidney anything...but he will eat the steak.Kale. It always tasted so strange but I can deal if it's hidden.
My husband goes into a major rant "It's a weed. It grows by the roadside so it's full of toxic fumes, a badger pissed on it (well they do! they don't have toilets), you should put f---ing Roundup on it, not balsamic vinegar! It's got chlorophyll and f--- all else"
One nearby restaurant adds kale to mac 'n' cheese. uh what?8 -
yogurt, celery, kale, sweet potatoes, turkey bacon1
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livingleanlivingclean wrote: »Green smoothies
Chia pudding
Excessive amounts of raw food
Chia pudding is such a waste of time and my taste buds LOL4 -
I would say "kale" but I never really ate kale, because it's not really food, and I'm not in the habit of eating garnishes masquerading as edible produce.7
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I guess I already had a list of foods I didn't like before I started to watch my calories. So for the most part I love just about everything I eat. I'm not wasting precious calories on stuff I don't like. The few things I won't eat that others seem to enjoy are Brussels sprouts and okra. Vile to me. Hated them as a kid, tried them as an adult, still hated them.4
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Overnight oatmeal.8
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cwolfman13 wrote: »I never forced myself to eat things I don't like. That said, I like most things...always have. Dieting didn't really introduce me to anything I wasn't already eating.
This. Although most of the things I randomly dislike are things I don't think are especially healthy anyway. The few things that are nutrient dense that I don't care for, eh, there's always something else similar enough nutrient-wise.
Reading the things people tried because they were healthy makes me realize that whatever my other issues I ate a pretty varied diet filled with nutrient dense foods even before I lost weight.0 -
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Oh, and I like sweet potatoes and have always eaten them (no more than various kinds of potatoes, though), but I agree that it's super weird that people demonize potatoes and glorify sweet potatoes so often these days when they are about equally healthful (one is better for some things, the other is better for others).
I like kale prepared correctly, beets almost any way (LOVE beets), and liver, among other things mentioned.2 -
I didn't change the types of foods, just the amounts, so there really isn't any difference. I DID try those nasty two-ingredient banana-egg "pancakes" that people were raving about. Hated it. Won't be doing that again...7
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kellyjellybellyjelly wrote: »Overnight oatmeal.
Yes. That stuff is kind of stupid. I've tried several different recipes, and it's so blah. No matter how long you "soak" it, it still tastes like raw oats to me. I'd rather spend a few extra minutes and cook it.
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I didn't change the types of foods, just the amounts, so there really isn't any difference. I DID try those nasty two-ingredient banana-egg "pancakes" that people were raving about. Hated it. Won't be doing that again...
Goodness yes. I tried it too. Ridiculous waste of bananas and eggs. I could have had a great little omelet and banana smoothie to go with it. ha!7 -
Fat free cheese! What even is it?13
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Shiritaki noodles. I tried them once and I will never try them again.
Olive oil. I've never liked oily food and I dislike when veggies or meat is coated in oil. The texture is so weird on my tongue and I hate the feeling of the oil on my lips.3 -
Light mayo and Greek yogurt, skim milk, chicken. Blecch.0
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Rice cakes
Absolute yuck3 -
Quinoa. Tastes like soap.
Also, anything quorn. It's made from a mold grown in indoor tanks. Just the idea grosses me out.1 -
GemstoneofHeart wrote: »Rice cakes
Absolute yuck
LOL, same here. They taste like styrofoam.2 -
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I bought an eggplant. I used it in my stir fry dinner. I won't do that again.
I haven't tried odd nut butters, chia pudding, or organ meats, but do use almost everything listed above, some of it quite often. I have the ability to like almost anything, and I don't mean pretend.2 -
cwolfman13 wrote: »Do you have any foods that you started eating when you started your weight loss efforts because you thought that they were 'healthy' or helpful but then ultimately abandoned once you realized that you didn't really have to eat any specific kinds of food to lose weight?
For me:
Carrot sticks (I struggled with raw carrots and the carrots won)
Brown rice (especially when I learned that it's not all that much healthier than white)
Sweet potatoes (just give me a good old russet or yukon gold instead)
Packaged breakfast bars (I realized that I'd rather take 10 minutes and make an egg sandwich for not that many additional calories)
Ironically, there's not much difference nutritionally speaking between a sweet potato and regular potato either...not sure why the sweet potato is such a darling. I like them from time to time, but much prefer a regular baked potato most of the time. The nutritional difference is negligible at best...
I just like the taste way better. I love sweet potatos. Regular potatos however, I could never stand.1 -
- Sweet potato
- Celery
- Fish
- Couscous/quinoa
- Peanut butter too, I have a jar of "high protein" PB that I bought for days where I'm lacking protein and ain't very hungry.
- Brown rice
- Low fat Laughing Cow cheese, it's like rubber, tastes bad and impossible to spread
- Greek yogurt
- Kefir
- Alpro
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