What 'healthy' foods did you ultimately give up on?
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I like most of the things people don't like. Kale is a tricky one though, because you need to get it fresh or it can go skunky. The things I don't like are celery (never have, never will) and raw spinach (oddly enough I do like baby spinach).1
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Kale. Whoever the marketing genius behind that one was sure knew what he was doing.6
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Enjoyed reading the comments - at 43, I just can't get myself to eat anything that doesn't taste good to me and yes, Flaxseed tastes absolutely disgusting and the oil is even worse!!
On another note, I have come to enjoy kale as a salad with walnuts, raisin and Parmesan done by our local supermarket. Another cafe close to home does a fabulous quinoa salad and I love that. I've always hated processed food and have always stayed away from anything that came out of a jar or a freezer hence I cook and I love finding restaurants that use 'healthy' ingredients and recipes. Often their portions are really big so I'll get a salad and split it over two days - some of the cafes/restaurants definitely know how to make some of the stuff taste way better than I do!2 -
I'm surprised people hate kale so much. I love it.
Quinoa. I hate quinoa4 -
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.
Pretty much what I was going to say0 -
Most herb tea. It tastes like lawn grass. (To my sorrow, I've developed a caffeine allergy, so I'm working through the herb teas)0
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seltzermint555 wrote: »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.
I'll eat regular or sweet potatoes, and like both. When it comes to eating a baked potato, though, I'd really rather have the sweet potato. I can add a TINY bit of butter and brown sugar (like less than tsp of each) and love the flavor. For me to eat a normal baked potato and enjoy it, I need sour cream, chives, and/or cheese and usually feel a need to reapply the toppings to finish up the entire potato...which kind of defeats the purpose.
And bacon!1 -
Most herb tea. It tastes like lawn grass. (To my sorrow, I've developed a caffeine allergy, so I'm working through the herb teas)
Look up teachinno it comes in different flavors and is suppose to taste like coffee. I love it! I have to admit it isn't coffee and nothing ever will be, but it's delicious a and much more dark and full bodied than most tea.
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maggibailey wrote: »Most herb tea. It tastes like lawn grass. (To my sorrow, I've developed a caffeine allergy, so I'm working through the herb teas)
Look up teachinno it comes in different flavors and is suppose to taste like coffee. I love it! I have to admit it isn't coffee and nothing ever will be, but it's delicious a and much more dark and full bodied than most tea.
Thanks, I may give that a try!0 -
Raw carrots - I was eating a couple large ones a day and my mother noticed my fingers were turning orange.
Salad - I like my vegetables cooked I'm afraid.
Fat free Greek Yoghurt. I prefer the full fat stuff when it comes to Greek.2 -
When I was a kid, my mom threw a container of cottage cheese at me -- and missed. It splattered all over the wall and I had to clean it up. Until about a year ago, I'd never even tried it because I thought it looked gross. Not a huge fan, but it's edible.
I won't eat carrots, celery, cheese cake or pot roast.
Try good culture cottage cheese! Life changer.1 -
Fruit. So not worth the calories, and I'm just not that much of a fan of it. Would rather have a giant veggie stirfry and a chocolate bar than fruit for dessert.8
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How funny individual differences are. I'll take your fruit (particularly if wonderfully ripe pineapple or cantaloupe) and you can have my chocolate.
I get a craving for chocolate maybe 4x a year and usually satisfy it with a homemade hot coconut mocha (coffee, canned coconut milk and cocoa). But I eat pineapple and cantaloupe daily when I can find a ripe and tasty supply.2 -
Whole grains, most fruit, and low fat foods. I really enjoyed losing while slathering butter on lean foods and adding cheese to everything.8
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I don't eat a lot of salads. I've never been a huge salad fan, anyway, and trying to force myself to choke one down when I don't really want to is tough. I DO still eat them when they sound good (had a huge one yesterday that was super delicous), but I've figured out better ways of managing my diet and my intake instead of forced salad intake.
I don't like raw veggies as a whole (I LOVE veggies, but prefer most cooked), really, so I've stopped trying to make them a snack. I realize now that if I physically need a snack, I really need a quick hit of carbs (so fruit, or a cookie or two, or some pretzels or crackers) or I need a punch of protein (usually nuts). If my snack "need" is a comfort thing (and I usually try to leave some room at the end of the day for a late night snack), it's going to be something I love and enjoy. Not some cold veggies!
I also don't force myself to the same thing, day in and day out. I've been doing a lot of protein shakes or smoothies for breakfast, but today I was wanting something more substantial and savory. I made a bowl of rice and lentil and it hit the freaking spot!4 -
Haha I love seeing how different people's tastes are! I could eat oatmeal, beets and sweet potatoes every day! Kale is ok if somebody else goes to the trouble of putting it in a nice salad and making all the flavors work, but I won't buy it or cook with it on my own. Chia pudding though - did not like that one bit. Not worth it.1
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"Spaghetti" made with any kind of vegetable. I've tried courgetti and despite loving courgettes I just couldn't get behind it. I'd rather just have a smaller amount of real pasta and really enjoy it!
Ditto alternative pizza bases. If you like them then fine, but other than that I just don't see the point when I find it perfectly possible to have a couple of slices of the real deal occasionally and still stay under calories.
Then again, I only ever ate pasta or pizza occasionally so perhaps this sort of substitution was not developed with me in mind...3 -
seltzermint555 wrote: »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.
I'll eat regular or sweet potatoes, and like both. When it comes to eating a baked potato, though, I'd really rather have the sweet potato. I can add a TINY bit of butter and brown sugar (like less than tsp of each) and love the flavor. For me to eat a normal baked potato and enjoy it, I need sour cream, chives, and/or cheese and usually feel a need to reapply the toppings to finish up the entire potato...which kind of defeats the purpose.
So agree with you on baked potatoes. They're a bit of a lunchtime staple here in the UK but I never eat them because I really don't like the taste of bland potato, which is what 90% of eating a baked potato is like. Sweet potatoes are amazing - I loved them long before I tried losing weight! I don't mind them the sweet American way (it helps to have a sweet tooth, haha) but my favourite thing to do with them is sweet potato wedges roasted with a little olive oil, smoked paprika and garlic seasoning. So good!3 -
I decided salad isn't worth it, and neither is skim milk. If I'm going to drink milk, it will be creamy, not milk flavored water.
I love sweet potatoes, and will eat kale if it is cooked and paired with couscous or freekeh. I don't think I'm a picky eater, but I am more picky when it comes to "junk" food or eating out. I pretty much just like sandwhich shops and chickfila. It isn't a health thing, I just don't like spending money on things if I can have a better meal at home.
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Just cannot get on with sweet potato!!!!
Really like the edamame or lentil pastas, heaps of protein and super filling (0:1 -
Grapefruit. Cottage cheese. Celery. Kale. Especially kale.
Kale is *kitten* and I'm convinced it's not fit for human consumption. Here's my list, in no particular order (except that kale is always first):
(1) Celery. Like, why?
(2) Lettuce, especially iceberg. (Bring me food, not water.)
(3) Grapes--used to love 'em, now I know that they make me hungrier.
(4) Whole wheat anything (except einkorn--that stuff's usually legit, and doesn't taste awful)
I didn't like beans until I customized a bissara recipe for my own personal needs. Bean soup? Nope. Beans on their own? Forget it.2 -
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Graelwyn75 wrote: »Raw carrots - I was eating a couple large ones a day and my mother noticed my fingers were turning orange.
Salad - I like my vegetables cooked I'm afraid.
Fat free Greek Yoghurt. I prefer the full fat stuff when it comes to Greek.
I went through a phase as a toddler when all I would eat was orange food. Turns out mom's right--eat too much orange food and you *will* turn orange.
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Sweet Potato. Always hated the stuff, the only time I would eat it is on Thanksgiving and that's just to spare my grandmother's feelings because for some reason she likes to bake a half dozen sweet potato pie.
When I stated out I was scouring Bodybuilding.com and they swear up and down the benefits of sweet potato. And no just NO.
Green smoothies. I thought this would be an effective way of eating my veggies. Yeah... That didn't work out so well when I try to mask the bitterness of the veggies with piles of fruit. Nowadays, I make a snack of veggies and hummus and save on sugar calories.
Protein Shakes. Me and Protein Shakes have a sordid history. I normally don't get enough protein. There have been many days where I get 40 or 50 grams and MFP (at default settings* 50% carbs, 30% protein and 20% fat) had me at a goal of 140 due to exercise. I would try to force myself to drink it for a few weeks. Give up and try again. Ugh. I can't seem to find a flavor I like.
Protein bars. Too expensive, most have terrible nutritional profiles and are chalky.
Unsweetened Greek Yogurt with fruit. I've tried, but it's just not the same as the prepared cane sugar added versions. I rather just compensate for the extra sugar.
Almond Butter. No thanks. Too expensive and just doesn't taste as good or as smooth as peanut butter.0 -
Low fat dairy. It's just gross, I'll eat dairy in smaller quantities thank you. (No thank you, Halo Top.)
Low-fat meat. I am mostly vegetarian anyways, I'd rather eat tofu or veggies than overcooked chicken breast. (Also meat in large quantities... screw paleo!)
Protein bars, shakes, juices. Anything with artificial sweeteners. Protein powders.
Fresh berries. I buy frozen and it lasts longer plus is more flavorful.
Coconut oil. I don't like the taste and it's expensive. And not any better for you than butter.
As papercut2k said: almond butter is way too expensive. Peanut is better. (Also a small amount of full-fat diary is so much better than watery-af almond milk, and less expensive, and more nutritious.)
Also I don't know why everyone's hating on sweet potatoes, I love them to death. You're not eating them right if you think they're gross, I will fight you on this one.
Also is brown rice really not much better than white rice?! Good because it takes FOREVER to cook and tastes gross.
Quinoa. It's honestly pretty gross. I much prefer freekeh or oatmeal or rice if anything. Yeesh.
Zoodles. I'll just put some pasta and sauce on a bed of lettuce if I want to bulk it out; zoodles are a waste of time and energy and don't fill me up and frankly are an insult to delicous delicious zucchini. (Roast that ish!)
Veggie burgers. I still buy them on occasion because I love them, I haven't totally given up; but whereas I used to rely on them (and they're expensive anyway) I now treat them like junk food: eat sparingly.
Cheese. Okay this is misleading, because I love cheese. But I eat it far more sparingly and am more discerning with what I buy (Irish sharp cheddar, creamy blue cheeses... yes please!) and how I eat it (in small amounts, with fruit usually). Provolone is just the worst, and in general I no longer get cheese on my deli sandwiches.
Kale. Lol.
I do love oatmeal, spinach, beans, lentils, most other fruits and veggies.
Ugh I had too much to say on this HAHAHA6 -
I tried kale. Just no. I can do black beans and brown rice and Halo Top has saved me.2
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Also I don't know why everyone's hating on sweet potatoes, I love them to death. You're not eating them right if you think they're gross, I will fight you on this one.
Trust me, I have tried it prepared in so many ways. Eaten sweet they felt too "vegetable-y" as if someone played a prank with the salt shaker for regular potatoes, and eaten savory it felts all kinds of wrong, even more wrong than sweet I couldn't even swallow (and yet stubbornly kept trying it different ways before I gave up). Garlic ice cream kind of wrong. It's just too sickeningly sweet for a vegetable. Carrots and onions are about the only sweet vegetables I can tolerate in food, and only because I'm used to them. I'm very sensitive to sweetness in savory foods that I have to make my own pasta sauce and would not eat BBQ marinated in conventional BBQ sauce (so much for us layfolk who eat added sugar somehow not being able to recognize sweetness in naturally sweet foods unless we cut out added sugar like some people believe.)
Flip side: I tried kale and liked it the first time I tried it without having to bend over backwards to "make it taste good", and I would eat a regular potato with nothing but a pinch of salt every day and wouldn't complain. I actually like every single plant-based food people mentioned not liking including chia seeds and brown rice.0 -
Anything fermented... yuck imo0
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