What 'healthy' foods did you ultimately give up on?
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Anything that requires to much prep or takes too long to cook... Lmao
Oh and kale...just no. Ick!2 -
Oatmeal
Kale -> It tastes like unhappiness mixed with dirt
Avocado
Chia (pudding/or chia anything)
Flax seeds
Bananas -> propagated by "Big Fruit" like Chiquita and Dole
Acai
Brown rice
Salmon
Sweet potatoes/regular potatoes
Green juice
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Plain oatmeal is so sad tasting. Like a child's school project with too much glue and construction paper that got wet on the school bus. Ick.
I do manage to get it down if it's doctored up with peanut butter & jelly.
And steel cut oats, soaked in 1:4 almond milk/water overnight, then slow cooked w/ cinnamon and dried fruit...whole different ballgame. So good.1 -
All "super foods" like chia seeds and spiralina. I thought I had to spend hundreds of dollars to be thin. So I could do that because I didn't have the money for it0
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Fiber One bars and my digestive system really don't get along. Thank goodness I always had the dogs to blame.[/quote]
LOL, me too, I liked how they taste but the ahhh, after effects, not good. But as we only have a parrot and no dogs, no hiding who was to blame at our house.
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LOL - we have a parrot, too. I've trained her to make certain noises so she can take the blame when the dogs aren't around.0 -
LOL, me too, I liked how they taste but the ahhh, after effects, not good. But as we only have a parrot and no dogs, no hiding who was to blame at our house.
Blame the parrot.
I blame my quaker all the time
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cerise_noir wrote: »
LOL, me too, I liked how they taste but the ahhh, after effects, not good. But as we only have a parrot and no dogs, no hiding who was to blame at our house.
Blame the parrot.
I blame my quaker all the time
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LOL, me too, I liked how they taste but the ahhh, after effects, not good. But as we only have a parrot and no dogs, no hiding who was to blame at our house.
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LOL - we have a parrot, too. I've trained her to make certain noises so she can take the blame when the dogs aren't around.[/quote]
Love it! Mine snores like my DH... at least I'm pretty sure it's his snore and not mine... hmmm...0 -
I remember my mom eating rice cakes. Which I find to resemble cardboard with less flavor!
Protein powder! I now just drink chocolate milk post workout.1 -
lemurcat12 wrote: »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.
We always ate a good, varied, healthy diet. Just too much. I can't really think of anything I wasn't already eating, except oatmeal. I don't like hot cereal, and oatmeal is the worst. We always ate oatmeal when I was a kid. A few months ago, I decided to try for breakfast every morning, because "good for you" I choked it down for 2 or 3 weeks before I gave it up as a lost cause. If it was a choice between starving to death and eating oatmeal, I would have to sit down and think it over.0 -
Coconut oil, for real. Honestly, I use what I've got left and whisk 3 tsp of it with 3 tsp olive oil, one egg and one egg yolk, coat my detangled hair with it, put a cap on for 30 minutes, and rinse with lukewarm water then shampoo (which has improved my curls tenfold in the last several weeks).1
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Grapefruit. Cottage cheese. Celery. Kale. Especially kale.
Wow, I love all these.
I never forced myself to eat any foods. I think it's because I like all veggies/foods, that I never felt I needed to force anything down.
Except oranges/mandarins. And never ate 'em, other than my caring mother always insisting I "try this one orange cause this one is different than all the others ones."0 -
The only thing that I totally eliminated from my diet are sodas but don't think many would call sodas "healthy." Otherwise, I will pretty much eat snything as long as I can fit it w/in my daily caloric limit.
However, I do make an effort to eat/drink as little in the way of baked goods, bread, potatoes/starches, fried food and alcohol as possible. None of that is considered particularly healthy either.
The PC approach on MFP is to deny that there is any such thing as an "unhealthy" food on the theory that it doesn't matter what you eat, it just matters that you eat less in cals than you burn (CICO) in order to lose weight.
While that is technically true, it is also true that people have a certain weakness for certain kinds of food that can easily cause them to exceed their daily calorie limit.
Sugar rich foods and drinks, like sodas, are problematic for many and certainly were for me. While I can certainly still choose to eat/drink such food, it's easier to just cut sodas out of my diet. I was not so addicted to the taste of soda that I need to buy diet sodas; water is fine.
Doing so also matters nutritionally because sodas are carb dominant and nutritionally empty and, if I do not exclude then, it reduces the amount of protein and more nutritionally benefical carbs (as well as fat) that I can also consume w/in my caloric limit to order to maintain a more balanced diet.
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Kale and quinoa.0
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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.
Yes this is true for me. I am not really a picky eater at all. I was raised on fresh raw AND cooked produce so not really any healthy stuff I don't like. As I always say I haven't had a vegetable that I hated. I avoid corn. Just feel it is useless and doesn't really digest too well for me(or anyone in my opinion)but I occasionally enjoy a grilled corn on the cob. Creamed corn is the worst and I definitely pass on it. EWW
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ShrinkinMel wrote: »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.
Yes this is true for me. I am not really a picky eater at all. I was raised on fresh raw AND cooked produce so not really any healthy stuff I don't like. As I always say I haven't had a vegetable that I hated. I avoid corn. Just feel it is useless and doesn't really digest too well for me(or anyone in my opinion)but I occasionally enjoy a grilled corn on the cob. Creamed corn is the worst and I definitely pass on it. EWW
I never liked creamed corn until I realized that the way to make it edible is to add a ton of butter and salt.0 -
Kale. I just can't, tried it in omelets and smoothies and nope.0
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ISweat4This wrote: »Kale. I just can't, tried it in omelets and smoothies and nope.
I never ate kale until recently but it's a great buy at only $1/bunch where I get it and I think its best used in veggie/bean soups and stews.0 -
ShrinkinMel wrote: »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.
Yes this is true for me. I am not really a picky eater at all. I was raised on fresh raw AND cooked produce so not really any healthy stuff I don't like. As I always say I haven't had a vegetable that I hated. I avoid corn. Just feel it is useless and doesn't really digest too well for me(or anyone in my opinion)but I occasionally enjoy a grilled corn on the cob. Creamed corn is the worst and I definitely pass on it. EWW
Canned creamed corn is horrid, but I like homemade.0 -
I tried these homemade oat cookie things, then realized they were a lot of calories and carbs and not that much healthier than just eating a cookie. I can't fit cookies into my goals very often but when I crave one, I eat a real cookie now, not a weird healthy cookie.0
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