Ok so I am trying to improve my diet, as I keep hearing that I need vegetables(I still have yet to see a GREAT reason for it, but whatever, I'll trust the insight and do what I can to integret that crap into my diet.) I have tried carrots, baby carrots, green beans, corn, and celery. I can only eat corn without feeling sick. I mean sick, like I want to vomit after I swallow the first bite. I am sure this is psychological and goes back to when I was forced to eat them when I was younger and all. I have to break that. So I am trying to find a different approach of intake, like cut them up into SMALL easy to swallow pieces(No chewing) that I can mix with pasta or something. I've also been told about steaming and obv there are more to try. Oh and I hate salad, the chewing is REALLY difficult for me. If anyone has any ideas please let me know, I'd greatly appreciate it. I gotta beat this beast apparently to help my diet. :/
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green vegetables. romaine lettuce, celery, cucumbers, green beans, etc. i wouldnt eat corn regularly it offers almost no nutritional value. sorry that you dont like them but theres no way really around them if you wanna be really healthy!
maybe a good dressing? my dad mixes a number of vegetables in a large bowl, puts some seasoning on them, splashes some olive oil on them, and puts them in a box like vegetable broiler cooking them on the grill. its delicious. brocolli is one of the very MOST IMPORTANT vegetables so make sure you eat your brocolli. put cheese over it if you have to. boil them. just dont think about it. i seem to be able to eat anything because i can trick myself into thinking i like it. i think i really do. mind over vegetables. 
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eggplantOk obviously I am aware this is what it takes to be "really healthy" considering I already admitted I'll just believe people. (I've made it so many years without them I am a bit skeptical, but I've also never had a tight body so I can't really use myself as proof) I'm not even looking for a way around them at all, I am trying to find a way to get through them that may take a bit of adaptation time instead of just smashing my head against them. I've tried that, it doesn't work, I'd rather never eat them again. So I'm looking for a different approach, like dicing them into very small pieces I can mix with other meals, would this still be ok for nutritional? Like mixing into pasta sauces and such?
I wasn't aware there is a good dressing out there... I was trying to avoid them because they generally get bad responses... I am not able to just convince myself otherwise on this. The mind of vegetable won't work. This is a deep seeded psychological battle from when I was a child, so I can't just will myself to overcome. Trust me, its taking everything I have to will myself to DEAL with this problem.
I wasn't aware there is a good dressing out there... I was trying to avoid them because they generally get bad responses... I am not able to just convince myself otherwise on this. The mind of vegetable won't work. This is a deep seeded psychological battle from when I was a child, so I can't just will myself to overcome. Trust me, its taking everything I have to will myself to DEAL with this problem.
...Just try cooking them different ways. For example, a lot of vegetables will take on the taste and smell of meat when you cook them together. Just experiement, become a chef of sorts. I love broccoli -- it's one of the few vegetables I can eat without any meat accompanying it. It's simply boiled and topped with some oyster sauce (you can find a bottle at any Asian market).
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A great way I get people to get their veggies in is to mix it with something they already love.
-Stuffed chicken breast with cheese and broccoli
-Lean low fat cheeseburger with mushrooms, peppers and garlic
-Whole wheat pasta (very small amount) with chicken, onions, spinach and tomato
-Flank steak stuffed with spinach and feta cheese
See where I am heading, stuff, cover, smoother, in a healthy way of course but slowly the taste get acquired more and more.
(for the record I used to hate ALL of those veggies not more than a year ago, now I love love love them)
-Stuffed chicken breast with cheese and broccoli
-Lean low fat cheeseburger with mushrooms, peppers and garlic
-Whole wheat pasta (very small amount) with chicken, onions, spinach and tomato
-Flank steak stuffed with spinach and feta cheese
See where I am heading, stuff, cover, smoother, in a healthy way of course but slowly the taste get acquired more and more.
(for the record I used to hate ALL of those veggies not more than a year ago, now I love love love them)
Putting them in a soup may help. I eat vegetable soup, although if I eat a raw carrot I would basically throw up.
food is nothing more than fuel.
i think cottage cheese is just the most god awful thing ever thought up....its not cheese-like at all! slimy, tastes funny .....but I eat it cuz I know its more important than my taste buds.
just suck it up and eat your veggies. most have less flavor raw than cooked.
i think cottage cheese is just the most god awful thing ever thought up....its not cheese-like at all! slimy, tastes funny .....but I eat it cuz I know its more important than my taste buds.
just suck it up and eat your veggies. most have less flavor raw than cooked.
Ok now I am getting somewhere with the cooking together and all that jazz. I'll probably find a way to integrate it into my meals with other stuff until I become more comfortable with it.
malkore, I hate to say this, but the mentallity of suck it up is BULL****. Not everyone can just slam themselves into something like this. My reaction to this is gag and vomit, meaning my mind is perceiving a bad effect(similar to poison) and trying to keep what it thinks will harm my body from staying in. Go just take a nice big shot of poison and tell me how that works out for you man. Even those with poison prone abilities develop them over progressive increased exposure. Sorry if this seems harsh but I keep seeing these responses to things and it is not conductive to success all the time. Some people have to build up first.
malkore, I hate to say this, but the mentallity of suck it up is BULL****. Not everyone can just slam themselves into something like this. My reaction to this is gag and vomit, meaning my mind is perceiving a bad effect(similar to poison) and trying to keep what it thinks will harm my body from staying in. Go just take a nice big shot of poison and tell me how that works out for you man. Even those with poison prone abilities develop them over progressive increased exposure. Sorry if this seems harsh but I keep seeing these responses to things and it is not conductive to success all the time. Some people have to build up first.
Trouble is Malkore, this is only the attitude of the hardcore. Its certainly not something I could live by and nor would I want to. I spend a lot of my time eating and so, I want it to be something I enjoy. For example, I tried and tried to like/consume cottage cheese but, its just never going to happen for me so why put myself through it (gag reflex, every time! lol).
I think the key is to find a balance...a compromise of what you like and what is good for you (hopefully there will be a good crossover in favour of whats good for you!).
Seeing food as nothing more than fuel I think for most people will result in the same failures as fad diets. If something is too much of a struggle, too much sacrifice, then the average person will not be able to stick with it and will ultimately revert to poor eating habits.
Well I think that before I started caring about what I ate I never ate vegetables. It was once I started caring that I was able to eat them everyday after never liking them. A couple of my favorite veggies are brussel sprouts and broccoli steamed (I do it in a bowl in the microwave). I think it tastes great!
Now this may seem extreme or a dumb idea but here's what got me into veggies. Go atkins for a day or two. NO CARBS! Let the only carbs you allow yourself be green veggies. Once I ate them after not having a carb in a while I thought they tasted really good and actually started to crave them since I knew that I wasn't allowed bread, pasta etc. It worked for me
~Nicole
Now this may seem extreme or a dumb idea but here's what got me into veggies. Go atkins for a day or two. NO CARBS! Let the only carbs you allow yourself be green veggies. Once I ate them after not having a carb in a while I thought they tasted really good and actually started to crave them since I knew that I wasn't allowed bread, pasta etc. It worked for me
~Nicole
well people have to 'face their fears'. if the psychological fear of vegetables is really deep inside you, you just have to dig deeper. no matter how afraid people are of something, the only way they get over it is if they force themselves to face watever they fear.
put a vegetable on the table and stare it down. is that vegetable ganna beat you? are you ganna lose to a mushroom? are ya ganna let a carrot stand in your way of haveing a great, healthy life and diet? are you the beast that can destroy any obstacle in your way? HELL YEA!!! when that first sting of disgust hits you, are you ganna flinch away? no!!! your ganna completely CHOMP that brocolli and swallow it in triumph.
pump yourself up...make it a goal to own those veggies
put a vegetable on the table and stare it down. is that vegetable ganna beat you? are you ganna lose to a mushroom? are ya ganna let a carrot stand in your way of haveing a great, healthy life and diet? are you the beast that can destroy any obstacle in your way? HELL YEA!!! when that first sting of disgust hits you, are you ganna flinch away? no!!! your ganna completely CHOMP that brocolli and swallow it in triumph.
pump yourself up...make it a goal to own those veggies