Bad Diets!

[Charl91]

Personally, mine is awful. I don't eat vegetables or fruit (apart from potatos, orange juice, neither which really counts) and only really get my vitamins from smoothies. Used to just eat crap like crisps and sausage rolls all the time. I'm a little bit better now, but still live mainly on mainly on meat. I had a bad experience with veg when I was four, when I threw up at school, and refused to try them for years. I don't really blame my parents, I was a very very stubborn child; if they tried to make me eat them, I would refuse to eat at all, and there wasn't much they could do without literally starving me.

Thing is, I'd love to improve my diet, but it's really difficult. I try new foods most weeks, but just can't force myself to like them. Bought a bag of salad the other day, and sat and munched through most of that, but it just tasted awful It's not just the taste, but the texture of a lot of foods too that really put me off. Like baked-beans - they didn't taste too bad, but the texture of them made me want to vomit.

Luckily I go to the gym 3/4 times a week and play squash a lot, so I'm not fat, but my blood pressure is awful at the moment, and I'm only 20 (though it's also genetic). Just wondered if anyone else has ever had the same problems, and if they managed to sort it? I've heard it takes you a certain amount of times of trying a food before you ajust to it, but so far it's not working

[General Smuts]

Is that me?

[Zingari]

I was very much the same about eating vegetables well into my 20’s .

Then Chinese and Indian food became more and more popular and I found stuff like stir fries, veggie curries and bhajees much more acceptable to my palate .

Eventually I then started to eat more vegetables in the more traditional fashion with my meals and gradually started to really like the natural taste cabbage , parsnips carrots etc

Ps;

I’m not a good advert for a healthy lifestyle though .

[Callabinho]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSHVG7iay70&feature=related

Follow that and you will be fine.

[BrummieFOX]

Personally, mine is awful. I don't eat vegetables or fruit (apart from potatos, orange juice, neither which really counts) and only really get my vitamins from smoothies. Used to just eat crap like crisps and sausage rolls all the time. I'm a little bit better now, but still live mainly on mainly on meat. I had a bad experience with veg when I was four, when I threw up at school, and refused to try them for years. I don't really blame my parents, I was a very very stubborn child; if they tried to make me eat them, I would refuse to eat at all, and there wasn't much they could do without literally starving me.

Thing is, I'd love to improve my diet, but it's really difficult. I try new foods most weeks, but just can't force myself to like them. Bought a bag of salad the other day, and sat and munched through most of that, but it just tasted awful It's not just the taste, but the texture of a lot of foods too that really put me off. Like baked-beans - they didn't taste too bad, but the texture of them made me want to vomit.

Luckily I go to the gym 3/4 times a week and play squash a lot, so I'm not fat, but my blood pressure is awful at the moment, and I'm only 20 (though it's also genetic). Just wondered if anyone else has ever had the same problems, and if they managed to sort it? I've heard it takes you a certain amount of times of trying a food before you ajust to it, but so far it's not working

Well this is probably your problem. I used to do this with veg when I was very young. Rather than eat peas as part of my meal, I'd shovel a few spoonfuls down just to keep my mum happy and then eat the rest of my meal. There's no point just eating a bag of salad on it's own. Incorporate it into your normal meal and the same with other veg.

[21st Century Fox]

I used to be pretty similar when I was younger, although I wouldn't eat meat either, I was a vegetarian who didn't like vegetables, so I used to exist on Linda McCartney faux-meat substitutes! What changed it for me was going to the gym and working out, if you can just suck it up and eat healthily for a few weeks whilst going to the gym you can usually see some sort of results and that just spurs you on to keep doing it. Bizarrely two of my favourite foods now are sweet potatoes and spinach which I wouldn't have even tried years ago. I've only recently started to eat mushrooms after years of refusing to even try them because I didn't like the texture, the trick is to have the foods you aren't too keen on in meals where they're pretty much masked by other tastes and flavours and you just eventually get used to them. I know that sounds easier said than done but it genuinely works with a bit of perseverance.

[Babylon]

I'm having a chicken donner naan and fries for lunch... is that a bad diet? I did have salad with it

[Callabinho]

Slash your Carbohydrates in the evenings, what do you tend to eat at night? I go to the gym everyday (bearing in mind weight lifting), and I have to diet to gain weight in the winter and what not, But I make sure its a low fat diet, and any carbs I have are all prior to 6 O'clock. you really should avoid carbs after that or when you start to settle down because they need burning off almost immediately. Best thing to do is really pay attention to your carb intakes for a start. E.G make sure you only eat pasta once or twice a week with a sensible portion. so for a start try cutting your carbs down you should notice a difference in your blood pressure, mine is usually higher when I bulk and perfect when I cut.

[Finnegan]

That is, almost word for word, me. Hah. I've gotten better with age but the bacon and chicken foodgroups dominate my diet.

[The Doctor]

Much like that, I subsist on Pasta dishes, Curries, Bacon and Booze.

I have got a fruit bowl in my room though.

[Babylon]

I have got a fruit bowl in my room though.

Is there any fruit in it though?

[The Doctor]

Is there any fruit in it though?

5 bananas and 5 apples.

[Zingari]

Much like that, I subside on Pasta dishes, Curries, Bacon and Booze.

I have got a fruit bowl in my room though.

i think you mean subsist not subside

unless of course all this junk food is causing your body to collapse into a heap

[Smudge]

Personally, mine is awful. I don't eat vegetables or fruit (apart from potatos, orange juice, neither which really counts) and only really get my vitamins from smoothies. Used to just eat crap like crisps and sausage rolls all the time. I'm a little bit better now, but still live mainly on mainly on meat. I had a bad experience with veg when I was four, when I threw up at school, and refused to try them for years. I don't really blame my parents, I was a very very stubborn child; if they tried to make me eat them, I would refuse to eat at all, and there wasn't much they could do without literally starving me.

Thing is, I'd love to improve my diet, but it's really difficult. I try new foods most weeks, but just can't force myself to like them. Bought a bag of salad the other day, and sat and munched through most of that, but it just tasted awful It's not just the taste, but the texture of a lot of foods too that really put me off. Like baked-beans - they didn't taste too bad, but the texture of them made me want to vomit.

Luckily I go to the gym 3/4 times a week and play squash a lot, so I'm not fat, but my blood pressure is awful at the moment, and I'm only 20 (though it's also genetic). Just wondered if anyone else has ever had the same problems, and if they managed to sort it? I've heard it takes you a certain amount of times of trying a food before you ajust to it, but so far it's not working

I hope you're taking medical advice, that doesn't sound good.

[The Doctor]

i think you mean subsist not subside

unless of course all this junk food is causing your body to collapse into a heap

No but the booze is after several pints.

[Babylon]

i think you mean subsist not subside

unless of course all this junk food is causing your body to collapse into a heap

I don't know...

"Subside - to sink to a low or lower level."

I think living on curry and bacon is fairly low.

[Zingari]

No but the booze is after several pints.

yes of course , i often subside after a few drinks

[stix]

I don't know...

"Subside - to sink to a low or lower level."

I think living on curry and bacon is fairly low.

Also, living on curries & fried bacon could cause your stomach to subside!

[somebum]

Thing is, I'd love to improve my diet, but it's really difficult. I try new foods most weeks, but just can't force myself to like them.

aww, you poor thing.

[Len Finsbury]

Go. Paleo.

[Trav Le Bleu]

I was very much the same about eating vegetables well into my 20’s .

Then Chinese and Indian food became more and more popular and I found stuff like stir fries, veggie curries and bhajees much more acceptable to my palate .

Eventually I then started to eat more vegetables in the more traditional fashion with my meals and gradually started to really like the natural taste cabbage , parsnips carrots etc

Ps;

I’m not a good advert for a healthy lifestyle though .

That's almost identical to the way I started to enjoy veg.