Any "picky" clean eaters out there?....

[rogmel]

or is that not possible????

My husband really wants to clean up his diet, but he is SOOOOOOO picky, especially about most of the foods on the clean list.....ie. eggs, any vegetable, any fruit, cottage cheese, enough fish...etc. Is it possible to eat clean with such a limited variety???
I have been trying for YEARS to help him develop a broader taste for stuff with minimal success.......any body else ever deal with this?? Any suggestions??? thanks!

Mel

[Erik]

Suck it up?

[quickie]

Originally posted by Thunder@May 29 2006, 02:46 AM
Suck it up?
Buttercup.

[andi]

Originally posted by quickie@May 28 2006, 09:49 PM
Buttercup.
:lol:

I just wanted to add that I hate cottage cheese (well except for with pb in it) but I just force it down :clap:
spices and such really help with things......

[Dreamer]

The ex was the same. He could eat junk food without gaining!! But he had some high blood pressure (spell?) problem. So being a good gf at this time, I cooked most of the food at home for him. I noticed that he loved ketchup with his food, so instead of eating a fatty hamburger, I was cooking some chicken and he was having it with ketchup.

I just found some way to replace some junkfood that he loved with something similar, such as Sweet potatoes instead of french fries ( he loved it so much!), ground chicken patties ( cooked in the oven) instead of hotdog/hamburger from A&W, pita bread topped with cheese instead of pizza. He made a promise to eat salad every day with the only condition, with a dressing that he like ( yeah, you guessed it, some blue fat cheese dressing, but better than no salad at all). Slowy, he told me that he was enjoying more veggies than before. The big myth for some of them is that ''clean food'' taste like paper or sand. :lol: But we need to show them that those food can be good when spiced with herbs and so on.

Maybe you could ask him before why he really want to clean his diet, and if he want to eat healthier, he need to risk some things, such as trying some brocoli...Which doesn't taste so bad after all... :rolleyes:

Yep, it take some patience, but good luck!

[Chelsinator]

Ummm...yeah, most people LIKE junk food more than healthy food. It has to do with dealing with it and eating it anyway. He'll get used to it after a while anyway. Tell him to stop being a baby, or deal with the fact his body will stay the same way it has for as long as he has eaten shit food.

[PowerManDL]

You have to gain 100 lbs of mass and abuse drugs like mad to get away with my eating habits.

[Tina]

are you married to my husband?

[Strive2Define]

Originally posted by Tina@May 29 2006, 08:33 AM
are you married to my husband?
:huh:

[jaleena]

I'm wildly picky, and it seems to steer me towards clean eating, not away from it. I refuse to eat anything with any sort of sauce on it. The only cream-based soup I'll eat, ever, is clam chowder. If I'm not sure what it is, I won't try it. I won't eat fruit with any sort of coating on it...so none of those Southern "fruit salads" that are two parts marshmallows and one part fruit, even if that was brought as the "healthy dish." My list of neurosis goes on and on...doesn't make clean eating hard. Except olive oil, I can't deal with that in my diet :shrug:

[Sarah]

only 2 things i won't eat anymore are cottage cheese and egg white (straight). for the most part - never met a food I didn't like and i've eaten some really really weird things.

[Chelsinator]

Originally posted by jaleena@May 29 2006, 07:23 AM
I'm wildly picky, and it seems to steer me towards clean eating, not away from it. I refuse to eat anything with any sort of sauce on it. The only cream-based soup I'll eat, ever, is clam chowder. If I'm not sure what it is, I won't try it. I won't eat fruit with any sort of coating on it...so none of those Southern "fruit salads" that are two parts marshmallows and one part fruit, even if that was brought as the "healthy dish." My list of neurosis goes on and on...doesn't make clean eating hard. Except olive oil, I can't deal with that in my diet :shrug:
I'm the same way in that respect, I dispise saucy junk and there are a LOT of 'treats' that do not appeal to me. But then again, that is all over ridden with the junk I do like, like bus loads of chocolate and bathtubs full of icecream.... :baby:

[jaleena]

Chels, are we related? :blink: :oops:

[Chelsinator]

Originally posted by jaleena@May 29 2006, 06:14 PM
Chels, are we related? :blink: :oops:
I am you :ninja:

[Tina]

Originally posted by Strive2Define@May 29 2006, 09:07 AM
:huh:
He is extremely picky. Drives me crazy. If I don't cook him meat and potatoes his diet consists of cereal, pizza, hot dogs, cookies, white bread with cheese whiz....He's allergic to many things as well, but picture that on top of picky. :rolleyes:

[jaleena]

Originally posted by Chelsinator@May 30 2006, 01:13 AM
I am you :ninja:
:funny: Like a rupture in the time-space continuoum that allows one of us to be 3k or so miles apart from ourselves! If we meet, will the world end?

[TheBoner]

Thunder - I am sure telling your clients to "Suck It Up" does you REAL well. Remember, everyone is a potential client of yours.

Chels - telling your S. O. to quit being a baby is ridiculous also.

People on here seem to have this mightier than thou attitude sometimes instead of passing on a Forum topic. I thought this was for helping people with issues, no matter what they are. I am sure everyone is not as clean as they should be. Add work related stress, traveling, etc. and being a clean eater is Extremely challenging for anyone. Wanting it bad enough, making good decisions when hungry, packing good food when traveling, trying numerous foods in different ways is helpful. You can prepare chicken numerous ways. Food can be an addiction and sometimes it delves deep into past emotional reasons that need more help than we can provide.

[Erik]

Originally posted by TheBoner@May 30 2006, 11:20 PM
Thunder - I am sure telling your clients to "Suck It Up" does you REAL well. Remember, everyone is a potential client of yours.

Thanks for the advice.

I do ok.

[Leah]

Originally posted by TheBoner@May 30 2006, 11:20 PM
Thunder - I am sure telling your clients to "Suck It Up" does you REAL well. Remember, everyone is a potential client of yours.

Seems to be working for him actually. And his clients.

[Erik]

Not that I actually say that or anything ...

[Leah]

Originally posted by TheBoner@May 30 2006, 11:20 PM

People on here seem to have this mightier than thou attitude sometimes instead of passing on a Forum topic. I am sure everyone is not as clean as they should be. Add work related stress, traveling, etc. and being a clean eater is Extremely challenging for anyone. Wanting it bad enough, making good decisions when hungry, packing good food when traveling, trying numerous foods in different ways is helpful. You can prepare chicken numerous ways. Food can be an addiction and sometimes it delves deep into past emotional reasons that need more help than we can provide.
Who exactly has this attitude? I'm sure if you read ANY of the journals you'll see that everyone, including myself and Thunder, has at some point gone off diet due to "life".

And no...this place isn't about passing on a topic :baby:

[Vanessa]

Sometimes you're gonna have to suck it up if you want to get it done.

A good trainer should tell you what you need to know. In some cases, the only good advice is "suck it up".

Vanessa

[mark]

Originally posted by TheBoner@May 30 2006, 08:20 PM
Thunder - I am sure telling your clients to "Suck It Up" does you REAL well. Remember, everyone is a potential client of yours.

Chels - telling your S. O. to quit being a baby is ridiculous also.

People on here seem to have this mightier than thou attitude sometimes instead of passing on a Forum topic. I thought this was for helping people with issues, no matter what they are. I am sure everyone is not as clean as they should be. Add work related stress, traveling, etc. and being a clean eater is Extremely challenging for anyone. Wanting it bad enough, making good decisions when hungry, packing good food when traveling, trying numerous foods in different ways is helpful. You can prepare chicken numerous ways. Food can be an addiction and sometimes it delves deep into past emotional reasons that need more help than we can provide.
So what is your resolution to the problem? A pat on the ass and an "everything will be okay"? Sometimes tellling someone to shut the fuck up and eat the broccoli is what they need to hear.

[andi]

Originally posted by mark+May 31 2006, 02:08 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (mark @ May 31 2006, 02:08 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-TheBoner@May 30 2006, 08:20 PM
Thunder - I am sure telling your clients to "Suck It Up" does you REAL well. Remember, everyone is a potential client of yours.

Chels - telling your S. O. to quit being a baby is ridiculous also.

People on here seem to have this mightier than thou attitude sometimes instead of passing on a Forum topic. I thought this was for helping people with issues, no matter what they are. I am sure everyone is not as clean as they should be. Add work related stress, traveling, etc. and being a clean eater is Extremely challenging for anyone. Wanting it bad enough, making good decisions when hungry, packing good food when traveling, trying numerous foods in different ways is helpful. You can prepare chicken numerous ways. Food can be an addiction and sometimes it delves deep into past emotional reasons that need more help than we can provide.
So what is your resolution to the problem? A pat on the ass and an "everything will be okay"? Sometimes tellling someone to shut the fuck up and eat the broccoli is what they need to hear. [/b][/quote]
So true&#33; I know that&#39;s what I need to hear when I&#39;m too off......

[Chelsinator]

Originally posted by TheBoner@May 30 2006, 09:20 PM
Thunder - I am sure telling your clients to "Suck It Up" does you REAL well. Remember, everyone is a potential client of yours.

Chels - telling your S. O. to quit being a baby is ridiculous also.

People on here seem to have this mightier than thou attitude sometimes instead of passing on a Forum topic. I thought this was for helping people with issues, no matter what they are. I am sure everyone is not as clean as they should be. Add work related stress, traveling, etc. and being a clean eater is Extremely challenging for anyone. Wanting it bad enough, making good decisions when hungry, packing good food when traveling, trying numerous foods in different ways is helpful. You can prepare chicken numerous ways. Food can be an addiction and sometimes it delves deep into past emotional reasons that need more help than we can provide.
:lol:

Ahem, oh ummm, sorry, you were being serious. *Puts on serious face*

My frist thought was "Uhhh, yeah....cuz Thunder is doing SO badly....with that wait list of his and all.... :blink: " heh, oh well. guess it could be LONGER...whatever, not addressing me there, so ON TO ME&#33;&#33;

So, I know others have addressed it and all, but seriously, what the hell are you supposed to tell someone who basically says to you "I wanna be lean, but I don&#39;t WANT to do any work. I don&#39;t LIKE that food. I want to be skinny on candy and ice cream&#33; :baby: " I&#39;m supposed to have sympathy and find them solution? Uhhh...what other solution other than stop being a damn baby?? Am I supposed to tell them "Oh, don&#39;t worry sweeeeeeety, you are the exception to every rule in the book, so you can eat chips and chocolate and still get where you want. Here, let me take my already busy as hell schedule and find solutions for YOU that go against all logic. Cuz you don&#39;t need logic, right pookie wookie, you need me to hold your hand and pat you on the head and tell you everything is okay&#33;"

Sorry, I don&#39;t cater to that bullshit. I have a fucked up time with food too. Lots of friggin people do. Who the fuck WANTS to eat brown rice and chicken and broccoli and shit like that at like 10 o&#39;clock in the morning???? Ummmm, I certainly don&#39;t&#33;&#33; I&#39;d rather be eating a big fuckin&#39; bowl of cereal and milk and bananas. But I *gasp* SUCK IT UP AND QUIT BEING A BABY ABOUT IT when I really want something, like leaning out.

So come off your soap box. This place is chock FULL of information that is useful, and straight to the POINT which is what is going to get you there fastest. You can either go to some other board *cough, O2, cough* and find a bunch of coddling idiots who don&#39;t know squat, BUT will be there every step of the way babying you and letting you stagnante, OR you can come here and get fucking real info, that may be presented bluntly, but you are getting the truth and what you damnwell need.

PS> nicely said, Mark.

[strongchick]

Personally, I find I do better when someone tells me to suck it up.

Life&#39;s a bitch. Quit complaining and do what needs to be done.

[Erik]

*subscribing*

[Carrie]

Originally posted by strongchick@May 31 2006, 07:44 AM
Personally, I find I do better when someone tells me to suck it up.

Life&#39;s a bitch. Quit complaining and do what needs to be done.
I completely agree. It&#39;s all about motivation and commitment to your goals. Sucking it up IS the best and only advice sometimes.

[poke]

I think TheBoner misunderstood the level of seriousness of the first post in this thread. I thought of it more of venting/exasperation, putting making him eat healthy in the same category as remembering to take out the trash and leaving an empty roll of tp behind you. Maybe TheBoner took it more too heart than was intended. Was that it, TheBoner?

tee hee... I said &#39;boner...&#39; :rolleyes:

[rogmel]

Originally posted by Thunder@May 30 2006, 10:33 PM
Not that I actually say that or anything ...
As the original poster....Actually, I am one of Thunder&#39;s newest clients.....but my husband is not. And for me personally, I am always able to suck it up because I have goals and I am willing to do whatever it takes to acheive them....I actually like/enjpy almost everything on the "clean" list. I am very creative in the kitchen, so I don&#39;t get too bored......that part is fairly easy.....the point of my original post was that because my husband is SOOOOOO picky.....it is challenging for him to not get bored...and I have tried my best to be creative for him and mix it up, but when someone eats NO veggies or fruit it is tough....
I am in no way looking for sympathy for him as he is an adult and has chosen that for himself....I cannot spoon feed him, nor do I want to.....I just wanted to know if anyone out there is as picky and has found a successful way of eating clean on a limited variety....and would like to share, so that I can say..."hmm, this person does this, blah, blah, blah....maybe someone has more wisdom than me.

Did not mean to cause controversy....and I am not offended by anyone&#39;s posts....I am past frustration and just looking for other ideas&#33;&#33;&#33;

[Angelkae]

Originally posted by Chelsinator@May 31 2006, 06:35 AM
... but seriously, what the hell are you supposed to tell someone who basically says to you "I wanna be lean, but I don&#39;t WANT to do any work. I don&#39;t LIKE that food. I want to be skinny on candy and ice cream&#33; :baby: " I&#39;m supposed to have sympathy and find them solution? Uhhh...what other solution other than stop being a damn baby?? Am I supposed to tell them "Oh, don&#39;t worry sweeeeeeety, you are the exception to every rule in the book, so you can eat chips and chocolate and still get where you want. Here, let me take my already busy as hell schedule and find solutions for YOU that go against all logic. Cuz you don&#39;t need logic, right pookie wookie, you need me to hold your hand and pat you on the head and tell you everything is okay&#33;"

Sorry, I don&#39;t cater to that bullshit. I have a fucked up time with food too. Lots of friggin people do. Who the fuck WANTS to eat brown rice and chicken and broccoli and shit like that at like 10 o&#39;clock in the morning???? Ummmm, I certainly don&#39;t&#33;&#33; I&#39;d rather be eating a big fuckin&#39; bowl of cereal and milk and bananas. But I *gasp* SUCK IT UP AND QUIT BEING A BABY ABOUT IT when I really want something, like leaning out.
I actually talked to a girl who said she was serious about "losing weight", but would not eat breakfast ("The only breakfast food I like is Count Chocula cereal... that&#39;s good, right?"), refused to give up the white pasta that she ate EVERY DAY at dinner (Italian family) and didn&#39;t want to do any exercise besides taking the baby for a push in the stroller each day.

Another girl was willing to take aerobic step classes twice weekly, but said she "couldn&#39;t handle" anything that she&#39;d have to do alone (are you surprised that she was afraid to pick up even the pink weights for fear of being "bulky"?). She was unwilling to change a thing about her indian food diet and was also unwilling to try and track her calories ("can&#39;t I just work it all off in aerobics class?").

Yeah, ladies, and I&#39;m Angelina Jolie on an ice cream diet. :suicide:

[krispy1138]

Originally posted by rogmel@May 31 2006, 11:24 AM
As the original poster....Actually, I am one of Thunder&#39;s newest clients.....but my husband is not. And for me personally, I am always able to suck it up because I have goals and I am willing to do whatever it takes to acheive them....I actually like/enjpy almost everything on the "clean" list. I am very creative in the kitchen, so I don&#39;t get too bored......that part is fairly easy.....the point of my original post was that because my husband is SOOOOOO picky.....it is challenging for him to not get bored...and I have tried my best to be creative for him and mix it up, but when someone eats NO veggies or fruit it is tough....
I am in no way looking for sympathy for him as he is an adult and has chosen that for himself....I cannot spoon feed him, nor do I want to.....I just wanted to know if anyone out there is as picky and has found a successful way of eating clean on a limited variety....and would like to share, so that I can say..."hmm, this person does this, blah, blah, blah....maybe someone has more wisdom than me.

Did not mean to cause controversy....and I am not offended by anyone&#39;s posts....I am past frustration and just looking for other ideas&#33;&#33;&#33;
My husband is the same way as yours - he eats no fruits or veggies whatsoever. His main side dish used to be instant mashed potatoes; he switched to flavored rice a few months ago. Sometimes he has baked beans or no side dish at all - just a piece of chicken or fish.

I honestly don&#39;t think there&#39;s anything you can do. My husband says he has tried different fruits, such as strawberries, but did not like them (WTF?) He is unhappy with how he looks and when we go to the grocery store, he keeps looking at the "magic pills" that will take the weight off. I always remind him that no pill will work if he is not eating healthy.

Have you tried getting a healthy eating cookbook and having him pick out recipes? I got Eating for Life recently and my husband found about 10 recipes there that he wanted to try.

[rogmel]

Thanks Krispy....I do have Eating for Life, and as I said, I am very creative in the kitchen and love to cook. I make a clean meal almost every night, because I am eating it and I refuse to be a short order cook.....SIGH...maybe I just want to believe he wants to do this&#33;&#33; Someday the no variety diet will appeal to him because the end result will be worth it....but my wanting it and his wanting it for himself are 2 different things&#33;&#33; I can only keep serving clean foods and setting a good example&#33;&#33;

[Erik]

Originally posted by Angelkae@May 31 2006, 02:42 PM
I actually talked to a girl who said she was serious about "losing weight", but would not eat breakfast ("The only breakfast food I like is Count Chocula cereal... that&#39;s good, right?"), refused to give up the white pasta that she ate EVERY DAY at dinner (Italian family) and didn&#39;t want to do any exercise besides taking the baby for a push in the stroller each day.

Another girl was willing to take aerobic step classes twice weekly, but said she "couldn&#39;t handle" anything that she&#39;d have to do alone (are you surprised that she was afraid to pick up even the pink weights for fear of being "bulky"?). She was unwilling to change a thing about her indian food diet and was also unwilling to try and track her calories ("can&#39;t I just work it all off in aerobics class?").

Yeah, ladies, and I&#39;m Angelina Jolie on an ice cream diet. :suicide:
Just more examples of people that really want something without having to work for it.

[magdalynaa]

.....the point of my original post was that because my husband is SOOOOOO picky.....it is challenging for him to not get bored...and I have tried my best to be creative for him and mix it up, but when someone eats NO veggies or fruit it is tough....

Alright, so we&#39;ve got two problems here:

1. He&#39;s picky and has very limited variety.
2. He gets bored easily of the limited options he does have.

As for the variety issue... he seriously eats NO veggies or fruits? Is he willing to choke them down at all? Will he refuse to eat something if you hide a vegetable in it?

My husband generally hates veggies, but if I hide some peas in a low-cal tuna casserole, he&#39;ll eat them. He just won&#39;t eat them if I put them on a plate by themselves. It&#39;s taken a lot of experimentation, but I found out that there are a select number of veggies he&#39;ll eat. And if I have to put a tablespoon of low-fat ranch dressing on some broccoli to get him to eat his freaking veggies, then I&#39;ll do it. Lesser of two evils to me.

As for being bored... maybe he&#39;s bored because he refuses to eat anything else but the few things he knows he likes? Is he willing to try other foods? It doesn&#39;t piss me off nearly as much if Kier tries something and says he hates it than if he won&#39;t try it at all. I keep about a million different spice rubs, mixes, etc. handy to throw him something new every few days.

No real help for you there, of course... but that&#39;s what I&#39;ve done for my picky eater.

[Chelsinator]

AYE&#33;&#33; You want someone to hold your hand the whole friggin way and feed you bullshit that the world is all flowers and candy drops, then go to the fuckin&#39; Romper Room&#33;


*by the way, this is just what I would say to someone if they were being a baby about food, exercise, wanting things to come easy, etc. Don&#39;t take me seriously if you don&#39;t wanna*

[krispy1138]

Originally posted by Chelsinator@May 31 2006, 01:44 PM
AYE&#33;&#33; You want someone to hold your hand the whole friggin way and feed you bullshit that the world is all flowers and candy drops, then go to the fuckin&#39; Romper Room&#33;


*by the way, this is just what I would say to someone if they were being a baby about food, exercise, wanting things to come easy, etc. Don&#39;t take me seriously if you don&#39;t wanna*
I actually said "Suck it up, buttercup" to my husband the other day - he was not amused&#33; :lol:

[sunny]

Originally posted by strongchick@May 31 2006, 07:44 AM
Personally, I find I do better when someone tells me to suck it up.

Life&#39;s a bitch. Quit complaining and do what needs to be done.
Well said.

[A side note]
When I was becoming stricter with myself concerning the diet, I found it helpful to shift my attention from food. To socializing, friends, books, music, clothes, etc.
As I&#39;m eating better and better, I&#39;m also making my life brighter - and I love it&#33; :p

I wasn&#39;t hungry for food in the first place - I was hungry for life&#33;&#33;&#33;