I'm trying to lose about 40 pounds... My goal used to be 20 until I stopped working for health reasons and gained weight from being inactive. (Didn't help that my mother lied to me and said the scale was off by about ten pounds when it was actually accurate, so I didn't realize how much weight I'd really gained).
Anyway my problem with dieting is that I can't eat vegetables. It's not because I'm picky or because my parents didn't make me eat them. They did force me to eat them until I was 18.
Unfortunately, EVERY vegetable, and I've tried tons of them, makes me gag. I've heard about people who have overly sensitive, or too many tastebuds, so this can be a problem for them. For me to swallow a forkful of peas I would have to swallow a glass of milk with them to cover up the taste.
It doesn't matter how they're cooked, it doesn't matter if you listed 30 different vegetables for me to try. I've tried them. And I've gagged on them.
I eat fruit... apples, strawberries, kiwi, blueberries, etc. But most diet plans and diet meal suggestions have vegetables as a side dish or an ingredient and I can't eat them.
Another problem is that I usually eat once a day (and have one snack) because I have IBS and generally, eating makes me feel sick and have cramps. So I don't take in very many calories a day. And when I do take them in, they're usually all in one sitting. I realize the problem with this, and I've tried to eat more often and take in more than the 800 a day (or less) I probably take in daily.
But if I start increasing my calorie intake now, to a healthier amount... won't that make me gain weight?
(I do anywhere from 40-90 minutes of taeobo or turbojam every day).
So add up the hate of vegetables, the IBS, and the amount of food I eat (or don't eat) I have a lot of obstacles to over come for losing weight. And I can't seem to find a way to get over any of them