I’ve been very overweight for a long time. Lately I’ve been trying to eat healthier and lose weight. (among dealing with other nutritional deficiencies.)
One of the big problems I have though is that I have a lot of trouble eating foods with weird textures, smells, tastes, etc. This of course includes a lot of vegetables and some kinds of healthier proteins like fish.
A doctor I was working with recommended talking to a nutritionist who is familiar with these kind of problems. However, I didn’t find them to be that helpful. They didn’t really have a good understanding of what kind of things bothered me and didn’t really seem to want to learn or incorporate that into a plan. I got a lot of “Well can’t you just try to put up with some of these things that bother you?” So eventually I gave up with them. So I’m back to eating either miserably small portions of unhealthy foods (which doesn’t really solve the nutrition problem and makes me hungry) or a handful of rather bland healthier foods that are fine to eat but just make me sad.
Does anyone have experience navigating these kinds of problems? What did you do? Do you have any suggestions? Types of foods, recipes, resources that deal with this, etc?
I have ADHD and my sister has autism and I wouldn’t be able to deal with that, especially needing to go through a process to remove the flakes from ramen.
I’m tempted to do group cooking for my roommates so they can eat healthy and charge them an extra $100 per month or so to accommodate it, but I wouldn’t be able to deal with a lot of special requests like that. My entire mentality along with my autistic sister is to want people to get over it.
My wife’s uncle probably has autism and massively over compensates for it and he doesn’t tolerate “food aversion.” He’s also a total shithead and would be completely unhelpful with actually helping someone over come food aversions.
The trick is to get a siv where the flavors and salts get through but the flakes don’t.