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Anonymous wrote:I have some serious food aversions and always have. I don't eat things I don't like, even to try to be polite. I just say no thank you when it's offered and move on.

Ugh, I roll my eyes at people like you. So delicate!

+100, Princess.

Anonymous wrote:Either bc its good for you or even to be polite? I am a super picky eater. There are lots of things I should eat to be healthy, especially bc I am pregnant, but I just cant bring myself to eat them. I have not had a single vegetable today. Although I often like veggies, I am just not in the mood and have such a hard time forcing myself to eat things I dont like/want. I'd rather eat nothing, which is why I had cereal/milk, pumpkin cookies and a baked potato today and nothing else.

This is more than picky eating. This is not enough calories.

I used to be pretty picky as a child, but since then have devleoped a love for lots of different kinds of food. Except green beans. I think they are disgusting, and I don't eat them.

OP, I would HIGHLY recommend reading Geneen Roth's "Women, Food, and God." It's all about our food choices and how we care for ourselves. It's rare that I would say that a book actually changed my life, but this one did.

OP, I can sympathize to a certain degree, although I'm not a picky eater. I don't prioritize eating raw vegetables enough. But when they are available I do make myself eat them before anything else, regardless of how much I like them. I don't really like raw carrots, but I give them to my kids, who do like them. When I serve them I take a handful myself and eat them before I eat the food I AM jazzed about.

I really dislike bananas. But I know they are good for me, and easy, portable snack and good fuel for workouts. So I will force myself to eat them occasionally.

The only thing that truly used to make me gag as a kid was tofu, and I seem to have gotten over that someitme in college.

I am not a picky eater at all - I can and have choked down some really nasty stuff when traveling around the world, and smiled while I did it. I have trained my husband not to reflexively say "I don't like that", and have refused to allow my son to make faces at the table. That said, I do the exact same thing, OP, with taking lunch to work. I really, really want a salad from the place across the street, but I know I shouldn't spend the money, so I bring a sandwich or yogurt or noodle bowl from home...and there it sits. I just don't want it. I'd rather be hungry.

Yes.

Isn't that part of being an adult?

I'm pg too, and sometimes you eat what you know will stay down but otherwise, suck it back with some water and grow up. JMO.

OP here -

I think I wasnt clear. When I am a guest, I always make an effort to eat what is on the table. My friends know I am picky and always make sure there's something I like (as I do for them) but I certainly always eat something and am not rude about it.

My issue is more about eating foods that are good for you even when I am not in the mood. I often bring healthy food to work: salad, veggies, soup, sandwiches, yogurt, but then I put them in the fridge and I just dont eat them bc I am not in the mood or dont really like them. I'd rather have plain pasta (whole wheat) with sauce than add veggies, even when I know its good for me and healthy.

I want to eat it and I set myself up for success but when it comes down to it, I'd rather eat nothing than something I am not in the mood for.

This has always been an issue for me (I have some eating disorders for which I am in therapy) but it is exaggerated during pregnancy when I REALLY need to get the healthy foods into my body and I prefer to eat nothing.

Anonymous wrote:I have some serious food aversions and always have. I don't eat things I don't like, even to try to be polite. I just say no thank you when it's offered and move on.

Ugh, I roll my eyes at people like you. So delicate!

I have some serious food aversions and always have. I don't eat things I don't like, even to try to be polite. I just say no thank you when it's offered and move on.

Anonymous wrote:Either bc its good for you or even to be polite? I am a super picky eater. There are lots of things I should eat to be healthy, especially bc I am pregnant, but I just cant bring myself to eat them. I have not had a single vegetable today. Although I often like veggies, I am just not in the mood and have such a hard time forcing myself to eat things I dont like/want. I'd rather eat nothing, which is why I had cereal/milk, pumpkin cookies and a baked potato today and nothing else.

I never understood "picky eater" - what does this mean? I know a few 3 year olds who say this. But as an adult? How did you get to be this way? Did you mom only feed you McNuggets and Mac N Cheese? Did you never have adult food as a child?

You are pregnant and I guess an adult. Learn how to eat.

Agree with PP. If you are pregnant, and certain foods just make your stomach turn, don't eat it. However, anyone above the age of 3 should be polite enough to take a taste of offered food as a guest, unless you are truly allergic or are vegetarian. And then, of course, you say how wonderful it tastes, even if you don't like it.

If these are new aversions because you're pregnant, I'd say it's okay. I remember when I was pregnant there were a bunch of things that I couldn't even be around. This was weird. But if this how you normally are, yes, I'd make an effort to be polite when visiting someone's home. For the rest, I' stick with the one thing you do like. So let's say you only like apples and no other fruits. So stock the house with apples and eat them. Don't worry about variety. I eat healthy things, but I gave up on making myself eat the healthy things I didn't like.

Either bc its good for you or even to be polite? I am a super picky eater. There are lots of things I should eat to be healthy, especially bc I am pregnant, but I just cant bring myself to eat them. I have not had a single vegetable today. Although I often like veggies, I am just not in the mood and have such a hard time forcing myself to eat things I dont like/want. I'd rather eat nothing, which is why I had cereal/milk, pumpkin cookies and a baked potato today and nothing else.