A diet for a picky eater

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Okay I weigh in at about 230 pounds and I am desperate to lose it. But I have major issues...Like aside from onions....I cannot stand veggies what so ever. I also cannot stand eating meat...Right now all I can do is consume water and hold back on the junk food and soda and I am taking yoga as of three weeks ago. But I know there is much more I have to do...But I just don't know how considering how much of a picky eater I am.

Things that have helped me:
1. Avoid all social eating. I don't eat at tables with people if I'm trying to lose weight becuse food is what I use to deal with the stress of sitting at tables with other people.
2. Look at healthy choices designed for kids. I eat fruit snacks. I eat Gogurt. The "healthy" things they make to appeal to kids are more more appealing to me than the things they make for adults.
3. Tiny frequent meals. A peanut butter sandwich. Some yogurt and a piece of fruit. A bowl of cereal.
4. The freedom to eat only what I want and eat only when I want to.
5. Exercise. Exercise. Exercise.

you dont eat meat and you dont eat vegies?

what do you eat? diary and cereals?

hmmm

i think you need to go a major taste test, see what kinds of food you can eat

I recently went vego (months ago) and to make up for not eating meat i have tried new things, new combinations and even re-tried some things i didnt like as kid (in case i changed my mind)

turns out i still hate mushrooms but ive "rediscovered" some food i didnt use to like

If Jaz1787 is right about your eating almost exclusively dairy and cereals then it is very possible that you are addicted to the food opioid peptides in both gluten ( wheat, rye, etc ), and in casein, ( dairy ), and that this is why, like an alcoholic or heroin addict, you don't want or even hate almost all other foods, and/OR you have a food intolerance, to gluten and or casein, ... because food intolerance is often accompanied by addiction to the very food which is a problem, and you therefore find most other foods unpalatable or uninteresting, because you need your "hair of the dog" of gluten or casein in order to feel ok.

My suggestion is to cut out both dairy and all glutenous cereals for at least a couple of weeks, ( beware of flavoured corn and potato crisps/chips and most french fries, plus soya sauce, most sausages and cured hams, plus thickened sauces and all deep fried foods; they almost all have gluten added in some form ), and ( ... suggested diet! ... : eat only potatoes and rice for carbohydrates, and fish if you can stand it, and/or eggs, nuts and pulses ( beans, lentils, chickpeas ), instead, plus fresh parsley or similar for vitamin C, and see how you feel after two or three weeks.

Gluten and casein contain food opioid peptides which trigger gut permeability so that the intestines allow unusually large amounts of those same opioids to enter the bloodstream and access the brain, where they suppress your natural appetite suppressants, thus encouraging you to eat more than you need, and they also stimulate the body to lay down fat.

Studies over the last decade or so have shown that gluten is a cause of obesity.

And a third ( 36.7% to be precise ) of people on the autism spectrum have unusually permeable intestines, compared to 4.8% of the general population, ( it is apparently hereditary ), and this makes us particularly susceptible to the effects of gluten and casein on our guts, and probably means that our brains are being exposed to far more of the food opioids in these foods than most people.

Carbohydrates are fattening, especially ones high in fructose, ( like corn, and honey and high-fructose corn-syrup, ), and in fructans, ( like wheat ), because they trigger the laying down of fat, and studies are also showing that it is carbohydrates and not fats which may be responsible for most our modern day degenerative diseases ( eg. they are starting to call alzheimers "diabetes type III" ).

One highly effective strategy for weight loss whatever else you do is to stop eating concentrated proteins, ( like fish or eggs or cheese ), at the same meals as concentrated carbohydrates ( like rice and potatoes and cereals ), and cut out all foods with artifical sweeteners and high-fructose sweeteners in them, as they almost all of them actually stimulate the appetite, making dieting even harder.

But about the "pickiness", it's an absolutely classic sign of food intolerance and/or addiction to only "like"/tolerate the foods which are precisely the problem.

Good luck anyway with whatever you try. Best wishes for your success.

PS. You mention loathing onions particularly, which may be significant, because it is, along with wheat, one of the foods highest in fructans, and suggests that you may have some degree of fructose malabsorption, ( as many as 40% of the population do to some extent ), which means that you may not be absorbing enough tryptophan from your diet, ( the best foods for tryptophan are meat, eggs, fish and cheese ).

Tryptophan is essential for the production of serotonin which is essential for healthy sleep cycles, mood regulation, and handling anxiety, among other things, including appetite regulation. Low serotonin has been shown to contribute to both short-term thinking and to binge-eating/addictive behaviours.

Fructose malabsorption will also lead to zinc deficiency because the unabsorbed fructose binds with zinc and removes it from the body. Zinc is involved in appetite, taste, smell, and many other important functions. Best food sources of zinc are meat, fish, and eggs.

PPS. If you do have FODMAP intolerance, ( FODMAP = Fermentable Oligo, Di, and Mono-saccharide and Polyols, and which include fructose and fructans ), that would be another explanation for your dislike of vegetables, because they tend to be very high in them. ... If you are sensitive to them then meat ( fresh and/or unprocessed so as to avoid amines, to which some people react ), is one of the safest foods to eat ... but it may seem unappealing if you are addicted to gluten and casein opioids.

Before I went gf I too used to find meat pretty bleh. My favourite food was pizza, a triple-whammy of gluten, casein, and fructose ( the tomato sauce etc ).
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What about fruit? What about cheese? Unless you absolutely cannot stand it, I'd make fruit a very significant part of your food intake. And nonfat/lowfat cheese is also a good thing to have - especially nonfat ricotta cheese very high ratio of protein to calories and goes great with fruit.