Hypnotherapy for eating?
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You don't need hypnotherapy, you need to HTFU and read this.
Human beings are programmed to avoid strange flavours. You just need a bit of willpower and repeated exposure, and you'll end up enjoying all sorts of stuff.
I managed to go from being an incredibly fussy eater to eating all sorts of wierd stuff (tête de veau, silk worm larvae, squirrels, grasshoppers, soft shell crabs etc).
edit: oh, and dogs.
Human beings are programmed to avoid strange flavours. You just need a bit of willpower and repeated exposure, and you'll end up enjoying all sorts of stuff.
I managed to go from being an incredibly fussy eater to eating all sorts of wierd stuff (tête de veau, silk worm larvae, squirrels, grasshoppers, soft shell crabs etc).
edit: oh, and dogs.
Edited by HundredthIdiot on Tuesday 9th February 10:03
HundredthIdiot said:
Human beings are programmed to avoid strange flavours. You just need a bit of willpower and repeated exposure, and you'll end up enjoying all sorts of stuff.
Actually enjoy?I just want to be able to eat cheese and mushrooms, as I am a veggie and most restaurants add one or the other to dishes. I keep trying them, but possibly not frequently enough.
Nicol@ said:
I am a veggie
Ah, sorry about the dead animal references then. 
Nicol@ said:
Actually enjoy? I just want to be able to eat cheese and mushrooms
Buy a block of parmesan (the king of cheeses). Take a nibble each day. I'd wager that at the end of two weeks you'll actually like it. Parmesan is also very easy on the digestive system.Mushrooms are a bit trickier. IMO, button mushrooms are awful things, but brown chestnut mushrooms have great flavour. Suggest thinly slicing some chestnut mushrooms and frying them in olive oil with a bit of garlic. They must be eaten hot - cold mushrooms are rank.
Fried mushrooms, scrambled eggs and brown toast: a great breakfast.
Don't try and bury the target food in something else - that defeats the purpose.
ShadownINja said:
What are you eating for your protein, then?
No, to give me a choice of food when I go out rather than a plate of chips, plus it makes other people cooking for me a little easier.These 2 choices open up lots of things to me.
Nibble a piece of stinky cheese a day sounds awful, would I really get used to it?
Nicol@ said:
ShadownINja said:
What are you eating for your protein, then?
No, to give me a choice of food when I go out rather than a plate of chips, plus it makes other people cooking for me a little easier.These 2 choices open up lots of things to me.
Nibble a piece of stinky cheese a day sounds awful, would I really get used to it?
whats that cheese people use for cheese cakes? that would be an easy way to get used to cheese.
ShadownINja said:
eg mushrooms are an alternative protein source to meat.
Mushrooms are about 3% protein, meat is more like 22% - you'd be better off eating peas than mushrooms, at about 5% protein.They do have a similar ratio of calories : protein to steak so I suppose if you ate enough of them they'd do - a kilo of raw mushrooms or one 140g fillet steak - can I have the steak with some mushrooms on the side please?
Edited by otolith on Tuesday 9th February 15:44
Nicol@ said:
Nibble a piece of stinky cheese a day sounds awful, would I really get used to it?
Stinky cheese! Heresy!Read a bit more about it (e.g. wikipedia) and understand the history and the effort that goes into it. For you it's an acquired taste, but Italians are known to wean their babies on it.
HundredthIdiot said:
Stinky cheese! Heresy!
Sounds odd, but I did some cheese learning here when I went to look at some cars a few years agohttp://www.coolhunting.com/archives/2008/08/collec...
I couldn't face trying any. I still remember the smell.
Apparently, Waitrose is starting to sell tubes of "umami" - the "flavour", under the brand name The 5th. taste. you could start with that and work up to other things.
Hypnotherapy might help, but it is primarily your belief in hypnosis that makes it happen. Hypnotherapy is a temporary measure as well - i.e. it doesn't last for ever.
Hypnotherapy might help, but it is primarily your belief in hypnosis that makes it happen. Hypnotherapy is a temporary measure as well - i.e. it doesn't last for ever.
otolith said:
ShadownINja said:
eg mushrooms are an alternative protein source to meat.
Mushrooms are about 3% protein, meat is more like 22% - you'd be better off eating peas than mushrooms, at about 5% protein.They do have a similar ratio of calories : protein to steak so I suppose if you ate enough of them they'd do - a kilo of raw mushrooms or one 140g fillet steak - can I have the steak with some mushrooms on the side please?
Edited by otolith on Tuesday 9th February 15:44
I think the only way to truly embrace a vegetarian diet is to eat a WIDE variety of food... it's not cheap, mind!
Nubbin said:
Apparently, Waitrose is starting to sell tubes of "umami" - the "flavour", under the brand name The 5th. taste.
I have a cheap packet of MSG that probably does the same thing. Don't use it much - it's a bit of a lazy cop-out.Nicol@: if you can't face stinky cheese you'll have to work your way up from the other directon, e.g. veggy lasagne made with ricotta cheese. If you can't even stomach ricotta there's no hope for you!
HTFU
Edited by HundredthIdiot on Wednesday 10th February 05:40
Dealing with fussy eating is intersting. You have to find your own answers to why it is you cannot or will not put things in your mouth to eat. Behind this behaviour is a reason and you need to both find and resolve the reason.
I am not a fan of hypnotherapy anyway, but I would suggest this.
What you are dealing with is a control issue - is having something 'done to you' rather than regaining control consciously really going to help?
Likewise forcing yourself to eat a piece of something every day isn't the answer either. Evey time you force yourself to eat it, you simply reaffirm the belief that a) it tastes horrible b) you're 'forcing' yourself to do something that you don't really want to do.
Your answer lies more in finding the reasons why you refuse to eat certain foods and that answer lies somewhere in the deeper recesses of your mind. Start there.
I am not a fan of hypnotherapy anyway, but I would suggest this.
What you are dealing with is a control issue - is having something 'done to you' rather than regaining control consciously really going to help?
Likewise forcing yourself to eat a piece of something every day isn't the answer either. Evey time you force yourself to eat it, you simply reaffirm the belief that a) it tastes horrible b) you're 'forcing' yourself to do something that you don't really want to do.
Your answer lies more in finding the reasons why you refuse to eat certain foods and that answer lies somewhere in the deeper recesses of your mind. Start there.
Not quite, but close.drivin_me_nuts said:
Your answer lies more in finding the reasons why you refuse to eat certain foods and that answer lies somewhere in the deeper recesses of your mind. Start there.
My fussy eating started before I can remember. Starting with not liking milk as a baby and progressed from there. There are lots of things I don't eat, I just wanted to tackle the two biggest ones.
I am going to give the small amounts of nasty food a try as it might work. If not, then I might start adding small amounts in my food (or maybe at the same time).
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