Selective eating disorder

[gb155]

I never thought we would end up encouraging you to eat more Gaz. Good luck with it ,you now have the added incentive that eating more nutritious food will improve your cycling abilities even more.Also reduce your risk of all kinds of medical problems later in life.

Took some guts to tell the world about it .

My problem is the reverse of yours,theres almost nothing i wont eat and in large quantity if I dont keep a grip of myself.I have it pretty much under control now and cant see me sliding back into a couch potato again.

Best wishes on the new challenge Gaz

LOL @ the bold bit

Thanks for the support though, it took bigger cahonies coming out about it than I even thought I had, turns out, it was the best thing I have ever done, I still have to beat this yet though but I am confident for the first time in my life that I can and WILL do it.

Thanks Man and good luck to you too

Gaz

 

[ColinJ]

Gaz, you might find this handy at some point in the future ...

ColinJ's Guide to Bananas

Bananas are a great source of energy and essential nutrients like potassium.

Edible bananas (the ones you see in the shops) do not have significant seeds in them. (They grow on sterile plants produced from offshoots of other banana plants.)

Apparently you can eat banana skins but I never have! Also, you can cook with bananas, but I've never done that either.

Bananas are really nice in milkshakes and smoothies, suitably blended.

Bananas are handy for cyclists but very ripe bananas bruise and blacken easily, becoming very mushy so it is best to handle them with some care.

Bananas are picked while unripe. When they are like this, they are green, hard and starchy. Refrigeration to a particular temperature keeps them from ripening while being transported. When they arrive at the wholesalers, they are warmed a few degrees and might be exposed to ethylene to start the ripening process. They will then be sold. You may see them sold in the shops still green to some extent. It will take them a few days extra to become ripe enough to eat. If you want to eat them soon, buy yellow ones. If you are buying ahead, buy greenish, or buy a mixture so some are ripening while you eat the others.

As bananas ripen, the outsides start to turn yellow and the starches inside start to turn to sugars. They become sweeter and softer. If a banana has been transported, stored and sold the right way it will ripen like this. If it has been mishandled it may never ripen properly. Most do, though.

A ripe banana stored in coolish conditions will last a few days before starting to become over-ripe. (Some people like them like that.) The skins start to develop brown spots which get bigger until the yellow finally disappears altogether. They become very soft inside, even mushy, and very sweet. I prefer them well-ripe but not over-ripe. An over-ripe banana is not good to carry in a jersey pocket because it will quickly become a mushy mess.

Sometimes when you peel a banana, little stringy bits are left on the fruit inside. If they annoy you, just tug them off and discard them. (It's an appearance thing, they don't taste funny.)

If/when you get round to eating bread - banana sandwiches are yummy!





Enjoy your voyage of discovery!

 

[gb155]

Gaz, you might find this handy at some point in the future ...

ColinJ's Guide to Bananas

Bananas are a great source of energy and essential nutrients like potassium.

Edible bananas (the ones you see in the shops) do not have significant seeds in them. (They grow on sterile plants produced from offshoots of other banana plants.)

Apparently you can eat banana skins but I never have! Also, you can cook with bananas, but I've never done that either.

Bananas are really nice in milkshakes and smoothies, suitably blended.

Bananas are handy for cyclists but very ripe bananas bruise and blacken easily, becoming very mushy so it is best to handle them with some care.

Bananas are picked while unripe. When they are like this, they are green, hard and starchy. Refrigeration to a particular temperature keeps them from ripening while being transported. When they arrive at the wholesalers, they are warmed a few degrees and might be exposed to ethylene to start the ripening process. They will then be sold. You may see them sold in the shops still green to some extent. It will take them a few days extra to become ripe enough to eat. If you want to eat them soon, buy yellow ones. If you are buying ahead, buy greenish, or buy a mixture so some are ripening while you eat the others.

As bananas ripen, the outsides start to turn yellow and the starches inside start to turn to sugars. They become sweeter and softer. If a banana has been transported, stored and sold the right way it will ripen like this. If it has been mishandled it may never ripen properly. Most do, though.

A ripe banana stored in coolish conditions will last a few days before starting to become over-ripe. (Some people like them like that.) The skins start to develop brown spots which get bigger until the yellow finally disappears altogether. They become very soft inside, even mushy, and very sweet. I prefer them well-ripe but not over-ripe. An over-ripe banana is not good to carry in a jersey pocket because it will quickly become a mushy mess.

Sometimes when you peel a banana, little stringy bits are left on the fruit inside. If they annoy you, just tug them off and discard them. (It's an appearance thing, they don't taste funny.)

If/when you get round to eating bread - banana sandwiches are yummy!





Enjoy your voyage of discovery!

Dude that's gold

I am a real geek, so analyse EVERYTHING

Its pure gold to me that, Think I know what i'll be doing next

 

[Telemark]

Dude that's gold

I am a real geek, so analyse EVERYTHING

Its pure gold to me that, Think I know what i'll be doing next

Don't tell us ... ... is there a "fingers crossed" smiley?

People do have a wide range of preferences when it comes to bananas. A friend REALLY likes them when the skin goes mottled and brown, whereas I prefer to make them into banana cakes when they reach that stage. Fresh bananas need to be yellow for me, with possibly just a tiny hint of green near the stem (but I am not fussy ;-) ). When they are really green, they taste of soap (or what I think soap may taste like - and no, I am not going to run an experiment )

As Colin has said, bananas are the perfect snack for taking on bike rides, and they come ready wrapped in their own bio-degradeable wrapping.

Some further thoughts - how do you get on with juices and milk-shake type things (liquid food)? Did I make this up, or did you mention smoothies somewhere?

T

 

[fossyant]

Gaz, I'm impressed you've done so much on your previous diet - especially losing all the weight, and doing the long bike rides. Fingers crossed you'll beat this, like the weight.

You'll be flying with the correct food.

Good Luck - you're an inspiration !

 

[ColinJ]

Gaz, I'm impressed you've done so much on your previous diet - especially losing all the weight, and doing the long bike rides. Fingers crossed you'll beat this, like the weight.

You'll be flying with the correct food.

Seriously, I've been thinking that myself.

It's amazing that you have done as well as you have so far, but with even just a few healthy foodstuffs incorporated into your diet, your energy levels and health should be transformed.

 

[david1701]

don't stress out if you can't eat, I have normal eating habites (well for a celiac) and I can't be in the same room as a bannana because of the smell and my mum can't sit next to someone eating fish for the same reason, people are different

also tastes evolve, I used to hate mash/mince but now I love shepherds pie

 

[buggi]

Gaz, you might find this handy at some point in the future ...

ColinJ's Guide to Bananas

Gaz, i like my banana's yellow because they are softer and sweeter. even nicer if there are a few brown freckles on them. but after that, as said, they become too sweet and mushy.

Don't be afraid to try them at different stages, if you don't like yellowy green, try yellow or yellowy brown. All green or all brown probably won't be nice, but as said, they taste different through the stages, so you'll have to find your own "stage". Importantly also, for someone with SED, they have a different feel and texture during each stage, as Colin said. the greener they are the harder they are and the more yellow to brown they are, the softer they get.

and... i survived on banana's for about a year when my mum put me on solids and this was the only thing i would eat. even after that year, for about the next 5 years it was 80% of what i ate because i just would gag on anything else.

On my bike rides from London to Paris, i pretty much survive the day on banana's (with a bread roll and cake thrown in for good measure) because i don't like the other stuff they give us on route (they nip out for chips on the night LOL). As said, they are a brilliant source of nutrition. i'm surprised i don't look like a banana.

and i love banana sandwich

 

[ColinJ]

don't stress out if you can't eat ...

The thing is that Gaz's diet was going to kill him one day. If he told his doctor about it, I'm sure that the doctor would have made that very clear to him.

There is no way that his body could have been getting all that it needed from the 3 man-made things that he was eating. Obviously he shouldn't stress about it because stress would only make things worse, and I'm sure that that was part of the original problem. SED is still an important thing to tackle though.

The reason for me posting about bananas is that they are so very variable. Gaz said that he doesn't know much about food so he might have picked up a hard green banana, taken one bite of it and made the decision there and then never to touch them again.

I've commented on his blog about this subject. I'm trying to put myself in his place and think what it would be like trying something new only to find that it tastes horrible. It would be easy to fall into the trap of thinking that one unripe banana means that all bananas taste horrid, or one dried up orange means that are all like that.

Once Gaz is more confident about trying new foods, he can discover a lot of this for himself but I'm just trying to help him avoid some pitfalls in these early days.

 

[darkstar]

Under-ripe bananas contain loads of starch so are harder to digest, stick to yellow/black ones Sweeter as well.

 

[slugonabike]

Ugh, can't bear bananas once they go mottled and soft. It's partly down to taste but also texture and smell, it has to be yellow (with a hint of green) for me! Which just goes to show that Colin is right and things need to be tried in different forms, if possible, before deciding whether they are palatable.

 

[gb155]

Peeps

You might not think it, but the discussion ongoing here is like gold dust to me

This weekend hasnt been a great one for trying things, but I wont beat myself up, it happens, real life takes over,but dealing with this is now at the forefront of my mind

Colin:

I have had loads of visitors to my blog via google and the search topic "Help for SED" do you mind if I put your guide on my blog ? (Giving you full credit of course)

Your guide has me salving for a Banana now .....Just picking the right time.

 

[darkstar]

Not too sure what foods you currently like Gaz, but perhaps an idea is finding a curry sauce you like and using that to get into more and more vegetables, as it'll mask the taste of them? Forgive me if this is a ridiculous idea, as I know nothing about the issue, just a thought.

 

[ColinJ]

Colin:

I have had loads of visitors to my blog via google and the search topic "Help for SED" do you mind if I put your guide on my blog ? (Giving you full credit of course)

Your guide has me salving for a Banana now .....Just picking the right time.

Yeah, go ahead!

I know you are working on a weight-loss guide but I reckon a guide for SED sufferers might be even more helpful. There is a lot of info out there for weight loss, less so for SED sufferers - I'd never even heard of it until you posted about it! You won't write everything in your blog so I suggest that you keep a detailed diary of how you tackle your SED and you can refer back to it later.


As for trying bananas - why not buy some green ones and sample them at intervals all the way from green through to brown?

You'll spit most of them out, but no worries. You can just cut an inch or two off the end of a banana each time - you don't need to waste a whole banana at a time. (Cut the last little bit off which has been exposed to the air and discard that before trying the next piece.)

You'll be amazed at how much the texture and taste changes as the ripening process progresses. It might be that you'll hate bananas, full-stop. No problem, there are thousands of other things to try!

Just bear in mind that natural food isn't as consistent as man-made stuff. I bought some carrots the other day and they were almost tasteless whereas a good fresh carrot has a strong taste. I wouldn't give up on a foodstuff until you've tried good examples of it several times.

 

[ColinJ]

Not too sure what foods you currently like Gaz, but perhaps an idea is finding a curry sauce you like and using that to get into more and more vegetables, as it'll mask the taste of them? Forgive me if this is a ridiculous idea, as I know nothing about the issue, just a thought.

Actually, that might not be a totally daft suggestion Gaz. I know you like Chilli flavour. I like really hot curries and chillies and people accuse me of making them so hot that they can't actually taste what's in them! I always have chilled natural yoghurt on standby though in case they are too hot even for me ...