Fussy food eater

Hi and welcome to the community. 

Firstly, I will say that I'm not a medical professional or dietician, and I would strongly encourage you to speak to your GP about how you can lose weight - they can refer you to an NHS dietician if required. I was offered a referral when I was trying to lose weight but I managed it on my own with the support and encouragement of my GP.

However, I will share my experiences and put forward some ideas. When I wanted to lose weight, I researched diet extensively and experimented with what worked for me, which was a low carb diet with the addition of some fibre rich foods. I ate meat, fish, eggs, cheese, vegetables, nuts, and high fibre cereal for breakfast. 

Because you struggle with the texture or taste of most foods, changing your diet is going to be more challenging. I am not keen on fresh fruit but I do like the pots of chopped peaches in fruit juice, which I like because there is consistency of taste and texture, however you might not like any fruit.

Meat contains essential protein and minerals such as iron and zinc, but it's better if it doesn't have breadcrumbs or batter on it. Fresh meat is obviously best, but can be expensive. Usually it's cheaper to buy frozen chicken breasts, legs or wings, or sausages or burgers (look for sausages or burgers with a higher meat content and less "fillers" - some can be 100% meat). I also buy ready roasted chicken breasts from the chilled section and reheat them.

It can be good to have a meat alternative occasionally, for example you can get Quorn Swedish style balls, which taste a lot like meat balls, and they are quite high in fibre too.

Vegetables or fruit are important, not just because of the fibre content but because they contain vitamin C and a deficiency can cause a disease called scurvy - it isn't heard of much these days as even people who don't eat much fruit or veg eat quite a lot of potatoes, which contain the vitamin. But I was concerned that you haven't mentioned that you eat potatoes either, not even chips or crisps? So if that is the case I suggest you discuss it with your doctor as they might want to test for vitamin deficiency.

I'm not sure what foods to suggest that you might like, but here are some that are high in fibre that you could try:

Nuts or peanuts

Oats - in real porridge or muesli, or if you don't like milk try cereal bars containing oats, or oat cakes

Bran cereals

High fibre breads or crackers or crispbread (some have oats or seeds in)

Dried fruit (only small amounts as they have a higher sugar content than fresh fruit)

Fresh carrot sticks Roasted parsnips, Vegetable crisps

A small jacket potato (eat the skin too)

Dark chocolate (only a few squares at a time, but most dark chocolate is around 10% fibre),

Hey! Thank you, I am very aware of what i need, im a bit obsessive in the respect that I like to know what I need for a healthy lifestyle, but its getting to that stage that im really struggling with

I think youre absolutely right about seeing a GP though thank you I will speak with them soon and see what happens

You are welcome, hope things work out well.

You are welcome, hope things work out well.