What food did you love when you were overweight but now think is gross?
 

I was just thinking about how my tastes have changed since I've been eating healthy for the past few years, and I realized some foods I used to love, well, now I just think they're gross. So I thought I'd ask everyone else what foods are like that for them! Here aresome of my "foods I used to love but now think are gross":

- those mini blueberry muffins that come in a five-pack
- cheese danishes
- donuts at breakfast time
- Grandma's cookies (those two-pack kind)
- those vending machine sixpacks of chocolate donuts

I'm sure there are more, these are just off the top of my head...

I dont think my tastes have changed all that much. I got fat on portions more than poor foods.

There are LOTS of foods that I think are gross, but I always would have...such as the one meal my freezer coop made this month. They took perfectly good chicken broccoli and brown rice and drowned it in cream of mushroom soup, cheese and MAYO...oh ick. The soup and cheese I maybe could tolerate but mayo belongs on sandwiches in teaspoon quantities, not in casseroles in cup quantities. My tongue felt like an oil slick.

I wouldn't say gross, but I have no desire for them at all, even when held in front of me:

-hamburgers
-mr noodles
-kraft dinner
-cookies
-chocolate milk
- too much dressing on a salad (the veggies just don't thrive that way!)

Wow. I just don't know! The thought of most of the foods I used to love is still appealing... I just don't eat them and luckily have foods I love to eat to replace them. I haven't actually tried a food I used to love and found it gross...

Most of the foods I used to love I still do. I think it's mostly all the pre-packaged processed foods I eat that I find gross now. In fact, it's mostly packaged muffins that do it. I used to LOVE packaged muffins and ate them all the time. Now they just taste like chemicals to me.

Of course, I used to be able to eat and drink stuff made with artificial sweeteners and couldn't tell the difference, but now they taste like chemicals too. :shrug:

Although I don't eat them anymore and am absolutely truly enjoying and loving what I'm eating now, there's not too much I would actually call gross. I would call gross the sheer VOLUME of food I ate previously. Butter and mayonaise and cream cheese ALWAYS grossed me out.

The mere "thought" of eating some of my old stuff does send me into a panic though. I don't think I will ever be able to eat fried foods again. Just the thought of not knowing how much oil is in there frightens me. Same goes with cream sauces. And I've still yet to let myself go (fortunately) while eating out. When I do eat out, it's always baked fish, or grilled chicken or an undressed salad. Food in its most natural state. The less additives the better, less calories therefore.

I don't eat ice cream anymore or my favorite peanut M & M's or pasta or bread, rice and on and on. Though they still appeal to me. How I wish they DID seem gross to me. :(

Fast food burgers
Any kind of candy bar except Lindt 70% dark chocolate or almond M&Ms...:devil:
Jax (Cheese doodle type things)
Packaged meals like hamburger helper, instant potatoes, etc
Sweet and sour chicken

Regular peanut butter - it tastes disgustingly sweet and has a waxy consistency

Most everything else (loaded nachos, Bloomin' Onion, biggie McDonald's fries, giant muffins, peanut M&Ms etc) - well, I'm sure I would still love the taste of it, but it would probably make me pretty sick the next day.

It's early days for me, and I am a long way off maintaining, but I thought this was a great thread for accounting to myself! :lol:

I still crave pizza, and haven't had the strength yet to have a slice in case I eat the whole thing! :o I can't imagine NOT liking pizza... so for now - only healthy options :lol:

I can't imagine eating fast food burgers now, though I ate them regularly before. I don't know if I would dislike them, I just find the thought of putting that into my body now a waste of calories and not sensible. I haven't tried them, and I don't want to.

Aside from that, not much. I am VERY aware that moderation in all things is the keystone for me... so I do avoid things that I would likely eat too much of now - like tortilla chips, say. I just don't have them in the house in case the whole bag evaporated into my mouth!

Heather :D

I didn't eat much fast food before, but I would occasionally get something called "Super Potato Oles" from Taco Johns, last time I tried them they were so gross! Oily and so much salt it felt like it was burning my tongue. I just looked up the nutritional info for “fun”. I would order them without the beef so it that would slightly alter this I imagine, but they’re 1060 calories, 70 g of fat (20 sat, 15 trans) and 3200 mg sodium! Holy crap, no wonder they taste gross. Also, I can no longer stomach anything from Taco Bell.

I don’t like Doritos or any of the usual flavored chips/snacks. But I will still eat small portions of the “healthy” versions of junk food, mostly Robert's Gourmet stuff. Tings are awesome!

Unfortunately, there's nothing I really find gross... :o However, my tastes have definitely changed in that I now like more things than before, and especially more healthy things, so I most often turn to those now rather than to my old pizza & fast-food. I've also become a little 'difficult' in terms of junk food: for instance, I don't have the same liking to, say, industrial, packaged cookies than I had before--instead, I will really enjoy them if I go over my leg to bake them (with whole-wheat flour, dark chocolate, etc.), and their prepackaged versions won't appeal to me that much. Of course, since I'm lazy and don't like baking, it all evens out in the end. :D (I've simply adopted the mindset of "if I'm to have a less healthy food, then I at least want it to be the BEST I can find, the one kind that will trigger a series of mini-orgasms in my mouth, and not some cheap version that doesn't even taste that great". Again, no need to say that it's easier said than found. :))

Well, I'm just starting to lose weight but I thought this was an interesting thread. I have a reverse observation: most of my life, at a more normal weight, I thought fatty sauces and dishes were disgusting eg mayonaise, guacamole, butter sauces, etc. I would always emphasize that I don't want any "stuff" on my food - just plain. Well, somewhere along the way, I picked up those habits and a lot of weight. Hmmm, maybe there's a connection....
I don't know yet if I will find these foods gross. I certainly hope so.
DH did bring home a couple of 12 oz strip steaks for dinner. I open up the package & they were covered in fat. It was gross. I cut mine in half & gave half to the dog. The other half, I still ate only about half of that because of all the fat. I told him don't buy steaks again. I really was flipped out - I can't blow my whole days calorie allotment on a piece of meat!!!
Anyway, I hope I find all the old foods disgusting at some point.

Glory87, try Smucker's Organic peanut butter. Only peanuts. Many other brands add sugar to the peanut butter, which I think is criminal!

One of the foods I now find gross: fast food french fries, from ANY fast food place. They are not worth eating under any circumstances.

Jay

Oh, I love natural peanut butter, I get the stuff from whole foods, nothing but peanuts and salt. I eat natural peanut butter every day for breakfast!

I just hate "regular" peanut butter which I used to eat by the spoonful right out of the jar. It has the weirdest consistency to me now.

Pringles!

I like the crunch and the salt, but they leave a greasy taste in my mouth, even just one. I never liked "regular" chips for the same reason, but now don't want any. Yippee!

Not at maintenance yet but I've found this nonetheless.

Jax

I used to love Mt. Dew and haven't had one now in over 2 yrs., I'm sure it would still taste good to me but it's not worth it.

Foods I know I won't eat anymore because I think it's disgusting now is:
Kentucky Fried Chicken
Taco Bell
Fried potatoes or french fries
Donuts or Cinnamon Rolls
Any type of candy bar
Chinese Food (I did try it and it was disgusting).

I simply can't stand grease anymore. The two times I've had pizza in over 2 yrs., I had to blot the grease off with my napkin.

Potato chips and salty snacks are a complete turn-off for me now.

Gosh, I still can't imagine finding peanut butter gross. It's on the "just can't have it in the house because I will eat it all straight from the jar, several potions at a time" list.

I can't stand any kind of pre-packaged baked good that contains a lot of preservatives. (However the homemade stuff still tastes really good, darn it!) I never liked much fast food, but pizza is still extremely tempting. I wish more foods tasted gross to me!

I really miss and actually crave fresh fruits and vegetables and lean meats if I skip those things for a few days. Comparing my staples of teenager-hood - pizza, pasta, sweets, diet coke - to what I eat now, and I do enjoy the food I eat, is like night and day. I don't necessarily dislike what I used to eat but I do like the very different things I eat now. At least I've trained my tongue to be happy eating healthier foods as well as the junky ones.

Darn it, now I'm thinking of pizza cheese! Stop it Megan!

I seem to stumble on new dislikes every day! It's almost like my tongue is no longer wired to my brain! I'll remember something that tasted good.....I'll fix it or buy it.....I'll eat it and suddenly I get this ewwww! That's icky! Two things that did it to me this week:
Velveeta~(my kids love grilled cheese using Velveeta--DH and I usually eat a different variety). While making their sandwiches, I sliced a slice to eat and YUCK! How did I used to eat this?
margarine~I was spreading this on our corn on the cob before microwaving it and there was a little left on the knife which I then licked off and again! ICK!

Hmmm, I don't have too many, but like Megan, prepackaged pastries so don't appeal to me any more. Donuts don't either, and when I did eat a previous favorite, my stomach felt awful. DH decided to make hot cereal for us last week, and didn't realize how much I'd cut down the salt when I make it, and used the amount on the package - boy it was nearly inedible. But I could probably eat a lot of things I used to have and still enjoy them - I just pass them by.... Sigh.

I had a hard time with this question too. I wanted to say perogies ... but no, I'd like some. I still eat the odd donut.
Maybe butter ... I can get a nice flavour without getting things all greased up now.

Well, I don't find it gross, but I no longer like chocolate due to my meds. That alone helped me lose a ton based on the amount I used to eat daily.

Fast food burgers are a definite gross out - total fat on a bun.

I'm trying to think about this. I've always been a somewhat picky eater, so in general, I always felt that a fair amount of things were gross. I always found packaged baked goods a little freaky. I always have found it odd that a baked good could spend two months in a bag at room temperature. The ones that I've tasted always have a weird aftertaste -- I must be sensitive to the preservatives.

Me too! It's seriously like eating peanut-flavored Crisco. I think my flip from Jif to natural PB is my biggest taste change.

As for fast food, absolutely none of it is appealing to me now. I even think fast food salads are gross because of the poor quality of greens and overprocessed, oversalty chicken breast. I liked Wendy's fresh fruit bowls in a pinch, but they're gone now.

Meg, I'm the same way. I eat a lot of salad at home, but I don't like any of the salad at fast food places.

I used to eat a lot of ham and now I prefer chicken or turkey.

I'm still overweight :( but just cannot eat Kentucky Fried Chicken, poutine or those darned salt-laden frozen chicken breasts! I have really become salt sensitive. I used to love KFC and poutine and used the chicken boobs for convenience.

Hmmm, There's not much that I don't still like the taste of. Regular PB with sugar is one, and those chicken nuggets things from fast food restaurants is the other. I had one of my daughters a couple of months ago and it was nasty. Just deep fried breading with chicken flavoring added to it. N-A-S-T-Y

I'm not a maintainer yet, but I find that there are already things that I can't eat. I use to sit with a bag of Oreos and watch tv. Now, even one is too sweet for me and tastes funny. I can't eat fried chicken at all, just looking at it makes my stomach turn. We got some last weekend because the kids were wanting it and ended up throwing it all away but the two pieces they ate. Their tastes are changing too! Before it would have been gone in a flash. French fries use to be a staple in my diet, but now I find that I still like them here and there, but in very small doses and not very often. If they're too salty I'm done, where I would have just eaten them anyway before.

I did a test. I had poutine for supper last night. Nope, I loved it! I coulda had a much bigger serving. Yummy!

This sort of thing would appear to be -at least a part of- my maintaining challenge.

Is this thread making anybody else hungry? Mmmm, junk food!

LALALALA.

I'm looking away now.

Anne

Oh my many of you have said things that I've forgotten I now truly find disgusting ...

Kraft or Jif PB ... DH accidentally bought some Kraft a while back and DS thought I had added sugar to it :lol:
- Mac and Cheese
- Kentucky
- Fast food burgers
- White lettuce, I only eat very green lettuce, romaine etc...
- those processed meals, Michelina's for example... They give people the worse bad breath too!! The teachers eat them at school and I can't even walk into the break room after someone has heated one of those up in the microwave...
- Garlic, yes, garlic, I can't stand garlic for some reason anymore :shrug:, I know it's not a junk food, but I just don't like the smell of it or the smell it leaves behind.

Ya, I've become a flippin' annoying anti-processed snob. I'm kind of sad at hating on frozen dinners, though; Michelina's was pretty convenient, but I just can't stand the taste anymore.

What actually happened was I recognized and accepted my natural tastes, rather than changed. I think when things don't taste quite "right" but have a lot of salt or sugar or fat in them, you want to eat more of it because you're "seeking" that flavor it's promising but not delivering. I was never a sugar fiend, but I could eat a candy bar, even way back when I occasionally ate a king size, and it always left me wanting more. Now a square or two of Lindt 85% and my brain is completely happy.

Of course, I won't keep my old obsession, flavored potato chips and flavored tortilla chips, in the house. That's one nasty processed food type that I fear could still lure me in.

Crikey Ilene. Let's NOT hang out together after I've had dinner. :)

I looooooooooooovvvvvvvvvveeeee garlic. It makes life worth living. Together with chocolate.

Luminous, I think you're absolutely right about processed foods and natural tastes. I just read a book that discusses exactly this issue: Waistland by Deirdre Barnett. She talks about how we're evolutionarily hardwired to desire sweet, salty, and fatty flavors. So what food manufacturers have done is to create what she calls "supernormal" foods -- foods that are sweeter, saltier, and fattier than anything found in nature. And, of course, they're higher in calories than foods found in nature.

It's invidious because those kinds of foods do appeal to us and our innate tastes. You're right that we have to leave behind the processed junk in order to recognize the flavors of real food. Then you realize how sweet carrots, sweet potatoes, and pineapple actually are -- they taste like candy now! And you become really sensitive to added salt.

That's why I do better with a food plan that doesn't include things like 100 calorie packs of highly processed foods. Their supernormal sweetness, saltiness, and fat just sets off cravings for more.

Baff, garlic + chocolate? Do you mean together?? :faint:

What? Is that wierd? It's my favorite lunch! I do this thing where I melt dark chocolate and then simmer slivers of garlic in it until the garlic becomes soft and yummy. Then I stir in half a serrano chili for some extra kick and grated zucchini, because I add zucchini to everything. It's especially good over whole wheat pasta but sometimes I'll just eat it with a spoon, like choco-garlic soup. Delish!







Ok, I'm kidding. Not together. But chocolate and garlic are, individually, some of the greatest foods on earth.

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

But I'd say it's chocolate and wine.

I think you're absolutely right about this. I've noticed that if I have a few meals with a higher fat content than I'm used to, I have a really hard time staying away from the fatty foods. Same with salty processed things like chips. I crave them in a way that I just don't if I eat a mostly clean diet. I think it has less to do with 'will power' and more to do with the taste buds' ability to get very happy with processed uber-fatty, uber-flavored foods very quickly. And also mouthfeel. Fat has a very different mouth feel to lean food.

Crikey. Now you've got me. I definitely consume more wine than chocolate and I love, love, love it. Hmmmmm. Tricky. I'd also add really excellent cheese to the list and probably quite a few other things if I started giving it some thought.

It's time to celebrate the earth's bounty, in all its garlicky-cheesey-chocolatey-grapey goodness. :)

My tastes haven't changed drastically, because even while fat, I thought a majority of fast food burgers were gross, Grandma's cookies, most candy bars (there are a few exceptions though!), all regular soda, most chips (except Cheetos, Sun Chips, and Ranch Doritos), most cookies, with the exception of Oreos, Famous Amos, Mrs. Smith's, and HOMEMADE:D, most cakes, and anything oozing with grease.

Like Ennay, I didn't get fat off technically "bad" food as much as I did off portions - I ate the wrong amounts of the wrong things. For instance, I loved pasta, bread, and dishes with white rice. Now, these things in small portions are fine, but I ate them in JINORMOUS quantities. I would feel explosively full, but I just couldn't stop eating.

I've found that I'm not a gigantic fan of Chinese food anymore though, with the exception of crab rangoon, crispy eggplant, and a few tofu dishes. I used to LOVE Chinese food!