I see people here who change their eating habits and when they slip up and eat some old favorites they no longer taste good, or make them naseous, or taste greasy, etc.
Sad to report that after 7 months, I slipped off my plan this afternoon and ate more than one food that really has no place in my WOE. And it all tasted great. The good news is I got myself under control and am back on plan after only a few hours instead of days (or weeks!). But have learned that I will have to use my continued committment to my plan rather than changed tastebuds to stay on track.
There are a lot of foods that I think do not taste nearly as good as I remember them. Salt is the most noticeable. I've always liked less salt than most people, but now it's gotten to the point that foods that are salty to most people, are unbearably salty to me (hubby has a hard time cooking for the both of us, because if it tastes good to him, I can barely eat it).
There are other foods that taste just as wonderful as they always have (or more so).
I'm not so astonished by the foods that still taste good - as by the foods I once hated, that I now love.
Brussels sprouts were not just my "least favorite" vegetable - they were my mortal enemy. If I were a super hero, brussels sprouts would be my arch nememsis.
Last week, I bought more than two pounds of brussels sprouts, and ate them all (by myself) in less than 3 days (and can't wait to buy more).
Lots of my former foods no longer hold any or much appeal to me. But some of them still do and always will.
I used to LOVE Fettuccine Alfredo. I don't think I could ever eat it again. Just the thought of ALL those fat laden calories. But then again, I KNOW I WILL eat cheesecake again. Boxed cakes and cookies- like Drakes, Entemann's, Chips Ahoy, etc. I haven't eaten them in over 3 years and not sure if I ever will. Home baked cakes and cookies - that's another story.
But the truth is, even a planned splurge for me is *usually* disappointing, though not always. Now that I know better, it's hard for me to muster up the same feelings for those old favorites. So though they still taste pretty darn good (mostly), they now come with too high a price tag for me and therefore as good as they are, they're just not AS enjoyable.
Although I do have a different view of what's worth it or not.
Mcdonalds for lunch? not worth it
Triple the calories going for Japanese Hibachi for dinner? TOTALLY worth every single calorie.
I think although some foods have lost their appeal, for me they will always call.
However on Friday night I decided to have a rich choc mousse as desert as I've been craving choc for SO long. I'd planned it and it really was wonderful, but as soon as it was finished I just thought, it wasn't really worth it.
For me right now, although I am struggling to stay positive and believe I'll ever lose all this weight, seeing the numbers go down on the scales is better than listening to those cravings.
Way to get back on track! I don't think I'll ever be one of those people, I think all of that bad food will always taste good to me!
yup your not the only one.... They still taste great but i find if i think about it in a new way i can totally say no to it. Like thoes cheesy fries at chillies. We made some at work the other day picture this a pizza pan with a mountain of fries with a mountain of chessn covering the fries also bacon on top with some green onion. i was tempted by smell but a co worker helped me by calling it the triple bypass fries and told me to get ready to run(my exercise of choice) a long while if i even wanted to taste it lol yeah tough love but it sure helped...im proud to say i walked away...
I think it depends on the food your eating to. I think there are lots of foods that I craved and ate mindlessly that I find I thought I liked but it wasn't realy that good anyway. Like McDonalds or cheap chocolate or other takeout places. BUT then there are the foods that are just darm good like cheesecake or realy good chocolate or turkey dinner with all the stuffing and gravey. So i guess it just depends for me anyway.
I haven't tried any recently, but I think my problem is that a few bites of bad stuff always tastes like heaven...
3 pieces of candy corn, the first bite of chocolate cake, the first few french fries...
After that, with each bite the pleasure diminishes, but my problem is that I've never been able to stop at the first bite... maybe I keep thinking that if I eat more, I'll get that hit of pleasure again...
There are some "healthy" but high calorie foods that I'll love the first through the seventeenth bite... I'm trying to stay away from those right now.
I admire you for going off track and then getting right back on!!!!
Yep, sadly, I'm with the OP. The things I shouldn't eat still taste *fantastic* to me.
On the other hand, I also really enjoy the food I do eat, so that's a plus. It's mainly just having the gumption to not take the first bite of forbidden fruit (um, maybe that should be "forbidden fries").
Darn, not one of those people
