Taste of Food?

[Elana]

Hey Girls...I was wondering if I could get your opinions on this topic.....

I have been eating clean for a good amount of time now, however, ever since I moved back down to school, my eating has been extremely clean....I mean I eat exactly every 3 hours, no small cheats during the week, and so forth....I can't see how it could get any cleaner....I carb cycle and vary my calories everyday....anyway...

My question for you ladies is....have you lost the taste for food? I know this may sound silly, but honestly, I don't crave anything anymore. I seriously eat when I have to and that is it...its like the taste of food has gone away! I don't even crave pizza which is my cheat meal. The other week, I realized that I was supposed to cheat that day....a couple weeks back I would have had that marked on my calander! Food now just appears to be food to fuel my body and nothing else more...I mean don't get me wrong I look forward to my higher carb days ....otherwise.... its just food....

Thanks ahead of time!

 

[*Bunny*]

The past three weeks is the only real time I've ate what I wanted, when I wanted and enjoyed every dang bite of what I ate... otherwise since January, the food = fuel applied to me as well.

It's great to enjoy food again I suppose, but I had my break, will still have my 'cheat' meal and eventually I see the old mentality coming back as my diet cleans up over the next few months.

I never really LOVED to eat as my tastes were limited. Now I am open to more variety in my diet, anyway, I'll stop rambling... have to go train...

Have great weekend!

 

[Sassy69]

Yep I agree. Ever since I started "dieting", I can go several weeks eating the same thing every day (e.g. chicken & vegetables), but then I flip out one day & just can't look at another chicken for a while. Then I get back on the ball & fall back into the old pattern. When you get into dieting for a specific reason, e.g. competition, then it really helps to make that switch in associations about food - this is really hard the first time doing it as well. All you can think of is what you crave because food usually has an enjoyment aspect to it. When you have to eat the same stuff for weeks on end on a tight schedule with no room for deviation, you can get bored w/ it and then you start the mental games of "OMG I can't look at another chicken. I want an m&m so bad I can taste it." THen you start panicking, then you freak & run to the store, buy a pound of m&m's & manage to kill it in one sitting. Then you spend the next week feelign fat & guilty about it.

This last time around, I started using VPX Dietex as an appetite suppresant. And it worked beautifully. Killed my appetite dead. DEAD! But the one thing I noticed that I missed was just the act of enjoying eating. LIke you said - its just fuel. You shovel down whatever you're scheduled to eat at x time.

But it does get old....!

What I have done though is lose my craving for a lot fo stuff I used to love. Particularly ice cream. But now I'm scared to death to have any because I have zero lactose tolerance. I would PAY for a week if I had 1 cheese crumble. But I've also really started appreciating certain foods that are on my diet. Like if I'm in a rush, I'll throw some chicken on the broiler & eat that. If its a quiet nite, I'll fire up teh grill and really do it up right. But at the end, its still just chicken w/ nothing but paprika on it. But dayum is it good!

 

[starlet]

Yup, after a few weeks food just loses its taste, I don't have any cravings, and I don't really have the desire to cheat...one time I was at a restaurant, supposed to eat my big cheat meal, and I ordered a nice, fattening, carb-full pasta dish in a cream sauce with chicken, and it came with a salad. I ate the salad, and when the meal came all I did was picked the chicken off, ate that, and maybe two bites of the pasta I'd looked forward to all day! I won't even do big cheat meals/cheat days because it just messes with my digestive system (I have IBS, and my digestive system is REALLY sensitive to changes in diet), and I pay for it the next day. Instead I'll cheat a little 2 times a week by eating a chocolate chip cookie (the one thing I never lose the taste for!!!) and I don't feel like crap afterward.

 

[jenscats5]

Yep I'm feeling that way anymore myself....not really enjoying what I'm eating - just eat it to eat.

Even before my comp. dieting began - I noticed that the more I stayed away from certain foods - the less I missed them....