Sugar cookies=Death By Yuck

[silverthorne]

First cheetos, and now store-made sugar cookies are tasting really bad to me these days (someone offered me one and I took one to be polite). At least the one I had was actually deficient in sugar content (it tasted more like dough than sugar and vanilla), but even that amount was a warning that sugar overload (and the resultant tongue burn) was missed by a very narrow margin.

Some part of me is proud of my new intolerance for junk food...the rest is slightly mourning my childhood tastebuds. *g*

Ah well--the less I'm craving crappy food, the better.

Comments

[skywardprodigal.livejournal.com]

I like how that works. I know that there's lots of things I don't eat because they taste off to me.

It's still possible to eat strangely even if one is doing the so-called natural route, but there are things I wouldn't put in my mouth for love or money. It's been soooo long since I've had cheetos.

[silverthorne.livejournal.com]

*nods* Yeah. There are still processed food that tastes okay to me (V8, coffee creamer, chocolate, certain high end ice creams, triskets and corn chips), but for the most part, I even think about junk food/processed food and the best reaction I get from the craving centers is 'meh'.

I can even walk into a 'fresh' supermarket deli or pass a fast food joint, appreciate some of the smells (most of them having to do with that 'grilled' smell--which is misleading), but the thought of actually buying something from those places gets an internal 'yuck' and a craving for some real meat/fish/chicken done on my counter grill instead. I don't even crave bread anymore, really, except for fresh french bread.

And even that gets a pass from me when I'm shopping.

What I'm still amazed by though is how my body actually craves healthy food over junk food when I have the choice (except, of course, chocolate). Which is mind blowing for me since for a good portion of my adult life, my diet wasn't the healthiest in the world. I was expecting to have a LOT more trouble staying away from junk, fast food, and starches, because I'm so used to eating them all the time. Or...I was three months ago, anyway. :)

[chiss.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's kind of amazing. I remember the moment where I went and had a sandwich from KFC to "reward" myself after a month of eating healthy, and almost threw it up because the only thing I could taste was the hot grease that gets squeezed out of the meat when you bite it.

It was like - I could eat two of those things in one sitting any other time, but then, I had to throw about 3/4 of it out.

Kind of makes you wonder what your poor taste buds go through 99% of the time but you don't notice because they're "used" to so much salt/sugar/grease/etc. and you don't notice the difference.

[silverthorne.livejournal.com]

*nods*

Your body builds a tolerance after awhile and learns to ignore the 'too much!' reaction of your senses. It was like when I lived with the ex--I got used to the cig smoke and never noticed it unless I was visiting my grandparents or someplace that's been equally smoke-free.

Once you've 'detoxed', though, you realize just what exactly it is you'd been ignoring from your senses.

These days, I pass by most smokers, especially after they've just lit up, and boy, howdy, can I smell it. :/

[chiss.livejournal.com]

I'm the same way with cigarette smoke. Honestly, I've only been without a constant smoker living with me for about... six months in my whole life. I just can't smell it (or any other number of things) any more.

Oh yeah. The same way, after a week of nothing but water, soda becomes some sort of acidic bacteria bile compound. It's like, "holy shit HOW many of these did I drink in a day?"

[chiss.livejournal.com]

Also, an interesting little caveat; I've been doing the water-lean cuisine-veggie dance as well for a little bit. I just went and ate at McDonald's, and I... seriously could not stomach it all the way through a happy meal. It tasted alright, but as soon as it hit my stomach it felt like a brick. I seriously thought I was going to hurl.