I used to hate raisins all my life, but recently I’ve done my first 75 hour fast and now I really like them for some reason. I wonder what happened here
My whole life I’ve always hated coleslaw. I’m an otherwise adventurous eater (have regularly eaten snout to tail and insects enjoyed in other cultures) but coleslaw I just couldn’t do. Maybe because it was sweet and in my mind a mayo-looking dish should be savory. In any case, it was (and still is) the only thing I don’t eat. And I will still give it a try anytime it shows up on my plate just to see if anything changed. Nope, still sweet and nasty.
Well after I started fasting the first time a few years ago I started thinking about coleslaw a lot. I have a few years of culinary training under my belt from when I was younger so I decided to try making a version of coleslaw I would actually want to eat. And I did. It was a basic coleslaw recipe except I didn’t use a pre-made sauce and didn’t add any sugar or sweetness to it. Purely a savory slaw. And lemme tell you… That was so goddamn good I ate the entire bowl for dinner that night… And damn near gassed myself to death…
I still don’t like coleslaw, but at least now I can make a version I’ll happily eat. Fasting has indeed awakened my taste buds and made me pay more attention to what I’m eating and making each meal as good as it can possibly be.
Keto did that for me. Imagine fasting could do the same.
When you stop consuming sugar everything starts to taste sweeter. Vegetables start to taste sweet, raisins start to taste better, and so on. I too did not like raisins.
When I fast the opposite happens to me. Food becomes disgusting and I have a hard time eating it, especially steak or anything fatty. I prefer vegetables during this time, and then after about 3 days or so the food disgust goes away.
I’ve always been a foodie (on top of sugar addiction/emotional eating… you know the drill), so no LOL, however! I’ve started to be more discerning with my food, so for example I’m not as eager to eat stuff that isn’t appetizing or isn’t particularly delicious.
For ex. I used to like buying some of those supermarket ready hot foods, like some veggie Asian savory pancakes, however recently I bought some and it was the blandest stuff I’ve tasted. It just tasted of nothing (all of it), even with soy sauce, so I gave up and had to throw it all away. My mom’s or grandma’s version is of course, far better, but I used to eat these mass produced ones just fine (my current home situation doesn’t allow for a lot of proper cooking). Now I rather have the best version or nothing!
Other foods I’m just not looking forward to eat anymore: popcorn, candy bars, crackers/cookies, and other assorted snacks, fast food (unless it’s like bun-less Five Guys patties with all the fixings)
I’ve never been picky with food (not helping that I was always hungry), but I think now, with the help of fasting, I get to be picky and want to choose only the most delicious and/or healthy options, instead of cramming myself with mediocre food.
The only food thing I experienced is that I lost the ability to eat gummy candies. I used to get a bag of peach rings once ever 3-ish months as a nice peachy treat. Now, for some reason, if I eat any gummies I get heart burn and acid reflux issues for about 2 days. Idk how that happened but here we are
Your body might be trying to process vitamin D… go get some sun! Cravings often come because there’s something in the food that we need. It’s weird that our bodies are smarter than we are. That said…I’ve found that tomatoes (which I’ve never liked) have become even more disgusting after fasting. Whatever nutrients are in a tomato, my body is like “We’ll get ‘em somewhere else, or we’ll die!”