I've noticed something very sad lately.
I remember when a good, smooth Swiss milk chocolate tasted sooo good. Or the yummy taste of a Snickers bar (I do like the taste of a Snickers).
Since the advent of all my food issues, I've had to eliminate first milk chocolate (dairy), then most other chocolates (soy). About the only chocolate I can eat now is Enjoy Life chocolate chips, which taste decent, but aren't as good as what I remember Swiss milk chocolate tasting.
I do still occasionally crave good chocolate and sneak a piece, but it never tastes as good as I remember it used to taste. And I get a massive stomach ache. It's very sad. I liked chocolate.
But it does help me resist the urge to do it again. Why eat something that doesn't taste good and makes me sick?
So I'm curious. Has the taste of chocolate changed because I know I shouldn't be eating it, or because my tastes have changed as my refined sugar intake has drastically decreased? Or is it both? Any thoughts?
I'd say probably both. I used to love chocolate, too. But while I was pregnant with E it suddenly stopped really tasting good. And it's really never tasted good since then. It's the same with Chinese food--it made me puke horribly and violently with OP and now the thought of it turns me off. So, in a round-about way I'm saying it's probably an aversion you have to it now because of the way it makes you feel--and because you recognize that it's the chocolate that makes you feel that way.
ReplyDelete(Although I don't enjoy the chocolate as much, there's still something about peanut m&m's that I can't resist!) :)
I love chocolate!
ReplyDeleteBut over the years, I've noticed that I can't eat the waxy stuff I enjoyed as a kid. Now I just like the good chocolate. I know it's not the same thing you're talking about, but I think our tastes evolve (either mind or body I don't know).
When I was in high school I went with my ward to Martins Cove, at the beginning of the week I'd brought a sack lunch complete with Snickers. But I didn't eat it, I saved it and ate it at the end of the week. By the weeks end when I did eat it, it was nasty and disgusting and tasted very bitter and waxy. Since then chocolate hasn't settled too well with me - I'll still eat it occasionally but it's definitely not my favorite. In fact, too much makes me feel sick and gross - my teeth are very sensitive to sugar so that helps me stay away from it but when I do give in and eat it I stick to two, one for each hand. And then I'm good - more than that is too much and I start to feel sick.
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