Whole food vegan for a week, ate one processed cookie and hated it

rebekahbagnall210

So last week into this week I ate only Whole Foods, no processed crap, but decided to reward myself with 6 Oreos. Typically I am able to eat an entire pack of Oreos, (I know that’s terrible but true) so I ate the cookies and by the 3rd one I felt terrible and said I should stop eating them, but I already took out the cookies so I tried to finish them... it was terrible, I’m happy that something “yummy” repulsed me so much, but I’m surprised it happened so quickly, it’s only been a week and I’m already I taste foods differently? Has anyone else gone whole food vegan and had this happen to them?

kam26001

That never happened to me. In fact, I would go to the health food store when I had a sugar craving and buy Newman's Ginger-O's. Try them, they're amazing.

Aaron_K123

Guilt is a powerful emotion and taste is subjective.

tequila5000

I am certainly not a 100% Whole Foods vegan. Not by any stretch of the imagination. However, when I plan my food choices to be more plant based and less processed and lower fat, then I find that the “junky” food I used to love just doesn’t taste as wonderful. I think that is our bodies way of saying sometimes, “hey, maybe try to dial back on some of this stuff, and we will feel a lot better”.

AnnPT77

Some calorie dense foods are really just not that tasty, they just push evolution-installed buttons that have been strengthened by advertising and habit (fat! sugar! easy!). Eat other, simpler, more complicated-flavored really tasty foods for a while, and that becomes more obvious.

Ridiculously calorie-dense, indulgent foods are still delicious and easy to over-eat. But only really good ones. I make an amazing tiramisu (not vegan, but I'm ovo-lacto for 44+ years now, so it's OK), and quite an excellent carrot cake with cream cheese frosting. I could eat the whole thing, easily. Ditto for home-made (or good bakery) baklava (<== can be vegan).

Like Aaron said, the demonization of "bad" food and righteous recent conversion to "whole foods" will also have a psychological effect.

I'll bet the best vegan desserts - think concoctions with nuts, coconut, dried fruits, maybe (non-milk) chocolate, etc. - are still pretty delicious. They're also very, very calorie dense.

aokoye

What exactly do you mean by "whole foods" and "no processed crap"? Either way, I agree with most people above. I'm by no means vegan or vegetarian, but I do cook most of the food I eat, most of the sweets and all of the bread I eat are from local bakeries or things I cook myself, etc. I think that really what's going on is that you're causing yourself a lot of guilt and qualifying foods, probably arbitrarily, as being qualitatively good or bad.

Lolinloggen

Not because of going vegan no, but I did go on a no added sugar steak for 3 months to break the yes habit when offered sweets.
These days I think most sweets are sickly sweet specifically if they are commercially made. I simply think they taste awful and won't eat it because of that

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Runaroundafieldx2

Do you want me to finish the packet for you?

AnvilHead

Runaroundafieldx2 wrote: »

Do you want me to finish the packet for you?

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glassyo

Repulsed? That's a bit of a...dramatic...reaction to a cookie.

paperpudding

Placebo effect is strong.

Elphaba1313

I think if you ate six of them you didn’t hate them that much. I mean, it’s not something you eat for health benefits so if you truly round them “repulsive” you wouldn’t have forced them down. You aren’t six and being told “you sit there til that broccoli is all gone or I’ll be serving it to you cold for breakfast”

Chef_Barbell

No. Thank goodness. Now pass the Oreos.

WinoGelato

I would not be “happy” that foods that I enjoyed suddenly repulsed me so much that I could only eat 6 of them (which by the way is 3 servings of Oreos so not THAT repulsive). I would be sad that I wasn’t able to consider context and dosage and big picture of my overall diet.

AnvilHead

WinoGelato wrote: »

I would not be “happy” that foods that I enjoyed suddenly repulsed me so much that I could only eat 6 of them (which by the way is 3 servings of Oreos so not THAT repulsive). I would be sad that I wasn’t able to consider context and dosage and big picture of my overall diet.

^ So much this!

apullum

There’s an entire thread here about foods people liked as children but don’t like anymore. Those tastes generally don’t change in a week, and I don’t think any of us sit around eating a half dozen of the things we don’t like anymore.

janejellyroll

WinoGelato wrote: »

I would not be “happy” that foods that I enjoyed suddenly repulsed me so much that I could only eat 6 of them (which by the way is 3 servings of Oreos so not THAT repulsive). I would be sad that I wasn’t able to consider context and dosage and big picture of my overall diet.

Well said! This would bum me out!