Taste buds, do they change when you eat a healthier diet and take regular exercise?

Love this thread! Bookmarked it so I can follow it more!

But for some input I've been eating healthy for 2 weeks and I can already taste the difference. My cheat day was on Saturday and I got a hamburger with the works and it came with these homemade chips. They were really good and all but still tasted really oily and kinda gross...Plus afterwards I felt like crap walking back to our car. NEVER AGAIN!

Also I find myself craving foods I HATED in the past. I use to hate tomatoes absolutely despised them. Couldn't eat them raw and could barely eat them fresh I just thought they were gross and nasty. Well lets just say for lunch today I cut up a tomato cooked it and threw some mozzarella on top and had an amazing lunch.

Not sure if its my taste buds changing or my brain chemicals but I love it.

trenzalours wrote: »

Love this thread! Bookmarked it so I can follow it more!

But for some input I've been eating healthy for 2 weeks and I can already taste the difference. My cheat day was on Saturday and I got a hamburger with the works and it came with these homemade chips. They were really good and all but still tasted really oily and kinda gross...Plus afterwards I felt like crap walking back to our car. NEVER AGAIN!

Also I find myself craving foods I HATED in the past. I use to hate tomatoes absolutely despised them. Couldn't eat them raw and could barely eat them fresh I just thought they were gross and nasty. Well lets just say for lunch today I cut up a tomato cooked it and threw some mozzarella on top and had an amazing lunch.

Not sure if its my taste buds changing or my brain chemicals but I love it.

I was exactly the same way about tomatoes. I would eat ketchup or spaghetti sauce or even salsa, if it was flavored with lots of other things, but I couldn't stand to eat raw tomatoes, even on a sandwich.

Now, I absolutely have to have them.

kds1120 wrote: »

One of my favorite treats used to be a banana shake. I started making the fake banana ice cream (frozen bananas blended) and one day, many months after my last banana shake, my mother in law got me one. It was not good! Too much sugar and too artifical tasting! Ew. I no longer crave banana shakes!

Frozen bananas make awesome ice cream! So underrated! Sometimes I just slice them up and chill them in the freezer, maybe dipped in dark chocolate if I'm feeling ambitious. Yummm.

It is called extinction and is true for any of your senses. The more you experience something, the more numb you become to it. It is actually a chemical process with your neurons. Like people who work in a smelly environment who stop noticing it. The same is true of your taste buds, if you were eating a lot of sweet, oily, or salty foods, your taste buds just do not register it as strongly. Once you stop eating those foods, your taste buds become more sensitive to it and it can feel overpowering when you do it eat again.