Anyone else - lose weight, gain a sweet tooth?

sarab260
sarab260 Posts: 122 Member
edited November 28 in Food and Nutrition
This is so silly, and I can't find anything about it online, but I'm just curious if this has happened to anyone else:

I've never craved sweets in my life, always salt. I used to not eat the cake at my own birthday parties, always wanted more greens and veggies, etc. I still love greens and veggies, but recently since losing some weight and even with keeping treats in my daily diet, I have an insatiable sweet tooth! When I mentioned this to my mother, she told me my father experienced the same thing whenever he lost weight. He and I are very similar in terms of our tastes (he also isn't a huge sweets person), so I thought that was interesting that we both have individually experienced this.

I am able to manage it — most of the time!! — but I'm just curious if anyone else has experienced this, or felt anything like this. Stories, personal experiences, and such all welcome!!!

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  • sarab260
    sarab260 Posts: 122 Member
    Bumping myself because would love to know if this has ever happened to anyone else...
  • ForeverSunshine09
    ForeverSunshine09 Posts: 966 Member
    Happened to me. Always would pick cheese over chocolate then when I lost some weight cookies and chocolate sounded amazing. Maybe because I cut down on pop so my body was looking for ways to replace the sugar I was not getting from the pop.
  • bugseypimberton
    bugseypimberton Posts: 3 Member
    Oddly enough, before I lost weight and back when I was first using insulin, is when I developed a sweet tooth. All my life I had been a carboholic. But once I began using insulin? Well, I became the chocolate queen! Now I am completely off insulin and victoza. The sweet tooth is there, but waning fast. Once in a blue moon now I want chocolate or something and a small candy satiates. Before I could've eaten the entire bag.
  • mimi2974
    mimi2974 Posts: 40 Member
    I am a chips and salsa, fries, cheese tray, salty foods kind of gal. I've only been logging 2 weeks, but I now crave chocolate! I stopped drinking wine 3+ weeks ago (this is only temporary), but I wonder if that also plays a role. Regardless, I can relate to having newfound sweets cravings.
  • kshama2001
    kshama2001 Posts: 28,052 Member
    When I stopped drinking heavily I suddenly developed a sweet tooth.
  • arditarose
    arditarose Posts: 15,573 Member
    Yep. I eat more candy now than I did when I was fat. I do it because it fits into my goals better. Like...I can't eat a bag of tortilla chips and guacamole anymore, and I don't want 7 stinking chips for 140 calories. But I can have two servings of some ice creams for 200 calories. Many times my lunches are sweet meals as well-pancakes, zoats with toppings like oreos and peanut butter, I've even made sweet egg white omelets.
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