When did your tastebuds start to change?

I'm not sure about the time it takes but for me, I won't even realize how much I don't like it until I've had it again. All of a sudden (not so sudden bc I haven't been eating it for say, a month) and it's too salty/sugary/leaves me feeling like crap and it's just blatantly apparent that the food I used to love isn't even that great nor worth it. Some things will always be delicious though. No amount of time makes me not want a brownie.

After about 16 weeks, I got so that I didn't particularly care for really salty and really sweet food. So I find that a bag of potato chips is a bit too salty for me. I will still eat some chips, but not the whole bag. And I prefer less sweet donuts.

Since I started with MFP, I decided to eat only foods I liked, so I became quite particular about what I eat. And since then, things like soggy tasteless fast food hamburgers don't rate very highly in comparison with something better like a good burrito or spicy curry dish.

In the world of chocolate, I used to eat really inexpensive chocolate-like stuff. Run of the mill chocolate bars. And I'd eat one a day. Now I have chocolate maybe once every couple months and it will be good chocolate ... something I will linger over and savour.

stevencloser wrote: »

They don't. That's just your brain.

Actually they do change. They definitely change as you age.

My tastebuds didn't change. I loved the kinds of "healthy" foods I eat now (vegetables, well-prepared meats, legumes, fruit, whatever) before, and still do. I also loved a really good baked good, ice cream, well-prepared french fries, a good pizza or burger before, and still do. I never got the idea that eating sweets made you unable to appreciate vegetables or fruit or that enjoying an occasional high fat item (say, Chicago style pizza) makes you unable to enjoy other sorts of meals.

That said, my taste buds have changed over the course of my life, of course, entirely unrelated to weight loss. As a kid I hated spicy food and now I love and crave it. I hated lamb, and now it's one of my favorite meats. Hated rhubarb, now I love it. I like my meat rarer than I did. I hated coffee and now I adore it. Stuff like that.

I also find that what I eat most frequently is what my mind tends to go to when I'm hungry, so what I crave.

My taste buds haven't changed. The only reason I avoid fast food is that it doesn't fill me up at all for the calories, and I can make something tasty and filling at home for the same calories.

ValerieMartini2Olives wrote: »

I still like all the bad foods I ever did but I developed tastes for things like black coffee, veggies I'd never have eaten, and things of that nature. Regular soda is ungodly sweet to me now. Dairy Queen blizzards in any other size but small make me sick.

Oh yeah, good point... sweetened drinks. I just can't do it anymore. Just way too sweet for me. Not a problem with desserts though (but I'll modify my rice pudding recipe for less sugar next time).

50lbs lost and several years into maintenance, and I still eat fast food several times a week. I needed to do this whole thing in a way that was realistic and sustainable, and learning how to fit in the foods I liked was a big part of that

AnvilHead wrote: »

My taste buds have never changed. I still like McDonalds, Del Taco, Der Weinerschnitzel, Carl's Jr., pizza, Mexican food, potato chips, donuts, chocolate and all the other things I've eaten all my life. I just eat them less frequently and in smaller quantities.

I hope I never see the day that I can drive by McDonalds and think it's gross. I don't consider foods as "good" or "bad", I look at the overall context of the diet as a whole.

This. Except Carls Jr (Hardees here) has always been gross. I eat fast food for dinner once a week and maybe 1-2 other times a month.

I don't drink a lot of pop anymore because its too acidic and sweet now.

I don't get cravings for fast food, but I still eat it once or twice a week. It still tastes the same.

I don't crave snack cakes and candy like I used to. I've cut back on processed sugar junk like that and I just don't want it as often now.

Never. I eat the same as ever, just smaller portions. I do like green peppers more now than I was a kid, but that's it.

My taste buds aren't going to change, because I'm on a diet where I indulge in fast food when I have burned enough calories.

About a year. Junk food still tastes good, but I just cant eat a ton of it and not get an upset stomach. like i cant eat a doughnut for breakfast and pizza for lunch mcdonalds dinner and feel ok, I get sick. The biggest change was I just LOVE veggies now and crave them. A lot of the time steamed broccoli sounds better than a burger just because I genuinely love the taste of fresh veggies. I never used to. I really don't crave junk food either. I used to get cravings for mcdonalds and HAD to have it, but I never get any insane food cravings for junk/fast food anymore. I eat it sometimes because I do like the taste, but not often.