Bad tasting, healthy food.
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turtle dan..I understand what your saying. Fast food is cheap , its tasty and its high in calorie. I also believe it makes you want to eat more. Sure as others have said you can still have it if you fit it into your calories but for me I find its sets me off, down the wrong track of continuous eating. I actually don't crave it or think about it anymore. I read an interesting article the other day that said Taco Bell, was quietly revamping their menu to healthier choices. On my weight reduction journey I find that planning my meals out for the day helps me more than anything. If I am out and won't get home for my meal I either prepare and take it with me or have some type of protein bar orchard boil egg to tide me over. LOL1
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I think, to some degree, your taste buds adjust to what you eat regularly.
For the most part, I prefer home cooked food and/or good quality restaurant food. Home cooked and healthy does not have to mean flavourless or bland. e.g. We made a delicious spaghetti sauce from a blend of ground beef and italian sausage meat (drained). It also had onion, fennel, carrot, tomato and variety of herbs/spices. *So* much yummier than a bland burger from McDonalds.5 -
SusanMFindlay wrote: »I think, to some degree, your taste buds adjust to what you eat regularly.
For the most part, I prefer home cooked food and/or good quality restaurant food. Home cooked and healthy does not have to mean flavourless or bland. e.g. We made a delicious spaghetti sauce from a blend of ground beef and italian sausage meat (drained). It also had onion, fennel, carrot, tomato and variety of herbs/spices. *So* much yummier than a bland burger from McDonalds.
I was thinking about this too One of the appeals of fast food is that it's "easy" - easy to buy, easy to like, easy to eat, easy to digest. The chains promise, in fact one of their selling points is, that you can get the same items everywhere, with no surprises. Good restaurant food and home cooked meals can be an "aquired taste" - more diversity, more resistance, unpredictable. It takes time and commitment to get used to. To "untrained" palates it can taste bland and/or too strong (possibly even at the same time), but as you get more adventurous and learn more, you can pick up more and more nuances. (A little like reading cartoons vs novels - nothing wrong with neither, there's a time for both; but they are different, reading them just takes more or less effort and what you get out of it will not be the same.)5 -
You can have my tuna salad sandwiches when you take them from my cold, dead hands. Don't go picking on tuna salad. :P14
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Fast food is cheap and the industry knows about food addictions, they base their food on those addiction, such as salty sweet, salty savory (the bacon craze), sweet and gooey, etc. I dont think good food tastes bad, we just need to adjust our habits and eventually when you see a Carls Jr commercial you can recognize how awfully unhealthy they are. I eat a lot of tuna, it is one of my staples. bad food is an aquired taste as is healthy food.5
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Weightwatcher6314 wrote: »Fast food is cheap and the industry knows about food addictions, they base their food on those addiction, such as salty sweet, salty savory (the bacon craze), sweet and gooey, etc. I dont think good food tastes bad, we just need to adjust our habits and eventually when you see a Carls Jr commercial you can recognize how awfully unhealthy they are. I eat a lot of tuna, it is one of my staples. bad food is an aquired taste as is healthy food.
Yes, making you crave more of their food is a legitimate scientific endeavour.0 -
Weightwatcher6314 wrote: »Fast food is cheap and the industry knows about food addictions, they base their food on those addiction, such as salty sweet, salty savory (the bacon craze), sweet and gooey, etc. I dont think good food tastes bad, we just need to adjust our habits and eventually when you see a Carls Jr commercial you can recognize how awfully unhealthy they are. I eat a lot of tuna, it is one of my staples. bad food is an aquired taste as is healthy food.
Oh gawd, no.....
Hyperpalatibility is a thing. Food addiction is not. Yes, the food industry wants food to taste good - that's kind of the point. If fast food was addicting, drivers of McLane's trucks would need to be armed instread of drivers of Wells Fargo trucks. I was an assistant manager of a fast food place for several years; only time my staff was ever held up at gunpoint was when they were taking a deposit to the bank; absolutely zero holdups during truck deliveries.18 -
Please read the book salt, sugar, fat. Will change your life. Literally2
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Why are you eating bad tasting food? Buy a cookbook. I can make broccoli hyperpalatable. Buy fresh, don't overcook, add salt. Not that hard. It also costs less than a dollar for four servings. A whole chicken is less than five bucks and I can get two really good meals out of it plus stock for the week. I don't get this whole fast food is cheap nonsense. Ten bucks for one meal is a bit outrageous compared to cooking at home. The reason people with less money may not be eating as well is more of a matter of time and access. You try cooking a healthy dinner for your family while juggling three part time jobs with no car, maybe not even a fridge and stove.9
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I disagree with many of the comments that there is no 'bad' food. Processed chemicals stripped of nutrients are not food. Big thumbs up to you for taking up calorie counting as its a great start. Read and learn more about food and nutrition. Losing weight and being healthy are not synonymous if all a lot of your (restricted) calories are coming from junk.
My biggest suggestion is to learn to cook foods that you genuinely like. There is a certain amount of trial and error but you will soon build a personal recipe collection.9 -
It's very easy to get addicted to eating bad food from fast food restaurants - or get used to eating it. Eating healthier doesn't have to taste bad though. I thought the same as you - eating healthier sucks. What I've found is that the better the food you eat, the less you crave the crap you were getting.
Yes - food addict in me rears it's ugly head every now and then, but there are things I haven't had in a LONG time - like a whopper with cheese only ketchup - that's what I'd get at BK all the time. A few months ago, I thought - Oooh...I'll go get one of those...I used to love them!! Then when I started eating it - for some reason it tasted different than I remembered. It wasn't as good somehow. I can't explain why.
Eating healthier doesn't have to be expensive either. You don't have to go wild getting the organic, farm raised, cage free chickens if you don't want. My brother is HUGE into not buying things with high fructose corn syrup, and buying non-GMO things, and all organic. I do *try* to be conscious of it, but sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. I buy the best quality of stuff I can buy with the amount I have to buy it with - so be it.
The bariatric dietician I once saw told me to focus on lean, quality protein and the fats/carbs take care of themselves, and I've found it to be pretty accurate.
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Weightwatcher6314 wrote: »Fast food is cheap and the industry knows about food addictions, they base their food on those addiction, such as salty sweet, salty savory (the bacon craze), sweet and gooey, etc. I dont think good food tastes bad, we just need to adjust our habits and eventually when you see a Carls Jr commercial you can recognize how awfully unhealthy they are. I eat a lot of tuna, it is one of my staples. bad food is an aquired taste as is healthy food.
But...but...I cook some things that are salty and sweet...a lot of salty and savory (I use turkey bacon so maybe that saves me) and sweet and gooey are some of my favorite things to make (just not too often). Does that mean that my cooking is making me addicted?
I eat out maybe once a month. The rest of my food is cooked at home. If I try a new recipe and it is "just okay" I don't make it again. I have to "love" my food or why bother going to the expense and the time to cook a meal?
Tonight I had curried chicken over rice with roasted broccoli. It was so good I could eat another serving...except I am saving it for lunch tomorrow.
BTW What flavor would you have restaurant base their food on? Should they make it taste horrible just so that people don't overeat?8 -
SusanMFindlay wrote: »I think, to some degree, your taste buds adjust to what you eat regularly.
For the most part, I prefer home cooked food and/or good quality restaurant food. Home cooked and healthy does not have to mean flavourless or bland. e.g. We made a delicious spaghetti sauce from a blend of ground beef and italian sausage meat (drained). It also had onion, fennel, carrot, tomato and variety of herbs/spices. *So* much yummier than a bland burger from McDonalds.
Yes!
I dropped potato chips from my diet ... replaced it with salted cucumber slices.
Then after four months, I took a diet break on a trip, and decided to have a bag of chips. I did finish them, but it took several days where it used to take 1 day (1 hour!) because I found them way too salty.
Some months later we stopped at a McDonalds for a burger on another trip. I was kind of looking forward to it because I hadn't had a burger in ages. It was actually quite awful. Like eating heavily salted ground up cardboard.
The meal I made last night (and we'll have the rest of it tonight) has so much more flavour and was much more satisfying than that burger.2 -
cerise_noir wrote: »Also, there are no "good" or "bad" foods for weight loss, just bad relationships/habits with food.
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What? Healthy food tastes bad?
I had a spinach salad with diced apples, dried cranberries, tomatoes, hard-boiled eggs, carrots, and fried pork belly for dinner tonight for under 500 calories. I thought that it tasted pretty darn good.7 -
I must say I'm shocked at the number of people who don't want to eat healthy and eat better food, they just want to lose weight5
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Therealobi1 wrote: »Therealobi1 wrote: »
I'm shocked that people are more concerned with how they look or appear than be concerned with actual healthy eating to get to a healthy weight and stay there.2 -
Therealobi1 wrote: »Therealobi1 wrote: »
I'm shocked that people are more concerned with how they look or appear than be concerned with actual healthy eating to get to a healthy weight and stay there.
Lol .
I am shocked a 15 year old killed a 7 year old this week, now that was beyond shocking
Now I lost my weight purely for a holiday. I wasn't thinking about health so what?
But I exercised each day and watched what I ate. So I wasn't concerned about health at all but weight is still off and I am healthy.
Just because people say they are eating fast food doesn't mean it's all day everyday16 -
I must say I'm shocked at the number of people who don't want to eat healthy and eat better food, they just want to lose weight
Why is that shocking?
I went to my Dr about the time I hit my peak weight and there were a few issues.
So I focused on losing weight ... and did.
4 months later, I returned to my Dr who reran the tests. Those issues were resolved.
How did I lose the weight? I ate fewer calories than I burned. How did I manage that? Well, I sought out low calorie but filling foods ... like lots of veggies. But of course I didn't give up things like pizza!5
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