Such a disappointment!

This happens with kfc for me. its always greasy and soggy when I get it. Why can't it be like they show it on tv

h1udd wrote: »

I am so glad its not just me that suffers from this .. Cakes, crisps, sweets I save up for them .. go on a splurge and am just left feeling empty afterwards as they are nothing like I remember them.

Anyone got a theory to why this happens .... is it just a case of building up expectation ... or has something changed physically and a bunch of sugar stuck together with fat just doesnt appeal. .. OR does your body just like what it gets most of and if your diet is now more Greek yogurt than Pastries then the Greek yog tastes nicer ?

I think it's more about wanting to get your calories worth. I eat "a bunch of sugar stuck together with fat" often and it still appeals, it just needs to be really good to be worth the calories. I get really sad when it's not.

Before weight loss, I didn't care if the food was "meh". I think I created false memories of enjoying a food when, really, I was enjoying the moment, the social interaction, the memories, the habit, the action of eating itself..etc. I rarely paused to think "hmm, this tastes good" unless a food tasted exceptionally good. Now that my calories are limited I want every single one of them to count. Sub-par food just feels like a waste. I have "cut out" certain foods from my diet not because I felt I needed to cut them out, but because the repeated disappointment in them after dieting made it feel like they're not worth the calories anymore.

yirara wrote: »

ruqayyahsmum wrote: »

I went to spend the day in the seaside town I grew up in
Went to the ice cream kiosk that used to sell amazing scooped ice cream along side the Mr whippy stuff
Family all wanted Mr whippy but I decided to splurge on 2 scoops of the good stuff. Cost more than double Thiers. White chocolate tasted like plastic and Panna cotta tasted like *kitten*
In the trash it went

I hardly ever eat icecream because the quality is so poor. Wales has some wonderful artisan ice cream though, with good taste and very heavy, good milk but I don't live there anymore. Scotland? Hmm.. Mackies is ok, but lacks the good milky flavour. I give it a miss.

Oh how I miss Joe's icecream

deviette wrote: »

yirara wrote: »

ruqayyahsmum wrote: »

I went to spend the day in the seaside town I grew up in
Went to the ice cream kiosk that used to sell amazing scooped ice cream along side the Mr whippy stuff
Family all wanted Mr whippy but I decided to splurge on 2 scoops of the good stuff. Cost more than double Thiers. White chocolate tasted like plastic and Panna cotta tasted like *kitten*
In the trash it went

I hardly ever eat icecream because the quality is so poor. Wales has some wonderful artisan ice cream though, with good taste and very heavy, good milk but I don't live there anymore. Scotland? Hmm.. Mackies is ok, but lacks the good milky flavour. I give it a miss.

Oh how I miss Joe's icecream

I loved Parisella of Conwy, but really, nearly any place up north (in Wales) has fantastic ice cream!

Now if you British people (generalizing ) could make proper chocolate! Black & Green has a nice taste but lacks creaminess. Mackies is creamy but lacks cocoa. Cadbury's is NOT chocolate, with just 24% cocoa. I'm really starving here

yirara wrote: »

ruqayyahsmum wrote: »

yirara wrote: »

ruqayyahsmum wrote: »

I went to spend the day in the seaside town I grew up in
Went to the ice cream kiosk that used to sell amazing scooped ice cream along side the Mr whippy stuff
Family all wanted Mr whippy but I decided to splurge on 2 scoops of the good stuff. Cost more than double Thiers. White chocolate tasted like plastic and Panna cotta tasted like *kitten*
In the trash it went

I hardly ever eat icecream because the quality is so poor. Wales has some wonderful artisan ice cream though, with good taste and very heavy, good milk but I don't live there anymore. Scotland? Hmm.. Mackies is ok, but lacks the good milky flavour. I give it a miss.

I had Mr whippy tonight. Might be the migraine but it was sooooo much better than the speciality stuff I had at the sea side

We have a local farm in Sheffield who uses Thier milk to make wonderful ice cream, now I don't want to go in case it's not as good as I remember

Ha, I'd love to have proper, milky ice cream! I'm so disappointed by most seaside ice though: It's just this softice I'm not too keen on. Do you know if Leeds has something good locally? Coming down in August for a concert and always love to try local produce. And thanks to this thread I want ice cream more than anything else.

Northern bloc is made in Leeds

There's a place called ice scoop gelato that makes the ice cream daily

I don't know any farms in the area that make Thier own though

And that is why I pass up all the storebought hard cookies and brownies at our coffee hours... Because they aren't amazing enough for the calories.

The last time this happened I tried a different meal at one of my favorite restaurants... wasn't that great and had been to the gym extra for it. Really wished I used that treat meal on the one meal I know I loved. But trying new things is good...sometimes

yirara wrote: »

Now if you British people (generalizing ) could make proper chocolate! Black & Green has a nice taste but lacks creaminess. Mackies is creamy but lacks cocoa. Cadbury's is NOT chocolate, with just 24% cocoa. I'm really starving here

Sam Joseph Chocolates (in Altringham Market House and online)

Just saying...

tealrosefit wrote: »

I've been going through this myself. It seems like the more I've been focused on eating healthy, all of the cakes and sweets that I USED to think were good, just taste blah lol. I was CRAVING pizza, and went to go get some from a place up the street and it wasn't even that great, made me feel horrible for even cheating on my meal plan.

I think "healthy" eating should be mentally healthy too so treats (that are worth the calories) are part of me meal plan in moderation. I don't believe in cheating. I eat pizza easily 3 times a month.

I hate that some people think that “brownie”
means “dry, stale chocolate cake”. Ugh.

I’ve gotten far more okay with throwing away high calorie food that isn’t as good as I expected. I don’t like to waste food, but I also don’t like to waste calories. Before I lost weight, I would have felt obligated to eat it anyway.

A good brownie, though...I’ll always make room for that.

Francl27 wrote: »

Most desserts are super disappointing and not worth the calories. Always a disappointment... but it's because I have very high standards too, lol.

I don't believe in the 'adapting to the things we eat' theory one bit though. It's just that because, I didn't care about wasted calories. Now I do. So saving calories and end up disappointed is a huge bummer... before I'd just eat the thing and move on to something else...

There's an amazing confectionery by my school that makes these perfect lemon macaroons (they have a myriad of other flavors too, but the raspberry filled lemon ones are my favorite)!!! They are always worth it, but at $5 a piece, they are truly a limited treat.

maggibailey wrote: »

...I have finally gotten past the guilt of throwing something out instead of finishing it.

It took me a long time to learn this. As a kid I wasn't allowed to throw food away. Didn't like it, portion was too big, it was too spicy? Tough, I sat there until it was all eaten. Good thing I burned off that extra food until lately, because I had no concept of satiety. I ate until it was gone. About five years ago I finally got comfortable with throwing away food if it didn't taste good or I just couldn't finish it all, but every once in a while I catch myself looking over my shoulder as if my mom is going to suddenly materialize in my kitchen from 2000 miles away and yell at me for throwing food away.

Solution: make brownies at home. It takes 20 minutes and costs like, a dollar.

Of course if you're like me and can't control yourself around sweets sometimes having an entire pan around could be a bad bad temptation, but I've had success with either immediately portioning them out and freezing them when they cool or else giving the excess away at work the next day.

I read this and panicked. Eating a donut reassured me. Still good.

There should be a calorie refund for food that doesn't taste as good as you imagined.