After a month of eating much better - foods very low in fat and sugar - we splurged a bit this weekend with some richer foods. I'm surprised to find that they didn't taste quite as good as I remembered. And my body has been feeling sluggish and bloated, too.
This is a good thing as it means I can get right back on track with the healthy eating and not feel like I'm missing out on anything. It means we can save money by avoiding restaurants with this rich food; we'll just stay home and eat my homemade meals. It also means my weight loss will continue (after a probable little bump up from this weekend's gluttony) which makes me much happier.
Have you ever given something up for a month and then discovered you didn't really miss it all that much when you had it again? (Doesn't have to be food...)
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Milk. I now hate the stuff in its normal form. I still love good cheese however and as long as I'm careful, can still tolerate it somewhat.
The things I do miss are fish and citrus but I'm just too allergic to them now. I kept hoping that the allergy would be merely an intolerance I could occasionally ignore but it never happened and has got worse, not better.
Supermarket fruit is definitely not as good as I remember but I think that is because it is now picked too green or bred for robustness, not flavour. Home grown is as good as ever.
viv in nz
I use to Love diet Coke. I stopped drinking all pop about 6 weeks ago. Just this weekend, I took a sip of my husband's and it tasted like paint thinner. GROSS!
I had the same reaction. After eating the food that I cook and taking great pains to make our diet more local, it's hard for me to enjoy "restaurant" food. It just isn't as good or as fresh as what I cook at home. Even my canned and frozen food tastes better - to me ;).
As for soda - blech! I used to be a huge soda junkie, but I can't stand the stuff anymore. Anything flavored in a bottle is disgusting. I prefer my home-brewed tea, because I can make it just exactly like *I* like it :).
For the last year or so, we have been eating mostly at home except for work or group social outings, and mostly local and seasonal for everything except grain staples and citrus. We've both noticed a real difference; we don't really enjoy eating out (for the food as opposed to the company) except for a few occasional more complicated ethnic treats.
Booze. I gave it up on May 2, 1992. Of course I had tried not frinking for a month, many times, and came right back to drinking. Has not made a less fun person, or any less interesting either. Nor any more interesting for that matter.
my car
Viv - yeah, allergies suck. I miss chocolate and I suspect it would be as good as I remember, but the vertigo could be as bad as I remember, too.
Anonymous - I experienced the same thing when I quit Diet Dr. Pepper years ago. The list of chemicals on the can is gross.
Wendy - the nice thing about homemade food is being able to create exactly the flavor you like instead of settling for what some chef thinks you ought to like.
I don't know about shunning all flavored drinks in bottles. My homemade liqueurs are in bottles and they are damn good!
Susan - I agree, but it takes time to learn to replicate those complicated ethnic dishes. :)
Rob - congratulations on your long sobriety!
Michael - no kidding. I am already getting to the point that I hate having to drive because it means being in with the traffic and rotten drivers instead of along the sidelines in the bikelane. I do miss the A/C available in the vehicle, though (she says while still dripping sweat from the recent ride).
My husband and I used to eat out about once a week but stopped when we realized that we were paying very high prices for pretty mediocre food. One rest. in town does local dishes, with local food and we still enjoy it there but for the most part we really just enjoy good quality home cooking better. We're starting to save a lot of money and our health. The sodium alone in most of the rest. dishes will kill you.
I used to love pizza, full of meat and extra cheese, then stopped eating it due to stomach trouble. When I tried it again a few months ago, it was heavy, greasy, and just not very tasty. Made me wonder why I had liked it so much.
Soda pop - coke, pepsi, etc. used to seem great, but now just tinny and chemical-ly tasting.
When I was a kid I loved hostess banana flips. Then as an adult I ate one and could not believe I had thought they were once so good. Ugh.
Oh, one non-food item. Debt.
There had been a time in my life where I had too much of it. Then once I got out of it, I didn't take on any again for a long time, and instead saved up money or something and then bought it. A few years ago I went back to having a credit card (and debt). It was obvious to me immediately that I had gotten a feeling of satisfaction of planning, saving and spending on a long wanted item that I did not get with being able to buy something on demand.
I find the same thing with restaurant food. I used to like going out, though still not very often and enjoy food that someone else prepared. But now that I have been using local, fresh, organic foods, regular restaurant food just feels greasy and too rich. I do like a couple of restaurants that serve local food, so we still go there for special occasions.
L.A. - agreed. No point in spending money for food out that's not nearly as good as what can be made at home.
Young Snowbird - I used to be addicted to Dr. Pepper. Now it just tastes like chemicals to me. I do still like the natural root beer sodas, though.
scifichick - for me, much of the treat is having someone else prepare the meal and clean up. It's just not worth it for the food that's available usually, though.
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