Daily Post--2/4/08

hmmm no clue. I honestly dont have an answer to that i dont think anyone really does though either. I really havent changed that much in my tastes other than sugar really doesn't run my life anymore.. i have no taste for it but thats cuz its been so long without it that my tastes have changed, it wasn't cuz of surgery. krissy

I guess I really can't explain why it happens and I don't think it happens for everyone for the rest of their lives. For some it is more a temporary thing. There isn't anything at this point that I have changed a preference for. I just don't crave certain things like I used too. Maybe it is just because I know that if I eat them I am going to sabatoge what I have worked for. I just try not to question it, but at the same time be greatful for it. Sally

I have no idea why this happens. I'm grateful it did, though. I never liked spicy food very much and now Newman's Own Mango Salsa is my best friend. My husband is waiting for me to put it in my protein shakes!

I can't really tell yet how my tastes have changed other than maybe I can't tolerate super sweet stuff now such as in drinking a protein shake. As far as food goes I still cannot tolerate much, I'm getting better but I still struggle just to keep the food down.

I don't have any of those changes people talk about. I did, however, develop a taste for fat free foods that I did not have before. I think the month or so that we are on liquid/pureed foods makes you appreciate any solid food...fat free included. I definitely believe it is a mental thing (hormones included).

I haven't experienced this common phenomenon. There's really no food that I used to like that I don't like any more--or vice versa. I definitely APPRECIATE certain healthy foods--and thoroughly enjoy them--more than I did before (esp. the healthier veggies), simply because without all the junk food messing up my appetite, I can just appreciate the taste of good food. But it's not that I like things now that I didn't before. And--unfortunately--there's nothing that I loved in my pre-wls life that I don't still love! I don't eat some of it--or I eat it in very small portions and/or infrequently--but . . . yep . . . I still love it all. Jo

For a long time (up to a year) after surgery everything was too sweet...including Crystal Light, most protein shakes, etc. I still do not have a real taste for sweet items and can stand in front of the sugar free cookies at the grocery and be unable to make a decision (I usually then end up with none which is a good thing) I have never re-developed my taste for carbonated drinks---they still don't taste right. It may have something to do with the kind/quantity of disgestive acids or maybe ketosis but I eat enough carbs not to be there any more. By the way, Lea, eggies are way too close to their parent chickens for me! Must be the latent feather genes. Sometimes they work; sometimes they flutter back into the light! Maybe our bodies are trying to find the right nutrients again so they are being selective...eat what it needs that is high in certain nutrients for awhile and then switch to something else.

I really have no idea. My surgeon didn't tell me that would happen. But it's really been surprising what I can and can not tolerate.

Wow, I really have no idea. I know I used to love fish. Now, I can't stand it, it all tastes too fishy. I can still do shrimp though, go figure! Denise

I wish there were foods I didn't like now, right after surgery everything was too sweet but that only lasted a bit. Bread sometimes scares me but like to today I was craving it so I had a grilled cheeseburger for lunch, for dinner I had a grilled ham and cheese! Not good food choices but my body wanted that so I gave in. Have a big old cake sitting no my kitchen table that has been calln my name but I don't wanna go there. One food/liquid that I do not like the taste of is diet coke in a can. It burns my mouth, but I do love McDonalds fountain pop/soda. I did stay away from it for the first year but now have one a few times a week...Could drink a few a day but don't!