PrintI can't eat ------ like I used to!
Okay, I'll admit it--although I present myself to the world today as a crunchy yet athletic runner semi-vegan type, I used to be a fat kid. How I loved gazing at the dessert cart at my family's favorite restaurant, and picking out an eclair...eventually graduating to Black Forest Cake with chocolate mousse icing. Wasn't above Carvel ice cream flower icing, either on b-day cakes. Over the years, as I struggled, I developed loving relationships with Bavarian creme doughnuts, maple oat nut scones, and even the occasional pop of a Happy Meal box. I wouldn't want my old, fat kid body back--But since getting fit, after many, many, years I've tried occasionally eating some of my old indulgences, and they just don't do it for me--so much stuff, like Easter Candy, is too sweet, or just too heavy. Fast food smells chemical to me. My palate has changed and the sugar cravings have just dried up. I almost miss the 'anticipation' of these treats, even though I'm glad I don't eat that way anymore, and enjoy eating healthier, better, and more body and soul sustaining foods. What foods 'can't' you eat anymore that you used to love--because they make you ill/don't taste as good/have too many bad memories attached to them? I don't mean foods that you're swearing off because of diets or health concerns, but foods that you can get, but don't desire anymore in the same way in a way that sometimes 'suprises' you.
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26 Comments:
Most candy, especially like you said Easter candies. I find that if I eat too many sweets my body can't process the sugar (I have bizarrely narrow veins) and I get an awful bitter metallic taste in my mouth and feel sick.
Also, I feel so incredibly sick if I eat any fast food whatsoever. I miss onion rings!
lexophile at 10:16AM on 04/26/08
I miss being able to drink a milkshake, or eat fried foods. Unfortunately anything sugary makes me physically ill, I had a milkshake about 4 months ago and was so sick I ended up in the emergency room. Someone please go have a double thick chocolate bannana milkshake and an order of chili cheese fries for me ;)
huney_bumper at 10:38AM on 04/26/08
Fast food. Not that I used to be a huge glutton, but I was a normal, American college kid, and could easily do McDonald's once or twice a week. Now I'm just becoming more snobby about it, and rarely do fast food at all. I'll get a craving every six months or so for a McNugget, and I'll indulge, but that's about it.
erelmartin at 10:45AM on 04/26/08
I would if I could huney_bumper, but it really flares up the ol' acid reflux. Nothing rich, greasy or spicey if I prefer to remain upright, rather than bent over in pain.
I used to love Snickers bars. Now, they are just digustingly sweet. I can still enjoy other candy bars though - but they live ON me now. What the heck happened????? When you can't be as active, it sure changes what you can eat and how it affects your body. I'm aging disgracefully!
I keep you in my prayers everyday huney_bumper.
PerkyMac at 10:49AM on 04/26/08
Sugary, dairy-heavy, or fried foods all make me ill now. It's sad to think that I can't do pizza or ice cream anymore. I tried some fresh, "real" ice cream last summer - after two bites, I knew my stomach was about to throw a hissy fit.
I'd be skinny - except that I've discovered lots of high-calorie things I gladly tolerate, like nuts, avocados, dried fruit, homemade berry pies, and trail mixes!
KarynMC at 10:58AM on 04/26/08
Greasy food. I used to be able to happily chow down on McDonalds and greasy fried chicken and french fries. Now? Not so much. It makes me a little queasy and I will generally feel pretty sick after eating them. I still do, bit rarely, and always after thinking long and hard on whether how I'll feel afterwards is worth the 10 minutes I spend eating it. 2 or 3 times a year, taste beats queasy and I eat. And you know what? On those occasions? Totally worth it.
Also chocolate. I used to LOVE chocolate. Hot fudge sundaes with chocolate chocolate chip ice cream, death by chocolate, etc. A few years ago, I just lost my taste for it. I still enjoy the occasional hot chocolate or Dove dark chocolate bar, but that's pretty much it. Weird.
chisai at 11:00AM on 04/26/08
Too many things to list. Luckily, most of them are things I should without anyway. As for the rest? Well, let's just say it generally doesn't stop me!
LoCo at 11:03AM on 04/26/08
I miss being able to eat wheat/gluten-containing foods -- mostly bread and pasta. And, I'd kill for a piece of REAL pizza.
Overly sweet, spicy, or greasy foods now make me feel ill now.
Oddly enough, however, I am semi-vegan now, and don't miss meat at all, and have grown a real taste for tofu. Odd how the taste buds change when you get to be older than dirt! LOL!
Brownie at 11:05AM on 04/26/08
You all are scaring me.
renzata at 11:09AM on 04/26/08
New Mexican chili :(
I grew up on it, and could eat it every day - but now when I visit Santa Fe and load up on food from The Shed or Pasqual's, my poor belly aches like it is raw on the inside.
I still eat it, every delicious spicy bite, but my body doesn't tolerate it. That is truly sad.
cmckenna at 11:36AM on 04/26/08
Milk. I grew up drinking lots of milk, but now it makes me sick except for the occasional splash in a cup of tea.
Cheddar cheese. Makes my cheeks feel hot and itchy.
Milk chocolate. Too sweet.
Cake. Except for the kind of cake that is primarily composed of ground nuts, cake just strikes me as completely pointless. But I recall many childhood birthday cakes that I ate and enjoyed.
caley at 12:02PM on 04/26/08
While there isn't anything I can't eat, I really don't care for the taste of cinnamon like I used to.
srhcb at 1:02PM on 04/26/08
Frostings and icing. I used to be the little girl who wanted the piece of cake with the icing flower and I'd eat the flower and icing and leave the cake.
Two decades or more later, I do the reverse. I eat the cake and leave the frosting.
PBJ--have no desire to eat another one. Loved them for as long as I can remember. I had one a few months ago ( I think because of a thread on here) and it was oddly disappointing. Maybe it was because of the fancy schmancy organic peanut butter instead of the Jif or PeterPan that I grew up with.
wookie at 4:57PM on 04/26/08
Salt and Vinegar chips! I'm eating some right now and my tongue fells like it's going to burn right off. Sigh... S+V is the only chip flavour for me.
PeanutButter at 4:58PM on 04/26/08
Uh, Everything?
izatryt at 7:32PM on 04/26/08
It makes me weep that I can no longer drink most juices (apple is OK, and vegetable juice). I never had heartburn until a couple of years ago and juice is the only thing that triggers it other than serious lack of sleep.
wellred at 8:23PM on 04/26/08
Most dairy, and anything really sweet. Some friends and I went to the Chinatown Ice Cream Factory today, and I had to be the one who got sorbet. I love ice cream, but the way I feel after eating it is enough to keep me away. I can still eat A LOT of food (yes, I am one of those high-metabolism jerks), but just not heavy dairy or lots of sweets without feeling sick.
Luckily there are way more foods I love to eat now that I wouldn't have eaten as a kid - giving up pizza, ice cream, and donuts is a fair trade!
producestories at 8:26PM on 04/26/08
Acidic foods have to be kept at a minimum. I don't drink OJ anymore. Citrus fruits hurt my mouth. If I eat a tomato dish one day, I have to wait a day before eating tomato again. Boo.
erinlovestoeat at 4:57AM on 04/27/08
@erinlovestoeat .... my doctor gave me a suggestion for anything that irritates in the mouth, including a coated tongue and canker sores. Mix equal amounts of children's liquid Benadryl and Maalox and rinse & spit out. It's amazing how much it helps and it can't hurt to try. It makes your mouth tingle.
PerkyMac at 8:17AM on 04/27/08
In addition to developing an intolerance to shrimp and lobster (so sad), I tried an orange soda a couple months ago, for nostalgia purposes. When I was a kid, it used to be an extra-special treat for me, and I loved it so much. But a couple months ago, I basically spit it out. I couldn't take the insane sweetness - so much so that it killed any (artificial) orange flavor that might have been there. It was so disappointing.
BangieB at 1:11PM on 04/28/08
I don't care for fast food anymore, but as a kid I LOVED Burger King's onion rings. Recently I got some while traveling, just for fun, and they were TERRIBLE. Not even just not worth the calories -- they were actually disgusting. I don't know if they've changed or I have (or both), but I'll never go back there again.
CookiePie at 1:25PM on 04/28/08
I used to wolf down pepperoncini as a snack all the time, either with feta cheese or just by themselves. Any more than one or two of them now and my stomach is a mess for the next 24 hours.
sloppy at 3:19PM on 04/28/08
I grew up on wild game (beef pork and chicken were treats) and loved it; and one time I was invited to dinner at a friends house and her parents wanted to cook wild game for me (lol).
Though it was the thought that really count; unfortunately the animal was gutted wrong and had a HORRIBLE stench of urine--for those hunters out there, you know what I mean.
Ever since then I can't eat it AT ALL. The memories linger : (
hungrychristel at 3:32PM on 04/28/08
I used to LOVE soda, I hardly went a meal without it, but I switched to drinking only water, and on the rare occasions I now get soda, I can't seem to finish it! Coke tastes gritty and anything else is just too sweet and bubbly.
I guess my tolerance for greasy and sweet foods has gone down a lot since I stopped eating them, but I still crave chicken fingers at least once a week, and I'll never turn down something deliciously chocolatey.
embolini9 at 4:04PM on 04/28/08
I am quietly weeping about the future.
souldawg at 5:17PM on 04/30/08
sugar ,salt and fat from fast and over proscessed foods make me tired.
the good news is those things in home cooked meals do not. even when you feel like you're adding way to much of these things when you're cooking ,the amounts don't come close to what is added to the crap passed off as food today. watch out for high fructose corn syrup it's in freakin' everything including some health food bars
porkbelly at 12:38AM on 05/01/08