healthy eating

so sorry im just kind of ranting, because well most people could really care less about healthy eating and all that stuff, the thing i miss most, is just not being so worried about what im eating. before i just ate what i wanted when i wanted and that was that. now im im aware of everything that im eating it kind of stresses me out a little bit.  i've actually stopped counting calories, but i just feel like every food decision should be healthy which isn't a bad thing i guess. ha i've found that after learning all the stuff about whats in foods and dieting and all that stuff, its hard for me to eat certain things that i know aren't good for me anymore.  and foods like desserts dont taste as good anymore, like i crave them but at the same time when im eating like a piece of cake or something, it just doesn't taste as good as it used to. anybody else or am i just weird? haha

I totally agree.  I think our bodies just want the sugars and fats from it.  I gave up chocolate for lent once, and on Easter I was so excited because I got so much from my parents, but after I had some it just wasn't the same.

I think we also learn to really apreciate the flavor of wholesome food, and we realize how bland some junk foods can be.

I agree. It seems so weird though. You would think that junk food and sweets would taste better if it been a long time since you ate them, but they dont. A few weeks ago, I had a cheat day and actually had KFC and it didnt taste as good as it use to! So weird.

I've found that I've got a lot more fussy when it comes to the 'fun' foods.  It's got to be 100% amazing or I really don't see the point in bothering.  I simply don't understand the whole 'diet treats' industry.  Seems like an oxymoron to me.   "Tastes like a cork bath mat ladies and has more chemicals than Glaxo Smith Kline ... but it's only 50 calories!!!..."

If it's a cake, for example,  it's got to be something truly wickedly delicious, made with fresh high-quality ingredients, real eggs, real sugar, .... not one of these artificial frozen foam-rubber things out of a box, soaked in sweetners and colourings and covered in fake cream.   Chocolate has to be the very best, 60-70% cocoa solids, real McCoy...  

My honest view is that real food (even rich, rather indulgent real food) is 10 x healthier for me than the alternatives.   I also appreciate it more.  

Yeah I've found the same thing. I remember hearing a quote somewhere along the lines of 'You wouldn't put the wrong type of fuel in a Ferrari engine, so why put junk into your body?' and it really stuck with me. If I am presented with junk food now I just think 'why am I making my body process all this rubbish, whats the point.' I choose to eat healthily because I feel a hundred times better after I've eaten - there is no indigestion or junkfood guilt, or feelings of being uncomfortably full.

I now feel that the primary point of eating is to give our bodies what they need to work well (I know there are other reasons - social, bonding, enjoyable cookery etc.) but for the most part, I feel like I choose to eat what will be good for my body, otherwise I find it hard to see the point. I think this is a good thing!

I used to ADORE Little Debbie oatmeal pies.  I couldn't eat enough Oreos to satisfy myself.  One regular hamburger from McDonald's wasn't NEAR enough.  Sonic Cherry Limeades?  I'll have the Route 44 please!  Like seriously, I was a bottomless pit.  Straight gut and hollow legs.  Except I was like almost 300 lbs. 

Now that I lost more than half of that and got out of my 8 Mt. Dews a day habit, food doesn't even taste the same.  I don't even feel the same about it all.  I drive past fast food places and shutter at the thought of sitting in the parking lot during my lunch hours, eating as fast as my chubby hands could get the food to my face.  All I could think about back then was my next meal, even when I was eating.  Like I was some kind of drug addict.  Even IF I get the urge to eat something unhealthy nowadays, one bite and the guilt makes it unedible.  I've gotten to the point that I'd eat a shoe if it was good for me.  But you're all right... you get used to the foods that are good for you - and for me, it's like I've won a battle every time I eat something I totally enjoy, and is perfectly good for my body!

see the thing for me is that i miss the junk foods, mainly all the sweets and stuff, but at the same time they just dont taste as good to me anymore. but if i do have a bite of something like a cookie or whatever, and it doesn't taste as good anymore, im just not satisfied so i could seriously eat 10 cookies if i really wanted to.  so i guess its more of the fact that im just stuck, im craving a really really good cookie or something,but at the same time if i eat a cookie i dont get the satisfaction that i want if that makes any sense?