"monalza2779" wrote in message
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I think I'm addicted to food - correction - carbs and junk food. I've
never been a good eater my whole life. I hate most vegetables! I
really do wish I liked veggies and liked healthy food. Has there been
a study done about people's taste buds being different?? cause I don't
get it! healthy food tastes gross! is it just me and the way I taste
things? or is that really how they taste?? I have to choke it down
half the time and it's really an awful experience. Sometimes I think
I'm just crazy and to suck it up and force myself to eat it and I'll
get use to it but that only lasts for so long and then I can't take it
anymore. Back to eating the same junk/crap as usual. I feel so
guilty and hopeless when this happens and I don't know what to do. I
feel hopeless. I feel I have no control. I've tried starving myself
before because I hate food so much but that doesn't last long at
all...it's almost as if as soon as I think about starving myself, I go
to the cupboard and start eating.....can anybody help me? or am I a
lost cause?


I wonder how old you are. I didn't like veggies much before I turned 22 and
started eating chinese. I looked down on anything that wasn't meat. Salad
dressings disgusted me. Veggies were boring. Of course back then all my
veggies came out of cans. They were gross. I don't eat that stuff today.

Once I started eating chinese (essentially stir fried fresh veggies) I loved
the stuff. I eventually grew to like tofu. These days I love greens which
are basically boiled leaves. I like creamy dressings. It took years for me
change those attitudes, but don't get me wrong the changes haven't been for
the good. I'm heavier now than ever. And it's a bad thing to learn to like
salad dressings. They're full of saturated fats and calories.

So maybe our taste buds change with time. My guess is that a lot of it is
mental. On the other hand veggies without soy sauce or creamy dressings are
inedible to me. I'll eat them that way sometimes, but it's not enjoyable.