Get Your Taste Back

Unhealthy Cravings…

I loved Pizza…the more stuff on it the better. By the way, I could polish off a medium to large pizza, thin crust in one sitting. 30 minutes later I could work on a bag of chips and more Coke.

I did not grow up on processed food, so to speak.  I grew up on a farm, worked it, lived it.  Ma taught me to cook. I helped cook regular “sit down” meals, drank fresh raw milk, meat butchered on the farm, veggies from the garden, home made pies…we ate good. We had to feed the farm hands that worked on the farm also and of course many others who were around for the harvest…because Ma’s meals were known to be good.

Later years, high school forward, processed foods slowly and quietly sabotaged my palate, hijacked my sense of taste for good foods. The chips, Doritos, mac and cheese, pop, pizza, fast food burgers, French fries, salt and all sent my biological brain stuff off course by the constant bombing of synthetically flavored processed food.

I tried to satisfy my cravings for sugars, fats, and sodium with the hyper flavored convenience foods that totally failed to meet my health or nutrition needs…I kept craving more and more and I ate and drank more and more too. I watched the scale go from a trim 175 in High School to 255, my max weight. I sensed my own overall health failing…it felt weird, most of all scary!!

Those good old amped-up flavors of processed foods held my brain captive, gave me the pleasure and desire to eat more and like it. The good old food factories know this and become more and more creative in the novel flavors that kept me in that pleasure of taste.

Fast forward to the present time. I realized that it was not too late to get my taste buds back on the right track. My brain re-discovered its ability to know real food again, but on a deeper level.

I eat now knowing I’m getting my nutrition and got my health back, got my weight back to 190 with some more to go. I love how real food tastes. The love of cooking is back…it puts me back in touch with my childhood, my mom. It goes back to my inner self. That feels good!!

I wont go back. I consciously have reprogramed my taste buds in the service of my own health. I broke the chains of captivity that processed foods had me in. The total FREEDOM of health, mind, body and spirit is awesome. I love the track I am on again.        Thanks