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My food tolerance is decreasing?

UberScout

Please Don't Be Mad At Me 02/09/1996
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I got to thinking about how, Maddog woke me up at 2 AM (yes you read that correctly) to help him finish a bowl of canned spaghetti (ULLCH) and I had already had a bowl of taco salad that had a very bold taste to it, more than I could stand, actually, despite being quite flavorful, and when I decided to just sneak it into the trash and go back to bed, I began thinking; my tolerance for foods I used to love is now gone.

What is causing this to happen is a mystery to me because I can't tell what's causing it. Unless it's a mental block of some sort. My aunt Dorothy used to force me to eat certain foods that she cooked, and she was a TERRIBLE cook, I have no idea how my uncle and everyone else in our family was able to finish a single plate she made, not only that but to go back for seconds, mind you, in some cases, when over on my end of the table, I'm struggling to get a sloppy, soggy slab of very-poorly-prepared broccoli off my fork, only for Dorothy to jab it back on to my fork and practically shackle me to the table until it's gone.

If my food-based PTSD is what's causing the block to happen, I sure wish I knew how to remove the block, because it's getting in the way of lots of food tolerances I used to have that are now gone. I used to have a wide palate of tolerance, now I don't. It seems like ONLY stuff that's made in an air fryer or stove is ALL I can stand eating, and that worries me because I don't want to stick to just that.
 
Maybe before you werent tasting your food because of your meds, or sometimes being depressed we just mindlessly shove food in without tasting it, we just eat because we know we have too.

Have some food struggles myself, now l am very fussy about what l eat now. Can beans are now my go to because you can shove them in tortillas with cheese and some lettuce, taco seasoning, nuke it, and it's a healthy burrito supplying protein and fills you up. Anyways,you have made so much progress, just keep moving forward.
 
It gets better when you learn to cook. If you still have to eat what others prepare, well it's harder when you are poor, bc you have to eat what there is. Most poor people and younglings eat things from cans. And other stupid stuff that's supposed to be for snacks and a fast meal, occasionally.

Smart poor people eat soups and they grow thier own salad stuff. And make beans from the dry in big batches, then freeze it in quarts, already cooked! And homemade bread on sundays sometimes. Lots of stir fry. Store bought bread is likely the worst food choice you can make, at the store, it has a low value for a high price. See if food resources are limited the choices are more important.thats so hard to learn about, that you can teach yourself to like things that are good for you. Broccoli tastes great when you grow it yourself and prepare it properly.

In terms of your op I would put things in a more positive light, so yes your tastes will change, at least they do with me, or rather they keep evolving, somewhat. I have relapses, but control of the diet improves my mental health, I journaled and that proves it.

I have a standard diet, that I like and that seems to be ok for me, healthwise. It's really cheap too. It sort of developed over time. Ppl helped me learn over the years. But I have freedom to choose. And no one else to please.

I think that mostly the pain from abuse can be alleviated. Shine the light on it, like you are doing now, that should help. Eventually a wire nailed to a tree will get bark growing around it. I know how to make some old pain go away, there are different methods. Some of the old pain goes away because the new pain hurts more! Doesn't that just suck?

chicken thighs, and steamed rice with veggies will keep you alive for a long while. Breakfast cereal wetted with fruit juice. Apples. Oatmeal with extra. When you live on a really simple diet for a long time it changes you, but watch out! Monk diet will make you crave sugar like you cant believe!

What you eat, really makes a difference how well you feel as you get older.

This is getting too long. You can make your own hamburger helper, for cheaper, and its better for you, and that's mostly true with all of it.
As you learn more the costs come down and your health improves! It gets even better when several adults go shopping together.
 
PTSD enlarges the amygdala. It cannot shrink from what they know. Do you still use medical MJ? BTW, can you please fill us in again on Maddog? It seems there were posts where you explained, but i cannot find them. But he seems a really important part of your life :) PS Food PTSD is very, very real. For those of us with food intolerance and feeding issues, it is very much trauma. Hell on earth, to be more exact.
 
I got to thinking about how, Maddog woke me up at 2 AM (yes you read that correctly) to help him finish a bowl of canned spaghetti (ULLCH) and I had already had a bowl of taco salad that had a very bold taste to it, more than I could stand, actually, despite being quite flavorful, and when I decided to just sneak it into the trash and go back to bed, I began thinking; my tolerance for foods I used to love is now gone.

What is causing this to happen is a mystery to me because I can't tell what's causing it. Unless it's a mental block of some sort. My aunt Dorothy used to force me to eat certain foods that she cooked, and she was a TERRIBLE cook, I have no idea how my uncle and everyone else in our family was able to finish a single plate she made, not only that but to go back for seconds, mind you, in some cases, when over on my end of the table, I'm struggling to get a sloppy, soggy slab of very-poorly-prepared broccoli off my fork, only for Dorothy to jab it back on to my fork and practically shackle me to the table until it's gone.

If my food-based PTSD is what's causing the block to happen, I sure wish I knew how to remove the block, because it's getting in the way of lots of food tolerances I used to have that are now gone. I used to have a wide palate of tolerance, now I don't. It seems like ONLY stuff that's made in an air fryer or stove is ALL I can stand eating, and that worries me because I don't want to stick to just that.
My husband and I both had covid last year. Since then, our tastes have changed dramatically. He used to love bananas, avocados and chicken. Now he can't stand any of them. I used to love sautéed mushrooms, hamburgers and spaghetti. Now even the smell of them puts me off. I had a mild case of covid but my husband was in ICU for 7 weeks on a respirator so the change in taste doesn't seem to have anything to do with how sick you were. My husband is an NT, I'm not.
 
Mine has come from stress and infection, can't really have heated food through the daytime \summer if it resembles summer in n.e.England,loved curry from the region of Pakistan\India or from canton area of China but spice is heat : ( ,or fibre ,crave salads ,could have lived on Cadbury chocolate .
 
Psychologically I have food based PTSD too and another from another part of my life which only this year I have began to be able to work on a bit because at the time. You could try if you're anything like me where I had certain things before that made me much sicker at one of the lowest points of my life when I felt like it was the end of me and couldn't eat much of anything having small individual portions of things that may have been a trigger for you there and gently getting your body to learn to accept it again that is if you really want to go back to it at all. I eat a lot more plain now and am a vegetarian for the most part but I sometimes will eat meat and other things just to show my body that it's not going to kill it now and then and that things are better now. Gradually facing things with PTSD in general has always been the way to go in my life.
 

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