Candy now tastes awful - its a MIRACLE!

[Keto_Newbie]

Hi there!

Summary

I am only on Keto Day 8. I started it for health reasons rather than weight loss (inflammation, energy). Ive had some peaks and troughs with K-flu symptoms, and members on here gave great encouragement and wise advice that got me through.

I want to ask if another non-scale victory for others has been not enjoying the junk food they used to?

I did not expect this, certainly not so soon. A few days ago fresh raspberries tasted like candy and I could tell my body was changing with the reduction in sugar intake.

But today…!I caved and decided to include 2 chocolates in my macro/micro ratio. They were my former favourite chocolates, only bought as a special treat, left over form before Keto. Shame on me, but it was a ‘controlled cheat’

However they tasted gross!!! Awful!
Its not a problem with the batch, because i gobbled several from the same box previously and thought the were just amazing as usual.

But today …!..boy!..they tasted underwhelming and not even that sweet. Certainly not raspberry sweet!!!

This might not seem like a ‘victory’ to everyone except other sweet tooths like myself Ive never met a chocolate i didnt love. So if Keto kicks me off chocolate and candy by changing my tastebuds, i will be so monumentally grateful. Because it’d be a straight up miracle!!

Ramble over Just overjoyed. Anyone else had similar or different experiences?

Happy keto-ing to everyone

[bunny6]

Congrats on your progress! Isn’t the Keto WOE amazing?

This is definitely true for me!! Old junky favorites like Oreos, cheese-its, teddy grahams, etc. taste different/chemically and make me feel awful. It’s always a good reminder for me of why I chose to pursue Keto simply to feel better!

[megamucho]

I still have a desire for chocolate… However, I’m completely off of bread.

Driving on a 3-state road trip across the midwest, I stopped for dinner. Five Guys bacon cheeseburger in a lettuce wrap, with mayo, grilled onions, and A1 sauce. Cup for water. Except this time, being weary from hours-long driving, I forgot to specify the lettuce wrap.

They call my number, and I bring the bag back to my table. Open up the foil, and a full burger is staring back at me. Yikes. At this point, I’d been living the Keto lifestyle for 7 months, and had not eaten ANY bread in that entire time. And my palate had shifted to where I now enjoy many things I previously did not care for. So, here was an opportunity to experiment. What did a bun burger taste like to me now?

I took the first bite… It was AWFUL! So spongy and empty of flavor. Second bite… nope. Terrible. Back to the counter for fork and knife, and the rest of the bun ended up in the trash.

Congrats on starting to turn the corner on healthy eating. You’ll find many other foods have a different taste for you as you continue the journey!

[Keto_Newbie]

Thanks @bunny6!!

And cool to hear about the foods that taste different/bad to you now too.

I will admit i had to look up what WOE stood for and in doing so now also figured out what NSV is Its all so new to me!

Cheers and thanks again!

[Keto_Newbie]

Hi @megamucho!!

Wow hats a really promising story. And I Five Guys burgers too. Must have felt great to actively dislike the bun! Maybe its a good idea to try stuff like that once in a while to help quash the psychological cravings. I know for me, if i hasn’t eaten those chocolates today id be perpetually craving them, thinking they’d be the best taste ever. But now - nada! And the same with you and bread/buns.

Hurah for keto giving us spidey senses for nasty chemicals and cardboard foods now!

Thanks for the encouragement and sharing your story.
Warmest wishes!

[Susan777]

I, too, will be eternally grateful if this WOE can continue to keep me off of chocolate. It was my worst addiction and my days were practically centered around getting through the workday and my chores so that I could finally hit the couch with a bag of chocolate. I haven’t had a piece in 5 weeks and don’t really miss it. I doubt it would taste “bad” if I had one but I can’t afford to try it. My husband always kept me well-stocked on chocolate so I’d never run out and there is a closet full of it. I won’t throw it away (it’s quality stuff) but may bring it all to a shelter or to family dinners over the holidays. I will still keep a few pieces around for an “emergency” (yes, I used to have chocolate emergencies!) but there’s no need to keep this large quantity around anymore.

I should have known that this WOE is what my body wanted because all those years of eating a meal of mostly carbs, the only thing that killed my hunger and satiated me was a bag of chocolate. It’s the fat my body was craving and all those carbs in my meal were just making me hungrier, leading me to cause so much chocolate!
Sue

[dukeman]

You don’t have to give up chocolate. There are 100% dark chocolate with no sugar added.

[PaulL]

You don’t have to give up chocolate. There are 100% dark chocolate with no sugar added.

No offense, but that’s like telling an alcoholic there’s such a thing as non-alcoholic vodka. The reaction of this alcoholic would be, Why?

[Melanie]

That’s awesome… wish I had this problem! I’m an m&m addict and could never have chocolate in the house. If I did, it wouldn’t be a problem the following day… because there’d be none left.

Even though I still crave sugary milk chocolate, I have no trouble stopping at 1 or 2 squares of 85% dark chocolate dipped in peanut butter… it just doesn’t provide the same neurological response.

[Keto_Newbie]

@dukeman and @PaulL hey thanks you guys. True on both fronts, huh! What’s funny is that I had a whole large bar of sugar-free chocolate in the cupboard, bought on the first shopping run of the Keto WOE, and it hadn’t even registered in my head as ‘chocolate’ According to my sugar-addicted brain, the only chocolate in the house was the sugar laiden chocolate. Until your messages, I 'd forgotten all about it. Still haven’t touched it!

However I have gotten a good fake chocolate fix from various mixtures of cocoa powder, vanilla extract, shredded coconut, almond butter, coconut oil and cream. Which I mix together, separate into little balls, put in the fridge, and declare them ‘chocolate truffles!’ Its a pain adding the details to Fat Secret every time because I change up the proportions, but its worth it and I think Im close to perfecting them. I have to be careful with the carbs in the almond butter, but I have ordered coconut flour and that’ll help.

And now theeeese guys, these little heavenly creamy chocolates treats, taste like proper indulgence!!

@PaulL are you a fellow sugar/choc appreciator, or just sympathetic to my plight? If the former, do you have any avourite concoctions that work as a keto-friendly fix?? Would love to hear if you do.

Ive been looking up some of the tasty recipes for keto chocolates on here and elsewhere, and ordered some eryethitol, mint essence, and silicone candy trays online. I! Can’t! Wait!!! I think homemade chocolates will be lovely gifts for people too… Y’know, because obviously I only want to perfect recipes for making delicious chocolates for selfless reasons…

I think I’ll definitly roll out the low-sugar very dark chocolate eventually, maybe to drizzle on top, or dip them into.

Who knew there’d be so many ways for a former chocolate addict to get their kicks on keto. The more I understand how much we can really avoid carbs and sugar, and still eat delicious food, the more I wish I had stumbled upon Keto a decade ago.

Thanks for your help all, Ill give you all a cut when i become a famous millionaire chocolatier

[Keto_Newbie]

Hi @Melanie Dark choc dipped in peanutbutter - im going to try that! Thanks!

Check out my thrown together idea of ‘chocolate truffles’ I mentioned in another reply on here. They work really well for me. One thing I know from sensory neuroscience evidence, is that western brains are tricked into thinking that things flavoured with vanilla are sweet even when they are not. Vanilla has just been paired with sugar in our food industry consistently. (Its cool, you can look up research done on cultures that dont have this in their diet, or young babaies who have to been exposed to it over a lifetime, and they don’t think vanilla is sweet)

So why am I blethering about this? Well… us Keto folk can use this information to ‘hack’ our brains into thinking what we are eating has that sweetness we crave. Eventually the ‘keto brain’ might stop associating vanilla with sweet is we consistently made candies with no sugar or sugar replacement, but by then we’d be in-hooked on sugar anyway

I hope this science pans out. Im certainly dunking a teaspoon of vanilla in with the bitter cocoa powder any time I use it. While it’s defiantly not deliiiiiciously sweet, it passes. YUM!

Happy to post up the keto-chocolates recipes I try over the next couple of months on this thread, if fellow candy lovers would benefit?

[JustPeachy]

You need to get you some of these…

https://www4.netrition.com/sukrin-no-sugar-added-milk-chocolate-bars.html

[Keto_Newbie]

Cheers @JustPeachy I sure do!

Ill look into getting them in the UK. The Swiss know how to do chocolate right so I trust these will be tasty as heck

Have you had them?

[JustPeachy]

Oh yeah! They are exceptional. Every time I place an order I get a few…as an indulgent treat, of course!
I share with my non-keto hubby, that way I only have half the guilt.

[Keto_Newbie]

Hi @Susan777 You always have the loveliest advice, thank you! I think we’re keto/chocolate kindered spirits by the sounds of it

my days were practically centered around getting through the workday and my chores so that I could finally hit the couch with a bag of chocolate.

Well good for your because mine were centred around getting through the workday by having chocolate intermittently through the workday, then at home! Lol. I feel like I was using it for bursts of energy (knowing full well about the sugar crashes). So you were more disciplined than > me!

I haven’t had a piece in 5 weeks and don’t really miss it.

This is an amazing achievement and life change!! I hope you’re patting yourself on your back regularly. If not, please take a hug and high five from me and the others on here It must feel like a relief not to be chained to that feeling of ‘need’ when you get home from work and head for the chocolate.

may bring it all to a shelter or to family dinners over the holidays.

That’s such a kind idea Love it!

…, the only thing that killed my hunger and satiated me was a bag of
chocolate. It’s the fat my body was craving and all those carbs in my meal were just making me hungrier, leading me to cause so much chocolate

Thanks for sharing this. I am only starting to understand this now. It was a riddle I couldnt figure out my whole life. Also, when I grew up we lived on a little street with a bakery and a sweet/candy shop. So all our pocket money was spent on sugar, and sugar clearly became the response I expected after anything good happened. Or anything bad (a nice sugary bun will fix that! Etc). And Ive always been prone to adding more butter to my cooking than others, and love cream in my coffee and in everything really! So I think my body was always trying to tell me I wanted more fat, but society was telling me no. And then by craving it, just like you described, and Id binge on peanut butter cups lol

Oh, and it doesnt sound like you need keto chocolate recipes because you are in-hooked to chocolate (again, I tip my hat in awe). But if you do have some youve tried, I’d love to hear.

Otherwise I’m going to post my keto chocolate attempts on this thread so others can try them if they like. Hopefully with pics if Im organized!

Warmest wishes

[Melanie]

Thanks, I’ll check it out… although I did make a truffle filling the other day using cream cheese, melted dark choc, peanut butter, vanilla powder (seeds) and a tiny bit of sweetener!

[PaulL]

@PaulL are you a fellow sugar/choc appreciator, or just sympathetic to my plight?

I am certainly sympathetic to your plight. I wouldn’t call myself a sugar “appreciator,” however—that would be like calling myself a wine connoisseur because I regularly knocked back a gallon or so of Ripple every night. Sugar addict is more like it. Chocolate by itself doesn’t grab me—but mix it with three or four ounces of sugar, however, and now you’re talking!

[Susan777]

Peanut butter cups??? Did someone say peanut butter cups??? OH NO - if anything causes me to break down and start eating chocolate again it will be the call of a peanut butter cup! Or M&Ms with peanut butter filling!

I don’t dare go to a movie theater because the best part of the movie was having a 2-hour feast of peanut butter cups and popcorn. Guess I better keep my subscription to Netflix up-to-date… won’t be going to a movie theater any time soon!
Sue

[Keto_Newbie]

Peanut butter cups and peanut butter M&Ms are my two favourite too Sue! They dont have them in the UK and I stock up (rather I used to, pre-Keto )every time I went back to the US for work. I guess now another NSV is that my suitcase will be lighter without multiple family packs of PB M&MS in there when I fly home!

There are some nice recipes out there for Keto peanutbutter cups. I wonder if you made them in advance and brought them to the cinema, would that satisfy the craving? The popcorn would be harder to replace…

[Susan777]

Actually I thought it would be the PB candy that would be harder to replace… I can make some crunchy cheese wafers or a small amount of a salty nut to replace the popcorn.

Definitely something to go look for and make - then I can pick out a good movie!!! Thanks!
Sue