I just wanted to share something I’ve discovered over the past month (started LCHF on Jan 1). Over my past 55 years of life I have never had a mouth-watering reaction to photos or even physical exposure to red meat. The sight of it just never sent anything to my brain that said, yum, you need this.
But my body chemistry must have changed drastically on LCHF because my mouth now involuntarily waters (whether I’m hungry or not!) at the sight of grilled steak photos and even raw meat that I’m about to cook (so no grilled smells, only the sight of it). Photos of heaping piles of carbs (like french fries, or birthday cake) would have instantly started my mouth watering in the past, but in the last month, photos or sights like that do nothing to my reptilian brain.
This is all on such a subconscious, reptilian-brain level and happens so quickly that I’m not even thinking about it, so my body’s hard wiring must have changed in a way that is completely involuntary to me!
Just curious if anyone else has experienced this? Mouthwatering is definitely a powerful below consciousness reaction, I find it fascinating that my body has changed so drastically in what it finds to be desirable to eat :D!