I did a bit of a four day fast this week. Unintentionally mind you…just didn’t feel like eating other than the odd pat of butter from the cafeteria at work.
I noticed that when I now walk into a room with others already there, I can smell what smells to me like stale air or exhaled air. Also, if someone has a piece of fruit or sweetened drink with them I notice a strong sickly sweet “taste” to the air.
Has anyone else noticed a heightened smell/taste senses during a fast?
I can smell ripe fruit as soon as I enter a room now.I think that is one of the hardest parts of keto for me. I loved fruit before and ate it multiple times a day, but now I can smell the citrus as soon as I walk into our little market. I can also smell sweetened soda in someone’s office. There is this one programmer that works for me that has an air spray that smells like vanilla cupcakes. I can smell it down the hall but nobody in the offices adjacent to his can smell it.
I don’t really have a heightened sense of smell, but I do work as a phlebotomist while I finish my Masters. I wake 30 people up every morning to get blood. I really wouldn’t want a heightened sense of smell! You don’t know morning breath until it’s from someone sick.