that substitute sweeteners are not their thing…
my precious kerry gold, coconut oil, almond flour, chocolate, and cream cheese have been destroyed by swerve, truvia, xylitol, stevia, and even splenda. :sniff:
i didn’t used to mind stevia or splenda and now it’s like licking an air freshener…
sooooo…possibly my body is trying to tell me that i don’t respond well to substitute sweeteners and to stop messing around wasting perfectly good food stuffs lol
sounds like a reasonable strategy to me.
… mind you I still have sucralose in my coffee. But I am tiring of sweet food lately, too.
Artificial sweeteners have a chemical taste to me. And, with time, that chemical taste is even more obvious than before. I think as we become more fat adapted, our taste buds change, perhaps?
I stopped with sugar in my tea and coffee early on in January after watching a Dr Robert Lustig video on YouTube. It was weird, I just went cold turkey. I have been unable to go lower than half a teaspoon whenever I tried, and suddenly I just stopped them, and the mocha drinks from the vending machines, hot chocolate. I just decided that saturday night that I was no longer having sugar in my tea, and never regretted that decision.
Now after a month or so of tryign to consistently lower my carbs and increasing my fat, I can even eat butter on cheese slices and like it.
I even had some double cream with a bit of orange flavouring in it the other day as a substitute for yogurt. It was yummilicious.
I think our tastebuds do change, because even the Rooibos tee I drink, and black coffee taste good without sugar. I didn’t even bother with sweeteners.
I just finished my morning cold brew coffee and realized that I enjoyed the sips of the black coffee before adding anything than the finished version with stevia and Swerve…
I think I’m coming over to the unsweetened side where I know the bacon and butter are already waiting!
I think sometimes we add sweeteners and sugar out of habit, and forget to taste before adding these things to see if we actually prefer them without.
@Fiorella - i’m thinking our tastebuds do change… i mean we have changed/are changing our own chemistry through minimally processes foods…and salt
our mouths prob go “what the frick is this?”
@Groversaurus - i’m going to look for that video
@BillJay - all i kept thinking while ruining good ingredients was “maybe it needs more butter”
interestingly i had an upset stomach yesterday…(undoubtedly from taste testing the failed sweet treats) and all i craved to fix it was fat…
i avoided making desserts for a while because i didn’t think i was mentally ready to not go crazy and just eat the treats for all meals…“hey they’re keto!” or hear them calling when i wasn’t actually hungry.
i was kind of mad that i thought i could have my cake and keto too and can’t…now i’m grateful that i don’t have to worry about it
now what to do with all of these not so cheap sweeteners? lol
There’s A LOT of truth in this! For me, it’s becoming less and less about the sweetness and becoming more about the richness from the fat content and butter is my favorite. 
Hi @mikki,
I may have made it sound like one video convinced me. After looking back through my YouTube play history I think there may have been a layering effect of a few. Here are some of the first videos I watched, and as I flick back through them trying to find that seminal moment that stopped me craving sugar in my drinks, I realise just how much good information I missed the first time around in them.
The Skinny on Obesity - Episode 1 This is a series of videos, well worth watching each of them. Somehow I watched episode 3 first I think I had heard about Leptin being this hormone that tells your body you are full, and how insuling stomps all over it.
Dr Robert Lustig
TED Talk - Obesity and Food
Jamie Oliver
Bad Sugars: Addictive and Hazardous to your Health
Enjoy.
I don’t know how related this is but I’ve noticed some changes in my taste buds and sensitivity. I’ve noticed that a berry is VERY sweet now. But the weirdest thing, and most annoying, I can “taste” plastic. I can taste the plastic of my coffee cup lid or if my lunch was in a tupperware/silicone vs Pyrex. Anyone else experienced anything like this?
Yep. I can even taste if the food was cooked in Teflon…wrong temperature applied and screwed up the texture, and bizarre crust formed. Can’t stand the taste of food sitting in plastic, or cooked in plastic either. Even when my mouth touches a plastic cup or plastic bottle, to drink water, I cannot stand it.
My first order of cacao butter was delivered yesterday! Did you catch the lightning deal on Amazon? Just happened to spot it, though I have no experience with the brand.
I haven’t tried it yet, but I got “Healthworks Cacao Butter Raw Organic, 2lb”
lucky!
i didn’t…i have successfully used up my gift cards from christmas…primarily on keto related items tho lol
Agree with all of this. I used to absolutely detest Hershey’s dark chocolate(which isn’t really dark) and now 85-90% dark bars are almost too sweet. I’m quite happy munching a 100% square straight up now.
you can find the ghiradelli in the baking aisle of some “regular” stores
not my closest whole foods…which is worthless and…who exactly pays $3 for ONE zucchini? lol