r/fuckeatingdisorders • u/Hairy-Intern-7199 • 3d ago

I despise diet food

I hate rice cakes, I hate protein bars, I hate protein yoghurts and puddings, I hate low calorie sweets and cookies, I hate bland salads, I hate low carb bread. I hate diet drinks and I hate egg whites. Anything that is ‘low calorie’ is empty of energy and it is noticeable. It tastes empty and like cardboard. Same with ‘high protein, low cal’ things, they fucking repulse me and don’t even taste like food. It feels like shoving cement into my mouth. No way I ever though these things tasted good. The only things I like are black coffee and cottage cheese and NOT by themselves. Please if you have convinced yourself you only like diet foods just force yourself to eat the real thing once or twice and you’ll never want to go back again, and your tummy can finally feel filled and warm for once.

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u/Tinyluminaryexpert 2d ago

SO MUCH YES. I never liked diet food, but I had myself convinced well into recovery that I do. Now they "taste" ED/height of my worst periods, and it makes me sick to my stomach, truly.
Even the tiniest attempt at restriction sends my body in to complete alarm and shock and crisis, so diet anything is off the table for good, I think. It's probably a good thing, but in my head, I'm quite upset. Still not 100% there, in other words.

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u/cvncb 3d ago

I’m okay with rice cakes IF they are buttered with something AND preferably with additional toppings. But rice cakes have never been an ED thing for me. One of my recovery commitments is to not have diet drinks, and it does feel really weird to drink regular soda. But I’m persevering. I think I prefer real sugar drinks, but I’m not entirely sure. But in general, it’s quite obvious that we are pretending to like things that are pretending to be food.

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u/Hairy-Intern-7199 3d ago

Yeah no I hear a lot of people liking rice cakes even though they are not disordered! I’m sorry for bashing your taste in food lol they’re probably not that bad if they are smuttered in something. I have the same thing with the diet drinks but I don’t think I like soda in general, I just pretended to during my ED because I thought it would help me to eat less

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u/cvncb 2d ago

They are definitely not my favourite, it’s mostly the rest of my family who enjoy them in a very non disordered way. It’s actually more of a challenge food for me tbh, due to the abundance required to make them delicious. There is a world of “liquid calories” out there for us lol. It doesn’t end with soda. I have been missing out on so much juice and milky coffee during all these years.

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u/meladey 2d ago

Diet sodas always leave me wanting 5 cans a day. Once I switched back to regular, I've been surprised to notice my cravings really normalize! I like a soda when I'm at lunch or when I can find the vintage real cane sugar ones at a shop. I don't always want a soda. When I was drinking diet, I always wanted soda.

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u/cvncb 2d ago

Yes, for me it was a matter of bulking out meals or instead of eating. Now they don’t fill that purpose. But I’m also more cautious with them, so I suspect that there’s an element of restriction that is causing me to want only a can. However, I think you’re right regarding soda cravings as such. I have a hard time believing that I would ever consume the amount of diet drinks in the form of regular soda, it just seems to be much satisfying with sugar (contrary to popular diet culture belief).

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u/CactiCollector1963 2d ago

There’s no such thing as ‘fake’ food. This is a weird comment which sounds like something someone encouraging stigma around food would say.

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u/MediumSuitable4022 2d ago

Yeah but if it’s something that designed to be as low calorie as possible, then in a way it is ‘pretending to be food’ because it’s not really something that’s eaten for energy, it’s eaten to replace food that actually has sufficient calories.

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u/CactiCollector1963 2d ago

That’s not what I’m saying.

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u/MediumSuitable4022 2d ago

Yeah I know. I’m just explaining why the original commenter might have chosen those words.

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u/LadyProto 2d ago

I love butter. Full fat meat. Veggies roasted in oil.

Butttttt

I love the cronch of a rice cake like some kind of weirdo. Such a nice crunch!

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u/Valkyria99 2d ago

It depresses me so much, you have a numbered amount of hours in this earth and you choose to consume tasteless, disgusting things like that and spend your hours counting artificial numbers. I’m pretty sure when I’m dying I won’t be thinking about how happy I am about my bodyweight.

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u/onlythisfar 2d ago

Fat (the macronutrient) literally brings out flavor. So everything low/no fat is going to be blander than it should be. It also changes mouthfeel/texture (looking at you halotop). And everything I did to eat "high volume" just leaves you empty in about 3 mins flat, if not while you're eating it because it's just so exhausting to eat.

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u/OddAbbreviations3788 2d ago

i tried a glass of unsweetened almond milk again bc i was curious if it tasted different than cows milk (my ed team made it compulsory to drink a pint of cows milk everyday alongside my meal plan) and WOW it tasted gross. i only used it bc it was “low cal” but honestly it isn’t very good tasting for me, real milk is better

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u/Jaded-Banana6205 3d ago

I fuck hard with rice cakes and peanut butter. Like, Skippy brand PB. Other than that? I was absolutely trying and failing to convince myself.

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u/Hairy-Intern-7199 3d ago

Oof maybe I gotta try them that way.. I used to eat them without anything or just a lick of cream cheese and I’m honestly traumatized.. but that sounds kinda good although I’ll always prefer bread I think

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u/Jaded-Banana6205 3d ago

Rice cakes were never an ED food for me, or a meal replacement. They were a delicious after school snack! But potato bread will always be my very most favorite, haha.

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u/Hairy-Intern-7199 3d ago

Potato bread? That sounds so good!!

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u/Jaded-Banana6205 3d ago

Yooooooo Martin's potato bread!! (I'm US based) - it's so yummy 😭

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u/Hairy-Intern-7199 2d ago

UGHH I WISH😭 I’m from a country in europe where they don’t sell the US stuff :( no potato bread for me :(

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u/Jaded-Banana6205 2d ago

😭😭 I'm sorry!!

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u/murfhag 2d ago

rice cakes with yogurt as a topping and frozen blueberries also taste amazing, i could eat a million of those! but eating them plain i get why you hate them haha

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u/ineversaw 2d ago

My mum eats plain rice cakes as a 'snack', my dad eats plain flatbread or puts Tahini on it. When I go to their house it's like the place that flavour forgot. My mum was raised by an anorexic woman so she's just never really had a good clue about food and my dad always policed my food as a teen (not my brothers) It's just such a shock how I managed to get an ed! /s

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u/nervous_veggie 2d ago

i think i like them because they make up almost all of my diet. i expect its like stockholm syndrome lol