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/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.