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Author Topic: What tastes yukky to you???  (Read 1311 times)

Offline B

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What tastes yukky to you???
« on: January 11, 2012, 07:40:00 PM »
The newest food that tastes totally nasty to me - celery! Who woulda' thunk?

Just wondering about the rest of you - how has your sense of taste changed while on tx?

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Offline babynewbird1

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What tastes yukky to you???
« Reply #1 on: January 11, 2012, 08:24:00 PM »
Alot of things taste like metal...even Pizza, the true love of my life.
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Offline alice

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Re: What tastes yukky to you???
« Reply #2 on: January 12, 2012, 12:53:03 AM »
My tastes ahve changed so much while on tx! For the longest time, pretty much everything was awful and I hardly ate. Then cookies ruled above all. Over the past couple of months, things are getting better but still..... the onions, good GAWD! Those things are beyond bad. They send me off the deep end sometimes!  :ahhh: They stink up the house. They smell like BO. They give me migraines (or maybe I can't stand smelling them when I'm getting a migraine  :confused:). They lead me to behave badly. I don't like onions, Geez oh Damn! I do not like them, Sam, I Am! :ahhh:  :sick:

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Re: What tastes yukky to you???
« Reply #3 on: January 12, 2012, 01:18:57 AM »
When I went through treatment, everything tasted like I was sucking on a rusty-iron skillet. Any type of seasoning was intolerable--salt set my mouth to blazing. I lost 35 pounds--hell of a diet plan.
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Re: What tastes yukky to you???
« Reply #4 on: January 12, 2012, 03:34:29 AM »
I used to drink a lot of weak tea with skim milk - now milk does not taste so good and I am taking my weak tea plain.   Anything with a lot of fat (fries, or fried food) I don't like.   However, I seem to have had cravings for pound cake!   But I eat a lot of fruit and I like an omelette with spinach, tomato and cheese!!    I am just a barrel of laughs these days.  Gone off bread of all kinds and peanut butter.  Don't want to eat meat at all.
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Re: What tastes yukky to you???
« Reply #5 on: January 12, 2012, 10:03:35 AM »
While on the Incivek fat diet the only things that tasted normal to me were a variety of Special K I found, and Ice cream. Everything else was awful and I quit coffee, and fruit juice which had been morning staples for me. Now, post Incivek, there is still a wierd taste in my mouth, but everything except fruit juice is okay. I was within 5 pounds of my optimum weight when I started, lost 4 pounds on Incivek, gained 6 pounds since. Soon ( 8 days ) I will be done and will start spending less time on the couch.   Kirk
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Re: What tastes yukky to you???
« Reply #6 on: January 12, 2012, 10:25:07 AM »
Everything tastes terrible except some fruits like Cuties and grapes.  Plain grits with nothing, not even salt are tolerable.  If it has grease it is wretched.
I have 7 days of Incivek remaining.  I am hoping things get better after that.  i need to go back to work.
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Re: What tastes yukky to you???
« Reply #7 on: January 12, 2012, 10:43:40 AM »
Don't think my sense of taste has changed but I sure don't have a lot of appetite. When I do want to eat I want carbs, preferably in the form of cookies.
Sweet foods go down easiest. Meat is just gross, although I make myself eat a little for protein. But am I loosing weight? heck no! It's b/c I'm so much more sedentary than before.
I'm not overweight but the nurse promised PROMISED! at the beginning of treatment I'd loose 5 pounds at least. Cool, I thought. Well, that nurse so far is wrong.
Done with the fatsivek now, but I've gotten used to my heavy cream in morning coffee.

Hey Alice! Ayurveda (Indian medicine) says onions fire up the sex drive. No self-respecting holy man or woman would be caught dead eating onions or garlic.
So see, we all knew you're an evolved being!  :grin:
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Re: What tastes yukky to you???
« Reply #8 on: January 12, 2012, 10:46:59 AM »
Yep, definitely metallic.  I find that unsweetened, unflavored applesauce is my new best friend.  And yogurt - since I cannot eat dairy, it's goats milk for me.
The small of the half and half which I heat for my husband's coffee really sets me off - good thing I have long arms!  Don't even want to think about the shrimp I tried to
make two nights ago..............I thought bland diets were for old folks???? :surprised:

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Re: What tastes yukky to you???
« Reply #9 on: January 12, 2012, 02:05:48 PM »
Quote from: Steph on January 12, 2012, 10:43:40 AM
Hey Alice! Ayurveda (Indian medicine) says onions fire up the sex drive. No self-respecting holy man or woman would be caught dead eating onions or garlic.
So see, we all knew you're an evolved being!  :grin:

Somebody needs to tell my hubby that!  :lol: I had to apologize --AGAIN--- for blowing a gasket over onions this week. it's just downright embarassing what this does to me. I woke up on monday morning smelling onions and I went on a tear! WTH! this.... and WTH?! that... then I threw the stupid onion into the refrigerator... Geez oh man, I gotta get a handle on this one.  :embarrassed: :blushing: Not very evolved... :sad: Funny you mention that because garlic is right up there, too.

but cookies.... now I lloove me some cookies.

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Re: What tastes yukky to you???
« Reply #10 on: January 13, 2012, 04:35:01 AM »
I went from 109 to 114 the first week on treatment!!!   No exercise and lying around eating soothing carbs with fat and sugar in them!    Also "water weight" I think.   Anyway, at week 2 I was 111 so I am trying to get a handle on it.   Yesterday I took my shot in the morning with oatmeal and blueberries.   Did not feel ill but just "strange" and achy and miserable (I cried my eyes out when I felt dismissed by my husband cause he had to go to work) so I ate (are you ready for this fellow heppers?) a piece of iced sheet cake I had thrown in the trash (yes it was in a plastic box but Lynda, come on girl!) and half a bag of crisps (potato chips).   Well, that made me more miserable so I went to bed again.  Then for my evening meal I got my new Vitamix and blended an orange, protein powder, powdered vitamins, a banana and a big kale leaf...added a little water and voila!  a lovely green smoothie.   Going to gym today even though I feel weak and my shoulders and arms really hurt.   I have to pull myself together :sideways:

B:   Thanks for your lovely note.   Tried to reply but my computer froze.   Will write today.   I am impressed!!!..We have some amazing, intelligent and talented people on this site.   And then there's me :tongue:
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Re: What tastes yukky to you???
« Reply #11 on: January 13, 2012, 09:59:19 AM »
Yeah girl, and you are right on the top of my amazing list! (even with your cake transgression, it's ok!!!! :whistling:)

I find that just being at the gym makes me feel better emotionally.  Just have to make sure my ipod is fully charged so I don't have to listen to their horrid music!
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Re: What tastes yukky to you???
« Reply #12 on: January 13, 2012, 02:07:49 PM »
It seems like a life time ago ,when i was eating the purple pills. I gained 20 lbs ,wasn't
happy. Since being off them (37 days) I have lost 10 lbs ,got a bike rode a bit,
then my doc told me platelets are too low. so I will get blocks ,put my bike up and continue
my quest for stamina, and weight loss. As far as the awful taste and mouth feel of the incivek
wow that stuff is just bad as bad can be. I ended up eating w/plastic,so the metal taste
wasn't AS bad. I couldn't really taste much of anything. Ice cream and heavy cream w choc
syrup ruled my world.  I am a chef so i wan't a very happy camper . So glad to be finally getting
some sense of all back. little by little,crave veg/salad/salmon/a little meat. Pancakes rule along
with my own sourdough starter and nice bread I have been baking as of late. It is all worth
the sdefxs,because in the end our health is what matters. For that I am truly grateful.
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Re: What tastes yukky to you???
« Reply #13 on: January 13, 2012, 02:24:39 PM »
I woke up on monday morning smelling onions and I went on a tear! WTH! this.... and WTH?! that... then I threw the stupid onion into the refrigerator... Geez oh man, I gotta get a handle on this one.   

Ummm, did your husband happen to take a video of this performance Alice?   :grin:
 
Truly, onions are evil!   :upset:
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Re: What tastes yukky to you???
« Reply #14 on: January 13, 2012, 02:40:30 PM »
Broccoli, califlower, cabbage, brussel sprots, mustard greens and collard greens, oh and green peas and liver and most other internal organs too.

They tasted terrible on tx and the smell....

Of course they tasted terrible before and after treatment too, so perhaps that has something to do with it.   :wink:

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