A Change in YOUR Palate!

Apr 5

As someone who has changed her diet completely in the last year, I can certainly attest to the fact that it wasn’t always easy! Sure I consciously decided to make the change in my life BUT I’ll tell you right now that it wasn’t a piece of cake!

It takes quite a while to change your palate – but once you cut out all the sodium from eating out all the time, or from the frozen meals that you’re used to – once that extra sugar gets cut out – your palate will change without you even knowing it. It’s not until you go back to eat the same food that you originally cut out that you will realize how much you’ve changed yourself.

Your senses will be heightened and you will be able to tell when something is loaded with salt, sugar, MSG, processed ingredients and quite frankly you probably won’t enjoy the old food that you used to eat. You won’t even miss it! I can definitely say that this is exactly how I feel when I splurge on some sort of sweetened treat with regular white sugar – it’s TOO sweet for me! Let me tell you that NOTHING used to be too sweet for me, in fact, the sweeter the better. But now – I have to say that I enjoy the fruit juice sweetened treats, agave sweetened and anything with natural sweeteners. What a difference! There isn’t an aftertaste from the sugar and it’s still yummy.

Please remember that your palate won’t change within a day – just because you’ve decided in your mind that your making a change doesn’t mean that your mouth is prepared for it. Give it time! Some things will probably taste bland in the beginning but there are so many different sauces that you can use to spruce it up!

You probably shouldn’t compare your new foods with your old foods because frankly they really won’t match up. You have to make new taste buds and learn to enjoy whole foods – that is the real food that you should have always been eating. We won’t get into that now, but please just give it a chance – your body will thank you – I promise!

Good luck to you!

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