Why I Love Eating Disguisting Food
Last night I was eating some cottage cheese maybe an hour or so before I headed off for bed, and I realized something.
Eating disguisting food is actually a good thing!
Here’s why:
When you force yourself to eat foods you don’t particularly enjoy, 2 things happen.
First of all, you’re displaying tremendous amounts of self-discipline. Having self-discipline is not only great for helping you become fit and lean for the rest of your life, but it also carries over into many other areas of your life as well. Self-discipline is the mark of a successful person – do you have it?
Second, you also teach yourself that you don’t always need to eat foods that you love in order to get what you need. By starting off small and maybe just taking a few bites of something you don’t like but are good for you, you’ll become kind of “immune” to bad tasting foods. After awhile, the taste of the food really won’t matter and you’d be surprised at what foods you actually start to enjoy!
For example, I used to absolutely HATE cottage cheese. The first time I tried it, I thought it was the most disgusting thing I’d ever put in my mouth.
But then I started experimenting with it. First I tried it with some jam on top, then pepper, now I can eat it plain (although I usually put cracked pepper on it – I love pepper and put it on pretty much everything).
And yes, I know cottage cheese isn’t some super-food or anything like that – it’s just an example. One thing I hate to eat but eat anyway because I know they’re great for me is brussel sprouts. All I do is cut them up and saute them in a little olive oil and it livens up the taste a bit.
Is there a food you hate but you know is great for you? Instead of avoiding it, start taking small bites each and every day. After a few weeks, or even a few days, you’ll notice that the taste doesn’t bother you as much and that you might even start to enjoy it.
Try it and let me know how it works!
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This post is so funny. I love cottage cheese! Until a few months ago I was eating it by the bucket load (not kidding).10 years ago I took the same approach to eating vegetables, as you took to cottage cheese. Before then, my entire diet was refined carbos (not kidding again).I started with trying to put lettuce on my burgers. After a few weeks I progressed to trying to put in tomato (rough one LOL), few weeks later… unions.This had positive & negative effects on my diet. I guess the only negative was that I could now OVEREAT LITERALLY ANYTHING. The positive is, I can and do enjoy pretty much all food except Ham. Haha
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Jeremy Reeves (admin)
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March 30th, 2009 at 12:41 pm
Haha, well that’s definitely a unique way to progress in your vegetable eating.
But hey, whatever works right? Now you love them and that’s all that matters!
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Should have seen me trying to eat that iceberg lettuce on my burger for the first week or so.You would have thought I was eating worms. Tomatoes were the biggest hurdle took months before I could eat them consistently. Now I absolutely love them.
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