Will Food Ever Taste Good Again?

[PattieW 3]

Hi All,

I am 5 weeks out today. I feel like all the food I am able to eat taste "funny". I do have a sinus infection and am finally taking anitbiotics but it taste funny prior to that. It is true that I need to take foods slowly? This site in invaluable!

[Ms skinniness 3,003]

Yes, we should all eat our food slowly so we can gage when we are full. My foods taste really good and I'm 3.5 months post op.

[Indymom 132]

If your body is in ketosis (from eating low-carb) that can cause a funny taste in your mouth. I didn't think anything tasted good for the first month or two - once I could have 'real' food again it was fine. Hang in there!

[LilMissDiva Irene 3,281]

OH yes in time your taste buds will be back... enjoy the time you have with freedom from it! Mine came back 100% in about 8 weeks. Hang in there! It only gets better and better.

[PdxMan 4,292]

search the site for ketosis. Lots of posts about it and how it makes your taste buds funky.

[bikerchick519 202]

_{About week 7 my taste buds were back to normal and everything tasted good. I kinda wish it didn't.}

[PattieW 3]

Thanks so so much all who replied. Ketosis is it. I thoght I was crazy and what did they do to my taste buds!

[gettingtohappy 23]

OH yes in time your taste buds will be back... enjoy the time you have with freedom from it! Mine came back 100% in about 8 weeks. Hang in there! It only gets better and better.

Diva! I love the new pics...you look fabulous! I'm at 8 weeks and nothing tastes good still. I just eat to survive. There is absolutely no enjoyment in it at all...I guess that's a good thing now that I am down to 170 which is 26lbs lighter than before surgery! Yea...I want to keep going so I can look like you!

[LilMissDiva Irene 3,281]

Thanks gettingtohappy! Keep working your sleeve and you will be at goal before you know it.

[Rootman 1,101]

Yes, as pointed out the ketosis is the main cuplrit. After it eases up things taste wonderful! I had a conversation with a guy who had WLS who said it was just like right after he quit smoking years ago - food actually had taste. This is what he pinned on gaining all his weight from was stopping smolking.

He agreed with me that our tastes have changed pretty drastically and we eat less becasue of the restriction and the rapid FULL sensation. But I enjoy a lot of things I never cared for before, for instance black pepper, I never liked it before but now it'soin everything.