My Food, My Struggle!

It’s 1:00 am over here and I have successfully cooked and packed two big bowls of stew and soup. They’d definitely last me for a while, but guess what? I’m neither thrilled nor excited. The only thing I’m grateful for is that I’ve gotten them out of the way.

I’ve always struggled with eating, especially when I’m cooking for myself. I don’t enjoy eating my food. I’m not a Michelin-star chef, but hey, I can make yummy meals but sadly not yummy enough to enjoy them myself. Only my friends and family members get to enjoy them.

While I struggle to eat my own food, I enjoy eating food prepared by others. Funny right? I know. No matter how terribly cooked a meal is, I’d appreciate it way more than the sumptuous meal in my pot.

For the longest time, I thought about the cause of this and concluded it was because I was tasting and smelling the food so much while cooking, but the shocking thing is that it doesn’t end that day, it continues. The lack of appetite and interest in the food continues and I end up eating it out of obligation and frustration.

While surfing the net, I discovered it is called palate fatigue. For something that wipes out all my excitement, it sure has a lovely name😂😂

I look forward to eating in restaurants and eating my friends' food rather than eating mine, and this sucks. It sucks because I have so much recepies in my head only for them to go to waste as they never give me the “Wow” effect after cooking and eating.

This explains why I barely put on any substantial amount of weight when I’m at my place, but the moment I visit my family or friends, there’s a tremendous change. Over there, the dopamine hit is bigger and my hunger hormones are high. I eat and enjoy every meal I’m served.

This has been going on for years, and I hope one day it comes to an end, but until then, fingers crossed😃

I decided to share this in a community filled with mothers, chefs, and nutritionists, just maybe someone here might be experiencing such or might have experienced such an ordeal in the past.

So ladies and gentlemen, I’m open to suggestions, solutions, and whatever you can share to help this young lady😃

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