After the 8-Week Program, we get a HEAP of feedback from our community telling us that their food tastes sweeter!
We all know that our taste buds change over time (think about the olives, mushrooms, Brussels sprouts and blue cheese you hated as a kid), but did you know, that you can actually teach your taste buds to change?
That’s what happens when you quit sugar.
A big part of sugar addiction is the rush of serotonin and endorphins we get when we eat the sweet stuff – AKA the sugar hit. This creates a subconscious connection in your brain that when you eat sugar you’ll feel good.
But, because this is something we have taught our taste buds over time, it can definitely be ‘unlearnt’. In fact, science says it can take 66 days to break a habit of any kind – that’s nearly eight weeks (sound familiar?).
When you completely cut sugar out (which we do between weeks two and six of the Program) your taste buds are finally not being bombarded by the sweet stuff, and can figure out your original sweetness threshold.
This means, that when you finally do reintroduce a little bit of sugar into your diet, it’s like your taste buds have been rewired. It’s amazing how sweet foods suddenly taste, and crazy to think that’s how food was supposed to taste in the first place!
Put simply, recalibrating your palate means to go back to basics for your taste buds, and find your true sweetness limit.
We turn to Sarah’s Recalibrating Pork Meal when we need to revisit the basics. It’s a hearty dish, full of earthy flavours to refresh your palate.
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