To an extent, I am intrinsically ambivalent about food, but over time (starting in childhood, actually) I have sort of unconsciously trained myself to be averse to sweetness—anything that is too sweet makes me think of rotting teeth full of cavities, and sugars being transformed into fat deposits, and all the energy in that sugar which some starving person could use more effectively than I, if only they had been the one to eat it instead—and it makes me less interested in eating the sweet thing. Oddly, this mostly shows up after I’ve already eaten it and makes me guilty without stopping me from eating it in the first place, though, because I don’t stop and think about that when the food is actually in front of me—hence why I have multiple cavities in my teeth!
To an extent, I am intrinsically ambivalent about food, but over time (starting in childhood, actually) I have sort of unconsciously trained myself to be averse to sweetness—anything that is too sweet makes me think of rotting teeth full of cavities, and sugars being transformed into fat deposits, and all the energy in that sugar which some starving person could use more effectively than I, if only they had been the one to eat it instead—and it makes me less interested in eating the sweet thing. Oddly, this mostly shows up after I’ve already eaten it and makes me guilty without stopping me from eating it in the first place, though, because I don’t stop and think about that when the food is actually in front of me—hence why I have multiple cavities in my teeth!