My friends, yesterday, while picking out the hated olives from a dish, I realized that I had to ask not only myself, but also you: when did you learn not to love this or that product? Yes, that's exactly what we learned. You don’t think that mushrooms/peppers/boiled onions have always disgusted you? It’s absolutely true that when you were little, your receptors, inexperienced with spices, were ready to accept food of various tastes and colors and give the brain an unambiguous signal: bitter, sweet, salty, fresh, grainy, liquid. The receptors have no function to relate to food in any way. Like/dislike - they don’t tell you. But as you grow older, you have already attached labels to the characteristics of products and their combinations. But if the receptors don’t care, then why are you disgusted? Where does this rating come from? For example, Semolina porridge with lumps - fu fu fu Three large red "fu" labels. And we remember that in kindergarten the harmful nanny forced you to eat this porridge. With your pure childish thinking, you understood that you don’t have to finish eating to the end if you don’t want to. But Tamara Petrovna fed you the damned porridge along with her belief “a child should eat everything!” Porridge with a taste of violence quickly kills your appetite. There is a connection between the dish and the emotionally charged situation. As a result, you not only don’t like Tamara Petrovna, but also semolina. Although the porridge itself has nothing to do with it - the same liquidish, sweetish, milky color and warm And you were praised with sweets for the first poems you learned - isn’t that why they still have a taste of success and joy? Just imagine how many connections manage to be formed in the first years of life! But this matter continues even at a later age. So, I have never had zucchini in my life. Somehow they weren’t prepared or bought. And when I tried it for the first time, I realized - hmm, tasteless. Then a close person, a zucchini maniac, appears in my life, and then this vegetable began to play for me with its entire taste palette. It seems to be the same, but it’s already somehow pleasant to eat it. What would you think? When this man left my life, the zucchini also withdrew. And not because he stopped bringing them into the house. Then I started buying them myself. But one day I’m cooking, I’m looking forward to it. And then I try - hmm, tasteless. Somehow not very good. I won’t do it again. Regarding figs, cottage cheese and other grainy things, I also have a couple of stories, but that’s for another time) Do you have any unfavorite foods? Remember when you suddenly realized that you didn’t like them? And in general, any stories related to food?***By the way, in September, together with the Second Wind school of figure correction, we are launching a psychotherapeutic group dedicated to eating behavior. Because we honor bodyflex for its effectiveness, but we also want to help those girls who, between express trains, go all out and desperately overeat, unable to control themselves. Detailed information about the group will be a little later, follow us