Anonymous
Post 12/31/2024 09:33     Subject: Weird, cyclical food fixations

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:No. This is weird. I think most chemically balanced people do not experience this.


+1

It's one thing to be in a (temporary) mood for XYZ food,, but not to the point of obsession.


We all have ADHD. If you don’t have adhd, you wouldn’t get it.
Anonymous
Post 12/31/2024 07:52     Subject: Weird, cyclical food fixations

Anonymous wrote:No. This is weird. I think most chemically balanced people do not experience this.


+1

It's one thing to be in a (temporary) mood for XYZ food,, but not to the point of obsession.
Anonymous
Post 12/31/2024 07:07     Subject: Weird, cyclical food fixations

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Yep, same. 2024 was the Year of Korean food. Then I started a diet on August and I’ve been eating basically the same Sweet Kale salad with berries and almonds with the same Raspberry vinaigrette for months.


Oh, me again…and it has worked! I’m down 33 pounds.


That’s awesome!

-OP
Anonymous
Post 12/31/2024 02:58     Subject: Weird, cyclical food fixations

Yes! I like making a list of mine each year :

Sumo mandarin
Tea
Mustards (I tried so many mustards this year, the hotter the better)
These Pink Lady cinnamon sugar apple chips from Trader Joe’s that I had an intense love affair with for about 6 weeks in the fall
Bean salads, omg, I made so many bean salads this year
For a couple months I had an egg white, cheese and kale omelet with black beans for breakfast every single morning
Yogurt bowls with frozen fruit and jello
TruLemon lemonade packets , specifically mixed berry
Cava spicy Labne dip from Whole Foods
Anonymous
Post 12/30/2024 21:06     Subject: Weird, cyclical food fixations

Anonymous wrote:Yep, same. 2024 was the Year of Korean food. Then I started a diet on August and I’ve been eating basically the same Sweet Kale salad with berries and almonds with the same Raspberry vinaigrette for months.


Oh, me again…and it has worked! I’m down 33 pounds.
Anonymous
Post 12/30/2024 21:05     Subject: Weird, cyclical food fixations

Yep, same. 2024 was the Year of Korean food. Then I started a diet on August and I’ve been eating basically the same Sweet Kale salad with berries and almonds with the same Raspberry vinaigrette for months.
Anonymous
Post 12/30/2024 21:03     Subject: Weird, cyclical food fixations

Yup, me too. All sorts of things. One year I made a particular fennel dish twice a week for months. I’ve never eaten it since. Fennel other ways, sure. Just not that one.

I also really like to cook, so sometimes I will make the same thing repeatedly until I get it perfect. DH hates that though so I do it less often than I otherwise would.
Anonymous
Post 12/30/2024 20:59     Subject: Weird, cyclical food fixations

Anonymous wrote:Mine tend to come and go (like lots of avocados for a couple weeks and then I don’t want any for 6 mos)
HOWEVER super interested in these cinnamon Mentos bc I love cinnamon and had no idea these exist. Are they super difficult to find?


OP here. I finally found them at Royal Farms. Good luck! You can also order off of Amazon but I’d like to pretend I wouldn’t eat a box of 12 or whatever…
Anonymous
Post 12/30/2024 20:48     Subject: Weird, cyclical food fixations

Yes, I think it's an ADHD thing. We hyperfocus on various things, including foods.
Anonymous
Post 12/30/2024 20:42     Subject: Weird, cyclical food fixations

No. This is weird. I think most chemically balanced people do not experience this.
Anonymous
Post 12/30/2024 20:25     Subject: Weird, cyclical food fixations

Yes, absolutely. For me it usually lasts anywhere from 3-6 months and then I am just done with the item, sometimes for years.

I ate rice pudding daily for 3-4 years in my 20s. Then didn't eat it more than perhaps 3 times in the next 15 years.

Some other foods I have cycled through:

Subway white chocolate macadamia cookies
Avocado
Turkey on sourdough
Boca burger with yellow mustard on plain bun
Plain yogurt with granola
York peppermint patties
Anonymous
Post 12/30/2024 20:16     Subject: Weird, cyclical food fixations

This would describe me. I’ve been on a salmon kick for over a year and have it at least 4 nights a week.
I’m just getting over a Häagen-Dazs coffee ice cream obsession and replacing it with Russel Stover milk chocolate covered marshmallow valentines hearts.
Still main lining salmon.
Anonymous
Post 12/30/2024 19:59     Subject: Weird, cyclical food fixations

Mine tend to come and go (like lots of avocados for a couple weeks and then I don’t want any for 6 mos)
HOWEVER super interested in these cinnamon Mentos bc I love cinnamon and had no idea these exist. Are they super difficult to find?
Anonymous
Post 12/30/2024 18:54     Subject: Weird, cyclical food fixations

Yes - but now in menopause I end up getting migraines from too much of any one food.
Anonymous
Post 12/30/2024 18:50     Subject: Weird, cyclical food fixations

Anyone else? I get these intense food fixations for several days, weeks or even months, where I’m obsessed and have the food almost every day, or a few times a week at least. And then, like someone hitting a switch, it’s over.

This year alone:
Chicken salad
Dots cinnamon pretzel twists or honey mustard pretzel twists
Chocolate pudding
Spinach
Brie
Toast with butter (any time of day, not just breakfast)
Chai
Avocado
Cinnamon Mentos
Twizzlers

Is anyone else like this? I get so obsessed! I still eat other things and overall have a balanced diet (like if I’m in a Twizzlers phase, that’s my dessert/sweet for the day), but it’s so bizarre that I even have to go hunt down Cinnamon Mentos at every gas station until I find one that has them, and I buy 8 packs.