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This all sounds very interesting, but doesn’t at all match my lived experience. I’ve dieted now a few times quite successfully while living with a chef roommate. He cooks amazing meals. Salads with more ingredients than I’d ever bother to use, stuff like that. As a chef he really puts time into hitting many flavors (not always, but often). I’ve never had an easier time losing weight than this last time! Down to my he…
> If I eat bland things, sure over time I may adapt to it. I think you're arguing with the GP comment, not my comment. The kind of "diet" being described in my comment above—if you even want to think of it as a diet—doesn't actually stop you from eating anything , if you count by "flavor experiences" rather than "meal experiences." It just makes you get your "flavor experiences" separately, rather than all at the sam…
I'd argue that the simultaneity is a new experience though. Just as playing first the low notes and then the high notes of a musical score sounds radically different than playing both scores at the same time, the taste of pizza is exactly the interaction between cheese flavour, bread and topping.
The theory about satiation sounds plausible and I can easily imagine that you will eat less by consuming only monotonous meals, but I'd disagree stating this would be the same experience are being similarly enjoyable.