Cognition seems to play an important role in the development and maintenance of restrictive eating patterns. However, to our knowledge there are not animal models addressing the mechanisms by which thoughts can promote decreased food consumption. In this regard, the present experiments try to fill this gap by exploring the changes in sweet solutions acceptance and preference without the animals ever having experienced physical visceral distress directly but by means of “disgusting” mental representations in both male and female adult Wistar rats. In Experiment 1 we used a second order conditioning protocol (N=32) in which along two repeated cycles drinking a sucrose solution (10%) was paired with a physical context previously associated with unpleasant body rotation. During the test, animals were given access to the sucrose solution in a neutral context and in the home cage. The results showed lower consumption of the sweet solution in the experimental group than in the control group during the first (lowest F(1,30)=5.15, p<.05, η2 =.147). In Experiment 2 we used a mediated conditioning protocol (N=32) in which the animals drank the taste solution in an initially neutral context which was later associated with unpleasant body rotation during six daily sessions. We found similar results to those found in Experiment 1 during the first cycle (F(1,30)=32.724, p<.01, η2 =.208. These results support the role of unpleasant cognitions in modulating sweet food intake and highlight the potential translational value of this protocol for developing animal models of cognitive processes in eating disorders. Funded by PSI2017-86381-P, PID2020-114269GB-100(MINECO, Spain); Marie Sklodowska-Curie Nº 754446 - Athenea3i; and the CTS-1003 research group (University of Granada, Spain).