Honestly, i won't pretend the flatness is imaginary. Somewhere around the two-month mark I noticed I could still enjoy things — just not the things that used to be automatic, and food sat at the top of that list.
The odd part is which stuff survived. A 500-piece puzzle on the living room floor after my kid goes to bed still gives me that low-grade "one more piece" pull.
A podcast walk with no destination does too.
In the trials, most of the reward-blunting chatter is framed around food cues, and that tracks with what I feel: dinner is quiet, but a long aimless bike loop is roughly intact. So I've started treating fun as its own separate experiment — a two-line note on my phone about what actually felt good that day, no streaks, no judging it.
The list is short and small: a card game, a mechanical keyboard I keep disassembling, an old sci-fi paperback with a cracked spine.
Curious whether anyone else's non-food fun list got shorter, longer, or just rearranged. What's on yours this month?