Food was my dopamine 😭 Now what?

These comments genuinely give me hope. Been craving fruit lately, fresh stuff, veggies, light meals, cold food, smoothies especially. Never really cared for fruit before this. Also noticing I've gone off things I used to enjoy entirely. Read somewhere this shifts the dopamine response tied to eating too, less of a hit, so food just doesn't bring the same pleasure it used to.

Also noticing less impulsive spending along with that obsessive urge that sometimes comes with it. Genuinely unexpected bonus effect!

Yup, ha, food was basically my main dopamine source and this medication class cut that way down for me. I deal with a diagnosed mood condition and it honestly made my depression feel heavier for a while. Also dulled the little boost I used to get from shopping sprees and getting tattoos. I'm okay with it now, but going without an easy source of that happy feeling felt really strange in the beginning.

A lot of people on this medication class report feeling low and detached once they start, mainly because they'd been using food as an emotional coping tool beforehand, chasing that dopamine hit during hard moments. So even once the constant food thoughts or overeating stop, the actual root cause behind that behavior never really got addressed. And that's not something a medication or dropping weight can fix on its own, that kind of thing usually needs actual therapy.