To think something is wrong?

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For the past month or so I'm beginning to really go off food. Nothing sounds appetising, shopping for food is an absolute chore because nothing is appealing. I think all foods have started to taste the same to me if im honest, that's the best way to describe it. Whether im eating a fish pie, a roast chicken dinner, a salad or a sandwich, they all just taste the same. Im getting no pleasure from it at all and have become really aware of textures.

It's really getting me down as I used to enjoy my food. Im still eating because I have to but it's becoming really stressful because literally everything I think of im just like meh and sometimes certain foods I used to like are actually turning my stomach.

Not on medications and it would be impossible to be pregnant since I've not had sex in over a year

Have you had covid?

Or a bang on the head?

Had it in February 2022 and then again start of august 2022

No

If you lose your sense of smell you lose the ability to taste flavour. You can still taste salt, sweet sour etc and surprisingly your memory of flavour plugs a few gaps. However food just looses its general appeal. Covid did this to me for a while and it came back very slowly.

DH had covid last October. His sense of smell was fine until January, when everything began to smell rotten. It appears this is a covid after effect.

My money’s on this being the cause.

I bet it's covid. One month after my bout with it everything started smelling like cooked celery. Imagine trying to eat a piece of cheesecake that smells just like cooked celery.

I feel like this sometimes too.
Not so much the taste thing, but going off food.
I think it's because I'm always meal planning for the week, then shopping for it, then cooking it with fussy children (DH cooks too), Trying to find new ideas that suit everyone etc and then actually eating.
It feels like it's the focus of my entire week sometimes and it's exhausting to the point where I'm just sick of thinking about and eating food.

I have similar OP, I just have had no interest in food for months. I have to force myself to eat three small meals a day. I’ve lost so much weight, lots of my clothes no longer fit me but it’s just so hard to eat because food can turn my stomach. Funnily enough, the only thing I ever crave is a veggie burger!

I had asymptomatic covid in July, and this thread has made me wonder if that’s the cause. The timing is about right.

This is me, not the loss of taste but nothing is appealing.
Do you live alone? I only cook for myself, but am forced to have the motivation to do a big shop of food my grown up children like when they come home for a visit.

I lost my sense of taste for a short while due to Covid (though I have had the same thing in the past with a bad cold). It sorted itself out after eating a bag of Skittles!! Truth!