Anecdotally, I am better at sticking to brain-dead simple diet changes (when buying bread, pick the wholemeal rye, not the white wheat) than when people just tell me "well calculate your micros and macros", yeah, how about not having to break down every single family recipe and build them up again, no thanks.

It is not that I dislike thinking... I just dislike thinking about unpleasant things. I would rather do unpleasant things in brain turned off autopilot mode.

This is why boxing is also working better for me as an exercise than going to a gym to lift weights. The algorythm for boxing is 1. show up 2. turn off brain and do what the trainer says. The algorythm for gym stuff is 1. show up 2. is my form right and am I warmed up enough and how much did i lift the last time and and and and... no thanks.

So as far as I am concerned, the answer is yes.

The more unpleasant a task is, the lower-IQ mode I am operating in. Ask me to wipe someone's smelly butt and I will probably ask for special-ed level instructions because I will dedicate about four brain cells to the task and the rest will be fantasizing about something pleasant.

The question is, is everyone like that or it is unusual?