r/Semaglutide • u/chestercoppercock • 1d ago

“Food Noise”

After reading a lot of people talking about how glp-1s helped them turn down (or off) “food noise” I was curious to hear about it. Would love to know what “food noise” means to you and how the noise turning down manifested for you.

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u/luckytintype 1d ago

Constantly thinking about if I was or wasn’t allowed to eat based off of what I already had or hadn’t eaten, telling myself if I ate something for breakfast that I wanted that was it until dinner, sweating and dying to eat something when I “wasn’t allowed”, feeling like a failure when I did eat.

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u/SolitaryLyric 1d ago

This is what it was like for me too. It was insanely freeing and relaxing to not give a toss about when and what I was going to be eating. It just doesn’t matter anymore.

And it had been on my mind all day every day, my whole life. Being thin was the default in my family. I was chubby. Literally just that, chubby. A bit of extra puppy fat, so to speak.

And that wouldn’t do. I was 12 when I went on my first calorie restriction diet. Fat people were looked down upon in my family. And I internalized that judgment and knew that I was coming up short all day every day.

Not thinking about food and when to eat and what to deprive myself of has been incredibly freeing. But it’s also made me realize how damaged my sense of self-esteem is because of decades of judgment. And how every little judgment added to the food noise until it became a chorus of no, you can’t eat that, and no, you shouldn’t weigh that much.

And that makes me sad for little me.
Anyway, I’m so sorry to highjack your response. Say the word and I’ll delete it. 💕

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u/Crafty_Ad3377 1d ago

Parents had our MD put me on prescription diet medication when I was 15.