Comment by potamic
9 hours ago
Does GLP-1 help someone who eats because of boredom? My ADHD riddled brain seeks constant stimulation, so when there's nothing to do it turns to food even though there's no hunger or cravings. If I'm occupied with something, I can easily skip food and go on an extended fast, hunger suppression has never been a problem. But it's hard to stay occupied all the time, would GLP-1 help in such a case?
Absolutely did for me. Boredom, stress, and general food noise all the time. I never felt sick, just felt like I finally had control over when I wanted to eat. I still felt hungry but never uncontrollably.
I got off of them after 14 month and while it hasn’t been as easy as being on them for sure, my time on them gave me a chance to look at what I was eating and how much I was eating more subjectively. I lost nearly 40 lbs, put ten back on before leveling out.
Critical to add - losing the weight allowed me to become much, much more active without pain so I attribute a lot to that habit of being really active being picked up to my maintenance.
YMMV
They may curb the initial impulse, or they’ll quickly teach you that you feel a bit unwell (eg low-key nauseous) if you eat too much or badly when you’re on them. Either way, probably the same outcome.
Yes. But not fully. You will have less noise, most likely, which is enough to hopefully teach yourself different habits.
I take it for ASD related food noise, and it's incredible.
I don't know how useful this is, but what I found helped is simply not buying things you'd want to eat in-between meals. At least for a little while, long enough to break the habit. After a month or so of your brain craving something and not finding anything suitable in the kitchen, you'll lose this impulse.
100% and if you have any snack type things you already bought you should do a full pantry clear out of all the crap.
yes. source: it me
Yes, it’s a miracle cure. It makes you realise the almond milkers were just lying to you the whole time. It’s not about willpower, it’s about them not having that condition. Skinny people don’t even feel hunger.
> Skinny people don’t even feel hunger.
One of the worst outcomes from GLP-1 drugs are people getting on them and then saying ridiculous things like this. Just totally confident that they can discount other folks lived experiences.
I know quite a few skinny people who have struggled every single day with food noise, overeating, and self control. They simply got through it with a lot of struggle, habits, and discipline.
Some of these people had to maintain their weight and fitness because their careers required looking conventionally attractive for their jobs. It consumed most of their life doing so. Some of these folks are now on GLP-1s and their lives are immensely better as they don't need to constantly be in a battle of willpower with themselves.
There are a huge number of "skinny" people out there who feel hunger in very likely the same way many obese people do.
Yes, there are outliers in just about any situation. The vast majority of healthy people, though, do not have this food noise impulse. If they did, they'd not be healthy people.
> Skinny people don’t even feel hunger.
I suspect it’s a touch more complex than that. :)
Anecdata: I have a 40-something friend who enjoys eating lots more than I do (and I witness this repeatedly: round after round of bread and chunks of cheese after a full meal, always happy to have desserts that I’ll sometimes forgo, etc.) and who stays slim. Sure, he exercises, but not so much more than I do to account for the calorie delta between us.
He’s just made differently, in a way we can’t currently explain. We sometimes joke about a faecal transplant.
This is an absurd claim. Skinny and fat isn't an indication of whether a person experiences hunger.
If GLP-1 blockers work for people then great, but it does so by making them uninterested in eating, meaning all those years of people being demonized for saying obesity is, in some meaningful part, a lack of will power and self control were indeed right. If it was either of those, and instead obesity is a purely genetic condition, appetite suppression wouldn't help.
Whew, lots of moralizing to unpack here.
> Skinny people don’t even feel hunger.
as a skinny person for most of my life, and someone who wakes up famished in the mornings, very eager to eat breakfast, this is patently false.
but I do agree that it's a miracle cure for those who struggle with constant hunger.
That impulse you feel in the morning, imagine you felt it every half hour for the rest of your life.