@Bracha Banayan
I was thin my whole life. I never understood why anyone needed a GLP1, and honestly, I was against them. Then COVID hit. I gained 20 pounds and could not lose it. Worse, I started thinking about food day and night. When is my next meal? What am I eating later? That constant chatter has a name: food noise.
Some people develop food noise later in life, like I did. Some have lived with it since childhood and never knew it was not normal. Others never experience it at all.
That is why “just use more willpower” misses the point. You can choose what you eat. You cannot choose which thoughts fill your head. People with food noise are fighting a second battle nobody else can see.
When I started Ozempic, the noise went quiet. My appetite dropped, I stopped drinking, I slept better, my workouts improved, and sugar lost its pull. The 20 pounds came off, but the real win was getting my mind back.
GLP1 medications are not just weight loss drugs. They are the first treatments to quiet food noise this reliably, freeing people from food prison and handing them back control.
When they are used properly, with the right dosing and the right clinical guidance, they help people take full control of their lives. Control over their mind, because the noise finally stops. Control over their body, because it responds the way it should. And control over every food decision they make, because those decisions are finally theirs.
About the expert
Bracha L. Banayan, RN, FNP, ANCC Certified is a family nurse practitioner and the founder of HelloDose, a metabolic health platform that treats men and women based on their unique biology, and IvDrips, a concierge IV therapy and at home wellness company. She is the author of the upcoming book Why Are You Still Hungry?
Website: www.hellodose.com Email: [email protected] Instagram: @hellodose_
