If food feels like the background noise of your entire life, this episode is for you.

GLP-1 meds like Ozempic and Wegovy can quiet food noise dramatically. Unfortunately, this only lasts while you're actively taking the medication. For many, they can't stay on them forever or don't want to start them at all. Even still, there are some currently on a GLP-1 but the food noise has come back. What then?

If you need a plan to reduce food noise more with or without being on a GLP-1, this episode is for you.

TOPICS COVERED:

• 00:00 What “food noise” really means
• 01:11 Understanding Food Noise: Definition and Experience
• 06:24 The Biological Basis of Food Noise
• 09:34 Why GLP-1s seem to “turn off” food thoughts
• 16:08 How to quiet food noise without medication (this can also help if you ARE on a GLP-1 but the food noise has come back)
• 25:31 Next steps

The one truth most people miss?

You’re not supposed to eliminate food thoughts entirely.
The goal isn’t silence.
The goal is peace.
Food should take up 5% of your brain, not 95%.

Start listening to learn how to make that happen.

SUPPORTING LITERATURE:

My blog article on this topic

Related research articles can be found at PMID: 38004203, 32846152, 19336238, 35482137, 40507553

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What happens when you’ve spent your whole life thinking about food and your weight from the moment you wake up to the moment you go to bed… and suddenly your mind feels calm for the first time ever?

In today’s Client Confessional, Heidi (now in her mid-60s) opens up about a lifetime of struggling with her weight, binge eating, food noise, and the constant mental chatter that dictated her every day. From Weight Watchers at 14, to lap-band surgery, to Overeaters Anonymous, to GLP-1 medications… she tried everything hoping something would finally “fix” her.

But nothing touched the emotional and psychological roots keeping her stuck.

And after decades of failures, she genuinely believed she was “too far gone” to change.

Inside this episode, Heidi shares:

• What it’s like to live a double life with food for over half a century
• The moment she realized weight loss strategies weren’t the issue—the emotional patterns were
• Why she joined Nourished & Free even though she was convinced it wouldn’t work
• The mindset shift that finally stopped her daily convenience-store binges
• How a GLP-1 helped her, and where it fell short.
• What healing looks like in your 60s, and why it’s never too late to rewrite your story

If your life revolves around food, if you feel stuck in cycles you can’t break, or if you’re scared that you’ve “tried everything,” this episode is the reminder you need: peace is possible at any age, you might just need to dig into your head a little more.

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What does the Bible really say about health, food, and body image?

You asked, I'm delivering! Due to popular demand, here's another episode on the topic of faith & food freedom or being a Christian woman while navigating a healthy relationship with food.

I've boiled my thoughts down to 4 biblical truths I think every Christian woman (or man, really) needs to hear about honoring God with her body.... without making health an idol. Learn how faith and science work together, why “your body is a temple” is often misunderstood, and how to find peace in biblical stewardship, not obsession.

TOPICS COVERED

• 00:00 — What happens when you mix theology with health advice?
• 00:59 — Can faith and health coexist?
• 02:21 — Made in the image of God… Not the image of Instagram
• 07:03 — When “healthy” becomes an idol
• 12:42 — Who’s really in control of your body?
• 15:00 — Stewardship without obsession
• 17:10 — Science: The part of God’s plan we keep ignoring
• 17:47 — Control, trust, and letting God be God
• 21:47 — How the appeal to nature fallacy confuses Christians
• 26:04 — Living nourished, not obsessed

RESOURCES MENTIONED

Systematic review on body fat % and all cause mortality

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