To think there must be a way to stop 'food noise' that isn't WLI's?

I managed to really reduce the food noise by recognising it for what it is - a desire for a dopamine hit. Then I was able to say to myself oh, it's not food I want, it's dopamine.

Eventually I was able to accept that the dopamine hit would only last 30 seconds and then I would be in the same place whether I take the hit or not. So I stopped eating sweets and chocolate and cake by recognising that I wasn't eating them because they're lovely but because I want a hit. Pretty quickly the food noise died down.

It hasn't gone altogether - I'm feeling it right now - but I know it's not that I need food.

How is the weight loss maintained on the jabs though? Surely the good noise comes back when the jabs stop? Is it medically advisable to be on the jabs for the rest of your life?

Try Slimpod
It’s a podcast/audio style program that you listen to for ten minutes a day and it helps retrain your brains connection with good. It’s genuinely worked and there’s a free trial so no obligation

Another one who was really on the fence after not getting on with WLI last year because I didn’t really understand what I had to do but a month ago I took it on board and gave it a go. I was thinking about it today 15lbs down I am at the gym every day for a class then I swim I have a lot of energy I have had 5 mini eggs in a month that’s all the chocolate I’ve had which is a miracle. I feel so much more calmer don’t think about food and just eat when I’m hungry. This is a miracle and I just think I’ll use them for life low dose this comes from a person who only got up to get a latte and pain au raisin from the local deli after being so depressed and who planned every car journey around the best bakeries

I’m looking at my disordered eating and I’d love to sort out food noise.

One thing that’s helping is taking the enjoyment out of food and seeing it as fuel. I still eat a good evening meal, but breakfast and lunch I cycle through some really tedious foods- fruit salad and yogurt, cottage cheese with fruit and peanuts, beetroot and cheese. It’s helped to remove all anticipation and planning from those meals- I’m eating my ration of calcium, fruit/veg and keeping hunger at bay. That’s all.

Another approach that’s working for me is to think about eating 500 Cals less that I would otherwise have done. Doesn’t matter what I eat. It matters that I don’t eat 500 cals that I used to eat.

Read ultra processed people. It was eye opening for me. I'm finally a healthy weight after reading it and ditching upfs almost entirely after being horrified at the ways companies have designed these foods to be so addictive. The whole message is that its not you, its the food! I bet you don't get food noise from carrots?!

For me, no, nothing else worked. The best alternative was getting really into exercise - twice a day intense exercise, which made me choose food that was high protein and filling and kept me away from snacks. But ultimately, that did not work long term. Now, I exercise daily and am toned but the injections just made it possible to sustain the healthy eating.

I know how you feel OP. I haven't gone down the WLI route as I worry about side effects and the cost ££.

I'd love to know what helps turn down or turns off the food noise.

Give yourself a break! You had a baby eight weeks ago, you will be tired and sleep deprived and you are sustaining another human being with your body. Now is not the time to beat yourself up about weight.

I have also been overweight my whole life and I'm now on injections which are life changing but I am so suspicious of the phrase 'food noise'. It's a diet culture marketing phrase trying to sell us the drugs- and I'm a happy customer buying them so I'm not criticising the medication at all. But this phrase is demonising some very normal human behaviour and feelings and craving comfort food when exhausted and breastfeeding is absolutely not a 'food noise' issue or a cause for concern.

Weight loss injections are the best thing that ever happened to me. I’m a healthy size 10 for the first time in my life, having always been around a size 16. I feel good, I look good, I have so much more energy. The freedom from the food noise is so, so liberating. I’ve been trying to lose weight my whole life (like so many of us!) and have never experienced the food noise just not being there. I honestly don’t think there’s any other way to ‘turn it off’. I’m considering staying on a low maintenance dose for the foreseeable future.

Conditioning. Give yourself an electric shock whenever you feel hungry. Look up Pavlov’s dog experiment but used negatively!

Fasting helps too.