Food obsession and what next

[FrancisSeaton]

Any of you who have been totally and utterly obsessed with food can you tell me how life looks when taking the injectables ?
I wake up and having breakfast motivates me to get up. I then go to the shop and get chocolate which motivates me to get ready for work and in my car. And this goes on all day. Nice lunch, pop to the shop in the afternoon. Days out involve going for a pub lunch/visiting a nice deli/bakery. Holidays are researched around the best restaurants.
This makes me so happy. Yet being overweight doesn't.
I'm wondering if I'm not hungry what I will actually be interested in as eating seems to be what motivates me through the days
Can anyone sympathise and what did you do instead?

Anyone 😫

Oh yes, TOTALLY get this!!

I love cooking, love food, love trying new recipes, love eating out, always check the menu of any restaurant to choose what I'm going to eat before I go (my kids do the same!😁) and search out the best restaurants wherever I go etc Food is a BIG thing in our lives!

I was worried I would lose this passion and tbh, at first I did but for the last couple of weeks, it's back 😁 Not 'food noise' but a genuine interest in taste and flavours and cooking. I am eating WAY less and different things (can't cope with anything too rich 😬) but what I do eat is bloody delicious and hugely enjoyable!

Re motivation - MJ has given me more motivation and energy than anything else has in years 😃 I am up around 6 every day, have started early morning gym sessions 😱 and tackled projects around the house that have been left for ages! I kind of feel like I am slowly coming alive again after years of some sort of self-imposed imprisonment!

I will, as ever, point out that we all react differently try to the meds and there is no guarantee you will feel the same way!

I've said this on another thread but - I'm very similar to you; love food, love planning around food. I still enjoy food when you eat it (in vastly smaller quantities), but that central focus is gone. If you're interested, you can see what I;m eating over on the food diary thread - nearly identical to pre-MJ, just smaller portions and far less snacks/deserts.

As for new things - I'm still figuring that out, but have been reading loads, looking forward to new forms to exercise, have a pottery class booked in for next week, and am about to drop some serious £££ on some perfume samples...

Yes this sounds like me, constantly planning the next meal, craving particular food etc.

Yes my interest in food has diminished dramatically, we eat more simply now as I'm not as driven to eat certain things so not as motivated to cook elaborate fatty, carbs meals.

Genuinely enjoy and look forward to lighter, healthier food. Got quite excited at hummus and carrots earlier which was weird. I've lost 26lb so far, at my lowest weight in 8 years. Just about to break into the 11st category. Healthy BMI is 11st 5.

Well done that's amazing

I think your post will resonate with so many of us on here.

I echo what everyone else has said, I was also like this and have found that the MJ simply removes that obsession for me. Yes, I do experience hunger and yes, I do need to cook / eat but it’s become a much more functional thing for me. MJ has removed the emotional out of it. I haven’t used food as motivation since starting it. And I don’t feel like I’m depriving myself or denying myself by eating healthy, or not having that glass of wine, or not having sweets or bread or whatever. Food doesn’t have that same hold on me it used to. I’ve been out to restaurants and I’ve been abroad on holiday since starting MJ and don’t get me wrong- I have enjoyed myself and I have indulged in whatever I fancied, but a. I didn’t feel the need to polish it all off; b. I was still gravitating towards healthier/leaner options and c. when I did eat that slice of cake or had that rich pasta, I was just able to get back to my healthy clean way of eating for the next meal, or the day after. It’s not been this big falling off the wagon moment that always seem to happen with me, and that has truly blown my mind.

I am also finding (healthier) ways to get that dopamine hit, which I have never spent the time to figure out or do before, because FOOD. But now I enjoy going to the sauna, I go to the gym and every single day I start my morning with a 5k walk.

You are not going to lose that part of you / your enjoyment and appreciation for food because of this drug, but you will lose the compulsion/obsession about it, and in the process you will discover so many other amazing things to become obsessed about.

You got this.

Just to add, I’ve been on it for 11 weeks now (this is week 12!) and I am 2 lbs away from being 3 stone lighter! And I am halfway through my goal. When I tell you that the time has FLOWN by! Never in my life have I experienced this before. I mean, I hate to brag but I was the kind of person who would complete their 2 week diet in 5 days. 😄🙈
I think this is the secret to success, it makes eating healthier and normal portions much easier, it makes binging or eating rubbish not tempting, and it makes it feel like you could go on like this for an extended period of time without starting to experience diet fatigue.

I don't think I will ever be an "eat to live" person but I'm no longer a "live to eat" person if that makes sense. There are lots I still enjoy but I'm not thinking about it every waking moment and lots of food now is just "meh". That's because it only ever deserved a "meh" but I wasn't very selective and ate things that later I would wonder why I even like it. The addictive foods are no longer addictive like my personal favourite - white toast with real butter and marmite! Have not had a slice of toast in weeks and when I do it's wholemeal. At first it feels odd but now I can actually say food isn't ruling my life. I ate out the other day and it was a cheap pub chain with a friend. It was OK but only just. So I ate what I wanted to satisfy me - the best most nutritious parts and left the rest. Never done that unless the food was actually inedible.

It's only been a week and I've suffered with side effects but what I'm LOVING is the fact that my mind doesn't do flip-flops every time I see chocolate/biscuits/crap. And by that I mean, the food noise would go like this "oh don't take a chocolate from the box as you need to lose weight. But you're fat anyway so you might as well." Take chocolate from the box, have chocolate taste in month, eat whole box. "You're such a failure" RINSE AND REPEAT! And for a whole week I've had in my head "oh look chocolate" and then just moved on. Nothing more. No chat in my head, no bargaining with myself. Just don't really fancy it and that's that, as I have a million other more interesting things to do with my time.

I ate to get a dopamine hit. Now I eat to fuel my body in a way that will sustain my active lifestyle.