Losing food as a ‘hobby’. MJ journey.

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I‘m only on day 2 so I’m just getting started but I woke up this morning and realise how much of my life centres around food. And I suddenly thought, ‘what am I going to do?!!’

For example, I’m so used to the diet/binge cycle that come Monday when I ‘swear I’m going to be good all week’, I’m already planning the takeaway/wine on Friday. The dopamine hit of that thought is enjoyable! I guess that’s the definition of ‘food noise’.

I guess MJ hasn’t properly kicked in yet but as strange as it sounds, I feel a sense of loss at not doing that this week. I guess that shows just how disordered my relationship with food has become.

I imagine that as I build healthier habits and start to lose weight, that will change.
But, has anyone else experienced this?

You can still plan the takeaway, but make it a grilled chicken kebab instead. I still have a chinese takeaway most weeks, I just eat smaller portions (half portion of rice, use slotted spoon on the main dish to remove a lot of the sauce, no chips!)

Or plan a nice surf and turf with good quality prawns and a steak from the butchers instead with the money you save from the takeaway (keeping the carbs low) and get a decent protein hit in.

It is still possible and ok to plan to enjoy good tasty food, it will just be a different type of food.

I totally understand what you mean. My base diet is healthy - I eat three sensible healthy meals a day. I’m fat because of the ‘treats’ - like you as soon as I’m on a diet I’m thinking about when I can break it. I’m always planning for an event where I will be able to eat as much as I like. For me, Mounjaro has taken away a lot of that urge. I don’t really want a takeaway, I don’t even want to go out for dinner. I’ve got a hen weekend planned at a luxury spa place in six weeks and I’m excited about seeing my friends and all the treatments but I’m genuinely ambivalent about the amazing breakfast the hotel does and the posh meal we’re going for. For the first few weeks my brain still conjured up ideas of food based treats for me only for me to realise they weren’t really appealing anymore. I do still enjoy home made pizza on a Friday night but I eat half as much as I did before and it’s not a sacrifice - I’m genuinely full.

so I guess what I’m trying to say is that you will naturally stop wanting all these things (or that’s my experience). I have found myself engaging in dopamine seeking behaviour though to try and fill the void! I think not viewing food as a reward is something I need to try and sort out before I consider coming off MJ. I’m actually considering CBT and hypnotherapy.

For me it was booze noise. I drank every day from 5pm onwards. So I now have at least 5 hours every day.
I'm hoping to join a gym soon, just trying not to change loads of things at once. W2D2 here.