Food noise and family

[MissFlimpkin]

Im ready to start my monjouro journey and waiting for my
pictures for be approved. That was not a confidence builder for sure!
I want to be prepared and I’m wondering if this food noise so
may people report is the result of having to plan, shop and prepare food for the family constantly.
I find at work I’m constantly planning which shop I need to drop into, who needs what. Which food the majority of people will eat for dinner and which changes I will need. Planning it around what we had yesterday, schedules etc.
if it were just me I’d have chicken and salad type food most of the week. I’m wondering if if still going to have the head space to think about their food needs. ( no one else can ) and if stopping the food noise makes food repulsive or just that you don’t fancy as much as usual.
I'm a ‘from scratch’ cook , so im hoping i still want to cook but just fancy eating less of it!

Any advise?

Cook healthier dinners for all, centered around proteins and have the same without the carbs.

Make them spaghetti bolognaise/lasagna, while you have the bolognaise stuffed in peppers (with a bit of tabasco to warm it up a little) or with a small baked potato and some salad for example.

Make fajitas and while they have wraps have a small wrap, a little guacamole/sour cream then lots of extra salsa, meat and roasted veg separately.

Like you, I also cook everything 'from scratch', and feed a busy family, some of whom have dietary needs, so there is often a variety of options at each meal.

I was concerned before I started that the Mounjaro would turn off my own enjoyment of food and also of cooking.
However I am very glad to say that MJ has not stop me enjoying cooking, or kept me from planning meals/shopping etc. I still enjoy what I eat, I just eat smaller amounts and have no desire/hunger to snack in-between meals.

Also, I am not provoked to eat by tiredness, stress, happiness, boredom, disappointment, and all the other emotions.

For me, this is the food noise that has been turned off: snacking for no reason, eating my emotions, cravings for higher calorie foods.

I could feel the effects from the start, but the suppression of appetite was not consistent through the day nor throughout the week. I was losing weight but with willpower as well as MJ. So I moved up the doses each month and now the MJ effects are much more consistent and longer lasting through the week.

I have been on 10mg for a while, which is suiting me well.
I get a little hungry at meal times, eat a small meal and then feel full/not hungry until the next meal. For the first time in my life I am starting to feel full while I eat, and then I stop. Then even more miraculously, I don't feel hungry in-between meals.
I don't count calories, just follow a healthy diet of mainly protein and vegetables with some wine at the weekend.
Ive lost over 3.5 stone and have less than a stone to go. Most importantly I am happier and healthier.

Like. @MagnoliaTreePetalsi am also on 10mg and finding it a breeze at the moment - small meals, no snacking and not thinking about food much at all. Have to remember to eat from time to time -if I wasn’t at home with DH who needs feeding ( he can and does cook, we take turns) I’d probably not bother cooking and live on salad and chicken

it has taken away a percentage of my enjoyment around cooking to be honest, I just can’t be arsed as I’m going to eat so little of it.

Why can’t anyone else do the food planning and cooking?

That's not food noise to me, but everyone has a different interpretation. To me it's that voice screaming at you about the biscuits in the office kitchen or thinking all week about that cake you can finally eat on your treat day. Or it's sitting around a cheese board wanting to shove all the cheese in your mouth but trying to match how the 'normal' people are eating, while desperately trying to focus on the conversation and not the voice in your head shouting eat the cheese.
Switching that off has brought such peace.

I always cook from scratch and love my food so was worried I would go off it and not enjoy what I did have.

I still love food and still love cooking, I just get much more satisfaction from healthy options and do feel a bit repulsed by the more unhealthy ones. Cakes etc often look/taste too sickly. I found a cauliflower, spinach and sweet potato dhal I had batch cooked in the freezer and forgotten I had some left and was so excited by this and really enjoyed it.

In short, I enjoy food just as much, just different food and less of it. Some people are emotionally troubled by this... They want to like what they used to like, or what they think they should like because society tells us it's a treat. My mindset is that the most important thing is that I enjoy it and it's healthy. It doesn't matter that it's not the same as what most people get excited about. It doesn't need to be a social comparison/pressure thing.

I completely went off food . I’m not interested in eating much myself and I definitely don’t want to plan and cook for others.
After 16 years of shopping and cooking , I delegated the on line shop to DH. It has been very refreshing actually . Wish I did it sooner!

My OH cooks for himself, I prefer to have a can of soup at lunch and a protein shake or yoghurt at night. Closest I get to cooking is chucking a pasty in the Ninja. All love of food had completely gone. If you enjoy cooking hopefully this will not be the same for you. I trained as a chef too, and can cook very well. Just have no desire to cook or eat at the minute

I still cook meals from scratch. In fact, I think it's better as I know what's in it. For me, the food noise was about constantly thinking about eating. That's mainly gone - it does come back from time to time though.
But I don't find that planning meals is particularly affected. What I do find is that I plan what to eat for the day, then that's all I want to eat. I don't constantly think about other stuff that I could be eating.
Mind you, some days, I'm really not hungry at all and then I don't really want to cook but it's important to eat something so it's probably just as well that I have to consider other people to feed too.

Thanks that’s interesting.

I actually enjoy Cooking which is why I won’t want to lose that enjoyment.

I don’t snack and don’t have a sweet tooth, I just clearly eat too much of what I am having- clearly! So I will be interested to see how the ‘noise’ differs for me!