Talking with Emma: Stop fighting food & weight
Talking with Emma is the podcast for women who are tired of obsessive food thinking, struggling with body image and feeling like food and weight is the one thing they can’t get sorted.
I’m Emma Wright — feminist health coach, author, and someone who knows exactly how exhausting it is to live like not matter how much you try, your health is never quite “good enough.”
After years of controlling my weight, focusing on food, exercising harder, and constantly feeling like a failure, I discovered something different — and more powerful:
Coaching tools that help you trust yourself again - and take charge of your health the way you want to.
Each episode, I’ll share the tools I use with clients who want relief health feeling so confusing — and who are ready end emotional eating, stop thinking about food all the time and improve their body image.
If you’re ready for those things, this podcast is for you.
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Talking with Emma: Stop fighting food & weight
53: Before you take Ozempic, listen to this. With Guest Louise Adams
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The marketing around Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro, and Zepbound is relentless — and is only telling you one very small part of the story.
Louise Adams is a clinical psychologist, author, podcaster and founder of Untrapped. She has spent more than 20 years in the non-diet and Health at Every Size field. She recently co-authored a peer-reviewed paper — GLP-1 Medication for Weight Loss: A Triumph of Marketing Over Patient Care — which cut through the noise to look at what the clinical trials actually show, what the drug companies are not highlighting, and why informed consent is so critical before taking a weight loss medication.
This episode is not about telling you whether to take a GLP-1 medication or not. It is about making sure that whatever you decide, you have the full picture.
In this episode we cover
- Why almost everyone talking about GLP-1s in a positive light has a financial relationship with at least one drug company — and what that means for the information you are receiving
- What the clinical trials actually show about weight loss outcomes — including the significant variation in results, the plateau at around 12 months, and what happens when you stop
- Why GLP-1 medications are weight suppression drugs, not a cure — and why your body's response to that is not a personal failure
- The side effects that are not getting the spotlight they deserve, including gastric paralysis, pancreatitis, and the growing number of lawsuits citing lack of informed consent
- How the framing of larger body size as a disease was built — and why the comparison to how other conditions have been pathologised throughout history matters
- The difference between weight-dependent and weight-independent health outcomes — including why cardiovascular benefits from GLP-1s appear to occur regardless of whether you lose weight
- How to ask better questions of your health provider, and which weight-inclusive resources can help you do that
- A practical framework for making a genuinely informed decision: what do you actually want from this, what are the short and long-term pros and cons, and which of your goals are truly weight-dependent
Resources mentioned in this episode
Louise Adams' paper: GLP-1 medication for weight loss, a triumph of marketing over patient care -- https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21604851.2026.2646492
Louise Adams -- meet Louise and her work: https://untrapped.com.au/meet-louise/
Louise Adams untrapped academy, newsletter and podcast All Fired Up: https://untrapped.com.au
Ragen Chastain's Weight and Healthcare Substack: https://weightandhealthcare.substack.com/
AWIM GLP-1 Informed Consent document: https://sizeinclusivemedicine.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/MSSI-GLP1-Informed-Consent-10.pdf
HAES Health Sheets: https://haeshealthsheets.com/
Association for Size Inclusive Medicine: https://weightinclusivemedicine.org
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