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
59: You Can End Food Noise Without Weight Loss Drugs
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Is food noise loud in your head? In this episode, I break down what food noise actually is, why your brain produces it, and why using a GLP-1 is a mask, not a fix. If you or someone you love is weighing up a weight loss drug, this gives you the fuller picture before you decide.
Please note: I say the number of Intuitive Eating Studies is around 190. I mean to say 100.
I walk through the three phases your body goes through to end food noise without medication.
I also look at a broad overview of what the data says happens when people stop taking GLP-1s, and why researchers like Ragen Chastain, Angela Meadows, and Louise Adams argue these drugs follow a similar pattern to all intentional weight loss effort — they are not the exception the marketing claims.
Sources referenced in this episode:
- Chastain, R., Meadows, A., & Adams, L. (2026). GLP-1 Medications for Weight-Loss: A Triumph of Marketing Over Patient Care. Fat Studies.
- Mann, T., et al. (2007). Medicare's search for effective obesity treatments: Diets are not the answer. American Psychologist.
- Tribole, E., & Resch, E. — Intuitive Eating research overview, intuitiveeating.org (over 100 studies to date)
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