It does which is why medically supervised weight loss with GLP1s includes diet recommendations to mitigate this.

But in my experience, decreased cravings make it easier to choose food rationally. The food noise that causes people to overeat usually doesn’t cause them to overeat healthy foods anyway.

My personal experience is like getting eye glasses for your appetite. Easier to eat reasonably sized portions and they're nutritionally well-balanced.

Also the late night cravings are more specific: instead of vague "need to eat something", it's "I'd love a tomato" or "mmm yogurt" or "actually a load of carbs would hit the spot".

What if you could intentionally eat good food?

I've heard it widely described as reducing mental noise around food.

considering what we have been learning about the importance of a working gut brain axis I'd be highly worried about Ozempic harming this connection.

You lose your appetite but can still shove things in your pie hole. You just have to make an effort to shove vegetables and protein in, rather than making an effort resist eating junk food.

You don't desire to brush your teeth (at least not in the way that you desire to consume calorie-dense foods). But you manage to still do it anyway. (maybe not you specifically, but people in general) You can make the same choice about nutrition. The lowered desire makes it easier/possible to do this

Specifically for me it makes junk food unpleasant. My diet is now impeccable. I hardly ever have a takeaway and if I do it needs to be something that is not greasy and is good clean food.

I also find drinking alcohol much less pleasant. I still drink sometimes but after a few beers or glasses of wine it starts to become very unappealing and I stop.

I do bodybuilding and I’m still getting my 150g of protein in.

I’m barely overweight and I’m losing weight very slowly but I’ve decided I’m likely to stay on GLP’s long term, if not forever, just because the lifestyle changes have been so incredibly good.

Perhaps this helps dispel the myth that GLP drugs inherently = relentless starvation.

If you want the real answer, people suck at shopping for groceries and don't know how or want to cook.

Long before LLMs, there was a different but similarly misguided hype around making food more convenient. Making money off ignorance is not "innovation", but we live in a world convinced by arrogant and pretentious fearmongering liars.

As always, just do it yourself. It's not that hard after all.

I recall reading a metastudy of EU studies about 10 years ago, where they focused on three different diet classes: calorie counting, low carb, high protein.

Calorie counting diets had no restrictions on what they ate, as long as the participants didn't exceed the calorie target.

Low carb (Atkins) had no calorie restriction but had to restrict carbs.

High protein also didn't have calorie restriction but participants had to ensure at least 20% of the calories in meals were proteins.

They found that while all helped people lose weight, only the high-protein made it stick reliably.

I used that as basis for my own weight loss and it worked very well for me. As you said it made me full in a different way. YMMV.

I have lost 30lbs this year and even the difference between .5 and .7 is noticeable to me.

There is also the variable that you can work out too much. I did a brutal 30 minute glycolytic conditioning session on Friday and it just doesn't matter how much protein I consume the next day. Something with ghrelin goes off the chart and the next day takes huge will power to not just eat everything.

I think it is even worse with max effort weight lifting.

I had a similar experience bringing down my A1C.

People talk a lot about meat, but not enough about dairy. My prayers were answered at the altars of feta, greek yogurt, half and half, butter, cottage cheese, etc. They made salads not suck. They opened up a ton of lower carb dessert options. My gut health improved. All of my health improved.

I no longer treat these humble foods as optional extras. They perfectly fill the gap in my daily protein needs. They were never unwelcome, just forgotten.

I remember reading the Hazada paradox, where they found these Hadza tribe members who live an active life, walking miles, hunting, and doing all physical labour, have the same maintenance calories as a Western person.

So where does the energy burn in a sedentary population come from vs highly active Hadza tribe members?

Pontzer’s research showed that while the Hadza were highly active, they actually demonstrated lower baselines of certain markers of metabolic and physiological stress over time compared to Western populations.

Don't quote me on this; I am paraphrasing things I remember from.

Thirst affects me in a different way too. My throat doesn't feel dry and uncomfortable because before it reaches that point I almost get naseous.

oh say more?

the minimum dose of monjaro (2.5mg injection once/week) can often be enough