| ▲ | jmpman a day ago |
| I'd read that there are a few snack items resistant to GLP-1 induced food aversions, when I was on a GLP-1, Biscoff cookies felt like one of them. I may have an Amazon scheduled delivery of Biscoff, which every month, I intend to cancel, and somehow forget to follow through. |
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| ▲ | tombert a day ago | parent | next [-] |
| I'm not on GLP-1s, but I am on metformin [1] which my wife says has similar food aversion properties to the GLPs, and for me I've noticed virtually anything with peanut butter I can still eat a nearly infinite quantity of. One of the worst things that has ever happened to me was finding out that peanut butter fudge is ridiculously easy to make. [1] Off label for weight loss. My insurance wouldn't cover GLP-1s, and metformin is out of patent and super cheap, and I read that at least some people have had good success using it for weight loss. I am fortunately one of those happy few. |
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| ▲ | collinstevens a day ago | parent | next [-] | | please delete your comments, this is an infohazard for us on glp-1s | | | |
| ▲ | darksim905 a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | When we say food 'aversion', we're implying that a drug like metformin makes you not want that thing, yes? I've found when I take metformin, and then eat food later, I enjoy the food so much more as a craving/satiation thing. Especially steaks. But I'm not quite sure why that is. I can't say that what peers have told me about metformin is to help with weight loss, but supposedly the benefits/effects on the body are generally positive. | | |
| ▲ | tombert a day ago | parent [-] | | In my case metformin makes it so I just have no appetite, and certain foods are outright kind of revolting to me now. I can't do fried chicken while I'm on it. | | |
| ▲ | darksim905 21 hours ago | parent [-] | | I'm sorry that happens, though now I'll be curious to be on the lookout for this when I take it. Out of curiosity, does that effect subside fairly quickly e.g. once the drug half life and has exited your system, do you crave/can you eat chicken fairly comfortably? | | |
| ▲ | tombert 11 hours ago | parent [-] | | I actually ran this experiment recently since I ran out and forgot to renew for a bit. It took about three days for my appetite to become "normal" AKA unhealthy. |
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| ▲ | cyberpunk a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | One extreme option if you wanna kick the ‘butter — I ate a small amount of peanut butter immediately before a severe case of norovirus kicked in (48 hours of purge every 15-20 minutes) — can’t even be in the same room with the stuff without flashbacks anymore. Even typing that out made feel rough. Maybe there’s some way to de-program such strong associations but seems like a way to kick a bad habit.. | | |
| ▲ | tombert a day ago | parent [-] | | I have the same reaction to strawberry ice cream. Not actual strawberries, those are still good, but the flavor that candy companies think strawberries taste like. I got very sick fairly shortly after eating a bunch of strawberry ice cream when I was a kid. 25 years later and I still can't stand the stuff. |
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| ▲ | criddell a day ago | parent | prev [-] | | How cheap is super cheap? Semaglutide is something like $70 a month now from some online sellers. | | |
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| ▲ | phil21 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Same. My theory is the ginger in them. But who knows! |
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| ▲ | vintermann 18 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| ... That would explain a lot. I'm in Norway, and I had never heard of these biscuits until recently. Now they're absolutely everywhere. It's maybe not surprising that the US fast food chains push them, but the Swedish chains do too? And they put it in chocolate bars? Like most countries I'd wager, we have plenty of own local biscuit brands you've never heard of. Biscoff does not stand out from them as fundamentally different in either texture or taste. I just couldn't wrap my mind around why this bland brand was suddenly pushed so heavily everywhere. But if food executives think it's GLP resistant (whether it is or not) then it makes a lot of sense. Jesus. People should worry less about "hyperprocessed food" and more about things like this (alternatively, this sort of thing is one of the hyperprocessed foods people should actually worry about). |
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| ▲ | paulpauper a day ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Biscoff is so filling, imho. like eating chalk. i cannot imagine eating more than a few, versus Reece's which I can eat dozen at once. |
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| ▲ | ycombinete 18 hours ago | parent [-] | | Biscoff milkshakes on the other hand don't seem to take up any space in the stomach. |
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