Your GLP-1 Plateau Doesn’t Mean You’re Failing with Jessica Brown
EPISODE 332A GLP-1 can quiet the food noise and give you hope again. Then you hit a plateau, the food noise starts creeping back in, or you see someone else having a completely different experience. That’s when the old thoughts can show up fast. Here we go again. I’m failing. What’s wrong? Why isn’t this working for me like everyone else?
We’ve put GLP-1s into the same magic bullet fantasy we tend to put everything else into. We want the straight line forward and the happily ever after. When that isn’t what happens, it can be easy to make the plateau mean something about you instead of separating what’s happening from what you’re making it mean about yourself.
In this episode of Truce with Food, I sit down with clinical nutritionist Jessica Brown, author of Beyond the Shot, to talk about what happens emotionally when GLP-1 progress stalls or the food noise comes back. Jessica is also a certified compassion teacher, and she has used a GLP-1 herself for more than two years, mostly for reasons beyond weight loss. We talk about the difference between feelings and beliefs, how comparison and self-judgment can shape the way you see yourself, and why self-compassion matters when the old story says you’re the problem. She also shares NICE, her practice for meeting that moment with kindness, especially if part of you worries that going easier on yourself means you’ll just give up.
This episode is the third stop on the GLP-1 Path in the Truce with Food Podcast Library, a set of conversations meant to be heard in order. Start the Path here: GLP-1 Path
7:47 – Why GLP-1 plateaus can feel so unexpected and what happens when progress stops being linear
9:05 – Jessica Brown’s reasons for using a GLP-1 beyond weight loss
15:35 – What can come up emotionally when food noise returns on a GLP-1
18:08 – The difference between feelings and beliefs and why it matters when you start blaming yourself
24:35 – How comparing your GLP-1 experience to other people can make you feel worse
28:52 – What makes support actually supportive when judgment is everywhere
34:40 – How to know when returning food noise needs emotional support, a medical conversation, or both
45:35 – Why the old story that you’re failing can come back so quickly during a plateau
50:56 – Jessica’s NICE practice for responding to old beliefs with self-compassion
52:38 – Jessica’s personal story of using NICE to change a belief she’d carried since infancy
59:19 – What emotional plateaus can reveal when food is no longer doing the same job
1:02:13 – Redefining progress when success is no longer just about weight or avoiding regain
1:11:00 – When to seek more support and what to know about GLP-1 microdosing claims
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