My emotional eating challenge has ended
Ozempic Taught Me Something About Food That I Did Not Know Before
And it changed my relationship with food because of it.
Back in the day, if life got stressful, the one thing I turned to was food. And I did not go after healthy food.
Who does when food brings comfort? I always went after highly processed and calorie-dense palatable foods. In other words, junk food was my savior until it no longer was.
I yo-yo’ed for decades because I always turned to food for comfort, but I also hated gaining weight, so I would lose weight only to gain it back again.
However, I stayed in the trap of emotional eating until I was prescribed Ozempic.
After learning that all of the years of yo-yo dieting and not correctly processing my trauma (while spending a chunk of those years in survival mode due to caregiver burnout and depression) and having PCOS risked me for diabetes. It happened, and genetics played a role, too.
Since taking Ozempic, I no longer turned to food for comfort, which was confusing and challenging. That meant I had to look for other ways to handle stress.
