Emotional Eating, Willpower and Ozempic: The Psychology of Weight

<p>Join Dr Shauna Watts’ &quot;Now What?&quot; List - https://journey.allaboutyoupod.com/what-next/ </p><p><br></p><p>Almost every woman who sits down in Lareena Brown&#39;s room believes she has failed. She has done every diet there is, and somewhere along the way she decided the problem was her.</p><p><br></p><p>Lareena Brown is a clinical psychologist and ANZAED-credentialed eating disorder clinician who works with women on their relationship with food, weight, movement and their bodies. In this conversation she and Dr Shauna Watts unpick what a broken relationship with food actually looks like day to day, why willpower was never the mechanism that failed, and what a weight-neutral approach means in practice.</p><p><br></p><p>They also go where most conversations stop: GLP-1 medications, food noise, and the judgement women face for taking them.</p><p><br></p><p>If you have spent decades believing you lack discipline, this episode offers a different explanation and one small, specific place to start.</p><p><br></p><p>00:00  &quot;People don&#39;t fail diets. Diets fail people.&quot;</p><p>01:47  What a broken relationship with food looks like day to day</p><p>03:10  Guilt, shame and a long history of yo-yo dieting</p><p>05:28  Willpower is mental energy, not character</p><p>06:41  The tyranny of &quot;should&quot;, and perfectionism as a moving goalpost</p><p>11:07  The midlife collision: hormones, kids, ageing parents, career</p><p>13:17  When health advice becomes another full-time job</p><p>14:04  A note from Dr Shauna</p><p>14:41  What a non-diet, weight-neutral approach actually looks like</p><p>17:01  &quot;I don&#39;t like exercise&quot; and why that is like saying you don&#39;t like colours</p><p>20:01  Moving in a larger body: physical discomfort, self-consciousness, stigma</p><p>24:18  Strangers, family, and the judgements people feel entitled to make</p><p>26:43  Losing your hunger and fullness cues, and how to rebuild them</p><p>29:56  The four hungers: stomach, heart, mouth and head</p><p>32:26  Uncoupling health from weight: the markers that actually matter</p><p>34:43  Skipping meals, drinking your calories, and the night-time overeat</p><p>37:58  GLP-1 medications and a weight-neutral approach: can they coexist?</p><p>40:54  Why a prescription is not a treatment plan</p><p>43:35  Food noise, and the calm that descends when it stops</p><p>46:54  &quot;We&#39;re not giving people a shot of willpower&quot;</p><p>50:25  What the medication do