Is it normal to not feel hungry on a GLP-1?
Diabetes Digital Podcast by Food Heaven
Wendy Lopez, Jessica Jones
4.9 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 14 January 2026
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
A lot of people taking GLP-1 medications notice their hunger cues change and that can feel confusing. Some appetite reduction is expected, but what happens when eating starts to feel hard, or you’re unintentionally going all day without a meal?
Today we’re breaking down what a normal adjustment period looks like, what kinds of appetite changes you can expect, and the point where low hunger becomes something worth mentioning to your provider.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to another episode of the Diabetes Digital Podcast presented by Food Heaven. |
| 0:05.2 | Today we have one half of the DD team. It's me, Jess, and I am going to talk about a question |
| 0:13.6 | that we got from our listeners. This question may apply to many of you because many of our |
| 0:20.2 | clients are actually on this medication known as |
| 0:24.5 | GLP-1s. Welcome to the Diabetes Digital podcast. I'm Wendy and I'm Jess and we're best friends, |
| 0:32.2 | registered dieticians and diabetes educators. Through our telehealth platform, DiabetesDigital.co, we offer accessible and |
| 0:39.4 | personalized virtual nutrition counseling for people with diabetes and prediabetes. Visit |
| 0:44.2 | diabetes digital.co, that's CO, to book your first appointment. We accept insurance and offer affordable |
| 0:50.4 | self-pay options. Now, let's get into today's episode. So I have some really exciting |
| 0:58.2 | news to share. If you were new here, I just have to give you a little bit of context. So at Diabetes |
| 1:03.4 | Digital, we are a team of dietitians, and our mission is to help people improve their blood sugar |
| 1:09.7 | and metabolic health through weight |
| 1:12.0 | inclusive culturally humble nutrition behavior coaching that focuses on helping people improve |
| 1:18.4 | their relationship with food. And we have seen 1,500 patients since we started at the beginning |
| 1:24.5 | of 2024. And we've done 11,000 visits, which I can't even believe that's insane. |
| 1:31.4 | We've heard a lot from our patients anecdotally, and we've seen lab values anecdotally that |
| 1:36.8 | they're having these big changes. |
| 1:38.0 | But we wanted to look clinic-wide at all of the data and see what it was telling us. |
| 1:43.2 | So we hired a data analyst. And I one almost fell out my seat when I saw the results |
| 1:49.7 | of our work with patients. |
| 1:51.8 | So I'm going to go through them very quickly and then I'm going to tell you a very special |
| 1:56.2 | offer that we have for people in January. |
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