Do you obsess about food all the time? Or think about your next meal before you've even finished the one you're eating?

This has a name: Food Noise. And it's exhausting.

Despite what some jackasses out there say, food noise is very real. You're not broken or alone if it's driving you crazy.

Today I'm going to tell you exactly "How to Stop Food Noise (with and without GLP-1's)." (GLP-1s are weightloss medications like Ozempic and Wegovy.)

Listen to the episode to understand:

• What's causing your constant food thoughts
• Why certain foods can crank up your food noise
• Simple ways to quiet the chatter - with or without GLP-1's
• The emotional triggers that turn up the volume on your food noise

Believe it or not, food noise is NOT the problem. It's simply a messenger trying to tell you something important.

Ready to understand what it's saying so you can break free? Listen now.

You shouldn't have to spend all day fighting with your own brain about food. Let me show you how to make peace instead.

Hello everybody. Welcome back. So today I want to talk about food noise. This is something that I believe most women have and I just want to talk about it because if you have ever said, I wish that I could quit obsessing about food, I just wish I could quit thinking about food all the time. You are probably somebody who has food noise, so let's talk about it. Food noise is like when you are eating a meal and you're already thinking about what you're going to eat next. I remember my father-in-law and I joking because back in the day when I first got married, I hadn't lost my weight yet. I hadn't done any of the stuff that, this is back when I was two 50 and he and I would be with the family. We would go out to eat for breakfast and then he and I would tell everybody, well, what are we going to be eating for lunch and dinner? 

Because that's going to dictate what we ordered for breakfast. And we used to laugh about it because the two of us were always thinking two to three meals ahead of time whenever we were together. So it's that constant thinking about food. It's that back and forth of should I just go out and grab a burger with everybody else at lunch or should I eat my salad? Food noise is one of those things where you think about food so much that at some point it starts feeling like shit. And that's why I was saying in the very beginning you might say things like, I obsess over food. I just wish I didn't think about food so much. It's exhausting. It wears you out, and I get it. I did that for years and years and years and years. Now, people on the internet, I have been on the Instagram and on the Facebook and when everybody's talking about the new GLP one shots, I hear this coming up all the time. 

Food noise is made up. It's not real. It's what shot makers created as a marketing term to be able to sell more of their shit. Now y'all know that if you are on the shot, I can help you lose weight. I attack emotional eating, but I also, I would say 80% of my clients, they do not do the shots. They are there because they solely want to figure out how to lose weight by attacking the root cause of their emotional eating so they can be like me and lose their weight and never have to fucking do it again. But I want to say this, if you're a woman who's breathing right now, you know that food noise is not some made up fucking term. Now they were really clever and they gave it a really good name for all of us, but food noise has been around a long fucking time. 

We are not new to this, so don't be sitting there and telling us that food noise is some made up bullshit in our heads. It is real. The shot makers just happen to be really good at naming things, and this is one of those things. Food noise has kept women stuck on the diet puppy meal for as long as most of us can even remember. So one of the other ways that food noise can be described, and some of you experience it, sometimes it's just the constant obsession, the back and forth and stuff, but it also, a lot of people say they're hungry all the time. They have continuous hunger and no matter what and how much you eat, you seem to always start thinking about food again. It's like you've got a preoccupation with food. And then when you're preoccupied with food, guess what? 

It is really hard to say no to urges. It's really hard to say no to your emotional eating. And then I also, I read a lot about this before I did this podcast because I wanted to dive deep into it. I read a lot of articles that also said that food noise tends to be more prevalent in women who eat a lot of what we call the ultra processed foods. So that could be donuts, candy, ice cream, fried chicken nuggets, all that kind of stuff. And trust me, I am not poo-pooing on that food. Do not sit here and think re's getting on some high horse that you've got to start eating healthy and all kinds of bullshit. I really do think that the best way to remedy some food noise, and we'll talk about this a little bit, is you've got to have a more neutral relationship with food. 

There are multiple layers underneath food noise, one of which is not demonizing certain foods. But I also don't want to ignore that there are certain foods out there that are not meeting our nutritional needs and when most of our diet is consumed with it, it would just even make sense if you think about it, that your brain would ask for those foods, ask for those foods more often for a couple of reasons. One, if it thinks it's not getting the nutrients, it's getting food, but it's not getting what it needs to survive, it just automatically wants to make you think more about food in the hopes that you're going to go get what it needs. The other thing is when we talk about ultra processed foods, they have a little bit more of an award, a reward system that goes in. So when you are eating a lot of those foods, your brain lacks up like a little Christmas tree. 

It releases all kind of feel-good chemicals when it gets those foods like dopamine mainly. And that will make you want to keep eating that food over and over and over again. Especially if you have things like runaway stress, a really bad inner critic, you're a people pleaser, you worry a lot. So if most of your emotional life is kind of in the negative side where you just worry and people please and do all that shit all the time, it would make sense that your brain would say, oh my God, I've got to feel good at sometimes. And I know that these foods, they always light my shit up, so I'm going to ask for these more often. So as you can tell, food noise is like a real thing. Food noise is where we're thinking about it all the time, where our bodies are asking for food a lot for all kinds of different reasons. 

So there's again, multiple layers beneath food noise. Now one other thing that could be triggering food noise is your natural hunger. It also can lead you to think about food. So for some of us, we are always trying not to be hungry because if we get hungry, we kickstart the obsession treadmill. So I'm just going to tell all of you parts of the layers when it comes to food noise and shutting it down is also retraining your mind and your body and how it responds to hunger. So many of us have been on so many diets where we were under fed severely, and then when we get hungry, it triggers a panic response in us, and it could even be mild hunger. You know what? I teach to lose weight. We are not getting angry. We are not here to starve ourselves. Ladies, we are not going to eat some kind of frail weakling that's barely enough food to feed a little brand new baby bird. 

We are going to eat when we get what's called slight hunger. But for a lot of us, if we've done diet after diet after diet, all of our lives that starved us, think about all those diets. Think about the nineties when people were doing those stupid diets where you ate less than 500 calories a day. Your body has a trauma response. And so now in 2025, whenever you do anything that triggers any hunger like the mere width of hunger, your body's like sound the alarm, panic, panic. We're about to go hungry, like too hungry. So there's just multiple layers. We have all these other cues. For some of you, a little bit of hunger triggers you to start obsessing. Then you spend a lot of time never trying to be hungry, never ever allowing for hunger. Then you're just eating all the time. Then one other thing that can also trigger food noise is like seeing commercials of food. 

I remember every time I would try to diet, I swear to God felt like the fast food industry was out to get me. I would never notice a Burger King commercial or a pizza commercial when I wasn't dieting because I was just eating that shit all the time. The second I try to lose weight, I swear Whoppers were on sale and Pizza Hut was practically saying, Corinne, we love you so much and miss you. How about a free pizza? It triggered so much food noise for me. So your food noise can be activated in lots and lots of ways. It can start with some of the stuff that you're eating routinely. It can be environmentally queued just by smelling things or seeing things. It churns up that food noise, hunger can do it. There's lots of reasons why you probably have food noise. So I say that because what I don't want any of you doing is feeling like something's wrong with you or that you're broken. 

You are not. I think food noise is a byproduct of women being over dieted their entire lives. And I just want you to hear this. Food noise is solvable if you take the shots. There are reports that people have less food noise. My own clients that do the shots, they say the food noise goes down, but this is what they also say. It doesn't all go away, it's just less. It's less enough for them to be able to start making some changes for them to feel like they have a little bit more control or at the very least, they're not having to use so much willpower to where they can hear it and they can breathe through it. It's like they feel like they finally can negotiate with it where it doesn't feel like the food noise is just taking over their life and running them over like a freight train. 

But for those of you who don't want to go on the shots, I hear you. Like I said, 80% of my clients, I did not lose weight on those shots. I think it's completely possible and I think whether you take shots or you don't, when it comes to food noise, food noise just means something really simple. Food noise is just trying to tell you something, and it doesn't always mean that you're hungry. There's probably a deeper need that's not being met and that's why you have so much food noise. So for example, just to show you how normal it is for your brain to scream, holler and act the fool if a need is going unmet, if you have to pee really bad. Now I want y'all to think about this are women. You know what it's like when you got to go to the bathroom and there is no bathroom in sight? 

What are you doing? Your brain is like, oh my God, we better find a bathroom. We need to make this happen. I better do my PPE dance. I'm going to wet my pants. And then your brain just starts freaking about, oh my gosh. And then Susan's going to see that I wet my pants. I'll be the laughingstock of the school. Your brain just goes nuts. Why? Because there's a need not being met. The same thing happens when we're cold as fuck. We'll say you go outside and you're going to have to wait in line someplace and it's like a 30 mile per hour winds on a 20 mile per hour day, and all you did was bring your Florida winter jacket, which if you're a Floridian, you know what that means? It is a windbreaker at the bestest. So what happens in your head? Oh my God, how long is this line going to be? 

I shouldn't have come here today. I wish I'd done this. I wish I'd packed a different jacket. Your brain starts freaking out because you have a need that's not being met. That is all food noise is y'all. It's your brain saying, girl, you got some need that ain't being met and so I'm going to holler at you. I'm going to holler at you, girl until you figure this shit out because your body makes noise when it needs something. And food noise is a symptom. It is not a problem. I want to say this again, and if you are got a pen in your damn hand, you should write this down. Your body makes noise when it needs something. Food noise is a symptom. It is not a problem. So that's why it's important to understand what all the food noise might be trying to tell your ass. 

So for some of us, we obsess over food when we are over dieting. This happens to be a huge trigger of food noise. Let's say that last week you decided to do some bullshit diet that your girlfriend sent you, Hillary over there sent you a new diet. It's got three shakes a day and you can eat you a simple salad for dinner and this is going to cure you and Hillary's ales. Y'all going to be thin by the summer and Susan over there ain't going to be able to touch y'all ass. All right? So you are sitting there with your calories slashed like it's a Jason movie, some slasher flick. You're starving your ass off, and about a week later, all you're doing is obsessing about food. You're thinking about all the shit you wish you could eat. You're thinking about all the things that Susan over there gets to eat and you're like, why the fuck do I care what Susan thinks of me in this summer? 

I don't know what the fuck Hillary was thinking. She's wrong. Big is beautiful girl. All of a sudden your brain is thinking of all the things that you're missing out on, what you wish you were eating and stuff that over dieting turns up the volume on food noise because if you're over dieting, not treating your body well, your brain is supposed to scream. That's what's supposed to happen. If something's wrong, don't you want your body screaming and hollering at you? You don't want it to be like, oh, well, all right, no problem. And then all you muscle turns to chalk and when you're 80, you're sitting there with a broken hip, Susan's over there playing pickleball while you and Hillary are regretting every damn diet, crazy ass diet y'all did back in the day. So now other people, they have food noise when they're exhausted and they have what's called basic human needs that are not being met. 

Literally the basic human needs. This is what every human needs. I call this the bare fucking minimums. We got to have our water. So if you're not properly hydrated, you're going to have more food, noise, sleep. We have to get rest. Our bodies are not meant to be on the go from the moment your little feet hit the ground and go, go, go until you collapse in bed at night. We were never supposed to have our text messages going off all the time. We were never supposed to have so many people have easy access to us. If you think about in the modern day, we don't live like humans did years and years and years ago. We have emails going off all the time, text messages going off voicemails. People have access to us at all times and we're scrolling social media. We now know what's happening all over the world on our phones. 

A hundred years ago, it took fucking forever to figure out what the hell was going on in another state, much less across the planet. So if you think about it, our human needs are rest, water, and then what we call essential self-care. Essential self-care is just like taking a break during the day to breathe. A lot of us don't even realize that we've become shallow breathers. We're not even really giving ourselves enough oxygen during the day. You're going, going, going, your stress levels rise. As your stress levels rise, you're breathing actually becomes inefficient, and this is happening to you when sometimes you're working and you almost feel like you're out of breath and you have to take a really big deep breath that is your body signaling, Hey, you need to slow down a little. That doesn't mean you have to drop balls and stuff, but one of the things that I've been doing to make sure that I'm taking care of the basic human need called oxygen, I dunno why we act like we shouldn't be doing that kind of self-care. It's like you fucking need the oxygen is when I'm working, anytime I want to fidget in my seat a little bit, I remind myself, take two deep breaths while you're doing it. 

Nobody is going to suddenly get behind in work. Or if you're a teacher, you taking a few deep breaths in the classroom with all the kitties in there, little Richard over here, he's not going to somehow not get his education because Ms. Anne took deep breaths during the day. It might save you from wanting to jack slap little Richard when he's over there pulling on somebody's pigtails. So we need to make sure that our basic human needs are also getting on the list. If you're not meeting them, if you're not taking bare minimum care of yourself, expect to have more food noise because the food noise is there to get you to eat because it might be the only time you get water notice you'll eat things that probably every food has water in it. If you're eating ice cream at night, guess what? You're also hydrating. 

If you are never giving yourself a moment during the day to breathe and feel good, then it will ask for food because it has dopamine and it will allow you to feel good because you are not allowing you to feel good. So sometimes we are worst own enemies when it comes to food noise. And then a lot of women, they have food noise simply because they have a harsh inside voice, the voice that's in your head. You're really hard on yourself. You're constantly worrying what people think of you and on some constant hamster wheel of trying to prove yourself to anyone and everyone around you. So if you are a people pleaser and you're always worrying about people, your food noise pops up as a way to give you some relief from that. So your inner critic, yes, she is exhausting, but she's not hurtful and scary. 

I mean the food noise is what's exhausting. But your inner critic, she's scary, she's hurtful. And so what do you think your brain is going to pick? It's like, well, I would rather you be exhausted and sick and tired of food noise, but at least you get some dopamine hits when you eat some bullshit. What I don't want to do is spend a lot of time with the scary version of enter you. She's freaking me the fuck out. So I'm going to turn up that food noise because if you won't turn her voice down, I'll do it for you because you don't deserve to be talked to like that. That's like, I like to think of food noise. It's like sitting there saying, I'm the bouncer to the asshole in the room. Now, if you've got food noise, I will say this. It is not enough anymore to just do the shots or to go on some diet. 

The food noise is masking deeper needs that have to be met. Sure, you can change how you eat and you will lessen some of the noise. You can get on the shot and you can lessen some of the cues, which will lessen some of the noise. You can short circuit the reward cycle by changing up how you eat some, but if your food noise is signaling deeper problems, there's no shot and there's no diet that's ever going to fix the root cause problems. And that's why I work with women, whether they take shots or not to lose their weight, food noise, it weighs on us. I want you to lose the problems that food noise is masking. And I also want you to lose the physical weight that it's creating. So if it were me, the first thing and I had food noise, the first thing that I would do is I would fix some of the simple things that you can in your life just to go from the volume being a 10 to let's get it to a seven, maybe even a six. 

You can change out a few of the foods that you eat that aren't helping with the food noise. Now, you don't have to do all of them. I didn't start with all of them at first, but if you can make some simple but doable subs to stuff you're eating right now, that might help you. So when I was losing weight, that's what I did. I think it's one of the reasons why some of my food noise dropped off in the beginning and it was super helpful. I started leaving mayonnaise off of my burgers when I would order them. If I had a salad, if I wanted to go out to eat, I might get a fried chicken salad instead of just getting a fried chicken sandwich and fries so I could have my fried chicken, but also get me some fucking vegetables in too. And I also just started bringing in some foods into my normal lifestyle that I knew would be good for me while I slowly exited out. 

A few of the ones that I knew they just weren't helping me nutritionally, they tasted good, but I slowly brought in things and let go of foods that I liked, but I really wasn't married to them. So I just started with where I was at, and it really did help me because the food noise lessened a little because I was finally getting in a few things my body needed, but I was also still allowing for pleasure that I didn't know how to put into my life without food yet. And then the next thing I would do is also make sure that you're taking care of water, sleep and your basic self-care. For me, basic self-care looks like this these days. If I see piles of shit laying around my house, I tackle 'em one at a time, one or two days at a time. I'll just go through some mail and throw some shit out. 

I try to keep a lot of the clutter out. I'm a junker. I can pile up some shit better than anybody, and once a day or once every other day, I kind of just look for things and I look for what I call a 10 to 32nd tasks. If it takes less than 30 seconds to do it, I just go ahead and do it. And then sometimes I'll do what we call the three minute task. I'm like, well, it might take me three minutes to go through the mail and I'll say, do I want to spend three minutes on this or do I want to keep looking at it and letting it trigger feeling? I'm so lazy, I should really get to that. I hate doing it. I try to lessen some of that stuff. To me, that's like basic self-care. And then another thing that I do that I think is helpful for y'all, I still do this to this day, right before I eat my meal, I do a body reset and it literally takes 15 seconds. 

I'm not talking about sitting there and crossing your legs like some kind of yogi burning, some incense, and then we get to eat. 10 minutes later, I sit down with my food, I put the fork down so I'm not tempted to just start rifling it in. Even if I took a bite on the way to the table, I still set it all down. I sit up straight and I take two to three really deep breaths in, and then I just say, slow your roll when you eat. I literally probably only add 90 seconds to two minutes extra to eating because I think a lot of us act like if we're going to slow our roll, we're going to be eating for 30 minutes or something. For me, I'm just a fast eater. I wolf things down and one of the things I realized is I have more food noise when I don't get to thoroughly enjoy my meal. 

If I feel like it was over too fast, I have this sense of I missed out. Oh my God, I got to go back to work. It just feels so dreadful. And then I want to go make more food because of what I'm really doing is trying to extend that break that I was going to get. So now what I do is I do a couple of deep breaths. I sit there and I purposely try to eat a little slower. I actually extend how long it takes me to eat, but not by a ton so that I'm not triggering myself to think I don't have time, but also just enough to where I don't trigger the thought. I didn't get to enjoy it. It was over with too fast. So that makes a big difference and it signals, it has a benefit of speaking to your body, Hey, I listened to you and your needs are not only getting met, but your needs matter to me because a lot of times our bodies are sending up food noise because we don't give it very many signals that we love it, that we want to care for it and that it matters. 

But here's the biggest thing that I would do to work on figuring out your food noise, and that would be to figure out what emotional problem the food noise is trying to protect you from. I believe food noise is literally just a messenger. It is the symptom to a problem. Food noise is saying something's missing. And until you're ready to solve it, I will be here to keep you company to make life a little easier, to feed you, to make sure any need that I can serve is getting met. The problem is is that food doesn't meet a lot of our emotional needs. It can't make us talk better to ourselves. It can't make us feel the safety that we really desire. Like you overeating and eating a lot of food. If you worry that your partner doesn't love you or finds you sexy or whatever, there's no amount of food you're ever going to eat that's going to fix that fear. 

And that's the problem is that if we are not fixing those inner fears, those things that we're worried about, those things that we catastrophize, the things that are really bothering us at a deeper level, if we don't fix those, our brain and body are left to do what they think is best and it's food. And we know if you've been listening to my podcast for any amount of time, food can't fix those things. It can put a bandaid on it, it can distract you. But unfortunately, whatever it's trying to do to make you feel just a little bit better in the moment, it has so many unintended negative consequences. So pay attention to your food noise. Stop villainizing it. Don't let somebody gaslight you into saying that it's not real. It's very real. It's a symptom of something going on underneath. So I would love to hear your thoughts on this. 

If you want, you can visit my social. You can find me on Instagram at corin crabtree. You can find me on Facebook. It's losing 100 podcast. Look me up and leave a comment on any of my posts. And then the biggest thing I want to do is I want you to share this with a friend. I am on a mission to help as many women in this world get off the diet hamster wheel. If I could just on my tombstone it read, women's lives were saved because this woman stopped having them diet and started having them figure out their life, I would rest in peace as they say. So share this with a friend. We got to make sure that women aren't sitting around blaming themselves for being out of control with food, when in reality there is a damn good reason why all of this keeps happening to us. Alright, y'all, y'all have a good week. I'll see you next time.