Emotional eating is not a lack of willpower

Not by trying harder. What works is tackling two things at once. Treatment makes the urge itself smaller, and the pattern underneath becomes visible once you note down when you eat and what comes before it. Your coach helps you put something else in that place.

Food noise is the constant background hum of thinking about food. What is in the house, what to have later, whether to grab something anyway. It is not hunger, but it wears you out. GLP-1 medication quiets it for many people, and clients often name that as the biggest change, before the kilos.

Satiety hormones work less well when you carry extra weight, and hunger returns harder after every attempt to lose it. Bad sleep, stress and strict dieting make it worse. Constant hunger says something about your body, not about your character.

Partly. Medication makes the urge smaller, so a stressful day is less likely to end at the fridge. The stress itself stays. That is why coaching is part of it, so you find another way through the moments you used to eat away.

No. Recurring binges you cannot control, eating in secret, or compensating by vomiting or extreme dieting point to an eating disorder. That is a psychiatric diagnosis and needs different care from what we offer. Talk to your GP, who can refer you to a specialist in this field.

You qualify with a BMI of 30 or higher, or from 27 in combination with weight-related health issues. You're between 18 and 75 years old. The doctor always assesses your request personally.