GLP-1 Diaries

A woman posts a confession to an online GLP-1 community. She's lost almost half her body weight in under a year, her diabetes is gone, and she'll do anything to stay on the medication for life. Her husband thinks she's crazy.

She wants to know if anyone else feels the same way.

Over 300 people answer her. What they say, and what they leave unsaid underneath, is the subject of this episode.

A woman in a glp-1 online community shared something that struck a nerve.

She's lost almost 40 kilograms, and now strangers hold doors for her, smile at her, treat her with a courtesy she didn't get before.

Same person. Same smile. Same sense of style. Just smaller. And it's bothering her.

Someone asked an online community a question that sounds simple but isn't: is it okay not to tell anyone you're on a GLP-1?

She's 30, three weeks into Wegovy, and hasn't told her boyfriend, her friends, or her dad. Only her doctors know. And she's worried that makes her sneaky.

96 people responded, and what came back was one of the most honest conversations you'll find in these forums.

Someone asked a Zepbound community a simple question: what's your strangest food aversion since starting the medication? Over 400 people responded.

What came back was a fascinating, funny, and sometimes heartbreaking catalogue of foods that have become intolerable.

Lifelong egg lovers who now gag at the sight of them. Coffee addicts who can't finish a cup. A British person who can't drink tea. People buying what one commenter called "aspirational salads" only to throw them out a week later.

This episode unpacks the most common aversions, the wildly specific ones, the foods people are relieved to lose, and the ones they genuinely grieve.

We also explore the unexpected patterns: accidental sobriety, changed taste perception, texture as a new enemy, and why some people's favourite foods are the first to go.

This episode is built around a thread from a very large Zepbound community. Someone who lost 40 kilos, hit their goal weight, and felt worse than when they started.

Dizzy, exhausted, headaches for months. It took a routine physical with their actual primary care doctor to connect the dots. Nearly 200 people responded, and the patterns are hard to ignore.

This episode covers a topic that's generating a lot of discussion in GLP-1 patient communities: Fertility. Specifically, people who had been told they couldn't conceive, who had been through years of trying, multiple rounds of IVF, and repeated loss, reporting unexpected pregnancies after starting glp-1s.

In this episode, we’ll be exploring a conversation that keeps coming up more and more in GLP-1 communities: people saying their desire to drink has dramatically reduced after starting medications like Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro, and Zepbound.

If alcohol or addiction is part of your story and you need support, please refer to the resources below:

Australia

National Alcohol and Other Drug Hotline: 1800 250 015 

UK

Drinkline national alcohol helpline on 0300 123 1110

US

SAMHSA National Helpline 1-800-662-HELP

The GLP-1 Diaries is a podcast built from real human conversations in patient forums, exploring the stories, patterns, and questions shaping the GLP-1 era.