Nope, That's Not Normal

Nope, That's Not Normal

It's Time to Befreind Your Food Noise

The Deeper Healing Series #3

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Jessica Thiefels
Nov 06, 2025
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Lately, the world seems to be talking about “food noise” like it’s something bad. Just one more thing to fix, fight, and get rid of. You’ve probably seen the phrase all over social media, usually followed by promises of how to “finally silence it.”

The funny thing is, like most things that diet culture villainizes (rest, body diversity, you know these little tings…), food noise is NORMAL. It’s just a normal response to hunger that’s been vilified and turned into a marketing tactic.

Tune into this week’s episode and dig into this companion Deeper Healing Series to explore your relationship with food noise, better understand it, and reconnect to your own hunger cues.

Note: While food noise is a neutral response to hunger or another bodily need, if it feels hard to manage or is driving extreme anxiety or disordered behaviors, I do encourage you to ask for professional mental health support. Your response to food thoughts is rarely about the food itself, but about underlying trauma and pain, along with cultural messages and societal norms. Unpacking that with a professional is life-changing and often necessary.


The Episode

Check out this week’s episode, Food Noise is Neutral… If You’re Feeding Yourself with Christyna Johnson is a registered dietitian based in Dallas, Texas. In this episode, we talk about what food noise actually is, how GLP-1 mania has made it mainstream, and how to challenge yourself when you try to villainize those thoughts of hunger. It’s such a fun, compassionate, and easy listen. Go check it out!

Food Noise is Neutral... If You're Feeding Yourself

Jessica Thiefels
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Nov 4
Food Noise is Neutral... If You're Feeding Yourself

In this episode, Jessica and Christyna explore food noise, GLP-1 medications, and hunger signals. Christyna shares the potential dangers of malnutrition, as a result of trying to mitigate that “food noise” with GLP-1s, along with strategies to check in with yourself and connect with your hunger and fullness cues.

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