Using Brain Science To Create A Natural "Ozempic Effect" (Outweigh)

OUTWEIGH: In this episode of Outweigh, we’re diving deep into the science behind why food feels so powerful—and how to create the “Ozempic effect” naturally (using the power of your brain), without medication, side effects, or yo-yo weight regain. Leanne breaks down the brain’s food-seeking circuit, the hidden driver behind cravings, emotional eating, and that relentless mental chatter around food. You’ll learn why so many women regain weight after stopping Ozempic, why willpower has nothing to do with it, and most importantly—how to rewire your brain to work with you, not against you.

If you’ve ever felt stuck in the cycle of losing and regaining weight, if you’ve struggled with cravings that feel impossible to resist, or if you’re tired of obsessing over food all day long—this episode is for you. Tune in as Leanne shares the exact three-step method to calm your brain’s food-seeking circuit, build new neural pathways, and finally break free from food obsession for good.

HOST: Leanne Ellington // StresslessEating.com // @leanneellington

To learn more about re-wiring your brain to heal from the all-or-nothing diet mentality for good....but WITHOUT restricting yourself, punishing your body, (and definitely WITHOUT ever having to use words like macros, low-carb, or calorie burn) check out Leanne's FREE Stressless Eating Webinar @ www.StresslessEating.com

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
I won't let my body out be outwait everything that
I'm made. Don won't spend my life trying to change.
I'm learning love who I am again. I'm strong, I'm
feel free, I know everybody of me. It's beautiful and
that will always out way if you feel it with

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your hands. And there she'll some love to the food
I give. There, say good day and did you and
die out way, Happy Saturday, outweigh. It's leanne here and
today we're diving into something that's been on a lot
of women's minds lately, and that is ozmpic. But not
in the way that you might expect. Okay, we are

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not here to debate medications or weight loss shortcuts. We
aren't even here to talk about ozempic at all. We
are here to get curious on a brain level about
why it's working for so many people, and that tells
us about the real root of food obsession and overeating
or under eating and the cycle of losing and regaining weight.

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Because here's the thing, there's a science behind what ozempic
actually does in the brain, and once you understand it,
you can learn to create those effects naturally and with
no prescriptions and no side effects and no temporary quick
fixes that leave you right back where you started. So
today I'm going to show you how to create what

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I call a natural ozempic effect, which is a brain
based shift that calms cravings and quiets food noise and
helps you finally feel like food is no longer the
boss of you. But first, let's talk about the problem. Okay,
So let's say this out loud together. Okay, just in
case no one has said it to you recently. If

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you've been stuck in the cycle of overeating or emotional
eating or binging, it's not because you're broken, and it's
not because you're weak, and it's definitely not because you
just haven't found the right diet. The real reason is
that your brain is wired to seek food, right, Because
deep inside your brain is something called the food seeking circuit.

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And this isn't just some woo woo concept. It's been
validated by brain scans and neuroscience labs and real world
clinical studies. And when that circuit is balanced, you eat
when you're hungry, you stop when you're fall and food
doesn't consume your thoughts all day long. And when that
circuit is overstimulated, right, which is what happens when you've

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lived through years of dieting and body shame and emotional
stress and just using food as a coping tool, that
circuit goes haywire. Okay, and that's where things get hard. Okay.
You crave food even when you're not hungry. You reach
for sugar or carbs when you're stressed or anxious or tired,
and you think about food NonStop, even when you don't

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want to. And that's not a willpower issue. That's a
wiring issue. And so why does this matter? Because this
wiring is the reason why you can lose twenty pounds
only to gain back twenty five. Or clients I'm working
with who went on ozebic, many of them lost over
one hundred pounds and gain back one hundred and five. Right,

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But it's also the reason why you can white knuckle
your way through whole thirty or keto or intermittent fasting
for a little while, only to find yourself binging in
secret a few weeks later, and why you know what
to do, but you still feel powerless to actually do it.
I've seen this story play out hundreds of times. I've
lived it. I lived it for so much of my life.

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I used to weigh over two hundred and fifty pounds
and I lost over one hundred, and I ran a
fitness business and I taught women how to transform their bodies.
And yet I still thought about food constantly, and I
still feared gaining the weight back. That it because I
didn't feel free. I knew I was out exercising my
food struggles and trying to under eat my overeating because well, yeah,

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I changed my behaviors, I hadn't changed my wiring. And
here's the crazy part, or the scary part, I guess
it is. Even ozempic, the so called miracle drug, it
doesn't fix that, right, Like, sure, it helps you feel
full faster, because it calms the chemical hunger. It quiets
the background buzz that makes you want to eat all

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the time. But what about your thoughts? Right? What about
your subconscious beliefs about your body? And what about the
self image that still sees you as the woman who's
bad or you know air quotes, messed up with food
or can't be trusted with sugar. And of the countless
women I've worked with, none of them are eating out
of hunger. Okay, it's emotional hunger. And so many women

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end up emotionally eating anyways, even if ozempic has turned
off their physical or chemical hunger. And so here's something
you might not know. I've worked with many women who
did take ozempa because it's actually been around for a
lot longer than most people know. So I've had so
many women that have been on or off ozempic come
through stressless eating. And it's just become more popular in

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the last three years or so, that's why we're hearing
about it now. But it's been around forever, right or
not forever for a while, and so they would lose,
you know, forty pounds, sixty pounds. I've even had multiple
women lose ninety to one hundred pounds, but because they
didn't address their brain's default settings, they gained it all
back and then some right and now again a topic
probably for another episode, is what happens to your muscle

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mass and your BMR or the metabolic rate of how
many calories you're burning a day or what you need
to survive like that changes with ozepic two. And when
you or just any drastically reduced caloric intake to lose
weight very quickly, it puts you in a metabolic kind
of downword spiral. So again another topic for another day.

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But that happens too, right, But it's not just the weight,
but the guilt and the shame and the food food
obsession too, right, Like that comes back because if you're
wiring and beliefs don't change, your behaviors will eventually circle
right back around. And that's why weight loss isn't enough,
and that's why willpower isn't enough, and that's why you

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can't outdiet your brain. Now, this is where I want
to pause and just be super clear, if I haven't
been pretty clear already. I am not against ozempic. Okay.
It can be a powerful and even life changing tool
for some women, especially when used under the guidance of
a trusted doctor. But what I've seen over and over
is that medication alone doesn't rewire the brain. It might

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suppress the appetite, but it doesn't heal the obsession or
the emotional eating or the self image wiring underneath it all.
So this episode, again, it's not about ozempic. It's about
your brain, specifically, how to create a natural ozempic effect
by calming the part of your brain that drives food
seeking and cravings and emotional spirals so that you can

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feel more peace and more freedom and more control from
the inside out. So what's the answer, Well, well, let's
go back to that ozempic effect that I was talking about.
The real reason ozempic works isn't because it gives you superpowers, Okay,
It's because it temporarily regulates your brain's food seeking circuit.

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And so what if you could just do that naturally,
and what if you could train your brain to calm
that circuit without needing injections or prescriptions or side effects.
And that's exactly what I teach my clients inside my
stressless eeding mentorship. But I want to give you a
taste of how it works here in this episode. So
the first layer of the process is about helping my

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clients calm their over active circuits. And calming your overactive
circuit is what needs to happen. And so this is
where we get your nervous system out of fight or
flight as a default, so that your brain stop scanning
for food as a coping mechanism. Right. Think of it
like flipping the off switch on food noise. And specifically
I teach my client it's how to use short, science

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backed techniques that activate the parasympathetic nervous system and regulate
the part of your brain that thinks that food is
the answer to every emotion or circumstance, and then they
can actually learn to regulate the stress and anxiety that
fuels their food seeking circuit. It's like you flipping the
breaker when the system gets overloaded. But if you're anything

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like me and could never sit to you know, meditate
or calm your monkey mind long enough to do any good,
I show my clients how to do it in a
way where we hack into the nervous system by hijacking
the sensory system, and it's totally fool proof so that
anyone can do it. The next layer is about pattern rewiring,
as in we have to rewire your emotional patterns. And

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this is where we've got to retrain the habit loops
that have formed between your emotions and food. So if
you turn to food when you're stressed or tired, or
lonely or overwhelmed again, it's not because you're broken. It's
because your brain has built a neural highway to food
as your coping mechanism. And so we as women, if

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we ever want to actually heal the cycle for good.
It's about learning how to become emotionally available to ourselves
in those moments of you know, stress and shame or frustration,
so that you no longer turn to food as a
coping mechanism and that replaces the old wiring. And this
is the heart of the rewiring process. And the good

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news is you can build new roads, and you can
build new patterns, and you can take new options, one
that supports your emotional needs without involving food, okay. And
the third layer is all about your identity and rewiring
your beliefs. And so this is the part that no
one talks about, and honestly, it's the reason that most

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success stories don't last because even if your food seeking
circuit calms down, and even if your cravings, you know,
start quieting down, if you're still carrying subconscious beliefs like
I'm not good enough unless I'm thin, or I always
mess this up, like this is gonna be the same
old thing, or I can't trust myself around food, or

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a big one I hear a lot is I feel
like I'm a food addict, then those old behaviors will
come back because behavior always follows belief. Let me say
that again. Behavior always follows belief. And that's why I
take all my clients through a process of rewiring those
subconscious beliefs buried deep down inside, so that we can

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uncover and rewire the beliefs that sabotage your peace with food.
And so that is how you shift from just changing
behavior to fully becoming the woman who no longer struggles
in the first place. And so I worked with a
woman who lost ninety pounds on ozembic and she came
to me after she had gained back ninety five. But

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more importantly, you know, she thought that her weight was
the real problem. But after losing it, she still just
felt out of control like she had done before, like
all of her you know, she said she felt crazy
around food. She's like, I still feel crazy around food.
And she told me that she was just as insecure
about her body as she felt before. And that's because

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unless you rewire what's happening in your brain, the patterns
will return, the shame will return, and the food obsession
will return. It's like turning off the smoke alarm without
putting out the fire, and you can lose the weight
and you can fight the cravings temporarily, but if the
circuitry and beliefs underneath it all haven't changed, it's only

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a matter of time before it comes rushing right back.
But when you do address the root cause, like when
you retrain the brain, you no longer need to obsess
or micromanage or restrict to feel free. And when you
rewire those beliefs and pair them with a calm and
regulated brain and nervous system, that's when real and lasting

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transformation began and you're just free. And that's why I
call it the natural ozembic effect because it's not a
drug and it's not a fad. It's science, and it's
your nervous system and your subconscious beliefs, and it's one
hundred percent changeable. So here's what I want you to
take away today. You're not failing. You're just fighting against

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wiring that was never designed for the modern food world.
And you don't need more willpower. You need a new
relationship with your brain. And no matter how long you've
been stuck in this cycle, no matter how many times
you've tried something and failed at something, or quit it
something or said, this time is going to be different,
but then it wasn't It is not too late to

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change the wiring that drives it all. And if you
just take away one thing from today's episode, just know this.
Your brain is not your enemy. It is your operating system.
And you can update it, and you can rewire your cravings,
and you can heal your self image and you can
create the same freedom that so many women chase with prescriptions.

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And again there's no shame in that. This is not
about bashing meds. It's just to show you that you
can do it naturally and sustainably and on your terms.
And that, in my opinion, is where the real power lives,
and it's already inside of you. It just needs to
be accessed. Okay, So that is it for today, out
weigh And if you want to learn more about how

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I teach my own clients to turn off the part
of their brain that's obsessed with food or obsessed with
their weight and rewire their brain for peace and freedom,
then head on over to Stressless Eating dot Com, where
I've literally peeled back the curtain and walked you through
the exact strategy that I teach my clients to heal
themselves from the all or nothing diet mentality for good,

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but without restricting themselves or punishing their bodies, and definitely
without ever having to use words like low carb or
calorie burn. So it is all over there for you
to access over stresslesshding dot com. So this is Leanne
signing out for Outweigh and I will talk to you
next week. Bye.