Stress, Hunger and GLP-1 Medication: Why Appetite Can Still Feel Unpredictable

One of the quiet assumptions people make when they start GLP-1 medication is that stress will matter less.

If appetite is quieter, if food noise has dropped, surely stress eating should just… stop.

For some people, that does happen for a while.
For many others, it doesn’t.

Instead, they notice something more confusing. Hunger that appears when they’re stressed rather than physically hungry. A pull towards food in the evenings, even after a day of low appetite. A restless, unsettled feeling that eating used to take the edge off.

This is often the point where people start to worry that the medication isn’t working properly.

Most of the time, it is.

What’s happening is that GLP-1 medication changes physical hunger far more effectively than it changes stress biology.