Charles Duhigg Lost 45 Lbs on a GLP-1 | Why Food Noise Vanishes

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Today on The James Altucher Show.

**Charles Duhigg** (1:17)
Not only do your eating patterns start to change, we could talk about why exactly that is, but also your stomach shrinks. So as a result, your body has adjusted to having less food and needing less food.
So I found that I've lost like 45 pounds on a Glp-1. Something happened. The food noise in your head quiets, and that opens this habit window where you have a period when you can change your basic habits around eating and other behaviors. People don't notice the food noise inside their head until it's gone.

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This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host. This is The James Altucher Show.

**James Altucher** (2:10)
I'm doing a big experiment in my life, a big life change. I started taking Glp-1s, the so-called weight loss drugs. It's not actually, I'll explain why I'm taking them. It's not necessarily because of weight loss, but I wanted to talk to someone who's had some experience taking this, and it just turns out Charles Duhigg, the author of The Power of Habit, he told me he was taking Glp-1s, and it's incredibly changed his life. But the key is, does it also change your habits? So even when you're off the Glp-1s, the good habits you develop while taking Glp-1s continues. What else happens on Glp-1s? Are they good for you? Are they bad for you? What's the long-term results? Talking with Charles Duhigg, author of The Power of Habit and Supercommunicators.
I'm so glad you wrote to me about, I just started taking this Terzapatide.

**Charles Duhigg** (3:10)
Oh yeah.

**James Altucher** (3:11)
Yeah. And I didn't really know what to expect one way or the other. The doctor said, oh, there's gonna be some side effects, and we'll just see. I just started taking it, because he wants to get me to the retro, whatever.

**Charles Duhigg** (3:22)
Right.

**James Altucher** (3:24)
But I haven't graduated to that yet. And then I thought I was having a massive effect from it, but it turns out to be this COVID effect.
So apparently, diarrhea was a big part of his latest bout of COVID. So I thought, oh, finally the peptides are kicking in. This is pretty vile.

**Charles Duhigg** (3:42)
How long have you been on the Glp-1?

**James Altucher** (3:45)
Just about three weeks.

**Charles Duhigg** (3:47)
Oh, okay. So you're really at the beginning of it. So I've been on one for two years now.
You really start to see the effects like six or seven months in.

**James Altucher** (3:57)
Six or seven months? That's how long it takes?

**Charles Duhigg** (3:59)
I mean, no, you start seeing effects before then, but like the real like life change comes after a couple of months, right? Like four or five or six months. And the reason why is because not only do your eating patterns start to change, and we can talk about why exactly that is, but also your stomach shrinks. And so as a result, your body has adjusted to having less food and needing less food.
So I found that I've lost like 45 pounds on a Glp-1.

**James Altucher** (4:26)
What GLP-1 are you taking?

**Charles Duhigg** (4:28)
I take Zep-Bound, the equivalent of Zep-Bound.

**James Altucher** (4:30)
I think that is Trisepatide.

**Charles Duhigg** (4:32)
I think you're right. I think that's Trisepatide, and the other one is semi-glutide. Yeah. So I'm on the same one that you are on. And I found that, you know, I saw like a little bit of weight loss and like change in my hunger profile. Definitely I saw a change in my hunger profile, and particularly change in my eating habits in the first six months. But the point at which like I started like losing a lot of weight was really like six to eight months in.