Review: Food Noise: How weight loss medications & smart nutrition can silence your cravings

Food Noise: How weight loss medications & smart nutrition can silence your cravings by Jack Mosley
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Three and a half stars.

I have long been a fan of the Fast 800 cookbooks, particularly the Easy (blue) and recipe (red) books which contain a lot of what I would call 'normal' dishes eg chicken curry, traybakes, tuna salad, etc. I did the Fast 800 diet and lost quite a lot of weight but once the initial 12 weeks ended I couldn't sustain the switch to 5:2 and slipped back into my old habits, albeit still often cooking/making recipes from the books because they are relatively simple and generally delicious.

In late May 2025 I started my GLP-1 journey with (realistically) six stones (38 kg) to lose. I had already bought this book, mainly for the recipes because I didn't even clock that it was about using weight loss medication LOL, but got put off because there are no pictures with the recipes - I tend to like the look of a dish and then decide to make it. Anyway, nearly four months later I decide to start reading the book and found a lot of the things Jack Mosley says make sense. Obviously if obesity leads to a myriad of other health problems then losing the weight will reduce the risk and/or stop you getting them in the first place. These weight loss jabs were originally designed to treat Type 2 diabetes after all. Yes there are side effects, although there is some evidence to suggest that they are worse if you eat junk food or UPF and don't drink enough water. Upping your protein, water, and fibre intake can relieve the side effects and is a good idea generally anyway. I finished the book thinking that it had confirmed (with science) what I had already heard from various other sources, that these jabs can be a real game changer BUT you also have to change your eating habits otherwise there is a danger that you will either have to stay on the jabs for life or risk regaining all the weight lost - and the real kicker is that you regain fat and the healthy muscle lost doesn't come back.

So overall, science is good and explained simply with cross-references to the sources if required. When I flicked through the recipes they didn't look too bad either.

My one gripe is the number of times he mentioned the Fast 800 diet - by the end it felt like I'd paid for an advertorial or he was trying to sell me a Timeshare. I don't recall him ever saying there were other ways to eat with a calorie deficit whilst also eating healthily - the Fast 800 was just plugged over and over again.

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