How to Eat When You’re Not Hungry: A kind and practical guide to eating well on weight loss medication – Restore your rhythm and nourish your life

by Francesca Bell

Struggling to eat well while on GLP-1 medications? This is the guide you’ve been looking for.

If your appetite has disappeared but you still want to eat well, build habits, and support your health, this compassionate, practical book is for you.

How to Eat When You’re Not Hungry is a kind, food-first companion for people using GLP-1 medications such as semaglutide (e.g. Ozempic, Wegovy) or tirzepatide. Whether you're navigating low appetite, fatigue, nausea, or the fear of what comes next, author and nutrition coach Francesca Bell offers real-life advice and flexible food routines to help you find your rhythm again.

You’ll

How to build simple meals when you’re not hungry

What to do when cravings return

How to avoid malnutrition and energy dips

How to maintain your results with less stress and more joy

Gentle, realistic food ideas that suit your changing appetite

Based on the principles from the best-selling The Britalian Diet, this book is here to help you eat well, feel better, and move forward - without guilt, extremes, or overwhelm.

313 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 14, 2025

About the author

Francesca Bell was raised in Washington and Idaho. She did not graduate from middle school, high school, or college and holds no degrees. Her poems and translations (from Arabic and German) appear in many journals, including B O D Y, Massachusetts Review, Mid-American Review, New Ohio Review, North American Review, Poetry Northwest, Prairie Schooner, and Rattle. She is the former poetry editor of River Styx, the co-translator of a collection of poems by Palestinian poet Shatha Abu Hnaish (Dar Fadaat, 2017), and the author of the collection Bright Stain (Red Hen Press, 2019). Also to her credit are three luminous and eccentric children, a half-trained beagle, and some fabulous blackberry jam.