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A Guide to a Healthy Soft Landing Between a Wavering Heart and the Dining Table
What happens when you stop GLP-1 medication? A psychiatrist explains why appetite isn't the real problem and how to prepare for life after the drug.
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A Guide to a Healthy Soft Landing — Between a Wavering Heart and the Dining Table
Dr. Dongjin Shin, Psychiatrist (Seoul National University Hospital)
Having met many patients with eating disorders in my practice, I have witnessed countless tears of despair shed in front of food. Because I understand that despair, I can fully appreciate why so many of them view GLP-1 medications positively. Fueled by this despair and anxiety, GLP-1 drugs have become one of the most talked-about medications in medicine today. Their usage has grown explosively, and the range of products continues to expand by the day. These medications are remarkably effective at suppressing appetite and reducing weight, offering many patients profound relief and renewed hope. As a specialist, I too deeply appreciate the excellent benefits and value these treatments provide.
Yet as a psychiatrist, a growing unease lingers
Human beings are not machines — we cannot be instantly changed or fixed. That is why I feel a sense of caution toward GLP-1 medications, which can seem like a magic pill that solves everything at once. In reality, these drugs come with physical burdens including gastrointestinal side effects, and above all, the greatest challenge is the inevitable truth: someday, you will need to reduce or stop taking them.
The anxiety that floods in when it's time to stop
When patients face the prospect of discontinuing their medication, they are overwhelmed by intense anxiety. The fear of having to control their appetite entirely on their own without the drug's help. The dread that yo-yo weight gain might return and binge eating could start again. The worry that the health and daily life they barely reclaimed might be lost once more. Ultimately, they confront a sense of helplessness — the feeling that they cannot fully control their own body.
Beyond appetite, there is a greater mountain
The fundamental reason this anxiety arises is that the root of weight gain and binge eating is not simply "excessive appetite." Deep beneath lies a far greater challenge: difficulty with emotional regulation. If the underlying issues — using food to soothe stress, depression, and emptiness — remain unresolved while relying solely on medication, the moment the drug is stopped, suppressed appetite will surge back and return you to the original trajectory.
Small daily moments of awareness can change your life
Eating disorders and obesity are not conditions that can be permanently reset with a single pill or short-term treatment. Only through tiny daily moments of self-awareness and gradual behavioral changes — fundamentally improving the constitution of your life itself — can you truly achieve complete recovery. When you are trapped in the middle of an abnormal cycle of bingeing and restriction, you cannot see it. But once you step back from that cycle and experience recovery, you realize just how long you had been imprisoning yourself in a self-destructive loop.
A soft landing toward a healthy daily life
The KKokKKok app is designed to be your most caring and reliable pacemaker at precisely this point. Going beyond simply recording a food diary, it meticulously tracks your GLP-1 usage and helps you gradually reduce your dependency, enabling a safe "soft landing" into a healthy lifestyle. While you temporarily borrow the support of medication as training wheels, this app helps you clearly recognize your emotions and break the chain that leads them into uncontrolled binge eating through behavioral regulation training.
It's okay to waver
Wanting GLP-1's help because you're afraid of gaining weight is completely normal and natural. The anxiety and fear that rush in when stopping the medication are perfectly natural emotions too. Please never blame yourself for wavering. The KKokKKok app will serve as a safe shield so that the weight of your struggles and loneliness does not completely crush you.
We sincerely hope you will begin your journey toward a healthy daily life with this app — the radiant journey of learning to trust not medication, but yourself.