Snack static came back and my trendline barely blinked

I keep a daily 1–5 hunger/craving score in the same spreadsheet as weight and protein. For 14 weeks my craving average sat around 1.8; this past 10 days it's 3.4. That's basically my old baseline. I braced for the scale to jump, but my 7-day weight average is flat and my 28-day slope is still -0.22 lb/week. I'm eating about the same: 1,780–1,850 kcal, 135g protein, 30g fiber. The difference is mental — I have to decide to stop instead of forgetting to eat. My mildly contrarian take: appetite returning isn't automatically a failure signal. I don't love it, but the trendline is more persuasive than my anxiety. Anyone else seen the internal snack chatter return while the weight trend stayed boring?