Anyone else tracking food noise on a Week 0–72 spreadsheet?

Food noise faded by week 3 for me, then crept back two days before my next shot. Annoying but predictable.

The NCT04184622 timeline is 72 weeks, though. Most of us are judging by a month or two. Not apples to apples.

Right, and 2539 participants is a huge group. My n=1 says nothing, but it still feels useful.

Opposite case worth knowing: food noise doesn't necessarily come back, but reflux can hit hard around dose changes. That one seems to catch people off guard. Anyone else seen it go that way?

What labs are you watching? I care more about fasting glucose and lipids than the scale lately.

My lipids improved but fasting glucose bounced around. My clinician said trends matter more than one draw. I’m logging monthly.

Appetite suppression just isn't linear. Been keeping food and appetite notes since January and some weeks it's loud, some quiet. Trial averages can't capture that.

I think the spreadsheet thing is why I stayed sane. I tracked protein, water, and how loud food noise was on a 1–5 scale. What surprised me was that my worst weeks weren’t at dose changes; they were weeks I slept badly. Sleep and stress moved the needle more than I expected. That doesn’t mean the med isn’t working, just that my data has confounders. If you’re comparing to NCT04184622, remember it’s averages over 72 weeks, not a daily forecast. I also stopped weighing daily because it made me nuts.

Sleep is my confounder too. Two bad nights and every snack in the pantry starts yelling.

Adding a sleep column now. My chart was just weight and side effects, which was boring.

I track appetite as a 1-5 note at 8pm, no spreadsheet. Sunday nights are weirdly louder than weekdays.

Waistband is my real tracker. Week 2 bloated, week 5 same jeans slid on, scale was useless.

Stress spikes food noise faster thn any timeline. Under 6 hours sleep and it's a shouting match.

I actually bailed on daily logging at week 12 because the spreadsheet became its own food noise; I'm at week 19 now and weekly averages plus a paper calendar worked better. My first 8 weeks looked like a smooth 1-3 out of 10 decline, then weekends hit and it bounced to 5-6 every Friday night, usually after a rushed dinner or a chaotic workday. The weird reversal was that the more I tracked, the more I mentally argued with the number, so switching to a Sunday check-in made food noise quieter than any perfect log. A 20-minute walk after dinner and pre-portioned snacks in the fridge did more for my evenings than white-knuckling it. Curious if your sheet separates physical hunger from craving specific foods, because mine behaved like two different lines.

Weekends wreck my neat little line; Saturday food noise spikes, Sunday I’m logging regret instead of data.

My surprise was tracking the behavior, not the noise: weeks 7–10 felt loud in my head, but I still left 3 bites at dinner and skipped the 9pm cereal. A spreadsheet of appetite alone would’ve shown a slump; a spreadsheet of ‘did I go back for seconds’ showed steady progress. I deleted the noise column and kept the portion one.

Water weight lies harder than food noise; my scale jumped 3 lbs after sushi and dropped by Tuesday.

A 15-minute walk after dinner is the only thing that consistently quiets my 8pm pantry stare. I started week 3, missed most of week 5, and noticed the difference immediately: on walk nights I closed the kitchen by 8:15; on couch nights I was back in the crackers by 9. Not glamorous, but it beats another spreadsheet tab.

Week 9 here: my noise spikes are 90% tied to 5-hour sleep, not the calendar.

My waist hit 34.5 inches at week 14, even when appetite noise came roaring back. Numbers can disagree.

Weekends are my plot twist: Wednesday noise is a 2/10, but Sunday night after a family dinner it jumps to 7/10 even when I’m stuffed. I’m at week 16, and weeks 5–8 were weirdly quiet, then weeks 10–12 brought back a loud “what’s in the pantry” voice. Separating hunger from routine helped—if I’m bored, stressed, or the kitchen is messy, it’s usually not real appetite. I prep a snack plate with protein and fruit at 8pm, then brush my teeth and leave the kitchen. Also stopped keeping crackers on the counter; out of sight dropped the noise by maybe 2 points. The spreadsheet showed my weekends cluster around social events, not the timeline. Not saying it’s fixed, but trackng weekends separately made the pattern obvious instead of feeling random.

Honestly, the sheet made my food noise louder; I switched to a notes app and stopped obsessing.

Down 9 lbs week 6, then 4 vanished overnight. Water, not fat. My chart looks like a lie detector test.

Sleep is my real variable: under 6 hours and my evening noise jumps from a 3 to a solid 7. Every time. A good week of slep is a quiet week, and I added a column for hours slept — it correlates harder than anything else on my sheet, which honestly annoyed me, because it's the one thing I control least with a toddler in the house.

I’d add context, not just intensity. My food noise is almost perfectly predicted by boredom, not hunger: boring spreadsheet work = 7, interesting problem = 2–3. I log a binary “under-stimulated?” next to the number, and it’s been more useful than any timeline chart. Mine didn’t fade linearly; it just loses to stimulation. Sharp follow-up: are you tracking environment (alone, desk, scrolling) as a variable? If not, that might be the hidden confounder in your 0–72 curve.

I teach preschool, and this tracks for me. My food noise doesn’t stay steady, it switches with whatever I’m doing. I added two columns: “nibbled while setting out snack?” and “actually sat down for my own lunch?” Weeks I make myself a plate and eat in the break room, noise hangs around a 4. Weeks I graze off the snack table and finish the leftover crackers, I’m at an 8 by 3pm. Curious if anyone else tracks noise around their own meals instead of time of day. For me, sitting down seems to matter more than the clock.

I track a different proxy: latency—minutes from finishing a meal until the first “what else” thought. Intensity is too subjective day-to-day, but latency is surprisingly stable. For me, a 35–40g protein lunch buys ~3 hours; a carb-heavy one, ~45 minutes. Also separate head hunger from actual stomach cues, otherwise your score conflates stress and physiology. One caveat on the trial comparison: published data are group means at clinic visits, not daily self-report, so your rolling average will look jagged next to those curves. Are you logging timing/context of the first noise episode, or just the daily peak?

I’m a numbers person too, but I stopped logging “food noise” alone and started pairing it with grocery/takeout data. My pattern: weeks I pre-portion protein snacks (Greek yogurt, chicken, edamame) and keep takeout spend under $40, evening noise sits at 2–3. Weeks with lots of scrolling food videos and no plan, it’s 6–7. That was a bigger signal than the week number. Are you tracking environmental triggers like food media, pantry visibility, or grocery spend? I’d add one column for “meal prepped yes/no” and one for “takeout $” before blaming the timeline.

I track a 3-day rolling average because single days are pure noise. Odd pattern: mornings are low, then noise climbs with meal gap—if I go >5h without protein, evening score jumps. A 30g protein lunch blunts it more than volume alone. Resistance days also seem to shave off 1–2 points next day, though n=1 and confounded by routine. In the trials they report mean appetite changes, not individual spikes, so your sheet may be catching what group data smooths out. Are you logging time since last protein meal? That’s the column that changed my graph.

I’m on week 31 of my own tracker and stuck in a 7-week plateau. My food noise doesn’t fade in a neat line — it’s more like weather. The only real pattern I found: if I front-load protein at breakfast and take a 15-minute walk after lunch, my 4 p.m. noise drops from a 7 to a 3. If I skip it, the clock kicks my butt even when sleep is decent. Anyone else tracking noise by time of day instead of by week? The calendar tells me less thn the clock does.

I track a rolling 7-day average instead of daily, because daily noise was too spiky. My trendline: steep drop weeks 1–4, then a slow climb back weeks 8–12, mostly on high-stress workdays. Contrarian take—it didn’t fade linearly for me; it’s more like a floor that gets raised by poor sleep and skipped meals. Did you mark stress/sleep as covariates in your sheet, or are you just plotting noise vs. side effects? Curious if your 72-week comparison is even apples-to-apples given trial averages.

I’m not a spreadsheet person, but I am a snack-drawer person. I keep a dry-erase tally inside the pantry door: H for actual hunger, B for bored/stressed/autopilot. With two kids, half my drawer opens are just grabbing their stuff, so the B tallies are the real signal. Mine fade for a bit, then spike on chaotic evenings when I never sat down. Not steady at all. Do you log why the noise shows up, not just how loud? Curious if yours clusters around your kids’ snack/meal times more than your own.

I’m a 4x/week lifter, mostly recomp mindset, so I log food noise 1–5 at morning/afternoon/night and line it up with sleep score, training day, and protein timing. For me it’s not a steady fade: noise is lowest on heavy lower-body days and after a 40g protein breakfast, but rest days and sub-7h sleep bring it back fast. Curious if anyone else’s pattern tracks training load/sleep more than week number? The trial timeline feels too clean for real life.

I love this. One thing that changed my tracking: I stopped lumping all “noise” together. I started tagging it as mental chatter, physical hunger, or craving-a-specific-texture, and that showed a totally different pattern. Early on it was mostly chatter; later it was mostly texture cravings, often after salty meals or low-sleep nights. The week number mattered less than those two variables for me. Sharp question: when yours faded

I log two separate things: how loud the noise feels (0–3) and whether it actually led to a snack (yes/no). For me those decoupled before the mental score dropped—still thinking about food, just not acting on it. Sleep under 6h reliably bumps the loudness score, no matter what. In the trials I’ve skimmed, appetite stuff is usually a secondary patient-reported endpoint, so we mostly see group averages, not individual fade/return patterns. Curious: does your sheet have an outcome column like that, or just intensity? I found it way more useful than a single food-noise number.

I’m a paper-and-pen tracker, not spreadsheet, but I added a column for where—grocery checkout, pharmacy drive-thru, church potluck, 3 p.m. desk slump. Turns out my noise is mostly situational, not steady. It faded a lot after month two, then popped up on errand days and refill-week/insurance portal stress. Sharp question: has anyone tracked it by location/trigger instead of just time of day? I’m wondering if the pharmacy candy rack is my true nemesis, ha.

I added two columns to mine: sleep hours and “was I actually hungry or just thinking about food?” My food noise comes in waves, and the spikes almost always follow sub-6-hour sleep, even on days when appetite feels quiet otherwise. The mental chatter and the stomach signal don’t move together for me. Does your sheet include sleep or stress, or are you mostly tracking appetite and side effects? I’m curious whether your 72-week curve would look bumpier if you layered those in. Also, your data-nerd patience is impressive — mine is more sticky-note chaos.

I don’t track loudness so much as time-to-first-food-thought after a meal. I note the clock when I finish eating and roughly when my brain starts browsing the fridge again. Adding sleep hours and cycle day next to it was the missing piece for me: my noise wasn’t linear, it dipped then spiked around poor sleep and luteal week, even at the same point in the timeline. Gentle follow-up: have you tried a sleep or cycle column? I’d be curious if your waves line up more with those than with week number.

I added a column for specificity: vague background urge vs. craving one particular thing. In the trials, appetite endpoints are group averages, so I care more about my own pattern. My vague noise dipped early; specific cravings stayed stickier and clustered around weeknights/TV, not mornings. I also log a 0–10 “delay until it passed” after a 10-min walk or tea, which seems to separate true hunger from cue-driven noise. Did yours track more with time of day or with context/cue? I’m curious whether the spreadsheet should weight those differently.

mine wasn’t linear. Daily scores looked random, but a 7-day rolling mean showed a stepwise pattern: sharp drop early, long plateau, slow creep before the next scheduled change. I also split cue-specific noise (screens, boredom, late kitchen proximity) from global background noise; the cue-specific stuff responded to environment, the global stuff tracked the medication curve. If you’re spreadsheet-ing this, add a lag column and a rolling mean. Raw daily values will gaslight you. Are you seeing true waves or just slow creep?

I’m a notes-app tracker, not a spreadsheet, but the column that’s been weirdly useful is “hands busy?” Food noise is way louder when I’m half-watching TV or waiting in the truck line at our little pharmacy. If I’m gardening, folding laundry, or messing with a puzzle, it’s almost quiet. Also started noting who I’m with—alone after supper is a big trigger, but coffee with a neighbor isn’t. For me it hasn’t been a steady fade; it’s wavy, worse on boring or stressful weeks. Did yours line up more with quiet evenings or with insurance-letter weeks?

Mine hasn’t been a smooth curve. More like a step function: long plateau, then a sudden drop when I changed environment, not when the scale moved. I track “noise per hour” and “decision latency” — how long I negotiate with myself before eating. Loudest blocks were 3–5pm and anytime I had too many open loops. Added a “task type” column: admin work spikes it, hands-on projects mute it. Since sleep and real hunger are already covered, I’m not duplicating those. Sharp question: did yours correlate more with clock time or task type? Trying to see if the timeline matters less than context.

I log a 1–5 noise score at three fixed anchors—post-coffee, post-lunch, and the 8pm danger window—plus whether my hands were busy. The 8pm one barely budges even when daytime noise drops. My plateau is 11 weeks, and knitting or a walk after dinner is the only thing that quiets that window. Curious: does your shet show noise improving first while the scale plays dead, or the other way around? I’m seeing the former and it’s maddening.

I’m deep in a plateau, and my sheet is messier: I log sleep, whether I ate lunch at my desk, and a 1–5 “background hum” score. The weird part is my hum score and the scale have gone totally decoupled. Quiet weeks, zero pounds. Loud weeks, sometimes a whoosh. The one pattern I trust is that poor sleep + skipped breakfast makes the afternoon hum unbearable, plateau or not. Did you log anything contextual like sleep or stress? I’m starting to think the noise is more a sleep/protein/rhythm signal than a direct predictor of loss, and I can’t tell if that’s insight or cope.