How do I separate the drug effect from my own expectations?

i’m the person in my friend group who asks for the actual paper before buying the hype. I’ve been logging appetite, after-meal fullness, and the 4 p.m. snack urge on a 1–5 scale since starting a prescribed GLP-1, and my first 60-ish days look suspiciously tidy: appetite scores dropped before the scale moved at all. That makes me wonder how much is the medication and how much is finally having a label, weekly check-ins, and a food log. I’m not trying to dismiss the drug—my clinician says the timeline is plausible—but I’d like a way to think about placebo and expectation that isn’t just vibes. If you’ve read anything solid on placebo effects in GLP-1 trials, or tracked something that helped you separate signal from story, what was it? I’m especially curious which outcomes tend to move early and which lag.