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.