Guide
What Is Food Noise, and Does It Go Away?
"Food noise" is the phrase many people use for constant background thoughts about eating. Here is how people describe it changing on a GLP-1, and how to record it as something you can actually see.
Written by Claney Taylor, Founder
Medically reviewed by a qualified clinician
Definition
A feeling with no obvious number
Food noise is not hunger exactly. People describe it as planning the next meal while still eating the current one, or having a snack idea running in the background all afternoon.
Because it is a felt experience rather than a measurement, it disappears from most trackers — which is why so many people say the quiet arrived and they only noticed weeks later.
Across the cycle
It often moves with the injection week
A common report is that food noise is quietest in the first days after a shot and returns somewhat before the next one. Some people find it stays quiet; others notice it drift back after a dose has been steady for a while.
Whether that matches your own experience is only answerable by recording it. A simple daily rating is enough.
Track it
Give the quiet a number
GLP-1 Simple logs food noise alongside hunger and fullness each day and maps it to your cycle day, so My Patterns can describe what your own records show.