Dr.RenalNash said:

Phantom hunger vs real hunger on food noise: learning to distinguish between the two has been a revelation.

Rebound hunger after missed dose of food noise: I missed my injection by 3 days due to a shipping delay and the hunger came ROARING back. Like a switch flipped. It was eye-opening to feel the difference.

This experience actually reinforced my understanding of what the medication does — it's not just "suppressing appetite," it's normalizing dysregulated hunger signaling. When the drug wears off, you feel the full force of what it was managing.

lori_vegas said:

The GLP-1 and alcohol use disorder connection, relevant to food noise: observational data from Scandinavian registries shows reduced alcohol-related…

This answered a question I did not know how to ask. Sending this to two other people who asked me the same thing last week.

Dr.RenalNash said:

Phantom hunger vs real hunger on food noise: learning to distinguish between the two has been a revelation.

This is where I part company with the consensus forming above. I would resist the confidence. Half of what this board was certain about two years ago has since been quietly dropped, and nobody went back to correct the threads.

Adding the numbers, since they settle part of this. If you are going to change something, change one thing and give it long enough to express itself. Four weeks is the usual minimum for anything pharmacological on this board, and two weeks of data has told you almost nothing.

Moderator note: the sourcing question belongs in the vendor section and has been split out. Tagging this one for the weekly digest.