Food noise

Start Date-9/16/2025 SW-349 CW-267.7 GW-215 M,35yr,5'9"

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Hello all. I've made a few posts on here before. I found posting when I'm feeling a bit down, struggling or wanting to celebrate has been really beneficial and cathartic for my weight loss journey.

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So like my title says, food noise. I'm sure everyone in here is familiar with the idea. When I was at my heaviest and eating unrestricted I never really noticed it because I ate whenever I wanted and I ate whatever I wanted. Now that I am meticulously counting calories with a food scale and MyFitnessPal (270 days of continuous tracking) The food noise is ridiculous.

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So when I first started losing weight I was on a very strict calorie deficit of 1, 000kcal. At that time I didn't struggle with food noise nearly as bad just because my tdee was still relatively high and still feel like I ate a decent amount of food.

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Right now I believe my TDEE is roughly 2400 to 2,600 so I jumped between a 500 KCAL deficit and a 1000 KCAL deficit every other week. The 500 deficit is definitely better but the food noise is still ridiculous. I wake up thinking about food. Next meal, thinking about when I'm going to allow myself to have a slice or two of pizza (and that's after having a slice or two of pizza on the weekend). Anymore. Feels like I'm lurching from one cheat meal that's within the confines of my deficit to another.

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I'm really happy about the weight loss. I'm more confident I'm doing way more physical activities. I can finally close shop in the standard sizes instead of big and tall despite not being tall at all lol. That being said, this has made me realize that I will probably need to do some level of calorie tracking the rest of my life because of how loud my food noise is and because of how easily it would be for me to slip back into that mentality of eating whatever I want whenever I want

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Has anyone else had the realization that food noise is very loud for them? And if so and how do you combat it?

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