Food noise

"Food noise" is a popular term for the constant background of thoughts about food — what to eat next, cravings, or preoccupation with meals — that many people experience throughout the day. It isn't a formal clinical term, but it's widely used to describe one of the most commonly reported effects of GLP-1 medications: a marked quieting of these intrusive food-related thoughts, tied to the drugs' effects on appetite suppression and brain reward pathways.