When does food noise come back after stopping?

Food noise usually comes back gradually, not overnight. Many people first notice it in the second or third week off the medication, often as a meal that no longer satisfies or a craving that was quiet for months suddenly showing up. The mental chatter tends to build over the next several weeks and often peaks around weeks four to eight, then settles into a baseline shaped by your sleep, stress, calorie balance, and habits. Tapering rather than stopping cold can soften the curve, because appetite has more time to adjust. Logging a daily one-to-five hunger note on the same scale at the same time often catches food noise climbing a week or two before the scale does, which is one of the patterns Phaze's Taper Coach is built to surface. This is educational, not medical advice.