Past day 100 and my hunger scale is reading differently

2026-10-12 00:21

I keep a very plain note on my phone — one number for hunger at dinner, one for how I slept. No spreadsheet, no charts. For the first couple of months that dinner number sat at 4 most evenings. Sometime in the last few weeks I noticed I'd been writing 2s and 3s without thinking about it at all.

What's odd is that the scale has been almost flat for a month while the evenings got calmer. I'm not standing in the kitchen at 9pm negotiating with myself, and I'm not white-knuckling it either. That part feels new, like the volume knob turned down on its own rather than me forcing it.

I'm trying not to over-read a good stretch, because I've had good stretches before and they faded. So I'm just logging it and making no big claims yet.

Gentle question for anyone further along: did the appetite shift show up before the weight shift for you, or did they move together? I'm curious how others read that gap.

2026-10-16 10:36

yo i do the same one-number note, except mine is “hunger at 9pm” because i game late. the thing that messed with my numbers was soda timing, not actual appetite change.

i used to slam a diet soda around 7 and then dinner hunger would read like a 4-5 even if i wasn’t really hungry, just wired/empty-ish. switched to sparkling water + a boring protein snack at 5 and now it’s usually 2-3. scale also flat lol.

did your dinner time drift later around when the numbers changed? that’s the variable i’d check first.

2026-10-20 10:11

this happened to me around month four. My dinner number dropped to 2s and 3s but the scale stayed flat because I’d started grazing after dinner — not bingeing, just bites while cleaning up.

Once I wrote down the time of my last bite instead of just the hunger number, the flat scale made more sense. Do your 2s and 3s actually change what’s on your plate, or are they more like a mood ring right now?

Also curious whether your sleep number moved first. Mine got better about two weeks before hunger shifted, which still feels backwards.

Not preaching — just comparing notes.