Food noise being that nagging, gnawing feeling that you HAVE to eat, regardless of your body's physical needs.
I would breakup my experiences into these sections:
Untreated anxiety and depression: Childhood to early 20's with food being my main coping mechanism and not understanding there was something wrong. Lots of self-loathing. Eventually spotted the depression, but took me forever to figure out my compulsion to eat was trying to stop the anxiety feeling. The only way I was able to lose weight was by leaning into self-loathing. Lots of yo-yo dieting.
Treating my mental health (especially on meds): After trying therapy alone and a couple different meds, I got lucky and found one that worked for me. It shut up the anxiety and self-loathing so I could have the space to learn better coping mechanisms. Without the self-loathing, I gained significant weight. Food noise was still there, but losing weight wasn't the priority. I eventually was able to stop the meds and focused on losing some weight so I could try to get pregnant. This time I was very aware when the food noise was due to anxiety, and was able to be somewhat successful in coping with it.
Pregnancy: First time in my life I have hated food. Zero food noise. Lots of food aversions. Crazy crazy times.
Nursing: Extreme "real" hunger. Not being able to fall back asleep after feeding baby in the middle of the night hunger. Really taught me the difference between food noise and hunger.
Now: Somewhat back to where I was pre-pregnancy, but also able to quiet out the food noise more, or at least able to see it as anxiety rather than hunger.
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