Reta and my sobriety?!

[D_Jen]

Three years with alcohol nearly out of the picture is the long-duration data point on the reward circuit change - it's not just novelty or a temporary suppression, the mechanism is holding. The one-and-done capacity is exactly what most people describe as the most notable change: not the absence of desire, but the presence of a stop signal that wasn't there before.

 

[goofy_kneader2662]

the cross-category consumption reduction is one of the clearest demonstrations that the mechanism is neural rather than purely appetite-specific - reducing wine, coffee, and other habitual drives simultaneously points to a reward-circuit normalization that doesn't discriminate by substance or behavior category. the commute craving that was clockwork before and then isn't is the most concrete marker of the mechanism actually working

 

[redfang]

Planning to stay on reta indefinitely at this point. Only really needed to lose 30-35 lbs and I'm already looking noticeably leaner, 16.6 down so far, but this stuff does so much for overall health markers beyond just the scale. Worth doing your own research into everything it actually helps with.