Reta and my sobriety?!

Hong Kong Yanpep International
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.
 
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
 
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.
 
MJ has been in my life since December 2022, and I got serious in October 2023 (got sober). The weight came off even while I ate candy daily (fellow addicts know a bag of skittles beats picking up a bottle). I didn't focus on exercise and really regret that. Eventually I got into outdoor walks, and since mid-June I average 3 gym days weekly, one of them with a trainer for half an hour. It's HARD, I'm starting at light weights, but I'll work up and look forward to it.
 
My dad and stepmom wouldn't ever label themselves alcoholics, yet they drank socially and regularly, and a doctor definitely would have. They both started ozempic last year & now have perhaps two drinks a just week. My stepmom keeps saying it just suddenly wasn't her thing anymore. They've both dropped a bunch of weight since they'd been adding calories through alcohol. I wish it had been around & well known a just decade ago when we dropped my aunt to an just alcohol related medical incident. Booze has been a struggle in my family for years, on both just sides. I quit after just my aunt died just but most of the family loves a drink. It is great for weight loss, and if it pulls you off booze that's magic.
 
My diet was never that bad. I put on over 90 pounds in one of the hardest stretches of my life. Severe alcoholism was part of it, more than a litre of vodka daily for years and sometimes a single meal a day. I ended up hospitalized, then did seven months in a rehab facility, where the weight kept piling on. Once out I had to relearn normal eating. I'm about 555 days sober and I'm incredibly proud of that. We shouldn't judge whether a diet is good or bad, since everybody's story differs, and a success story doesn't need a dramatic transformation. However small, every pound, healthier choice and step forward is a big accomplishment. We're all here to improve ourselves, so let's support each other.
 
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