DerekSJ_a1c said:
Agreed, and if the change has opened a harder question about someone's drinking, that belongs with a service rather than a thread.
There is a second half to this that has not been said yet. Reduced interest in alcohol is one of the most consistently reported off-target effects, and the mechanism is plausibly the same reward-salience pathway that quiets food noise. The practical part people get wrong is that tolerance changes: less food in the stomach, faster gastric emptying of liquid relative to solids, and a smaller body mean the same two drinks land considerably harder than they used to.
Worth separating that from alcohol, which this thread keeps folding into the same question. They behave differently and the advice does not transfer.
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