^ & ^^

I myself fought against the alcohol intake stopping gains (or really losses) for a few years. When I quit I quickly dropped weight without even limiting my diet. If you are serious about your health can't recommend stopping enough--especially at your intake. It's hard the first month and gets hard again month 3 to month 4 depending on how heavy a drinker you are (your body rebalancing the GABA-A receptor) which makes you more susceptible to anxiety (and for me coffee).

On GLP-1s, some studies put lean mass loss at 25-40% of total loss. He's probably not eating enough protein to preserve muscle during the rapid caloric deficit these drugs create. 125g/day is probably under-doing it. Just accounting to our accelerating age, into our 50s, you really need to preserve as much lean mass as possible unless you want your kids to pick you up off the bathroom floor at 80 because you can't sit upright on the toilet.

Stop drinking and eat more protein (and fiber like rwoody said).

5/22/2026 4:23:49 PM

But if he's not working out won't he lose muscle mass anyway?

5/22/2026 4:31:44 PM

It's a matter of degree. 30% of weight lost vs 15% with higher protein intake.

Quote :

"a sedentary person at ~0.8 g/kg loses roughly twice as much lean mass per pound dropped as someone at 1.2–1.6 g/kg"

5/22/2026 4:41:23 PM

Good to know

5/22/2026 4:43:00 PM

Fiber i should be pretty good on, between low carb tortillas and keto bread. Apple has 4-5g, protein bar has 10, v8 has 3, blurberries and strawberries also

5/22/2026 7:03:01 PM