• Soup@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Also I can’t understand how it would make you fat, either. “I stopped drinking alcohol and all this water is making me tubby!”

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      3 months ago

      If you abused any stims that make you lose weight a lot, dropping them usually pushes your bodyweight in the other direction. Know a few people like this. They always relapse

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        3 months ago

        A drug is literally any substance one consumes for its effects, rather than for sustenance.

        Meth is a drug

        Ibuprofen is a drug

        Marijuana is a drug

        Caffeine is a drug

        Ketamine is a drug

        Alcohol is a drug

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        3 months ago

        That is cultural. It’s poison you take to change your mind state and small enough amounts are usually tolerable enough to not cause too much of a problem. I have a drink from time to time but to say otherwise is incorrect.

        That said, I’m not sure where I said that it was.

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          3 months ago

          Ok now put it in context to this conversation. The post said he gained weight after he became sober from “drug abuse”. You said it is unlikely to gain weight when you quit abusing alcohol. So therefore… He was not abusing alcohol but some other drug that has a side effect of weight loss. You’re welcome, now you can continue not using your brain.