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Many patients report decreased emotional or stress-related eating
This is a physical response to the stress of a calorie deficit and rapid metabolic changes
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And fat may start to appear around your abdomensometimes called menopause (or meno) bellyinstead of around your hips and thighs, where it may have once been stored
This pattern fits with the fact that central GLP-1 can inhibit feeding behaviours independently from GLP-1-gut-brain signalling 7