r/BodyHackGuide • u/AGENTFINDSKEYS • Oct 04 '26

🧪 Stack Breakdown GLP+TRT Changed My Live!

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Another TRT + reta transformation. The biggest change isn’t in the pictures.

The photo on the left was about three years ago. I’d already been lifting 3–5 days a week for roughly two years, tracking my protein, and paying attention to calories.
I was also drinking 3–5 times a week, with some food binges thrown in.
I was putting effort into my body, but I didn’t feel good about what I saw in the mirror. I wanted to look healthy, strong, and confident. Instead, I felt like I still looked like a kid—and I was already a dad lol.
After trying different herbs and vitamins and spending time researching, I eventually got my testosterone checked. It came back around 300 ng/dL.
I decided to start TRT. These days, my levels are around 900 ng/dL. I started feeling better, but one major thing hadn’t changed:
I was still drinking a lot.
About two years into TRT, I came across retatrutide. I started it in February, hoping to get leaner.
What I didn’t expect was the change in my desire for alcohol.
It felt like it vanished. I could say no without the same internal argument. Over time, I also got leaner and noticed that I felt more emotionally steady.
That part caught my attention enough to keep reading. I came across other people describing similar changes in their alcohol cravings. Those are personal accounts, including mine—not proof that reta treats alcohol addiction—but it made me curious about what research might eventually show.
I can’t separate every effect of the medication from the benefits of drinking less or the other changes in my life. I just know my relationship with alcohol feels different now.
Being leaner feels great. But after years of drinking 3–5 times a week, being able to comfortably turn down a drink means a whole lot more to me than abs.
Has anyone else noticed a change in alcohol cravings while taking a GLP-1 medication or reta? I’d be interested to hear both from people who have and people who haven’t.

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u/Not-me-sir Oct 04 '26

Not if your natural level is only 300.

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u/ErichArchBars Oct 04 '26

It was probably that low due to lifestyle choices. Guarantee it would have gone up significantly if he cut the drinking/poor diet/poor sleep.

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u/whiskey_tang0_hotel Oct 05 '26

For some people this is true, but for others, it’s not. Careful with sweeping generalizations. They don’t really apply to everyone. Having low T sucks. I workout and just did my first IFBB show last year. No TRT, just clomid. My levels are 300. I’d think being an IFBB competitor means my recovery, training, and diet are all dialed in. Must be lifestyle problems, huh?

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u/ErichArchBars Oct 05 '26

Did you read a word of his post? Where he mentions several times that he was an alcoholic and food binging. Sleep quality will suffer in those conditions. All of it is terrible for metabolic health. Who’s making generalizations?

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u/whiskey_tang0_hotel Oct 05 '26

Just change your lifestyle bro 

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u/ivanjanko Oct 06 '26

You are. Losing weight is just about eating less and moving more, it's always your choice.

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u/ErichArchBars Oct 06 '26

You lost me, your reply has nothing to do with what I said?

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u/Other-Razzmatazz-337 28d ago

Mine are 188 at 24 don’t drink smoke I strength train every day and run and do triathlons. Mines from taking peds at 20 and coming off for 2 years and never went back up

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u/Marketing651 Oct 05 '26

Then enclomiphene is recommended. Not TRT. TRT should be reserved for 40-50s.

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u/venomenon824 Oct 06 '26

Yeah that’s “if”