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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If she's drinking a lot of wine, that is the main issue. It affects liver health and starts a cascade of hormonal issues. It also prevents restorative sleep, which leads to poor blood sugar control and over eating. I'd start by asking her to stop drinking.[/quote]

I would like to read more about this. Can you provide a link? Especially the wine > liver > hormones piece. [/quote]

Happy to explain a little more:

Alcohol is a poison and is metabolized in the liver. The liver also assists in metabolism of nutrients from food (proteins, sugars, fats). Over time too much alcohol taxes the liver and in fact changes the structure of the liver. Your liver can no longer work as well within the digestive system to metabolism and absorb essential nutrients (which is why some really severe alcoholics die of malnutrition). If you’re consuming food but not absorbing the nutrients efficiently your body is going to drive you to eat more to get those missing nutrients.

Additionally alcohol prevents the body from going into a deep, restorative sleep, which causes a person to consume more calories for energy during the day to make up for the fatigue they’re feeling. Insulin, cortisol both go up. Blood sugar goes up but it doesn’t get used efficiently because over time your body becomes less and less sensitive to insulin. Your body will produce more and pump out more but that also stimulates hunger.

Alcohol itself provides a dense amount of calories per gram.

I think the OPs wife could probably lose a significant amount of weight if she stopped drinking.[/quote]

This is the most useful piece of info on this entire thread. And probably the most actionable to OP. DW may consider this request is approached in the right manner.[/quote]

Anecdotal, but since the lockdown, my work happy hours and dinners with alcohol have gone away and its amazing how much weight I have lost without doing anything else differently.

Also, new poster - I can sympathize with OP being less attracted to his wife but "disgusted" is a strong word.  Also, I would take a chubby wife who loved sex over the beautiful but asexual woman who calls herself my wife.  Careful what you wish for, OP.[/quote]

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