It's the little things we notice that tell us that things are different on oxytocin. Last night was another first that showed his diminished interest in food...
At school yesterday Sasha ate only about 2/3 of his lunch and brought home the rest (leaving half his salad, some blueberries, pistachios, salami/cheese) and also ate a small dinner (two different salads). Still, he said he was "stuffed". Not finishing all of his food isn't new to us post-oxytocin but what happened next was different: when given the opportunity to make his lunch for the the following day, he said, "I don't feel like dealing with food right now."
For someone who has always insisted on making his lunch whenever the opportunity arose, it was a remarkable contrast to his normal way. Speaking of normal, it is apparent that I still use his hyperphagic-self as the reference point for "normal" and that I am still thrilled by the changes that we are seeing in him but I can almost anticipate the day when we get to say that his diminished focus on food will be the "new normal" or more accurately, the "new old normal"!
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