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Originally Posted by fishsandwich
A big thing about the med weight is that a lot of it is water weight -- so you can't lose it by dieting  I discovered that from an endocrinologist about a year after I stopped taking the drugs -- how I wish I had known that for the five years I was morbidly obese and abusing myself for not being strong enough to just lose weight. |
I think the problem is the meds mess with your metabolism. Diabetes is a huge risk with some of these meds. People talk like you get the diabetes because you're fat, but that's not so. Obesity and diabetes are both caused by the same underlying disorder. That's not politically correct to say, though. We have to say obesity is a behavior which causes other illnesses.
I've seen lots of people on mental illness forums talking about restricting calories and exercises in order to lose the medication-induced weight gain. Then they blame themselves when it doesn't work. It makes me sad, but I never say anything, because I don't want to get into the debate.