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Originally Posted by WeepingWillow23
OMG!!! My pdoc just says "eat less and do more" like I'm a fricking moron for being unable to lose weight!!  I'm on an antidepressant that causes weight gain, which makes me more depressed and full of self-loathing at how I lack self-control for being unable to lose it. My body has been destroyed by meds as some have made me violently ill and lose a stone as I can't face eating, while others make me gain a stone above my 'normal' weight and yo-yoing up and down has ruined my once-flat stomach 
This sucks!
*Willow* |
Yes!! They always said that to me like i'm some kind of idiot and it's soooooo not true. (Well, maybe a bit -- I could lose maybe 40 pounds out of 170+ I had to lose through diet/exercise alone . . . so not really a big dent.) I don't know what it was, but I proper inflated on the drugs --- doubled body weight! WTF eh?
It made me really depressed, too. Like I was a useless failure and maybe I really must be ill if I got SO FAT and all it was was not having a proper diet and exercise.
So yeah. I wish someone had told me from the beginning that I would not be able to lose much weight by dieting on the drugs. I would have hated myself SO MUCH less.
Also . . . I know how tough it is . . . but a stone is hardly anything.
I gain that much when I have to write exams and nobody really notices, even though I feel gross as all hell.
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