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Originally Posted by fishsandwich
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. |
Yeah my Mum keeps telling me that you can't tell I've put on weight but I really can't believe her. How can people not see the massive muffin top I've recently sprouted - ugh! I know a stone is nothing much, especially not compared with others, and I'm quite tall so I'm still in the healthy BMI range, but it makes me feel out of control. And I've had to go up a size in trousers and even that's getting too tight and I point blank REFUSE to buy even bigger trousers!! I will never lose it if I lose sight of how much I've gained. To be honest, I may weigh more than an extra stone as I've just had exams and I stress-eat but been too scared to get on the scales for the last month
This is another reason I want off my antidepressant (the main one being that it doesn't work!!). Aripiprazole is supposed to be weight-neutral so I'm happy to give that one the benefit of the doubt for now... Anyway I'm reading the diet talk with interest. Have to do something about this now before it gets worse!
*Willow*