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Originally Posted by MonarchX
Are you saying that Lithium makes you require more calories than you can burn? How is that? Even if meds slow down your metabolic rate, you could still eat healthy, be full, not starve, and lose fat. I gained 40lbs on Lyrica due to increased appetite but increased appetite does not mean you would feel like you're starving when creating 200-300 calorie deficit. There are plenty of low calorie yet stomach filling foods out there to help with increased appetite.
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Lithium is OK, I was size 6 on Lithium. I carry excess weight after Depakote and Zyprexa. I will be fine in the end, with biking and Topamax, but your statement is counterfactual because tons of people struggle while being on medications such as Zyprexa and the calorie in / calorie out does not explain everything. That is why people struggle. I personally have no appetite (I eat because I do not want to die), but I still carry excess weight and it is going to take a while. I polled people on this forum on what is the worst side effect of psychiatric medications, and the answer, with tons of respondents, was very clear-cut - weight gain. If things were as easy as you paint them to be, the results of my poll would have been different. Plus, and any endocrinologist would tell you that, weight loss gets harder as we age because our metabolism slows down, so your optimistic statement "regardless of age" is just that - counterfactual. You need evidence before you get into discussions.