For a long long time I have been battling the bulge. I've been dieting and losing and gaining weight. Then about the past 2 years I haven't been able to lose any and have been binge eating like crazy and gaining weight and feeling so very disgusted with myself. I've been telling my psychiatric nurse practitioner about this for about the past 6 mos. or more. Finally he prescribes me something to make me not want to eat as much. It's not a diet pill. It's Topamax. He said if I don't drink enough water I could get kidney stones and that scared me because I know how painful that can be. I've been taking it for over a week now and have been eating a lot less. My weight has started to go down, too. He told me he is going to increase the doseage. Now I feel scared I'm going to start binging again because I'm getting a tolerance to the Topamax. Last night I ate a lot of celery but it could have been worse. But it wasn't worse. lol. I've been using some of the things I learned in the past like HALT. Am I Hungry, Am I Angry, Am I Lonely, Am I tired. I tend to eat for other reasons I know. Also I am just going to take this One Day at a Time. I can get through 24 hours easier than getting through a year at once!