[LettinG0]

Have gained a good bit of weight over the last year and a half.

Have gone on a "diet" ---- cutting calories but mostly just trying to get back in the habit of eating healthily.....

My medicine makes me hungry all of the time.....THIS IS HARD

[raspberrytorte]

I suck at diets. Nothing makes me want to eat more than being on a diet! Got nothing here. I'm struggling with the same thing.

[gina_re]

Preachin to the choir! I'm trying to motivate myself to go to the gym this evening (as I sit here eating a slice of pizza..).

[Happy pills]

Three of the meds I am currently taking comes with a side effect of weight gain as very common, so I get terribly peckish all day long.

[LadyShadow]

I totally understand your pain! I am in the same boat! Try not limiting yourself completely. Treat yourself every now and then, but unfortunately dieting alone isn't what makes us lose weight. Exercise is so important. But you need motivation to do it, (which I happen to lack).

But just be kind to yourself. Good luck!

[LettinG0]

Totally feel everyone's pain

As far as the exercise goes that is a MAJOR hurdle for me.....I have some physical ailments....including a bad back.....that make it very difficult....

Those things coupled with zero motivation makes the exercise part of this formula even harder than the eating part

[gina_re]

It took me months for me to get motivated. My dad would nag and nag me. He even bribed me and I was like, nah I'm ok. But then I finally made that decision (along with motivation from the results of my bloodwork, need to get some of those numbers down ASAP), I joined the gym last Friday. So now it's a matter of keeping it going. Especially since that's another bill to pay every month, might as well make it worth it!

[LettinG0]

I tend to "do" better if I join a gym. Unfortunately, that is not possible at the moment. I have to find some other method/motivation.

Despite an active lifestyle and good nutrition, I was still gaining weight on account of my medications. My team of psychiatrists and general physician placed me on Metformin (I've mentioned his before) to curb the constant weight gain. It is actually a diabetic drug designed to keep down blood sugars and is often given to diabetics who are not yet insulin reliant. Keeping my blood sugars down and increasing my metabolism prevent continued weight gain is the thinking behind the off label usuage. I will admit, I have stopped the continued weight gain.

[Unrigged64072835]

I tried two calorie/carb/fat-restricted diets and lots of exercise twice. I actually lost a lot of weight and felt good, but I couldn't keep up with it as a lifestyle. I gained all the weight back and even more. Now with all the weight I have now it seems overwhelming to even start.

[BlackSheep79]

Just started Seroquel again, so I can't ******* wait for that fun to begin again. Completely get what you all are going through. I guess stability is more important.

[RisuNeko]

I find that once I don't eat very much for a few days in a row it becomes easier to stick with it. Also, if you can cut out sugar and limit carbs to about 60-70 grams a day your body will go into ketosis and you'll start losing weight like crazy and you won't be hungry. It's amazing. I lost 50 of the 114 lbs that I gained in a year and a half from being on too many weight gainers that way. I'm still on an antipsychotic and that makes it really hard to lose weight, and even "weight neutral" meds tend to make me gain weight, which sucks, but I've lost 6 lbs in the past couple of weeks which is encouraging.

But please don't copy what I do. I'm hooked on undereating and have disordered eating tendencies. I eat one 3-500 calorie super healthy meal a day and then like a piece of bread with something on it to take my Geodon at night, and that's it. But I'm convinced this is the only way for me to lose weight. And I really don't want to go back to bingeing and purging ever again. I know I shouldn't starve myself, but it gets so easy to do after a while. I don't eat sugar or carbs that aren't non-starchy vegetables, so basically I eat vegetables and chicken or fish cooked without any oil involved. The most unhealthy thing I eat is low cal nonfat salad dressing.

[gina_re]

I think the meds I'm on now are weight neutral (please correct me if I'm wrong). So I'm hoping the exercising will help. I'm really trying on the diet part though, years of junk food is going to take some effort to reverse. However, I did go to the gym earlier, and even ate a salad (I hate those things and and rarely if ever eat them)!

[BastetsMuse]

I take so many meds that cause weight gain that I found out that eating low carb and being hungry are what it takes to lose weight. I've been successful... I started out at 340 and now weigh in at 285, but I need to lose another 40 pounds.... probably another 60.... to be anywhere near "normal." But I'll settle for a 30 pound weight loss if I can manage that -- and I told my doctor that.

Yeah, I think sometimes we have to choose between fatness and sanity. My daughter swats at me when I use the word "fat" as if the word is evil, but I laugh and tell her that FAT is what it is and FAT is not evil...