Loss of appetite

Due to my current medication side effects (Lithium added) I'm not eating, I just don't feel hungry. I eat a small amount for dinner with my family. And I find I'm lying about eating during the day (I know that's wrong) I'm losing weight fast, I was 150# last week, but was weighed at the doctors this week and was 140# fully dressed (almost winter here). Part of me is concerned and part is jumping for joy, a few more pounds and I'll be perfect in my BMI. I tried the alarm clock trick that when it sounds I have to eat, but just the thought of eating makes me nauseous. Anyone have any suggestions?

sounds like your on the cusp of an eating disorder, but it's good that you are setting an alarm clock and trying to eat something.

Problem is, and I found this out whilst sharing a house with a fitness instructor and someone else with an eating disorder, is that having an eating disorder long term, can really mess your metabolic rate up for life, and to keep the weight off and keep a weight that is stable, not too thin, all boils down to your metabolic rate. This is the reason why thin people can get away with eating a lot, but still be thin, because they have managed by either luck or trying hard to get their metabolic rate working effectively.

And to do this it means, eating regularly, every 4 hrs and making sure you have breakfast when you wake up, and exercising reguarly, preferably before you have your main meal, not afterwards.

this way, your body will not store the fat in your food as fat in your body as your body knows it will get fed regularly, and with the exercise, the fat in your food will go to your muscles and create an enzyme, so after exercising and whilst eating your main meal, your body will still me working off calories.

So every 4 hours, eat something, and exercise at least 20 mins per day, late afternoon, and after breakfast.

If you start to have an eating disorder, and it ends up being a long-term thing, you might not ever get your metabolic rate working again, but if you can get it working now, and keep up to it throughout your life, you might be the ideal weight forever.

Gentically I'm from an over weight family, but managed to stay slim throughout, but this has boiled down to sharing a house with a fitness instructor in my twenties, which I learnt a lot from. By now I should be over weight, as is the rest of my family, but I learnt how to take care of my metabolism.

Honestly I would talk to your pdoc about your meds. Prozac reacted that way with me & I lost so much weight that I landed in the medical hospital. Like you, I got started loosing because it wasn't a problem & I always wanted to get thinner but just never bothered until the meds made it so I didn't even feel like eating so I didn't. First thing my pdoc got me into an ED treatment center....only problem they really didn't address the REAL problem & with the meds I was on I still hated the taste of food & felt sick every time I ate.

LOL...after I got out of the treatment center he changed my meds to Welbutrin which reacted the same exact way for me so that didn't do any good either. I went on like that for several years though I was finally able to get stable on at a very low weight.....it was difficult to not want to keep loosing. There is something very addicting about seeing one's weight drop though my logic said....there is no way you can weigh nothing & still be living.....but at that same time, I really didn't want to live anyway so anorexia was also sort of a passive suicide attempt anyway after all the other attempts hadn't worked.

The most important thing is making sure your pdoc knows what your meds are doing to you & he needs to know that your reaction to them makes it impossible for you to "just eat" because of the nausea that it's also causing when it comes to food.

Yes, this can cause you to get very ill with anorexia. It's NOT always about body image even though the ED treatment centers want to think so. I have never heard of an ED that doesn't have some other very serious issues behind them that are triggers & they aren't just wanting to get thin or seeing one's self as being fat.....there are many serious emotional stressors including abuse that people have gone through along with meds that are the start of the weight loss & it just goes downhill from there because weight loss does seem to be so addicting when seeing the scales going down.

Don't allow it to get started & don't allow your pdoc to talk you into meds not being the problem. It's not something you can stop easily on your own & it's important that your pdoc knows & understands the problem.