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Mar 11, 2024 at 04:29 PM
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I'm kind of just like it will happen when it happens with my weight. I'm on the Wellbutrin, I'm wearing my smart watch, I'm drinking more water. I don't really have a goal anymore of when I want to lose it. If it happens in October, cool. If it happens a year from now, thats fine too. I'm just going to stop being so hard on myself.
I'm at 1,262 calories once I fix dinner. High on carbs, low on sodium, and mediocre on protein. __________________ I'm Blue |
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Mar 11, 2024 at 08:25 PM
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Getting used to routine of weighing myself every morning and going to the gym. Using a smart scale and the MyFitnessPal app. They both work pretty well together. Not burning enough calories at the gym yet, I don't want to push myself to hard yet.
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Mar 12, 2024 at 12:39 AM
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I was thinking of you in the evening at Orangetheory fitness, Disco and Unaluna.
I worked so hard, was red in the face (in a good way), and sweated for an hour, and as a result, burned only 305 calories. And beta blockers rob you of the ability to expend 200 calories or more a day just by living your daily life. So you have to work much harder because of what these meds do to your metabolism. So unfair! __________________ Bipolar I w/psychotic features Last inpatient stay in 2018 Geodon 40 mg Seroquel 75 mg Gabapentin 1200 mg+Vitamin B-complex (against extrapyramidal side effects) Long term side effects from medications, some of them discontinued: - hypothyroidism - obesity BMI ~ 38 |
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Mar 12, 2024 at 12:44 AM
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Spent one hour at Orangetheory fitness doing floor exercises with weights, a little bit of rowing, and a fair amount of power walking. Burned 305 calories.
14 mins in Blue zone 28 mins in Green zone (for the first time was able to go about 80% of my max HR by rowing, having the fastest split of 2:18 min per 500 m which for me is very fast) 6 mins in Orange zone. So, only 6 Splat points today but that is because power walking intervals weren't that hard today and weights, which were hard, did not cause that much HR elevation. I am glad I did the weights as I really worked my muscles till failure today. AVG HR 118 PEAK HR 149 __________________ Bipolar I w/psychotic features Last inpatient stay in 2018 Geodon 40 mg Seroquel 75 mg Gabapentin 1200 mg+Vitamin B-complex (against extrapyramidal side effects) Long term side effects from medications, some of them discontinued: - hypothyroidism - obesity BMI ~ 38 |
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Mar 12, 2024 at 04:27 PM
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Today I've been out all day. Riding in the car for several hours and in and out of multiple stores doing a lot of shopping. I've had about 1400 calories to eat and I've burned 2,331 resting and active calories. I drank close to 60oz of water.
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Mar 12, 2024 at 08:46 PM
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That's great! I didn't like water much when I went on lithium and had to learn to drink it (not hard when you're that thirsty). Now I drink lots of it but I do remember the struggle to change from soda to water. How is your stomach today? __________________ Bipolar 1, PTSD, GAD, OCD. Clozapine 250 mg, Emsam 12 mg/day patch, topamax 25 mg, ,Gabapentin 1600 mg & 100-2 PRN,. 2 mg clonazepam., 75 mg Seroquel and 12.5 mg PRNx2 daily |
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Mar 12, 2024 at 09:19 PM
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I would suggest that you develop fitness goals and shift your focus from weight to fitness. Whatever matters to you: stronger, faster, nimbler, exercising more regularly, you name it. Just not the # on the scale. Plus, fitness goals are more in your control with far less chance of a disappointment down the road. __________________ Bipolar I w/psychotic features Last inpatient stay in 2018 Geodon 40 mg Seroquel 75 mg Gabapentin 1200 mg+Vitamin B-complex (against extrapyramidal side effects) Long term side effects from medications, some of them discontinued: - hypothyroidism - obesity BMI ~ 38 |
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Mar 12, 2024 at 09:20 PM
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My quads were seriously sore today after the dumbbell exercises at Orangetheory yesterday evening.
Today, I have not time to exercise but I will wear my weighted vest while cooking. I have a lot of cooking to do. __________________ Bipolar I w/psychotic features Last inpatient stay in 2018 Geodon 40 mg Seroquel 75 mg Gabapentin 1200 mg+Vitamin B-complex (against extrapyramidal side effects) Long term side effects from medications, some of them discontinued: - hypothyroidism - obesity BMI ~ 38 |
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Mar 12, 2024 at 10:47 PM
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It turns out that all that weight lifting has been paying off!!!
I just went to Trader Joe's. As the clerk was ringing my groceries, I realized that I had forgotten to buy water with electrolytes. I asked if it was Ok for me to run get something else. The clerk said yes. I ran to where by the entrance to the store they have packs of water, found the 12-pack of 1.5 liter bottles, grabbed it, and ran back to the clerk with it. Then, I raised it further to place on the checkout platform. And it did not feel heavy for me. 12X1.5L=18 liters of water. Not. So. Bad. __________________ Bipolar I w/psychotic features Last inpatient stay in 2018 Geodon 40 mg Seroquel 75 mg Gabapentin 1200 mg+Vitamin B-complex (against extrapyramidal side effects) Long term side effects from medications, some of them discontinued: - hypothyroidism - obesity BMI ~ 38 |
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Mar 13, 2024 at 01:58 AM
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Yeah I know what you mean by the Lithium thirst. I think I've gotten it on Wellbutrin. I've been so thirsty for water since starting it. __________________ I'm Blue |
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Mar 13, 2024 at 09:57 AM
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 I keep gaining  instead of losing weight 
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Mar 13, 2024 at 12:20 PM
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I've been waiting to hear this kind of news from you.  You work so hard! You keep me going - you should get some orange points for that!
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Mar 13, 2024 at 12:52 PM
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Mar 13, 2024 at 03:28 PM
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I don't get what the deal is. These last 2 days I've burned more then half the calories I've eaten and walked more than 5 thousand steps when I was only walking like less then 300 before. And I weigh 217. Which means I've gained. Again. I had to buy jeans online since the stores didn't carry my size. I mean what am I doing wrong? Plus gaining this rapidly doesn't sound like its very healthy or good in general. My smart watch has been telling me my stress level has gotten to the point where I need to take a breather. It never used to do that. I'm 31. Dying of a heart attack in your 30's is rare but not unheard of
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Mar 13, 2024 at 04:05 PM
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Again, the human body is not a car. Gallons in equal miles out for a car, but calories in do not equal fat burned for a body. Or whatever you think the equation is.
Exercise - the extra walking - is holding water (addl weight) in your muscles, until they process it. THEN it might show a weight loss, IF you actually had to draw from fat stores, rather than just using any glycogen in your liver. Two days of walking does not burn fat. Unless you are walking 25 miles a day. Which i would not recommend. But you might want to look into training for the breast cancer walk, where they walk 25 miles a day for 3 days. But you work up to it slowly. Where did you get this idea of instant fat loss? Its 3500 calories to lose one lb, and you have to pee it out, which means your body has to do all kinds of metabolic processes to convert fat to waste products. |
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Mar 13, 2024 at 04:20 PM
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Idk but I'm on Wellbutrin and I've heard you lose a shyt ton of weight on that. I have the lower appetite part. So why wouldn't the weight loss part follow too?
Anyways I am aching from my 2 days of non stop activty and my watch told me I did too much and not enough relaxing. I took an Aleeve and I'm lying down. __________________ I'm Blue |
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Mar 13, 2024 at 04:30 PM
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Maybe find a children's book on the body and how food and metabolism works? I cant explain it to you in a post. I looked at "Boosting Metabolism for dummies" - that has all the info.
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Mar 13, 2024 at 04:33 PM
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Mar 13, 2024 at 05:56 PM
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Does Wellbutrin XL/SR cause weight gain or loss? __________________ Bipolar I w/psychotic features Last inpatient stay in 2018 Geodon 40 mg Seroquel 75 mg Gabapentin 1200 mg+Vitamin B-complex (against extrapyramidal side effects) Long term side effects from medications, some of them discontinued: - hypothyroidism - obesity BMI ~ 38 |
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Mar 13, 2024 at 06:06 PM
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From another source: "non-smokers who took bupropion lost 7.1 pounds over two years."
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