Your Weight

[BaRtMaN]

No doubt prime-no! Great Point! I stopped drinking pop/soda what ever you want to call it :) back when I was found to be diabetic and lost 15 pounds in a couple of weeks. I drink about a gallon and a half of water or 6 liters each day. I like orange juice and grape juice too, but in limited quantities.

 

[kers]

I gained a lot of weight when I took an anti-depressant, so now I'm trying to get that off. For me another huge contributor to the weight gain is night eating--when I am scared to go to sleep, I eat because I know it will wake me up. I've been doing that for twenty years and it's definitely had a terrible effect.

I limit myself to one large coffee a day and no soda and I do think that helps, like Bartman says. Also, the packaged food thing is definitely true but I still have trouble not falling back on it during the workweek.

 

[cat]

I've been struggling with my weight since going on Citalopram 31/2 yrs ago. I'm on 40 mg & hoping to cut down to 30 very soon. From the start my GP told me it was the meds doing it & I've been asking her for help for last 3yrs, i'm sure there is an alterative i could take but she has been reluctant to change them as i'm quite stable on them.
When i discussed it with her last week all she could say was, i think it would be best if you tried to lose some weight, what does she think I've been trying to do! So now i have to see practise nurse for a diet. It will be interesting to see what she says, i eat as healthy as i can, have a take away about once a month, rarely fry anything, don't drink & mostly vegetarian!

 

[Anna]

The contraceptive pill also makes you put on weight. I know there are loads of studies saying it doesn't, but it did for me. Still, would rather be a few pounds heavier than risk an unwanted pregnancy.

Age- Definatly. I have had to cut down and change my diet plus excercise just to maintain the same weight I was in my 20s. Getting older definatly makes you pile on the pounds.

Medication as well. One of my friends takes an anti depressive and it made her appetite larger. She also piled on the pounds.

 

[BaRtMaN]

Hi Anna,

I am not 20 any more, and my body sure lets me know it as I feel like I am 80 some days. I am blessed enough to not have aged much and now that I have lost some weight (unlike my avatar pic) most people think I am 25-35yrs old. It is a blessing and a curse. I get treated like snot nosed kid by people I worked with at times because they think I am 25 and they are my age...I will be 47 the 16th... but my wife hates it when I go out and play music as the women think I am young and like to pay me attention....that doesn't go over so well...lol! it's a curse I tell you!....lol! :)

The older I get the tougher it is to keep the weight off though for sure!

 

[Anna]

The older I get the tougher it is to keep the weight off though for sure!

Ditto, it is like so unfair as we have to excercise more and eat less, but I found the appetite is still there, so what I did was fill up on high fibre foods. They fill you up but don't contain as many calories.

 

[BaRtMaN]

I found to never let myself get hungry by eating small things like fruit and almonds, yogurt, etc between small meals helps a ton.

 

[Britt.f7]

I am on Seroquel. Interesting to know about the water weight. Maybe that would explain why, though I increased my activity and lowered my calories, I didn't lose any weight. Just gained.

I don't eat a lot or high calories/fattening foods but I am still way overweight. And, no, I'm not deceiving myself or anyone else. I've joked with my doctors that I should just eat those bonbons if I'm going to be this big.

I also have Hypothyroidism.

I have read that stress can effect the cortisol in your system and that can cause you to gain. Frankly I'm just frustrated by it all. I think I will tell them to take me off of the seroquel.

 

[MomOfTwo]

I think antidepressants make you gain weight even when you do not change your diet. I am on Wellbutrin now and it is not supposed to be one that makes you gain weight. It does not help with anxiety though but none of the others really did. The psychiatrist wants me to go on a mood stabilizer because she said they are better for PTSD when you hypervigilant all the time. What I read on lithium is that it causes weight gain. I had an eating disorder and still have disordered thinking around food and know if I put on a lot of weight it would make me even more depressed.

 

[Deleted member 12723]

All of my clothes fit so I am not going to complain. It will all work itself out. Yes having the extra weight does add to the depression at times.

 

[Britt.f7]

I had an eating disorder and still have disordered thinking around food and know if I put on a lot of weight it would make me even more depressed.

I was about to say I had an eating disorder too, but I don't think it is in the past. I am overweight now from years of inactivity due to illness, but my thoughts about food hasn't changed. I know doctors and people who don't know me, assume I eat a lot and that I eat bad foods just by looking at me. The thing is it is hard to get rid of those old messages about food. I still eat little and make fairly healthy choices, but I am definitely not a food person. It does make me more depressed to be at this weight and when I ask doctors not to put me on meds that make you gain weight, even if it's water weight, they still do. Don't they get it? It is somehow a relief to know I'm not the only one who has had an eating disorder and still harbors that disordered thinking. Of course, I would rather no one felt the way I do.

 

[Shellbell]

I'm also now taking seroquel as well as mirtazapine, both cause weight gain and I'm struggling to stay under a certain weight that I've decided is okay. My psychiatrist on Tuesday seemed very concerned about my weight issues and that I am so controlling of what I eat and hate being the size I am now (being a size Aus 10).

I think it adds to my depression that I'm not a size 6/8 and I now have wobbly bits that make me feel disgusting. I know I should be making healthy eating choices but I'm still eating virtually nothing all day and only one meal at dinner time, so try and keep gaining more weight.