Maybe this should go under mental health, but it's mainly about weight.
I'm 30 pounds overweight, gained it AFTER pregnancy. Last year I went on a big fitness kick and ate very healthy, from scratch, quit sugar, etc. I should have been dropping weight, but I gained both weight and a dress size.
After about 8 or 9 months of this I gave up the fitness routine and relaxed a bit on the eating (though I still cook from scratch and mostly avoid prepared foods, and keep sugar to a bare minimum, only once a week at the very most).
As you probably guessed, I started gaining weight even faster after that. Sigh.
I hit a high of 35 pounds overweight on the day I was prescribed Citalopram for anxiety. Citalopram I guess usually makes people gain weight, but for me, it reduced my appetite and additionally made me extremely aversive to sweets (not only do I not crave them, a friend asked me to try her chocolate milk and I really, really did not want to .. UGH). This is a good thing since I have a real addiction to sweets and have struggled for a long time.
It's been 2.5 weeks and I've dropped 7 pounds. The very first time my weight has gone downward by even 1 pound for 5 years. I also am feeling slowly increased energy and I'm started to feel motivated for a fitness routine again. (Haven't started yet though, but I feel it coming).
So the reason for this long post is... I'm afraid. For one thing, I've heard that coming off of this drug usually results in rapid weight gain. I don't know what to do about it, could I just be really disciplined and conserve my eating habits for a while? I'm also afraid of killing my metabolism. Even while I was not exercising and gaining about a pound a week, I've never been a big eater. I don't want to turn into my mother, who at my age could gain 5 pounds on a grapefruit and salad (with no dressing) diet.
I don't want to be on this drug forever. I talked to my doctor recently and he agreed that we could try taking me off in about 6 months. (Because my anxiety isn't chronic, as far as I know, and I just really needed relief from some crazy episode I was going through).
Yet being overweight and underactive is depressing all by itself. For real, I don't feel good about myself like this.
What would you do? Just take full advantage of the motivation and get exercising and avoid sweets, and then be really disciplined when I go off of it?
Plan on being on it forever?
I'm 30 pounds overweight, gained it AFTER pregnancy. Last year I went on a big fitness kick and ate very healthy, from scratch, quit sugar, etc. I should have been dropping weight, but I gained both weight and a dress size.
After about 8 or 9 months of this I gave up the fitness routine and relaxed a bit on the eating (though I still cook from scratch and mostly avoid prepared foods, and keep sugar to a bare minimum, only once a week at the very most).
As you probably guessed, I started gaining weight even faster after that. Sigh.
I hit a high of 35 pounds overweight on the day I was prescribed Citalopram for anxiety. Citalopram I guess usually makes people gain weight, but for me, it reduced my appetite and additionally made me extremely aversive to sweets (not only do I not crave them, a friend asked me to try her chocolate milk and I really, really did not want to .. UGH). This is a good thing since I have a real addiction to sweets and have struggled for a long time.
It's been 2.5 weeks and I've dropped 7 pounds. The very first time my weight has gone downward by even 1 pound for 5 years. I also am feeling slowly increased energy and I'm started to feel motivated for a fitness routine again. (Haven't started yet though, but I feel it coming).
So the reason for this long post is... I'm afraid. For one thing, I've heard that coming off of this drug usually results in rapid weight gain. I don't know what to do about it, could I just be really disciplined and conserve my eating habits for a while? I'm also afraid of killing my metabolism. Even while I was not exercising and gaining about a pound a week, I've never been a big eater. I don't want to turn into my mother, who at my age could gain 5 pounds on a grapefruit and salad (with no dressing) diet.
I don't want to be on this drug forever. I talked to my doctor recently and he agreed that we could try taking me off in about 6 months. (Because my anxiety isn't chronic, as far as I know, and I just really needed relief from some crazy episode I was going through).
Yet being overweight and underactive is depressing all by itself. For real, I don't feel good about myself like this.
What would you do? Just take full advantage of the motivation and get exercising and avoid sweets, and then be really disciplined when I go off of it?
Plan on being on it forever?
