Can't stop eating!

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For the past week, I’ve been gaining exactly one pound a day, everyday. I’ve gone from 165 to 170.4 lbs. over one weeks time. Over the past 10 years, I’ve gone from 148 lbs. slowly up to 170 lbs. today. All these years my BMI has been normal. Now, it is in the overweight zone.

This slow creep upward began when my pdoc discontinued my Risperdal Consta injections and placed me on oral Risperdal. The effect was immediate. I started craving food at night, especially between 9 and 11 pm and my weight slowly began creeping upward. And no amount of calorie counting would halt it.

My weight gain has reached a pinnacle at 170.4 lbs. right now where I decide to take action. I am now imposing a 12 hour intermittent fasting schedule on myself, fasting from 7 pm to 7 am. every day, along with a 1200 calorie per day restriction. The reason for the fast is to make it impossible for me to go wild and binge out every night between 9 and 11 pm.

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Learn to trash your food. Yes, I said throw away good food. Then you’ll learnnot to make as much food. And this won’t get you on your way. Losing weight is a not pretty job. It is rewarding. Only when the Outcome has been achieved.

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That’s something I never do is throw away good food. I think I’ll take you up on that. Thanks @DrZen

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I hope you succeed in your diet plan. I’ve done intermittent fasting and lost 60lbs.

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I have an idea that’s a little different than Dr Zen’s suggestion

After you make a meal, immediately divide it up into individual portions by weighing or measuring.

The individually freeze the other portions before you eat any of your current portion

Also you can track all your calories using the free version of MyFitnessPal which helps tremendously

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@LilyoftheValley , I always serve myself one individual portion of food at each meal without having to box up and freeze everything. I just keep leftovers refrigerated. And I’ve been charting my calories on MyFitnessPal.com for ten years now. Works for me. Thanks for your suggestions.

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Well, I stayed under my caloric limit yesterday and fasted from 7 pm to 7 am and I lost 2.4 lbs. overnight as a result.

Today was Veterans Day and my friend and I both got $10 off each of our meals at Village Inn this afternoon. Each of us got cheeseburgers and mine was a double burger. So, I can probably kiss my weight loss goodbye. I didn’t order a double burger. The “nice” waitress volunteered it on me.

I am going to fast again tonight and every night.

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Chia seeds might do the trick!

They swell in the stomach helping to quell hunger.

All you need is 25g of seeds and add them to a big glass of water and that really helps for me.

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Doesn’t sound appetizing at all.

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Well, I fasted last night for 12 hours and because I didn’t pig out right before bed, like I always do, I didn’t gain any weight this morning. I stayed exactly the same weight as yesterday, which is an accomplishment. And it’s special because I ate at a restaurant yesterday, so I should have gained. I think I’m onto something with this intermittent fasting.

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It is not an appetizer; it is a hunger reducing technique.

The idea that food is pleasure is the downfall of many szs.

The desire to feel pleasure, as most pleasure is diiminished with dopamine reducing meds is the problem at source.

If satiating hunger instead is the name of the game then the chances of being a healthy weight is increased.

Still, most people can’t separate the two.

It is up to you though. It really deosn’t matter to me.

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I’ve been eating a lot lately

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I sleep 12 hours on clozapine, so I don’t eat half of the day.

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I lost another pound this morning! I now weigh 167.4 lbs. I think I found the secret to losing weight! Have a consistent, permanent, 12 hour fasting period during the hours when you tend to do your most binge eating. It’s working for me!

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Well, even though I fasted last night for 12 hours, I gained 2 lbs. But that is only because I got zero hours of sleep last night. It’s impossible to lose weight when you don’t sleep, so today’s weight doesn’t count.

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This drove me crazy when i was on abilify! I found in my case i was actually just thirsty and mistaking it as hunger.

Omad/one meal a day also helped because it allows you to eat larger ammounts of food in a small window of time.

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