I gained up to 55 kg with risperdal. And I am always between 130 Kg and 132 Kg. I will be diabetic soon. I can not gain more weight since barely two years. Maybe I will gain more weight on christmas. Loosing weight is mentally really hard, I can not eat for one day healthy at all, tried couple times, but always failed the first day. And sports are the other thing, back then before psychosis I skateboarded all day, now I can not get myself for a walk. The more I try the sooner I see that this is not happening anymore that I will get more active.
I’ve been able to lose weight and I’m on Paliperidon 263mg, Bupropion 150mg and Mirtazapin 45mg.
You need to be determined to lose weight. I count calories with an app in the smartphone called Lifesum. It’s set on 1700 cal each day. Has worked for me. I try and walk 1 hour per day otherwise I’m quite inactive.
I weigh 89 kilos atm, wanna come down to 80.
Unfortunately antipsychotics have major side effects, and one of them is metabolic syndrome which leads to insulin resistance which leads to weight gain which then leads to diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Just do a simple Google search on the words antipsychotics and metabolic syndrome. You’ll find a lot of research reports about the link between them.