About 4 years ago, I was in the hospital for 9 months. During that time, I started taking Abilify, and my appetite begun to incease and started eating a lot, and as a result, I gained 10 kilos.
After the hospitalization, I started living on my own, and the next year, I quit smoking and gained 10 more kilos because I started depending on food instread.
Now, I’m on a diet for over 2 years, and for the first three months, have lost 5 kilos(I walked for 25 mins every morning). I’m eating well-balanced meals everyday, (well, sometimes I feel tempted to eat fast food so I eat some(about once a month)), and I do physical exercises such as squat about three times a week. I now walk for 20 mins three times per week also.
But I haven’t been losing weight/fat at all for the past 1 and a half years.
What’s wrong with my diet?
1)Side effect of Abilify? —My doctor said no.
2)Stress hormone(Cortisol)? Yes, I feel stressed on a daily basis.
3)Lack of exercise? Maybe.
4)The 5 kilos is probably just water weight.
5)The once-a-month fast food is much more bad than I imagine.
6)Other reasons…?
What are your thoughts?
My Height: 154cm
My Weight: 65kg
BMI: 27.4
Female
My waist was 85cm but now it’s 75cm. I hope it will be 65cm.
I’m 44. I still play competitive cricket but all the work I do keeps me functional at a certain weight but I do drink a lot of beer which I’m not willing to let go of! so…
I used to bowl in cricket…that was 30 kg’s ago…that was my weight before antipsychotics but still…friends and foes of a certain age still have the same problems…it’s about work and age!
Not a bad thing to exercise 30 minutes a day! Not a bad thing to do walking and free weights if possible but you can at least cover that…in the meatime…protein and carbs in moderate amounts!
Hi OP, 80-90% of weight loss comes from what you eat (especially how much you eat) so with that in mind, you can begin to assess why you’re not losing weight.
In order to lose, you have to consume less energy than what you’re expelling. For me, on an average day (given that I work in an office so pretty inactive for the most part), that’s under 1400 calories per day. You’re only about 10 kilos over so on the up side, there’s not a lot to lose but on the down-side, the less there is to lose, the harder.
I would try to limit my carb/sugar intake - cut out potato, rice, bread, pasta and packaged desserts for 2 weeks. Weigh yourself before and after these 2 weeks and you should see a difference.
Could also be that the more you exercise, the more you increase your muscle mass.
Since muscle weighs more than fat, you can actually weigh more, but be leaner.
try to eat lots of fruit and veg. i lost half a stone eating porridge and fruit. i now weight just over 10stone and i refuse to put on any more than that. so i will just have to eat fruit and veg, humus and rye crackers and low fat meals. i was very naughty this morning and had syrup on toast but i don’t do that often. you have to exercise as much as possible too. like the former poster said, if you exercise more you may gain muscle but you’ll lose fat so you may weigh the same but you’ll be leaner for it. good luck. xxx
I have been dieting for about 2 years now with myfitnesspal. I think cutting carbs a bit helps prevent blood sugar highs and lows. Also I think managing stress and cutting caffeine so I sleep better is really helping. I lost about 20 lbs so far, which doesn’t sound like much, but people notice that I look much better. I use a pedometer and total up my steps for the whole week. I don’t do a lot of exercise but try to keep very busy because if I get bored I tend to binge.
I was surprised that the myfitnesspal app showed me that my sodium, potassium and vitamin A intake were way off. My bp has dropped considerably since fixing these consistently in my diet.
