I believe in low calorie input as well. I believe in counting calories. That’s how I lost the 50 lbs. that I had to lose several years ago, and kept it off. I use the calorie counting app www.MyFitnessPal.com religiously every day. It works great. It has the largest food database in the world. That’s why I use it. It’s also very user friendly.
I don’t drink my calories. I only drink plain tap water and plain black coffee without additives. No energy drinks, alcohol, or pop of any kind. I allow myself only one gooey dessert a day and I figure that into my caloric intake every day. I exercise every single day doing something I love doing. (For me, that is yoga, playing the piano, and taking the stairs in my apartment complex). And I keep track of my weight by weighing myself once a week every week. That’s my secret in a nutshell. My weight is within normal limits.
The easiest and most certain way to lose weight is to switch to meds that don’t make you fat(if your current meds are the reason you weigh now)
Trying to lose weight while on meds that make you fat is an impossible game.
Yep, Abilify for example was awful and made me put on 50 lbs roughly. Latuda is not as bad at all. A lot of it is the lifestyle of going through the pain and suffering of the illness and then finding the time, motivation, strength, will power, and desire to exercise… must be stable in the mind before beginning exercise regimen.
I used to run when I was younger, but my knee is bad and I’m way too heavy for that kind of impact exercise. I ran crazy amounts back then, like two hours a day when I was a teen, and an eating disorder probably set up health problems later on down the line.
I’m just hoping now to get under 300, maybe to 250-260 lbs. So far the ball is rolling in the right direction, and my diet is holding fairly well.
EDIT: I tried elliptical machines a while back, those things are intense, could only manage a couple minutes. A bike might be more comfortable, depending on the seat you’re using.
I hate the elliptical with a passion. Love the rower machine! I haven’t been to the gym since December, feel pretty crummy about it. Not even walking much. But I have lost almost 10# since the 1st of the year. Counting calories more accurately with MyFitnessPal.
Abilify was the worst for me. While I was on it I gained over 20kilos. I had talked about this to my pdoc but he never admitted that the weight gain was due to Abilify. So just before I reached to 70kg(unbelievable for a petite woman like me), I started walking everyday. I did it out of fear of diabetes. It was tough but worked. But I still binge ate alot, so most effort ended up nothing. So I suspected again that Abilify was the culprit, learned about medication, and then asked my pdoc to switch Abilify to Ronasen. He did as told and after a while my uncontrollable binge eating stopped. My appetite was like a dragon breaking through my stomach but the dragon disappeared. (My doctor still won’t admit my abnormal appetite was due to Abilify.) But anyway my eating pattern now is so healthy. I never binge eat, and weigh 60kilos. Now I enjoy exercise not out of fear but for joy. I don’t exercise everyday but only once or twice a week: a 10-20 min exercise in front of a DVD program, or yoga, etc which is enough to maintain health. I used to weigh 50kilos but it might be due to severe symptoms like delusion or paranoia using up too much energy in my brain and not much left for body fat;I was skinny then. Now I have no positive symptoms so maybe that’s why I’ve gotten alittle fat around my hips and legs which look nicer.
Good to hear you found something that worked for you. I used to be 215-225 and solid, strong, built. I still am built… I just have 50-70 lbs of adipose tissue that needs to go and shocking your body with exercise, and CHANGING your diet really gets things going in the right direction. I used to be obsessed with working out back at 17-20 years old, but school became the priority. My psychological break happened in 2013 and it has been difficult to even consider a workout regimen because heck, I couldn’t function through daily life.
Schizoaffective to me when not properly medicated was like being choked by a chain attached to 2 cinder blocks being pushed off a 300 ft bridge into deep water, and then suffocating underwater aka drowning in fear, anxiety, and terror. Now that I have quit all substance abuse (Other than a beer or two or more for special occasion) I have regained control and can function and hopefully be a doctor later this year. I hope you really stay not just skinny but healthy; keep your BP down, keep your LDL low and your HDL high, focus on eating less carbs not removing all carbs, and remember; if you do more output than input, you will lose weight, and not just water weight. Diuretics only help for so long.
Good luck!
I have no marks on my blood test results for long, so I just maintain my lifestyle. Physical exercise feels good but I find studying also calorie-burning enough to stay fit.
Good luck to you too!
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