I agree with you.
I don’t like wise comments…
It’s as if some people think is fat folks are so stupid we don’t know what caused our fatness or how to remedy it.
In my case, I can only lose a lot of weight and keep it off by actively starving myself and exercising a few hours a DAY.
This how I’ve always been, but thanks to psych meds I can barely lose, even doing that. I recently lost 16 pounds by cutting all sugar, but the loss stalled.
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It goes up (weight) as we age
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Yep.
And I’m sliding toward 50. Eeeeek.
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Genes play a big part and obviously meds duh
When i was a size 8 i never ate hardly, it wasn’t natural for me to be slim anyways
Im healthier eating healthy big or whatever
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Yeah how horrible.
Same with me I was normal weight a few years ago on latuda but I was starving myself.
I saw a dietitian and she told me I’m not eating enough and I’m malnourished and starving myself so I started to eat more like a normal person but healthy vegan and gained weight.
I gained a lot.
Two years ago when I met my boyfriend I was 57 kg but hardly ate but exercised.
Now I eat very little.much less than a normal person.and I’m vegan healthy food and exercise daily and I’m 64 kg and 160 cm.
I exercise daily.
Maybe I need to exercise hours a day but i don’t know if I can get myself to do that.
I had menapause too.
I was petite without medication but I’m more stable mentally on medication which is more important.
So me too I can only lose weight if I starve myself eat maybe 500 calories a day.
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I wonder how much is age or meds sometimes
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I believe its:
Five percent pleasure
Fifty percent pain
And a hundred percent reason to remember the name
(Lol idk if you’ve heard that meme )
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Yes, just like everyone else that gets in shape feels a bit uncomfortable. When you lose weight you have to be on your feet more and feel hungry sometimes. It doesn’t matter if it is hard at first because if you stayed consistent and realized it is a lifelong endeavor you would feel better over time. The first month is always the worst.
Yeah and by the 2nd month your dead?
I just don’t think you understand
There is no way of losing weight for some people on meds and nobody can continuously starve themselves?
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Thank you for the 'splaining. I can’t tell you how much you have enlightened me. Why, I think right now I will go purge my entire dinner and go for 5k training.
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It’s one of those times when I want to head desk
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People need information thats why theres so much stupidity in the world
Ignorance
Google needs more education
Medical reasons including medicine can prevent you from losing weight
Genetics influence weight a lot
People have starved themselves to lose weight and died
Theres a huge problem in the media which encourages crash diets and humiliates body fat
Women naturally have extra fat
All this bad media about body fat increases eating disorders especially in teenagers, thus the epidemic in ed’s
I had an eating disorder ive lost tons of weight all my life.
Im 43 now and despite having attempted numerous times to lose weight, finding the medicine a big obstacle.
This isn’t the same for everyone because everybody is affected differently on each med. The body is complex.
Hope this helps
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Some people will still read that and insist they are right. Don’t bother yourself too much over it.
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Thanks
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Really the only thing you accomplish by starving yourself is that it shrinks your stomach. So you can still feel hungry all day, but not be able to eat much at a time, so then you become constantly hungry but not satisfied.
Negatively, starving yourself regularly causes your body to go into starvation mode and stores fat instead of burns it, so you get the opposite effect. Starving also burns muscle mass as well, causing you to lose strength.
Also studies have shown that exercising more than 200 minutes per week, does not help you lose weight more rapidly. You can build muscle mass by exercising more, but your body isn’t going to burn a significant more number of calories.
So there is a fine balance there. Some medications cause weight gain, as it slows down the metabolism, or as some studies show, it causes the body to store more calories into fat than normal. Even if you are eating healthy, it stores calories instead of burning them. So it’s an uphill battle for most people on aps. It’s not a simple problem to solve. When you speak in the way you do, it comes off very dismissive. The struggle is real.
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How much weight did you gain on olanzapine?
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No, you misunderstood. I implied just that you eat less and move more so that you lose 1-2 pounds a week. If you literally starve yourself you can’t keep that up for much longer than a couple weeks and you will gain it back almost as quick as you lost it. Successfully being healthy isn’t like “I’ll go on a diet and lose X pounds and after that I am healthy so I can stuff my face with whatever.” because you will just yoyo generally upwards forever. It is a livelong lifestyle change where you value your health by exercising some self control about what foods you eat and how much.
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