May the drug makers rot in Hell for making me fat. I weigh 344. I have to eat like a rabbit again.
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You can do it. 
Join us on the weight loss thread over in Health and Recovery! There’s lots of encouragement there!
I’m sorry your meds have caused so much weight gain. Abilify took me all the way to 319 at my highest before I freaked out and changed to Haldol (I’m on Zyprexa now). I understand your frustration.
Well I hoped that my weight gain would level off after I stopped dieting for a while but lately it’s really shot up. I’ve been a yo-yo dieter and I’ve gone to extremes just to lose a little weight just to have it shoot up when my cravings did me in. All I simply want to do is stop eating that damn candy but I just can’t find staying power on it. I’m not in control of my meals because I’m at a group home but I have a snack shelf and it’s messed me up lately. I’ve been trying to drink more water lately. I am surviving on shorts in the Summer heat right now but if I don’t lose weight by Winter finding clothes that fit will be a nightmare because my mid-section is huge.
That sounds really unhealthy. Can you try to exercise daily? I am so worried I’ll have another episode and get even more problems. Just want to have a normal life and be nice and stable the rest of my life. I’m not fat, just a little curvy, but it’d be nice to loose 5 pounds. Too hot outside to go walking though and I keep buying bubble tea. >:(
It’s too bad you can’t handle the heat because sweating it off can help with weight. There was one Summer when I was younger that I walked every evening and sweated off some of the weight. That was before my feet began to have trouble.
@Blizzard
I hear you. In two weeks I gained 14 pounds. In months I gained 63. And it’s really, reeeally hard to get it off. You have trouble with your feet?
I have trouble with my plantar muscles. Too much walking causes my feet to hurt.
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That’s painful! It can be really debilitating. I understand. I was hit by a car in 2011, had two surgeries on my foot, and I’m in pain, too.
Do you have access to a pool or bike?
You’ll also have to exercise
It would not be impossible to catch a bus downtown where they have such facilities. I would just have to get the nerve up to walk to the nearest busstop and break out of my current routine. I know it would hurt to do so because it doesn’t take much to aggravate my back these days and contrary to what I said in an earlier post I have become much less heat and cold resistant than I used to be (obviously that’s the anxiety talking). But it’s not impossible to do.
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@Blizzard Your feet will feel better as you lose weight. When I was in the 300s, I had bad plantar fasciitis and had to wear special inserts in the heels of my athletic shoes. I couldn’t wear any other kinds of shoes either, they had to have good support.
I still have a lot of weight to lose - I’m 252 now and down 67 pounds from my max - but I can wear whatever shoes I like now and my feet no longer hurt. Something to look forward to!
You don’t have to eat like a rabbit to lose weight. When you start from a higher number, you can have more calories than someone who is starting lower. I recommend you join My Fitness Pal or Sparkpeople online, both are free sites. I can’t speak to how My Fitness Pal works but I use Sparkpeople. You just give it your current weight, tell it how much you want to lose, and it gives you a goal date and calorie range. There are nutrition trackers to keep track of your eating and how it meets your goal ranges. It’s very easy to use, I plan a week’s worth of meals in about ten minutes.
I have lost 16 pounds since mid-April doing this, I can attest that it works! I am physically disabled so I don’t exercise, this has just been by restricting my calories. Good luck!
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I have found I can do movement exercises by sitting in a chair. Otherwise I have freedom of choice in minor ways with meals. They are mainly prepared for me but I can choose whether to eat seconds or thirds when those are options. I also go to restaurants sometimes and have choices. When I’m “good” I eat salads but it’s hard to believe they help at this point because it doesn’t seem to really help much. I plan to stop eating hamburgers at restaurants now. I also have to ignore a guy who is practically starving himself but tries to keep them from knowing it by giving his food to me and another guy there who eat more of it. I am physically stronger than the guys who eat very little there so it’s not all bad to eat more than a rabbit. It’s hard to estimate the calories I eat because I don’t have access to the food before it’s prepared. I wish I stayed in my apartment where I could do that because I was in control of what I ate but the boredom led to binges there so I’ll do the best I can. Thanks for the information.
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