Tuesday, 03 January 2012
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Congrats -- You're Fat
So today I decided to take a walk, like i do every day. Luckily, it's a nice day and I have some new music that I like to listen to from Lisa Gerrard.
I'm walking down the street. I start to run and grab my stomach where I have a pocket and in that pocket is my IPOD and some loose change. I'm grabbing my stomach because I have to run across the street, and I don't want anything to fall out. I make it across and this woman says, "congratulations."
Confused, I think that maybe there's someone else she's talking to, but alas it's me.
"When are you due?" She continues.
"I'm not pregnant," I reply.
There was a moment of awkward silence, and she looked away and we both told each other to have a nice day.
I guess I'm due for some more exercise. Honestly, I've been running three to four times a week for 30 minutes, but I cannot lose the weight that I gained from my antipsychotics. I take Abilify, Prozac and a few others. I also walk an hour a day and do situps and crunches. Antipsychotics cause you to gain weight around the middle. It's horrible and a fight I'm losing apparently.
Has anyone else, any fellow fatty (more of me to love), been mistaken for being pregnant? Is anyone else on antispychotics who knows how to lose the weight? Or does anyone have a better exercise plan?
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Honestly, that's part of the reason I stopped taking mine after less than a year on them. I started taking them and I gained right around 70 pounds, no kidding. I stopped taking them and I quite literally dropped 30 pounds in a month . The rest of my weight loss came from lifestyle modifications and I absolutely refuse to go back on them ever, for that reason.
I'm afraid with the way these medicines fuck with your metabolism, the only way to lose the weight is to kick them to the curb. Trust me on this one. I'm fully convinced it's all part of a ploy by Big Pharma to fatten you up so that you pay more money to them for diet pills and crap like that. Seriously. If you ditch the meds you'll lose the weight. I can absolutely promise you that.
Yeah, I'm still fat too. Not pregnancy looking, but i tend to gain weight in my lower half. I don't have anything close to a flat stomach though, and my waist tends to be the LEANEST part of of my body. I have stretch marks on my hips, thighs/legs and butt in really odd places that were never there before. I gained around 20-25 lbs. altogether since taking Zoloft which lasted close to a year. I do not know if it is directly or partially related. but I stopped taking it almost 5 months ago and am still fat. I'm working on it. :\
@kellysolesbee@twitter - I have a hypothyroid and I take medication for it. You should get yours checked if you think it's screwed up. Very easily fixed!
maybe talk to your doctor about stopping the antidepressants... as long as you aren't severely depressed lifestyle modifications can help depression, like exercise, healthy diet, vitamins, etc... hopefully that will help you!
That's very awkward
lol...
Not entirely sure since medications always mess up your body's natural way of working, but cardio like you've been doing will help a bit, dietary changes might be needed. Trying to make sure you're not sitting or laying around too much of the day (that's my issue right now), aerobic exercises that utilize more random movements than just the normal running does also is a really good weight loss and body toning method. Everyone's body is different also so you might notice you're losing the fat in other areas of your body rather than your midsection before it's even really noticeable there. One good thing to do to see if you're making progress is to measure the different parts of your body weekly or at least monthly to see if it's going well. If there's no positive changes then you need to change it up with something, other times progress might be slow, but it is happening just takes a while before it's clearly visibly noticeable.
Oh man, that sucks. I have totally had the same thing happen. I think it's just very, very, very stupid to ask a stranger if they're pregnant. It's a really terrible idea. When someone asks you that, it's like getting smacked across the face (and it really makes you want to smack them in the face too).
I was on Lexapro for a few years and I gained about 50 pounds...but I can't honestly say it was all the drug. Before I was depressed and also had untreated OCD so I got pretty thin by obesessively exercising, skipping meals, and other unhealthy means because I was completely obsessed with being skinny. So when the OCD was treated, losing weight didn't consume my life anymore and so I quit working out obsessively. I didn't just start stuffing everything in sight into my face and sitting on the couch, but I did change my habits and gradually my weight crept back up. But I have heard people say that they gained weight without any major habit changes too.
I've also tried nortriptyline (didn't treat my symptoms) and now clomipramine, which is working so far. I lost 50 pounds while on clomipramine and I read tons of stories online about people who gained a shitload of weight on it (which scared me when I first started taking it). It IS possible to lose weight while on these kinds of drugs, but it seems to take more work than it would under normal circumstances. At times it's extremely frustrating because I have to work harder than most people to lose weight, but it's a price I'm willing to pay most of the time. Just really question yourself about what trade-offs you're willing to make. There are definitely non-medication ways to help depression (get plenty of sleep, exercise, sunlight, eat healthy, cognitive-behavioral therapy), and if the weight gain is really screwing up your life, it might not be worth it to stay on the drugs. For me right now it's worth it but that may change in the future.
It takes so much more than exercise to correct a weight issue. Review your diet and make the changes where necessary - it's a LIFE change. It takes getting healthy in the kitchen, eating small portions, and burning more calories than you consume to lose weight.
As to strangers asking ignorant questions, turn it back on them. Generally they learn to think twice before opening their mouths.
I had someone congratulate me once. It probably didn't help that my stomach was round and I was reading a baby-naming book at the time (I read those for ideas for character names for my fiction writing). It was awkward.
I'm sorry the meds are messing up your metabolism :( that is frustrating. Have you tried a super clean diet, like a paleo diet? Hopefully something will work!
look into viibryd, maybe? it's a new anti-depressant/anti-anxiety med. so far it has not made me gain. I gained over 60 on effexor but lost it as soon as I got off by eating healthy. Good luck.
Losing weight is easy. Count calories in and calories out. Exercise. Eat healthy.
The only hard part is to have enough patience and commitment to stick with it. It's a lifestyle; not a quick fix.
To lose weight in the middle part of your body, do cardio. A lot of cardio. That's the easiest way to lose belly fat. And say no to carbs.
Depo Shot. Fucks you up. If you don't want to be fat, don't get it.
Actually antipsychotics and antidepressants don't make you gain weight. They have side effects that make you more hungry and they slow down your metabolism. You just need to exercise more (an hour to hour and a half a day) and eat less calories (around 1300 - 1500 calories).
Regardless of how you feel about your body, don't be embarrassed. SHE should feel embarrassed.
don't worry. Someone thought I was pregnant before too.
I was fat before I went on Cymbalta. It has actually decreased my appetite and given me more energy. That is after trying Lexapro, Prozac, and celexa.
I also have PCOS so that makes it even more harder for me to lose weight. But I can still try right?
This is why I never say anything until a woman tells me she is pregnant, which is weird sometimes when their stomach is showing and you know, but dont want to take a chance.Then when a female coworker is talking about asking for maturity leave, that's when I ask her when she is due.
no, but my friends ask this jokingly to indicate that I should get my ass up :whateveah:
I have been asked if I was pregnant before. And I wasn't as heavy as I am now. I tend to carry weight around my middle as well.
I know that most people say that weight gain due to medication is an excuse, but it is a problem for me. I don't have the option of going off mine, so I have to fight it.
I have kids ask me if I'm pregnant all the time. It is funny and I just tell them "No, I'm just really fat." Haha
A few times. I'm not fat everywhere, I just have weight in my stomach. Once the woman doing my nails asked how far along I was and I didn't feel like making it awkward so I said "four months" =\ and then one other time I was at the walk-in clinic for possible gall stones and I was in the waiting room holding the upper right side of my stomach and a woman asked me if I knew what i was having yet. I was really confused >_> I was like "What do you mean?" and she said "You're pregnant aren't you?" and I said "No, I'm just fat." and that ended the conversation. I was in no mood to talk anyways -.-
This happened to me after I started my infusion treatments. It wasn't pleasant. I just do my best and know that the treatments are helping me, and like to pry.
Unless a woman is 8-9 months pregnant and OBVIOUSLY way pregnant, people shouldn't assume. Even then, don't say anything if your'e a stranger. When i was pregnant, people would stare at my belly and i could tell they wanted to say something, but didn't want to assume..LOL. In the end, it was my hubby who made the worst comments after i was pregnant. Saying things like, "Honey, you look 4 months pregnant now instead of 9!" This was a week after i had a baby....thanks dude. It's hard to lose weight around your middle, but imperative for long term health since belly fat is the biggest predictor of future problems. Good luck.
5 times, 5 different strangers, i recently lost 35 pounds and now weigh 170, and still someone asked me a few weeks ago, i do carry my weight around the middle but jeez, don't ask or don't say anything unless the person is protruding like a house. I was proud of myself and feeling great, and that shook my confidence and pride for sure.