Posted by bob on February 18, 2000, at 18:41:44
In reply to WEIGHT GAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!, posted by Chubby on February 18, 2000, at 15:38:10
I imagine its more than just affecting one's metabolic rate. Zoloft had me craving carbs like nuts. (Well, maybe "nuts" isn't the best term here, nutritionally speaking.)
And it's not just a matter of diet and exercise, but what diet and what exercise. When I finally got enough energy to try loosing my zoloft-50, I promptly forgot most of what wisdom I do have about nutrition and kept telling myself that a steady diet of pasta for dinner would be fine. Instead, my glucose level has joined my triglycerides in jumping right off the charts and I've placed myself at risk for adult-onset diabetes.
What has worked for me (in the somewhat-distant past and in the last month) is a strict 1800cal/day diabetic diet. 500-600 cals for breakfast: one of those extremely high fiber cereals, rice milk, oj. An apple midmorning. A lean meat sandwich with about 3 oz. of meat total, less with cheese. Another apple midafternoon. For an early (5-6 pm) dinner, because cooking lean and lite is a pain in the ass, I usually go the Weight Watchers or Healthy Choice microwave meal path ... the WW meals come in at under 300cals. I usually have a few hundred cals left for another piece of fruit or some yoghurt. Lots of water ... at least half a gallon a day, a gallon if I can manage it. Get it as cold as possible (simple thermodynamics on that one ... put a gallon of 40 degree water in your stomach everyday and take a guess at how many calories you need to burn to raise you core body temperature up to normal...no, I don't know, but it's going to be more than cool or room-temperature water anyway).
Two weeks of that and now I'm only working on my zoloft-40.
If only I had the energy right now to stick to that ... been backsliding a teeny bit this week. I also don't quite have the energy to get out to the gym, but what it has taken me in the past to lose this much weight is about an hour of strenuous exercise four times per week. Consider weight training as well, not just aerobic. Muscle burns a lot more calories "at rest" that fat does ... so, instead of simply reducing your fat level, raising your muscle level raises your resting metabolic rate.
my two cents,
bob
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