Posted by juliat on April 22, 2003, at 13:05:45
In reply to Re: Question about Effexor and weight gain., posted by stlouisdude on April 22, 2003, at 12:32:07
Hi Mark,I'm also on 75mg of effexor, hoping to have the weight loss you did! I am excercising, not as much as you, but trying to do something every day. Thats odd that jumping to 150mg would have that effect on you, I would have though that if anything it would increase the weight loss not gain. Perhaps you should look at every other aspect of your life and see if anything else has changed? I am taking nutrition classes at university, and its very easy to make a very minor change to your eating habits that has a large impact. The simplest thing of eating 50 more calories a day can drastically change your weight. Think about it this way, 3500 calories equals 1 pound. It's alot easier to gain 3500 calories than it is to lose 3500 calories! It could be that you are not burning as many calories as you used to with your excercise routine (your muscles have gotten used to the excercise, so it doesnt take as much energy to work out that way as it used to) or there could be something very minor in your diet that is making the difference. Either way, try mixing it up a little! Add in some weight training, or go to a harder level on the elliptical, and examine your eating (try writing everything down, including time of eating) and look at that. Are you eating late at night? that could also make a difference. Sorry for the length of this, but these are just some ideas to look at, it could be that the effexor was not the cause of the change, it was just coincidence with the timing. Before you change your dose, look at everything else!
Hope it all works out for you,
Julia
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