Posted by Racer on January 14, 2006, at 12:56:51
In reply to Re: It's not that easy with a lot of drugs » Racer, posted by yxibow on January 14, 2006, at 0:43:19
>I'm not sure where the 7,500 calorie figure comes from though.
It comes from a brain f*rt. It takes an expenditure of 4000 calories for a woman to lose a pound, an extra 500 calories. That's because our bodies are so very efficient...
>Never did I say it was "your fault."
No, you didn't. I included that because I've heard it from many doctors over the years. It's so painful, so devastating to hear it, that I wanted to counter it in my post, for anyone out there that hears that whenever anyone brings up weight loss and meds. I didn't mean to imply that you had made that assumption.
>Eating below that number will eventually, over time, many weeks and months, gradually show a loss in weight.
With some of these drugs, though, that number will be far below what's necessary to support life. There are some psychotropic drugs that, for some people, will simply lead to weight gain, often significant weight gain. Period. I don't know what the answer is, my therapist says I have to accept that I may become fat, no matter what I do, if I have to continue antidepressants. I'm not happy about that idea, but I don't know what else to do.
And I have a really hard time with anything that sounds like, "If you just worked harder, you'd feel better/lose weight/get things done/etc." That comes up so often for people with depression, and it's so much bootstrapping. It can be so devastating to me, that I do tend to jump on it when I see anything like that here on the boards.
I guess I'm saying that I hope we can be more sensitive to what others here go through, and respect that it can be virtually impossible to lose weight for some people on some of these drugs.
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