Posted by jedi on July 2, 2011, at 0:32:08
In reply to Quit or supplement Nardil? (weight gain), posted by Glenda the Good on June 30, 2011, at 21:41:44
Hi,
Nardil can cause tremendous weight gain if left unchecked. The weight gain is also one of the indications of atypical depression, which Nardil is best at treating. The first few years on the medication, I gained over 100 pounds. I have taken over half of this off through exercise and a low carb diet. For some reason, I really crave the sweet carbohydrates on Nardil. But I am a carb addict anyway. By essentially eliminating the carbohydrates, except for low carb vegetables, the cravings for the sweet carbohydrates go away. Not really a fun diet, but the only thing that works for me, and I have to be on Nardil.Somehow Nardil seems to shut off the feedback mechanism that tells your body it is full. I can just keep stuffing in the carbohydrates and not even feel bad about it. The very low carb diet seems to control this. I really haven't studied what Nardil does to this feedback loop; maybe someone else has looked into it.
There has been a lot of research lately on the low carbohydrate diets. If I consume a large quantity of low carbohydrate vegetables and use the right supplements, I can be very healthy on a low carb diet. I rarely get sick, maybe one cold a year. When I was 100 lbs overweight, I was sick all the time, had bronchial infections multiple times each year, lived on antibiotics, and even had pneumonia once.
I'll stick to Nardil for my depression and social anxiety; and a low carb diet with exercise for the overeating.
I wish there was an easy solution, but this is the only thing that works for me. I wish I would had known this when I first started Nardil in 1998. I'm sure with a low carb diet and more exercise, I would not have gained the weight in the first place.
Just what works for me,
Jedi
Jedi
Treatment resistant, atypical, double depression with social anxiety.
Nardil + clonazepam
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