Posted by john constantine on February 17, 2004, at 15:07:16
In reply to Re: Diet and exercise » Dinah, posted by Wildflower on January 9, 2004, at 12:44:22
Hello,
I've never tried dieting or exercise myself. I was on a horrible monstrous drug called Zyprexa -- one of the new antipsychotics -- that, in addition to killing sex drive, numbing all emotion, turning me into an intellectual zombie, and making my skin pasty-pale all over -- for about two years and it caused me to go from about 175lbs to nearly 300lbs. It just hits that hunger center so damn hard!
Anyways -- after I stopped taking it, I began taking dextroamphetamine (dexedrine, dextrostat) for depression. No diet. No exercise. No daily affirmations. Within 8 months I was back around 180lbs.
It is possible to mess oneself up with amphetamines but my personal experience has been that the warnings and stuff are way overblown, just more war on drugs type hysteria. If you have have some mild sedatives on hand to take the edge off now and then, that stuff just doesn't apply. In my case, I also found that this is easy stuff to start and stop. Not true for all though, I guess.
So I highly recommend a good old amphetamine like dextroamphetamine (or adderall, a bit stronger, or even ritalin, a little weaker) for anyone who is sick of all the diet bullshit.
Bottom line is it works.
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