Posted by CareBear04 on November 22, 2005, at 16:17:26
ok, the subject is a little overstated because i'm not fat, but i feel every day like i am. last fall, i was really sick and lost a lot of weight while being in and out of the hospital. i was really underweight to the point where health care providers and other people thought i was anorexic. i had to work really hard with my dr to gain weight back and to combat the deconditioning my body went through. the first few pounds were really hard to gain for some reasson, but then i feel like i gained a ton of momentum and never looked back! since a year ago, i've gained between 20 and 30 pounds, which is a huge percentage of my body weight. i thought i was 5'5, but the last time i was at the dr's, they said i was only 5'4, so you could imagine how visible a change this is. i'm still on the small side, and everyone says i look so much better like this, but i hate it. i overshot my baseline weight by at least ten pounds! all my old clothes are now too tight, but i haven't had time or money to go buy new ones, not to mention the fact that i'm still hoping to shed the extra pounds. i'm not sure why i can't. i'm not overeating as far as i can tell. i get a decent amount of exercise walking to work and at work, even though i don't go to the gym as much as i should. i wonder if it has to do with the meds i'm on. none of the psych meds are supposed to cause weight gain, i don't think. i'm thinking that maybe it's my birth control. i restarted birth control at a fairly high dose in the spring. since then-- coincidentally or not-- i notice that my figure has changed. for sure, my breasts are larger, but this could be from gaining weight in general. i wonder if changing to a lower-dose pill would help?
i don't want to go back to looking skeletal, but i just want to fit into my clothes again. should i buy a scale? exercise compulsively? or is this a permanent change that i just need to get used to?
thanks everyone for letting me vent and in advance for your thoughts.
CB
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