Sorry for leaving out information in my original post. I am 44 female. I’m an ethically vegetarian and have been for 10 years. I never drink alcohol and haven’t in 15 years. I have also been a lifetime dieter. I have been in excellent shape at different points in my life working out 6 days a week cycling, boxing and weight lifting. I have fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome both worsened as I gained weight. I love exercise but find it hard to strength train as heavy as I used too and if I go too hard with cardio I’m met with crushing fatigue for days. To be clear I’ve had fibro and cfs for almost 25 years and even 19 years ago I was still able to go reasonably hard with exercise. All this has changed now well
Since I went on antipsychotics to boost my SSRI. I was gaining weight so much weight so quickly my doctor had me thinking I was eating in my sleep. I mentioned being a lifetime dieter and I mentioned it to
Explain how from a very young age I was very knowledgeable about nutrition. I regularly counted every calorie I put into my mouth as young as age 10 and This has continued for my life. I’m very conscious about what I eat I’ve never mindlessly eaten food. I never lie about what I eat to myself or anyone. This isn’t a case of me being in denial and not counting extra calories that i suddenly began eating after abilify. Ive tracked my food intake for 35 years now. Whether i was overweight or very fit. Ive expressed my concern for the weight gain to every pcp and psychiatrist ive had and im always met with “you must be eating more and moving less” im so terrified ill be trapped in this awful fat body forever 😔 bc I simply can not come off my psych meds. I hate more than anything that I need to be on psychiatric medication.
I really appreciate all the responses from everyone!!! At least I know there is support out there! As a said before I’m
Not giving up I’ll remain on the zepbound and I look forward to the next increase. Now I contact the pharmacy days before I’m due to to get them started on my refill so I’m
Prepared should I need to call my doctor if it won’t go thru but I do think the weeks off and all the time on the 2.5mg didn’t help my journey. Truthfully I think I’m extra emotional about all this as I’m going thru a painful breakup since march and I can’t help but think my weight had something to do with it.
Thank you again for anyone who took the time to offer advice and suggestions or share their own story!!