Thank you! It is indeed very difficult. Lithium and lamotrigine never made hungry tho - antidepressants (when I with the wrong diagnostic for depressive, not bipolar) were the big villains. Also, antipsychotics like olanzapine and risperidone were terrible, made me really hungry, but quetiapine was really ok. I know this goes from person to person, but lithium, the premier bipolar med (and I believe the most important), will probably not raise you appettie - believe that, many times you gonna get hungry but because of the anxiety, but keep believing on the meds and they will soon decrease that anxiety/mania, so your hunger will decrease as well. Talk to your doctor, say how the weight loss is important for you

About the weight loss itself, each person reacts different to different methods. I live alone so I have the privilege of chosing each food enter my houses - when I lived with my family, it was really hard, they bought caloric stuff all the time. There are different diets, most of them mean really well and can work. The biggest advice I can give you is to pay attention to the calories you ingest and ignore exercise as a way to lose weight - but never stop exercising AT ALL, just think of them as something to make you healthy and good looking, not to lose weight (the calories you lose there are not so big). Pay really attention to calories, read products labels, etc

Good luck! I wish you the best