Grapefruit Diet Blog & not only!

Hello everyone

I have not posted to this blog, but have been reading it since the end of Jan, which happened to be on the eve of my dr appointment. I went armed with evidence of weight gain while on prozac. For the first time, my doctor backed down from “no, it doesnt cause weight gain” to “well, it CAN cause weight gain.” At any rate, so far I have been successful in my efforts and I thought I would share.

I decided to start weaning myself from prozac and to eliminate the things from my diet which I felt caused problems for me, primarily sweets. Of course, that turned into a diet. At the time that I started, my body was actually screaming for a higher dosage of prozac, but I refused, even though the dr suggested maybe a different medication. So I first had to stabalize myself on 20 mg. Ive been off prozac since March 9th and to date I have lost 35 pds. And yes, there was some withdrawal. It wasnt as bad as I thought, but I was in a constant vigil and somehow just being aware that, that was what I was going through helped. The information from this site has been invaluable.

Soon, I will start working out at a gym to firm and tone. I have always been overweight but now I have a goal to get down to a normal weight and to become the healthiest person I can be. I feel as if a part of me has been set free. I also feel that if I can do this, anyone can. My advice to anyone setting out to deal with the same is to go slowly and be patient with yourself. I think listening to what your body says is important, but for many people, especially as fast paced as the world is today, its very easy to ignore those signals that come from within.

Best of luck to you all and again I truly appreciate the information from
this blog.

Gena