I’ve lost weight
I’ve been taking Seroxat for four and a half years. I started out at
8.5 stone (5′3) and in six months shot up to 13 stone. I had loads
of tests but it was put down to the medication.
In my head I thought I had tried every diet and my weight wouldn’t
budge. I visited my GP who is a SSRI specialist hoping to maybe get
something to get my weight down.
She told me that yes, anti-depressants can make your weight shoot
up, but there isn’t really anything from stooping the weight from
coming back off. The secret is to find what you metabollism
doesn’t ‘deal with’ any more and then practically wipe it from your
diet. She said it may not come off as fast as other people, but it
would come off.
Three weeks ago I joined the UK ‘Slimming World’ club and attend the
weigh in every week. For those of you who are unfamiliar with
Slimming World diet it is basically:
You choose either a red (original) or green day.
On the red day you can eat as much meat and most vegetables as you
want. You can’t have potatoes, pasta, rice, pulses etc…(unless you
treat it as a syn).
On a Green day you can have as much rice, pasta, potatoes, veg
etc… but no meat.
You can have a healthy extra of cheese and milk and a little brown
bread, plus ten syns a day (or up to 70 a week). You can save syn
points up so that at the end of the week you can have a pizza or a
chocolate bar etc… or you can divide them equally into ten a day
(which is what I do).
Being a rice and pasta fan I decided to do mostly green days. I lost
3lbs in my first week, followed by 2 lbs the second week.
This week I decided to do mostly red days. So far I’ve lost an extra
5lbs in four days.
I knew that when I started seroxat that I craved sugar or carbohydrate foods. It seems that cutting out 90% of carbs from my diet has balanced my metabolism enough to lose a lot of weight - 10lbs in three weeks.
It wasn’t easy. The first three days were the worst. I craved chocolate and bread. But I dug in and eventually the cravings went. I now treat myself to a low fat chocolate mousse (4.5 syns) every night. I’ve also found that I suffer less headaches, tiredness, indegestion, nausea and mood swings.
I just wanted to share this with those who feel like they’ve tried everthing. I thought like that but it seems I was proved wrong.
Good Luck.
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on July 25th, 2007 at 11:30 am
Congratulations on the weight loss. Make sure you are taking your measurements
and tracking you fat loss not just scale weight. If you aren’t lifting weights
to maintain your muscle during this time you are probably losing more muscle
than fat. This is what happened to me. I lost 25 pounds while on Celexa and
unfortunately I lost a lot of muscle. When I went back to eating again I gained
back 50 lbs because 1. I had lost so much muscle that my body did not have
enough to burn off the food, and 2. I did not increase my food gradually by 100
calories a week and I just shocked my body with all the extra food all at once.
This is the worse thing one can do for long term weight loss. So make sure you
are on a sound program that pushes lots of weight lifting. Our body natural
will cannibalize it’s own muscle and save the fat for famine. You need the
carbohydrates desperately to build muscle and for brain function. After my diet
I was maintaining my weight at 191 lbs on 1100 calories a day, I don’t wish this
upon anyone. Best wishes to your success.
on July 25th, 2007 at 11:31 am
I liked reading your post. I am printing it to read, again.
I would like to follow this myself.
So tell me what country are you from? Can I get the low fat
chocolate mousse in Calif? Sounds yummy.
Also what is seroxat’s other name? Is this Paxil? just wondered if
anyone knew. Also are you still on your med? I am on Celexa and
trying to lose on a med, as well.
on July 25th, 2007 at 11:32 am
I am from the UK and yes I am still on the medication (which, other
than the weight, has done no other harm to me).
I believe Seroxat is the Europe name for Paxil.
The chocolate mousse is ‘Cadbury’s low fat mousse’ which I got from
the supermarket. You could also try Aero low fat or something
similar. They all have a low point rating.
As for maintaining muscle I do work out by running and doing gym
stuff ( I should say that I’ve excersised for about three years now
and had no weight loss until I did it in conjunction with the diet).
I do have carb intake daily but it is the minimum ammount required
(normally in the form of brown bread).