Hi!
I’m 5’9/175cm and currently at 105kg/231lbs.
I started lexapro back in April 2019 and have gained 14kg/31lbs since then. It’s been a slow gain, clearly but it’s extremely hard to get it to come off.
To give some background, I moved to Japan after helping my lol through cancer treatment in 2013 and having a major back surgery myself during 2014. Mom passed away in 2017 and after a year of untreated depression I started having MASSIVE panic attacks in 2019. I’m still in Japan and being treated with lexapro here but there isn’t really a place for me to do talk therapy because it’s not common here and no one wants to take a foreigner (even though I speak enough to manage my medical appointments? Go figure.)
Admittedly, a stressful job and moving somewhere where UberEats was readily available as certainly caused a lot of it. However I do notice in my weight log on MFP that my weight has jumped a bit every time I’ve increased a dose.
I wouldn’t say my depression is perfectly cured, but I’m absolutely not where I was when I started on it. My mental health is a lot better, but I know I’d feel better if I got my weight down and now that I have some future goals, it feels like more of a priority now…
I’m considering asking my doctor to start reducing and see if that helps at all since I’m at the highest legal dose in Japan.
Has anyone else had this issue? How have you combated it? Would you put your weight loss before meds that could be messing with you?
I am weighing food and counting calories and meal prepping everything on Sunday so it takes everyday work out of it. I’m reducing how much I order in too. I find myself very fatigued to exercise though and I don’t know if it’s the meds or not…
Any advice would be appreciated!
Thanks!
(I do realize it’s probably the ordering in more than anything, but I probably need a good outsider kicking and also am just trying to explore all avenues).
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