Posted by headachequeen on May 17, 2004, at 18:41:52
In reply to Re: Topamax Experiences?, posted by imlaurie on May 16, 2004, at 23:19:51
> I lost almost 50 pounds taking Topamax. I lost it so fast it made my head spin. I guess it was in a three month period but it seemed much quicker.
You know, I have been thinking about this and I really have to envy you... it has taken me a year or more to take off the weight...
I was so happy the first week to lose the three pounds; to me, that meant the stuff really did have a weight loss side effect and I was excited at the prospect of losing a few pounds.
Then as time went on I lost a few more pounds with each increment, as my appetite decreased or my interest in food was suppressed or whatever happened until now I seldom want to really eat.
Once in a while though I have days when food really appeals. Does anyone else have days like that?
Friday we were shooting pool, a new interest -- I have always been interested only in things that I can do better than most people and pool does NOT fit that category!-- and suddenly I decided that I wanted to have something to eat. Usually physical activity replaces any interest in food. We ordered fish and chips -- the orders came with brocolli and cauliflower and baby carrots while the usual 'chips' were replaced with chunks of potato that were baked or roasted or something (I am not a cook, something that does not interest me <g>) and really good... and I ate a large lunch a meal which, like breakfast, I generally ignore...
then around six I wanted baked potatoes and sour cream with steak and in that order...
two meals in the same day is unusual in the extreme. Saturday for lunch, after a morning of garage sales, we stopped for scrambled eggs with bacon and maple syrup soaked ham and home-fried chunks of potato!!!! then I wan't hungry again until this evening...
strange patterns indeed...
and finally soda pop has become boring... doesn't taste right... ginger ale is all right but Pepsi doesn't taste right... it has taken a year but I have arrived at that point...
Some mornings coffee doesn't taste or smell right either...
arrgghhhh that is hitting below the belt!!!!!but the weight loss to date has occurred over sixteen months with the occasional hiatus when I thought it had stopped
kat
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