Posted by headachequeen on October 2, 2004, at 13:15:14
In reply to RE: More info please...stressed, posted by stressed on October 2, 2004, at 11:37:34
> Aussie.....when you say you lost weight almost emmediatly, are you saying after a couple of weeks? I am expecting to see her lose in the second week, and that may be unreasonable.
Okay, Stressed...
I am not Aussie, but I am a redhead like Bridgey, does that count :) ???
and I have all the freak and strange health things that go with being a redhead... arrghhhanyway, first, let me add a word to the advice that you have been given, when you do notice a change, please encourage her, be supportive and compliment her...
it is soooo helpful...I remember people walking on eggshells around me... I have done the anorexic trip and looked like a skeleton with flesh and done a version of the binge trip and no one would say anything if I lost weight...
they were afraid to comment in case it was because I was sick and was losing weight because of some dire symptoms or because it might embarrass me...
hey world!!! I have lost a lot of weight...
I look almost like the person I was before the wrong meds were prescribed and I started eating to combat the boredom and the unhappiness ....
it would be nice to have someone notice that I now wear clothes a few sizes smaller...other than that, I did start to lose weight right away... it was only a couple of pounds...three in the first week... not a hugely noticeable thing unless you saw the number registering on the scale...
and the binge attacks were curbed... suddenly I no longer found myself standing there with food in hand that I really didn't want but ate because it was in my hand and why waste it...
some days I was simply not hungry at all... I forced myself to eat something... yoghurt or carrot sticks...
I had a craving for protein, chicken was a favourite choice...lately I am on a more balanced diet plan of choice not of planning I must admit, but I do eat only one main meal a day with perhaps a snack in the evening of a slice of whole wheat bread and some cheese or nuts or peanut butter that sort of thing... whereas before it was all day constantly...
my office had a supply of emergency rations in case I felt myself about to die of starvation at fifteen-minute intervals...
I was not hungry, I was lonely, bored, deprived, whatever...
the topomax curbed so many wrong feelings about eating...
and it worked over a period of time... from a size 16 pair of jeans to a size eight... and from a large jacket or sweater and sometimes and XL to a small...IT WILL WORK but do not panic as that will create more stress for her and she has enough stress about her weight and her binge-eating and whatever is causing it (binge-eating and anorexia and all the eating disorders seldom just happen so my shrink keeps telling me)
Be positive and supportive... and patient...
it is VITAL...
she has been on the med for a short time...
I saw the weight loss on the scale and that helped... I saw the weight loss effectively in a month or so when I had to get a size smaller in jeans and pants and skirts...
can't remember exactly when...
I do know that by September (started in January) I was in a size ten...and she will be healthier if it does not come off in a matter of days too....
kat
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