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Originally Posted by mickie513  The medication I take makes me feel less satisfied when I eat, hungrier, plus slows my metabolism. It is a one/two punch. I know I eat too much cold cereal and I buy ice cream too often. I'm currently trying Alli hoping the side effects keep me from eating too much. I can't take any appetite suppressants because that will make my mental condition worse. I also have hypothyroidism that was one of the initial reason for my weight gain. When I was 42 I weighed 130 lbs. It took until 2005 to get diagnosed for that and by that time I weighed 160. Then I stopped smoking and in 3 months I was up to 211. I've only been able to lose weight twice. Once when I suffered a nervous breakdown and I dropped 20 lbs in a couple of months and when I was eating 900 calories a day. I couldn't sustain either.
My typical diet consists of several cups of cold cereal (raisin branish) with 2% milk in the AM. Then at lunch it usually is a frozen meal of something like lasagna. Then I'll usually have a cup of cereal before bed. I drink half caff coffee most of the day with half n half. (Yes, I know it is atrocious.)
No snacks, no soda sugar free or otherwise. I drink water and coffee.
This is why I'm looking at gastric bypass. I really feel I can't win and I'm losing the will to fight. |
Are you taking something now for your hypothyroidism? Be sure to take some extra undies with you while taking Alli, they have been known to cause some serious "runs."
Your typical diet definitely needs work. All I see are carbs carbs carbs. Definitely not ideal.
Don't forget, Alli is meant to be used as a supplement to healthy eating and exercise, so you likely won't see the maximum results they tout unless you are doing both in addition to taking Alli. Good luck!