Do try the sister site that Patrick mentioned HealthyWeightCenter.net ! It can help you increase your knowledge and put you on the right path. Exercise combined with healthy eating habits can make a difference. When you go out of route, use prepared healthy snacks and take them with you. If you have to reach for something it can be your "grab and go" snack.
Continue to work with your doctor as they know your body, step by step it will happen!
My doctor supports me and asked me to do regular exercise. I'm doing acquagym 4 times a week. It is realy relaxing and i should drop off 30 kg.. more or less. I am also very active i go hiking when i have the time and not feeling too depressed.
The doctor recommended me acquagym for my back problems, one slipped disk and another compressed...
I'm eating mostly salads and meat. The problem is when i go out of route and start binging....
I'm also overweight by about 70 pounds (32kgs) and I recently started the programme on Healthy eating on the sister site, www.healthyweightcenter.net, and I have just begun to properly understand what food really is and what it does to my body. The moderators ( the health specialists) and the members are very helpful and the programme is very clear about information...
I have been treating my MD with Prozac since 1989 ( about a year after SSRIs hit the market!) and I stopped for a three month period once in 1997 and that did not work out too well for me. I went back on the fluoxetine and recovered my balance within a few weeks again... I've had a slew of other drug addictions over the years - all of which I've beaten; the last of which has been smoking (5 months off nicotine now). So, you and I can do this, Sheba. We can learn how to eat properly and get back to a normal weight. What does your doctor say about your tapering off the Paxil??
In my case I have targeted on losing 45 lbs at a loss of 1-2 pounds per months.. so I should be back at 200 lbs by Christmas 08. Then I will target on the last 25 pounds so that I can get to my optimum weight of 175lbs!! I have to do this because my hips, knees and ankles are full of arthritis now ( I'm 60) and the pain is forcing me to take analgesics that I don't want to take (so much of, anyway). Right now I'm way too heavy on my pins to walk for too long with the pain. There's my motivation to quit all my pizzas and chicken and french fries and gravy and doorstep ham sandwiches & Chinese take out with all that sugary sauce and fried rice.... bad bad bad! I still eat starchy foods but in small quantities per day - I watch and study and count my calorie intake - not obsessively but with due care!!
I have the support of a very good doctor (neurology and psychiatry). I have been on paroxetine for almost 8 months and now i began to scale down.In a way i am trying to see if i can manage without the support of the drug. The drug helped me a lot with depression and to "grow adult" but not with the binge... I'm trying to do sport on regular basis but is not enough to get better...
Hi Sheba,
Welcome to our support community. Can you tell us a little more about yourself? What have you tried in the past? Have you started working through the sessions yet?
Sylvie, Bilingual Health Educator
