Can't lose weight on Risperdal?

kshama2001

pbandz wrote: »

I've dealt with an eating disorder in the past. Weighing everything I eat which yes does seem obsessive, could onset that again. I'm asking for other ways. Because believe it or not, you can lose weight without counting calories. Counting calories isn't the only working diet.

Sure, my brother, who takes Risperdal, didn't count a single calorie while he lost the weight he'd gained while in the hospital. He just exercised more and ate more higher volume, lower calorie foods.

However, you say you're doing that and it's not working. Hence the suggestions to use a scale. But if you think this will trigger your ED, by all means don't.

Having worked in kitchens that use scales, I don't find using one obsessive, but accurate.

Liftng4Lis

Liftng4Lis wrote: »

Medications can increase appetite, but one can still lose weight, by staying in a deficit. Averaging your calories is just guessing. Start weighing your food.

I reiterate!

DeguelloTex

If you're not losing weight, you're eating too much. Medications, medical conditions, broken legs, old, young, it doesn't matter. You lose weight, on or off meds, by eating less than you burn. If the meds lower your burn, you have to lower intake to compensate.

Whether it's unfair or not fun or something that just makes someone stomp his feet and hold his breath, it doesn't matter. Whether you're eating clean, or healthy, or whatever, it doesn't matter.

You can cut your intake or you can increase your burn or you can do a combination -- counting calories, not counting, however you want to do it -- but the only answer to losing weight is eating less than you burn. If X number of calories isn't doing it, try X-100 or try moving more. That's the bottom line and just how it is.

zoeysasha37

DeguelloTex wrote: »

If you're not losing weight, you're eating too much. Medications, medical conditions, broken legs, old, young, it doesn't matter. You lose weight, on or off meds, by eating less than you burn. If the meds lower your burn, you have to lower intake to compensate.

Whether it's unfair or not fun or something that just makes someone stomp his feet and hold his breath, it doesn't matter. Whether you're eating clean, or healthy, or whatever, it doesn't matter.

You can cut your intake or you can increase your burn or you can do a combination -- counting calories, not counting, however you want to do it -- but the only answer to losing weight is eating less than you burn. If X number of calories isn't doing it, try X-100 or try moving more. That's the bottom line and just how it is.

This

Achaila

I gained 50 pounds QUICK while on it and decided to take myself off of it because I could not take having terrible eyesight, a bottomless appetite, and leaky boobs. It wasn't worth the side effects to me. I switched meds.

jcow84

It sounds to me like people are posting that they've both gained weight and lost weight while on this drug - this leads me to believe that it boils down to 2 fundamental options:
1. Try weighing your food for a little while and see what happens or
2. Talk to your doctor and see if your medication can be switched or if he has any advice for your side effects.

If med changes / dr visits are not an option right now, then you can either take suggestions people are giving, or you can accept that you will be gaining some weight. I think people are just giving honest advice, and of course people don't know you - this is an internet forum - people are just trying to be helpful.