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yeah I'm pushing back the time I take it by 2 hours a day until I'm taking it in the morning. didn't get high off it last night so that's good lol.

so yesterday was the day I was to start taking my new medication, Celexa. I tried SSRIs years ago with very bad results but this was a very different experience. everything I read about it, including the label, said it makes you drowsy at first. so I took it in the evening. next thing I know, it's 3:30am and I'm wide awake…

I too gained 30 lbs from being put on an atypical antipsychotic, for my BPD, and I've lost 28 of those 30lbs. I'm currently tapering down my dose to get off of the seroquel because I'm not willing to spend the rest of my life only eating 1200 calories a day so I'm just hoping and praying my metabolism corrects itself.…

If you've been using this site to lose the weight, you may need to go back into your settings, at which point MFP will adjust your calories for your new weight, giving you a new deficit to stay within. people around here recommend doing this every ten pounds or so, since as you get smaller, you need fewer calories.

yep, I get it all the time from my boyfriend's mom. I just try to smile, as I'm sure she means well. I'm not even quite at the weight I was at my whole life before the weight gain, so I'm certainly not TOO skinny!

yep, I've been doing 5x5 for 2 months, started out lifting a mere 15lb fixed weight bar to focus on form and get my strength up, and I only just recently started being able to lift the olympic bar for my overhead press. it was the last one to get there, I'm squatting 95lbs and everything else is somewhere in between, but…

your butt, probably. as for your boobs it depends. some women have boobs that are mostly fat and they'll change a lot with weight gain or loss. other women have boobs that are mostly breast tissue, little fat, and they won't change much with weight gain or loss.

I miss it too! up until I got on Seroquel I could eat whatever I wanted, as much as I wanted, and not gain a pound and I miss it so *kitten* much. really hope my metabolism corrects itself since I'm going off it.

I try to go early enough that the gym won't be super busy and then I kind of just take over one of the squat racks (I'd feel a lot worse about doing this if my gym only had one), and I set up a bar on the floor in front of it for deadlifts or rows or overhead press, and step into the actual rack for squatting or if I want…

I shower at the gym, but I don't wash my hair. I only wet wash my hair once a week, at home, sometime during my 2 day rest period from the gym. the rest of the week, when it gets a bit greasy I just use a bit of dry shampoo and bam - problem solved.

seeing the changes in my body has always been more than enough reward for me. after all, that's why I'm here.

yep, go back into your settings on here and MFP will alter your calories for your new weight. then stay within your new deficit and you should see the scale start to move again :)

I'm 2 months in and I see slightly more definition in my shoulders, but nowhere else yet.

I absolutely love chicken breast, and I sure do love me some sweet & sour pork. any other kind of meat, I could give or take. I straight up don't like steak.

I'm down to my last 5 pounds and damn is it hard! I was never overweight either, then got put on an atypical antipsychotic and gained 30 pounds. I was at 110 for years and years before the weight gain, currently fluctuating around 112-115 so almost there!! just want to weight in at 110 once before I make the switch to…

if you like chicken, then stock up on chicken breast. lots of protein there. agreed about googling iron rich foods. and a tip - in order to absorb the iron efficiently, you need to eat something high in vitamin c with or directly after your high iron foods.

you could always do some warmup reps with fixed weight bars of a lower weight.

having a trainer with me the first time I stepped into a squat rack definitely helped with that feeling of intimidation and not knowing what I was doing. and generally after I did something once, it was way easier to do it a second time.

if you're going to be lifting, you should be eating .8 - 1 gram of protein per pound of body weight. that puts me at about 92 grams a day (at .8/pound), so 94 certainly isn't ridiculous.

I've always been a naturally mindful eater, to the point that people would often make fun of me for how much attention I paid to my food with I ate it. that said, I still managed to put on 30 pounds. lol

everywhere. there are very few women's clothing stores left that don't have an activewear section.

haha, I had that moment once. I legit put the bar down, took a lighter bar from one of the lower racks, put the lower bar on the higher rack, and picked up the heavier bar and put it on the lower rack. lol.

my boyfriend eats a lot of junk too. I just have to take the initiative, make sure I keep the foods I want in the house, eat what I want, and I've taken on the role of being dinner maker most nights to ensure I get the food I want in my belly plus it's so much easier to get everything weighed and logged when I'm the one…

I'm doing stronglifts, feel free to add me

why are you guessing at your calories?

oh. I just got the info on what to do from the website and don't use the app because I have a *kitten* 4+ year old phone that doesn't have any room on it for more apps than what I already have.

I would be looking for squat racks, sufficient weight plates, bench presses. but it really depends on what you'll be doing.

does SL actually have a warmup routine? I don't recall ever seeing anything about that. I actually added my own warmup to my workouts but I don't remember reading anything about a warmup.

no kidding

mine is always somewhere between 25 and 31 days. never 24 or less, or 32 or more.