Weight Loss Aid: Part 2

To be clear, I decided that gastric bypass is not the option for me at this time in my life.

How did I inspire myself to do what I'm doing? Depression and results. Let me explain.

A friend of mine is doing a 100 day juice feast (yes feast). He's half way thru his 100 days and he's lost 40lbs already. It's inspiring to me, however I am not ready at this point to do such a feast. I need to start small, work up to bigger.

He inspired me so much I bought a 100 dollar juicer. OMGosh!! It's awesome!!! It's fun and rewarding. I wasn't expecting to drink the juice and feel full, but I do!

My readers may not agree with this next bit... I HATE eating vegetables but drinking them, this I can do. So I've decided not to stress out about the veggies I eat and be happy with myself for drinking them. For now anyway, the majority of greens I'll intake will be from juicing. This is a huge improvement since I'm coming from zero vegetable intake to like, a shit tone!

Now there's the amount of food or portions I'm intaking for the rest of my food. This is were the depression comes in.

I had an appointment with my psychiatrist a week ago. I was totally depressed. I broke down, mostly unrelated to weight. However, as I have previously stated, my weight is impacting my quality of life.

I looked at her, knowing the answer to the question I was about to ask, but asked anyway, "is there anything that can help my weight?"

"Yes."

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Yes? Yes? Wait... YES??? This was not the answer I was expecting or accustomed to when asking health care professionals about weight loss aids.

We've discussed before how the dose of Abilify I'm on (20mg) is like fighting an impossible uphill battle with weight. We've tried lowering that dose and I don't bode well. So she said we could try a drug called Topamax.

We discussed, and I agreed to give it a try as a weight loss aid.

Slight disclaimer, Topamax is not a weight loss drug, and has some serious side effects. I've thought about going into detail, but I'll leave my readers too their own research. I've done mine.

With this drug aid, the juicing, and exercise, I'm hoping to see change. I will set a blog aside to discuss my 'Couch to 5k' exercise program, and I will also continue to discuss how the new drug regime goes.

So that's it readers, my weight loss aid story. Comments are always welcome and stay tuned for the ongoing saga!