I have gained 50 lbs while taking seroquel. I need to lose the weight for my joint aches, my back hurts and none of my clothes fit. I have a huge amount of belly fat. I'm 5'1 and weigh 196lbs and cannot lose not one pound ! I don't take the seroquel anymore I'm on topamax 100mg 2x a day. prozac 40mg at night and Abilify at night. I need some advice!
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2/18/10 4:16pm
I just put a share post on this very topic called My Health and My Meds. It is possible to lose weight gained because of Seroquel and other psychiatric medications. I lost 30 pounds in about a year by using calorie-counting software to record every single thing I ate. When I stopped keeping track, my weight went back up. The discipline of tracking your food intake makes a big difference. At least one research study has proved this method to be effective. I urge you to start recording what you eat by some method. I like calorie-tracking software because its database knows what's in most of the foods I eat and I don't have to find all that out on my own.
See the share post for the full story.
~Marcia
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